Guild Wars 2

So although no developers have really said this is the sPvP patch, I know there are a quite a lot of players that I talked too expecting this. My question to the forum is what are you expecting/hoping will be added.

Class balance- duhh

Custom Arenas- Confirmed being added/featuers. Date being added: No confirmations it will be april

More game modes- just one will make me happy. No matter what secondary objectives you add, it will always revolved around points.

Spectating- IN GAME. I dont want to go to another website to spectate. This was awesome in Gw1.

More rewards/bragging rights to tournament winners. Back in Gw1 when people would win heroes ascent it would announce it via world wide. Was a really cool setup.

Build variety- Build variety gives players choices. Choices are good. The current meta is really boring right now. Especially with the way skills are set up in the game (nothing unique for them really, each class can do the same thing just in different ways), build variety is very important.

Ways to reward skill, not play- Right now you get glory based really on how often you play. Winning or losing a match you get glory. You can find rank 40 people who are just really bad at the game. This makes ranks seem pointless. Titles are the impressive part, but I’d love to see more stuff about ranks. something that made gw1 pvp awesome were the ranks and how they were tied a lot into skill, this made them way more impressive.

Things you hope will happen but wont

Guild Halls

GvG

AB

I have done like 2 spvp matches since launch. Hope it gets some nice changes.

Some things that would make me play it:

Ability to play with my GF without being switched to opposite teams.

Experience gain for characters below 80.

More stat customization or the ability to use your PVE set.

It really needs to be tied into the rest of the game somehow. That is the main reason i don’t play it. It is just too separate.

I sure hope they add guild halls and gvg in april but I have this feeling that the april patch will focus more on pve.. probably more ascended stuff, major changes in professions/skills, and updates on dungeons..

How about more PvE rewards. I know today’s patch added laurels for completing SPvP Daily/Monthly and that is a great first step.

Actually gives people like me, and I’m sure plenty of other players a reason to go into SPvP.

If there are any new features it’ll probably just be Custom Arenas and/or Spectator. It’s pretty clear that new gamemodes aren’t at the top of their list of priorities atm (And rightfully so, imo), so I wouldn’t expect either for at least a few months.

The only sPvP change that matters for the long term health of the format is allowing players to use their PvE characters and gear in sPvP, and providing them with rewards in sPvP that are usable in PvE.

I do not think any other change they can make to sPvP matters at all without that fundamental change.

I think a experience gain or maybe an item that takes away one glory level and converts it into one experience level would be a terrific idea. Maybe when you reach a rank you can get an item with glory that will turn oen item that will allow you to transmute an item from the previous ranking bracket into a pve item. Like if you just got to rank 20, all the rank 10-19 armor that you can get only from chest can be transmuted into PvE items.

I think if Anet wants this to be an Esport and wants it to be competitive they have a ton of stuff to change. The skill system, leaderboards, spectators, and game modes need to be looked at.

I’d love for you guys to see improvements to the system. Truthfully myself I went in and saw it was just as unbalanced in the tournament section as WoW arenas are to this day. So I stopped playing it all together. I thought they promised a unique set of fun skills balanced just for spvp type stuff. Not just toned down stuff that can still nail peeps for 9k+ a shot which is half your health.

Glad you guys have fun with it but I got tired of unbalanced pvp long before this game came out. So hope you get your improvements.

I really, really want to get into spvp but there’s just one big barrier, and that’s pve. As much as I like pvping, I like pve more. If I could get meaningful pve rewards from pvp, I would be far more inclined to be pvx.

If you make a pvp item, you should get a skin item for pve too. Furthermore, wins should reward a reasonable amount of gold.

As far as balance goes, I think implementing a vast array of new skills would really benefit the game. That way, a real meta can start developing. 3 more heals, 10 utility and 3 elites per profession would be a bare minimum. Weapon selection is fine. That was, tweaking one skill or trait won’t destroy an entire profession.

Capture points was the weakest pvp already in GW1 so I really hope more interesting win conditions will be added in the future, hopefully on the same maps. Eg Caledon Forest should merely be deadmatch with extra points for the 2 bosses to create a focal point.

At the moment I am only a low lvl 10 Rank. So this is just something that in my opinion matters.

sPvP needs a lot changes. That is certainly. Like said before that laurens get rewarded is a nice start.
We need to get something extra while earning al the glory. Let us buy things like the zaishen keys so we can get skins for pve.
A nice money reward for a match would not be bad either the glory you got from a match dived by 10 as a silver reward. like you get 250 glory you will also get 25 silver…. hmm maybe that is a bit to much, but something like that would not be bad.

A bigger problem of sPvP is that we only got Capture points or the Orb race. Groups are mostly random on the map not defending. More play styles will make sPvP more fun.
~ Bigger maps
~ 3 Teams against each other like in WvWvW
~ Death matches
~ Capture the flag (without capture points)
~ Everyone vs Everyone
~ Guild Versus Guild ofcource
~ Arena battles (x VS x) (where x can be between 1 and 4)

Classes need to be better balanced and we need to have options for more builds.
You always see the same type of builds with certain classes this is getting boring cause making your own build outside of the meta puts you in a disadvantage.

Split the skills into pvp and pve like in Guild Wars 1 more often.

A dis-honer de buff if you are ruining it for you party after then reports you can’t join for an hour.

People are still hoping that sPvP is going to get the support it needs to be popular?

…really?

I expect all the classes to get heavily balanced for sPvP. This will be great for those players. However, these balances will accidentally break every class for PvE.

danbuter.2314:

I expect all the classes to get heavily balanced for sPvP. This will be great for those players. However, these balances will accidentally break every class for PvE.

Doubt that. PvE isn’t that hard anyways. Some classes are better, but most hold their own fairly well in Fractals. Especially the Rangers. I do see their problems, but the outcry over it is exaggerated.

What they should do is do like that did months ago. Change things that are exclusive to PvP and WvW (whether you agree with it or not, it is heavily PvP).

Yes, I’m hoping that PvP gets the attention. PvP is what keeps games alive. When a game dies, the PvP players are usually the last to go. PvP provides streaming and competition. It provides community involvement heavily. People would rather watch 10 people duking it out in a turny instead of watch 5 people run through fractals killing computers. Community involvement = streaming = Public coverage/advertising = more players may become interested= more players telling their friends. Just look at LoL a free to play game. It has one game mode, but the skill setup is very competitve and the PvP support is all there is. The amount of streams fans and player should speak for it. Gw1 had similar PvP support. It was huge world wide. They really need to get back up there if they want to survive in this market. If you make a MMO where its main focus is PvE in today’s market, you really gotta make it special and unique. There are so many MMOs out there that PvE is mostly the same with subtle changes. This means all it takes is one more MMO that is free to be released and people will go to that one for a new PvE experience that is really just new skins/story half the time (looking at you wildstar).

Murderin.8269:

I have done like 2 spvp matches since launch. Hope it gets some nice changes.

Some things that would make me play it:

Ability to play with my GF without being switched to opposite teams.

Agreed 100% with this. My wife and I love PvP in MMOs, but being put on opposite teams has absolutely killed our desire to really get deep into GW2 PvP.

I’m only rank 10 as well, but a monetary reward would go a long way towards making me want to do it. If you’re at all into Pve it feels like a waste of time to PvP. I know the devs want to keep the areas separated, but some controlled crossover might invigorate PvP.

Hi everyone,

You might want to join this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/April-will-be-the-PvP-patch where the same issue is being discussed. Remeber to keep a contructive and friendly tone when posting.

Thanks for your understanding.
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