Duels and New PvP

Duels and New PvP

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Posted by: Kearkeeth.5913

Kearkeeth.5913

Hello everyone Keeth here, I was talking with some guildies the other day, most being old GW1 Vets, and we came to a conclusion that GW2, even though it has so much stuff PvE wise, it is significantly lacking satisfying PvP content. The main issue, for me atleast, is that it is very hard to play with friends/guildies in PvP, without going in to paid tourneys. I recently thought of several ways to improve the PvP in this game, while simultaneously adding to the PvE experience as well.

I understand you don’t want to read a long, boring, ‘Tl;DR’ letter, so will try and keep it as concise as possible.

1. Duels.
In many MMO’s, there is the famous option to duel another player, in any place, at any time. If someone looks at you wrong, or disses your totally cool weapon/armor set, you challenge them to a duel and show them whats up.

Gw2 lacks this feature, which for many people, can be the highlight of the game, but I don’t think it would be simple enough to add a feature that every other MMO has. Gw2 from the time they announced it, was intended to be a ‘new take on MMO gameplay,’ and simply adding a rusty feature for old gamers to enjoy, will not cut it. I propose a style of this, similar to dueling, but not quite the same. A Brawl.[name not permanent.]

In a Brawl, two teams of 1-5 players, depending on the size of the parties involved, will face off in a regular ‘fight to the death’ match any place, any time. To avoid running from fights and leading your opponent across a wide area, the brawl will have a depicted zone, similar to the ones found in capture events. The size of the arena will vary, depending on the number of people involved, and players will be able to choose from 3 different types of victories, Ring Out, No Respawns, or Kill Tickets[each death costs a ticket, run out of tickets, you lose.] The brawls will be showed on the map, and players in the area will be notified when it is taking place.

2. Guild Battles.
Many of the Gw1 vets will agree with me here, Guild Wars needs Guild Battles. For many, this was the highlight of their time in Gw1, to be able to round up the 7 best players in your guild, and show superiority over the other guilds in the world. Not only was this mode fun, it was challenging and required real strategy to make the perfect team.

For those of you that never played Gw1, Guild Battles, and the variant Alliance Battles, were 8 vs 8 siege modes, in which each team had to protect their castle and their key target[who’s name escapes me]. The fight played out similar to the way WvWvW works, without the massive 500 player cap on each side, and did not involve capturing supply depots or anything like that, but it was simple, and a truly fun game mode, which for me, is disappointing that they left it out.

GB and AB would be played with PvE OR PvP armor to make it fair for the lower levels that wish to enjoy the experience, but still allowing higher level players to show off their prestigious character.

I believe that adding even one of these, will greatly improve the experience for old and new players and will allow players to show off their PvE prestige in a simple, yet entertaining PvP game type.

Duels and New PvP

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Posted by: Vasilis.1963

Vasilis.1963

I really cant understand why they dont implement duels.
Duels exists even to the most unbalanced mmorpgs i’ve ever played.