Guild Wars 2

GW2 is a great game. That said, there are a few things that I think were overlooked in the name of breaking with the old. Some things have been around for a long time for good reasons. So I’d like to give my take on what we should have had from day one and that there is every reason to add.

The first is, not entierly unexpected, duels. Now, while randomly dueling strangers might go too much against the “We want player encounters to be nothing but positive” policy, there is no reason to not have an arena for one on one or two on two etc. This could be given modes such as free for all or team fights or team fights with objectives, using an NPC to pair up people with the best level and gear rarity.
I mean, as it is now, to duel someone you need to go to heart of the mist, find a server, tell whoever you wanna duel to get there, while running the risk of people joining and interfering.

Let’s face it, it’s just not convenient. And convenience is what the world of today is all about.

The second is the lack of world pvp. And I don’t mean wvwvw, I mean actual possibility to go pk in the open world. To avoid drama and hate, there could be a function whiskering you to one of the du jour enemy realms, where you are given a limted time to raise hell. Add on an award system – You get points for each foe but if your actual level is too different to your foes actualy level (the real level, not whatever you downgrade to) then you get nothing. With the time limit you will be pressured into not trolling. You could also restrict this to pvp servers only so people will have a choice.

You would of course be able to go as a team, or bring npc’s to assist you – This seems like a golden chance to bring back heroes & henchmen.

There’s more that can be added, but these are the things that comes to mind. I think GW2 has a ton of world pvp potential – Just gotta work on it.

The first: there’s already ranked PvP. An Arena, sure, why not, but by no means is that essential or should it be a priority. It’s essentially just a different flavor of what already exists.

The dead horse: This isn’t the game for that. Personally, I love open world free for all PvP. Hell, I think you should be able to steal for other players and they should drop all their gear on death (I’m still not over old UO). This sin’t the game for that.

There is WvWvW which is excellent, the best PvP in any MMO I’ve ever seen. Other than the epic awesomeness of “free for all” all or nothing PvP that makes you think out every step you take and suspect everyone you meet until they’ve proven their loyalty – the only reason the kind of PvP you’re talking exists is to screw with other people because kittenting on other people is fun for certain people.

TLDR; already exists/Never going to happen for good reason.

I’ll give you a reason. There are people who wants it, and if they can have it without the developers having to give something up for it there is no reason why they shouldn’t. Bear in mind that it would exist as an alternative, not something mandatory.
Because a developer that can cater to as many as possibly by adding more flavors without making any of the older flavors less tastier is a professional developer.

And like I said, it’s about convenience, that’s why we should have an arena – There are also those of us, like me, who are tired of always being ganked and would like to have some control over the cirumstances sometimes. There really is no reason at all not to and can only lead to more people feeling satisfied, done right.

PVP sucks in this game no variation, Guilds are dumb also no halls,battles, alliances

The only things missing from this game are Guild Halls and GvG just like Guild Wars had. I mean come one, the game is called GUILD wars, not arena team wars or server wars. I know they are supposedly working on GVG, but it should have been a priority to be in at launch. If it wasn’t for GvG the original GW would have failed, but Anet saw fit to take GvG and do million dollar tournaments the first few years which lead to a great epsort and game growth.

The only other thing that I’d love to see implemented that was in the original is Hall of Heroes battles. HoH was the training ground for GvG and in the beginning the only way to get to FoW or UW was for your continent to hold HoH.

If these two features were implemented then GW2 would be guaranteed a long life just like GW had.