Guild Wars 2

An idea I’ve had which I posted in raid feedback thread which I feel might need it’s own discussion. Raid Races a way to further increase endgame raid gameplay. Wondering what the Fractals, Dungeons & Raids community think?

Bezagron.7352:

Raid Races
A cool function would be the ability to challenge guilds (other teams) to a Raid Race. The way I see this working is a simple UI that places a small raid race track somewhere in your UI. This has important encounters marked along the race track which track when each team successfully completes them.

As this is only a completion encounter tracker this would allow for these teams to play at anytime throughout the lockout period. This means each team does not need to be playing at the same time & that the race doesn’t need to be completed in one sitting providing flexibility to work it in to players weekly schedules & available playtimes.

A the time of lockout reset or once both teams have completed the raid a winner is announced.

There could be many option & race requirements;

• DPS race bosses kills ONLY
• Enraged bosses kills ONLY
• Limited encounters race.
• Full trash mobs + bosses clears.
• Profession lockouts or required.

You could have differing leader-boards for differing race categories truly turning this into a PvE competitive scene.

I’d be in full support of leader boards. There is a small problem with defensive stats being bad, and this would just make that worse. Hopefully they can find a way to make the encounters require a balance of damage and defensiveness before the raids release. Then it would be much more enjoyable.

I’d love to see the game get to the point that people start theory crafting their group comp: How many damage dealers can you get away with without sacrificing too much survivability. Too bad it seems that defense is worthless.

Anyway, this is a great idea. There should be leader boards in other areas of the game too. Nothing wrong with healthy competition. The boards should also keep track of world, region, and server firsts.