Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I might have posted something like this before, but I haven’t played in so long I figured I’d get a temperature check on peoples opinions on the matter. Also, I can’t seem to post in Suggestions so I’m posting this here.

I would like to suggest the addition of a competitive JP scene with all the bells/whistles for the infrastructure.

It would work like so (I imagine);

1. There is a new NPC Gendarren Fields (or LA if that ever comes back) whom players talk to when they want to enter into the JP competition.
2. The competition would take place every Saturday at a designated time (unsure what would be the best time)
3. This would be a ‘tournament style’ system, with participants all broken up into groups of 15. Sign up would last approx 5 minutes, and the tournament will begin immediately after. The ‘remainder players’ whom signed up but could not be put into a 15 man group due to lack of people will be informed of as such, and offered a consolation item for their troubles.
4. When it starts, players are transported into an instanced version of a random JP. There will be no skills or traits used, only the players natural skill.
5. There will be a timer set on the JP race, say – 5 minutes. First one to the end wins the race, and advances to the next round. If nobody can complete it, everyone in that group loses.
6. This continues until there are only 5 players left. Those 5 compete in one final race to determine who is crowned 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
7. All participants whom make it past the first race will win a ‘Jumper Token’, which when accumulated, can be used to buy JP specific reward items (including an Aerodynamic JP Race Suit Costume!)
8. Spectator mode included.

JP’s are in my “top 3” of things in this game. However, as much as I enjoy discovering and completing the JP’s, I can’t help but think that there is a lot of room for it to become a competitive sport in the game, especially for those like me who aren’t interested in the SPvP section, but still want to compete somehow. It could have its own rewards to incentivize players to join, and be held on a very strict and limited schedule (once per week, maybe at 2 different times on Saturday?) so that it doesn’t become stagnant and the excitement to compete can build up over the week.

Another thing I had considered was a “Battle Royale” style JP, where skills/traits are disabled except for a “push” skill that lets you sabotage another players relay. Fall damage would be enabled as well.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
-Lore

I like the idea of Competitive Jps. It woudl be fun to race others. But make it more hotjoin style instead of tournament. You talk to the npc anytime you want and u join the other racers to race them in a random jumping puzzle and get rewarded based on your placement. I would just personally like it better that way. You can add in title achievements too! like sanctum sprint without items and with different jps.

Timed JPs like the ones for holidays used as an “activity” could be fun. I don’t think it needs to be as complex as you’re making it (time to sign up, etc.), but I love timed JPs and I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing them added permanently to the rotation, or used like PvP (different “maps”, available all the time), and as a competition.

A jp “race” would be nice, something to add to the activaty rotation

Mimir.4690:

Timed JPs like the ones for holidays used as an “activity” could be fun. I don’t think it needs to be as complex as you’re making it (time to sign up, etc.), but I love timed JPs and I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing them added permanently to the rotation, or used like PvP (different “maps”, available all the time), and as a competition.

I don’t want it to turn out like the mini-game rotation thing :\ Nobody ever does them, and there’s no real reason to do them except boredom. I would want it to be more involved and invested, something to excitedly anticipate.

I also want it to be rewarding, and can’t see them handing out any real rewards (if any) if they put it in the mini-game rotation.