Honest Suggestion for Paids
map will be randomized, just wait 1 more week
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Having played quite a few paids before the change to one round and afterwards, I want to make an honest suggestion…
My team and I end up facing teams that optimize their builds for the map and allows little freedom to run other things. You end up facing things you would never see if they did not know the map. E.g. it is Foefire this week and you see double Time Warp because the Graveyard is very important in this map and is prone to zergs. In Khylo week you saw three Mesmers with portals to the Trebuchet. Unless it’s meant to be this way, why can’t the map be randomized? It takes a lot of the competitive feeling out of the game, and gets boring to run only one build.
You know you can switch characters while waiting for the game to start right? Randomized maps won’t prevent ppl from setting up classes/builds for that specific map…they’ll just have to do it faster, but pretty much everyone who plays, like me, more than one class in tpvp, has all his pvp characters ready to go if class switch is needed (Personally i’ve got even 2 different thieves DPS/Venom Sharing ready)…many times you need to change char with fixed map also, depending on who are you facing atm.
Having played quite a few paids before the change to one round and afterwards, I want to make an honest suggestion…
My team and I end up facing teams that optimize their builds for the map and allows little freedom to run other things. You end up facing things you would never see if they did not know the map. E.g. it is Foefire this week and you see double Time Warp because the Graveyard is very important in this map and is prone to zergs. In Khylo week you saw three Mesmers with portals to the Trebuchet. Unless it’s meant to be this way, why can’t the map be randomized? It takes a lot of the competitive feeling out of the game, and gets boring to run only one build.
You know you can switch characters while waiting for the game to start right? Randomized maps won’t prevent ppl from setting up classes/builds for that specific map…they’ll just have to do it faster, but pretty much everyone who plays, like me, more than one class in tpvp, has all his pvp characters ready to go if class switch is needed (Personally i’ve got even 2 different thieves DPS/Venom Sharing ready)…many times you need to change char with fixed map also, depending on who are you facing atm.
Yeah. I do realize that you can switch (I’m not a complete noob), but swapping chars against the other team just feels really gimmicky. Oh well, as the guy above said, we’ll see what comes in a week.
They should forbid switching characters while waiting too. I have played Build Wars for 7 years, it gets quite old.
Definitely agree. Where’s the skill in it, when their build cannot possibly beat yours because you switched just to beat them? That really ruins competitive play.