Guild Wars 2

It’s no doubt that GW2 is a competitive game. With that said, I’m wondering why there aren’t more PvP modes.

To start off, I’d simply like to see a simple death match mode. I want to be able to team up with 2 or 4 friends ( for 3v3 or 5v5 ) , fight on a map to the death, and then be done. No trebuchets, no capturing points, no running to get buffs, just plain fighting. I don’t even care about an ELO system, I just want to be able to have structured PvP where all I have to do is defeat my opponents. Capturing points is getting repetitive. Make sure the maps are balanced – enough room to make a tactical “getaway” and elevations in the ground or objects where ranged heroes can attack safely and melee heroes can take cover and obstruct their enemies’ attacks.

Another thing I’d like to see is duels. Sometimes I don’t want an entire team encounter at all. I just want to fight one person without other people interfering. Also, Capture the Banner seems like it would be extremely easy to make. Each team gets a banner, when you pick it up you gain an entirely new set of skills ( we don’t want flag carriers going invisible or teleporting away ) and you have to make it back to your base alive. Defend the Yak may be fun too. This is actually an idea from TF2, if any of you have played that, there’s a mode where you have to push a cart all the way to the enemies base while the enemies try their best to slow you down so your time will run out. We already have a slow-moving Yak animal in the game – just throw him into this new mode idea and voila.

Overall I don’t expect these modes to be added ( because I don’t know ANet is one of those teams that has a suggestion forum but only implements like one thing from it a year ) but hey, worth a try. My point is I’m ready to do something besides capture points. Of course I could WvW, but where’s the fun in smacking a gate for 10 minutes?

Totally supporting this (excuse the semi-necro). Especially about the dueling part, I can’t believe we still don’t have duels ingame, how else am I supposed to make fun of my friends? Give us a duel option and more PvP modes!

They did say that they will be updating PvP more and more so hopefully they do add this. I would want to see multiple PvP modes, kind of like Heroes Ascent from GW1 (Will they have a Hall of Heroes again?)

I have tried to think of how they could make “capture the flag” work and without healers, I really don’t see how. Everyone just focus fire the guy with the flag and he’s dead. It would be zerg on zerg just killing whoever picked up the flag.

Same with the game mode they had in both Warhammer and Rift where you carry the object and the longer your team holds it, the more points you get, but it also does more damage until you eventually die. Without healers this wouldn’t work either.

Maybe I am short-sighted or something but I don’t think either of those modes would work without dedicated healers.