Guild Wars 2

Just a few suggestions. Note: I don’t tourney much because I like more than 5 players per team so I join the randomness of 8v8’s in regular.

1. Maps within the 8v8 version should have another point. As is currently, many players have evolved into a wvw mindset of zerging points. The short distance between at least two points kind of supports this. One more point would simply spread the numbers a bit more and penalize for using that tactic. Seems like each game has players who speak about it.

2. Actual auto-balance should return and a non-ranked team arena of sorts should be added. Right now I’m running into a lot of games that are top heavy. True Example: I was watching some matches yesterday that had one side with lowest rank 36 vs a team of five 1’s/one 10/one 13 and the highest being rank 17. This happened for like 5 matches before I left.

Before spectator mode was put in it seemed the auto-balance worked correctly where teams seemed to be evenly matched rank wise/experience wise.

Non-ranked team arenas should be instituted if players want to earn glory while playing in large groups with other like-minded groups. Premade v Premade I guess you could say.

3. New Map Type. Personally I love the Skyhammer Map. Glass Floors that break after being walked on is a nice addition. We need more maps like this. I was thinking something along the lines of having traps/trap doors much like you see in obsidian sanctum. Pits with spikes activated when players cap a point. Make it so that you have to fight around these areas. Currently with Skyhammer, those glass floors not located near a point I think don’t really serve a purpose because as far as I can tell, no one fights there because they are there.

4. New Game Types. We’ve heard this one since launch. As far as I can tell, players (me included) want something besides conquest to play around with. We know Anet can come up with something as we have seen many of their mini-games already. Each mini game is so close to pvp and competition that those game types or something like it could be put in if better fleshed out.

We could use Capture the Flag : Aspect Arena and Snowball Fight were nice examples that this game type could work.
Moba stylie: Reapers Rumble. Where is this game type, I would play this everyday.
Tower Assualt/Defense: No example from this game unless you want to count trials as some sort of reference. Examples from other games would be like FA in Guild Wars and Strands in WoW.

Other things I would like to see is something like a 20v20 Alterac Valley map type. And definitely some Guild Wars GvG and Heroes Ascent.