Guild Wars 2

I am curious what people think about pvp in this game. I bought it to play pvp and I have to say that I am really disappointed. Sure some ideas are great but the ones that aren’t make the pvp unenjoyable at least for me. I am really surprised that such a great game wnich many say that is focusing on pvp is in this state. I am having fun leveling but when I go and try pvp I give up after 5 minutes. Guess I will go back to WoW privs and wait till things will get better .

0. Totally forgot about the worst aspect, there is no dueling, there is no pvp outside the mists. WHY? I ask WHY? If I can tailor my character’s story, I am making a lot of individual choices than WHY I cant just catch a player out of a town and kill him, why.
IMO maps over level 10 should have optional pvp (you allow people to attack you), and maps over level 40 should be normal pvp (whether u like it or not, you can be killied, unless you are in combat with an NPC)

1. Downstate
Really? Its so unnecessary, it prevents people from going in multiple opponent fights and generally it makes me bored. I mean if someone gets to a downstate he is dead, 99% of time there is no way that you will get out of it unless more than one guy will help you aka kill your opponents and heal you.

2. Class balance
Its not that bad, but atm thiefs burst people from full hp to zero in seconds, I wouldnt mind that if I could prevent them from doing so or do the same but I can’t. Other than that… every time I see a mesmer I am like… come on not another one. Is it just me or everyone hates fighting against them. They could buff some skills to be useful but thats normal, MMOs tend to have problems with balance but mesmers are just annoying to play vs.

3. Maps
Idk why all maps are based on some kind of a siege and capture the point. There is no deathmatch no ctf, nothing just take the points.

4. WvW
What I thought will be the most awesome pvp part turned out to be the worst. Queues are insane, and the game itself is so chaotic. I mean everyone is just smashing random people and a few are working on the victory. In the end what I see is a random fight of hundreds of people that most computers can’t handle.

Dont misunderstand me, I like the game and I would like it to be even better because it has potential to be better, a lot better and I just wanted to share my opinion and see if others agree with it.

I find it terrible.
There is no 1v1 , there is really bad arena (sorry but it is bad), and WvW is Gate Wars 2.
Game have phenomenal potential for it i dunno why its not used.
Maybe i just to old for this.

And for oldies that used to like pvp, this is how i seen pvp back in days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL5syS_cHjo
One ring, one.

You know how I see a good pvp system? A system that allows me to jump into 1v3 situation and either use my gear or my personal skill to kill one or more and get away. In gw2 there is no space for that. There isn’t even space for 1v1. That creates a lack of real competitivness and building fame around your nickname. I know it sounds nerdy but let’s face it we all like it. A 1v1 ranked arena would fix the problem. Maybe the one in black citadel.

I know what you are saying . Thats what we had in lineage 2, what we had in aion, even in wow. There is no world pvp here and thats why this 1vs2 1vs3 are almost not possible.

ANet kinda failed when thinking about world pvp. The reason that it is so fun is that you never know when it starts, its like random event. You cant move world pvp to some big zone give people objectives to do and call it wpvp.

I seriously stopped reading in item 0. If you didn’t know there was no World PvP in GW2 than you didn’t do any research at all before you bought the game.

I did lots of research and I knew there is no WPvP, although I didn’t know that the replacement (spvp and WvW) is inferior. You can’t just stop reading the post at the beggining of it and post a comment that has no connection to the topic because this only shows how ignorant you are. The topic is “opinions about pvp” not “I dont like the game I am quitting and here is why show me what I did wrong”. I still like the game but the main reason that I bought it for (PVP) is crappy designed and the sooner ANet will realize that the sooner they will work on a solution.

Personally I miss a deeper reasoning in PVP. in WAR my previous game we were fighting Order versus Chaos. Sounds logical.

Here blue team competes vs Red team vs Green team. How lame is that. This is not soccer, Anet, it’s supposed to be war.

I wrote a thread about this issue, but got very few reactions, also read my sig

OK so here’s my opinion. I don’t like PVP of any sort in any game basically because I suck at it. Even so I tried the sPvP last night with some guild mates and it was surprisingly fun. I hope they keep it as it is.

Disagree with everything said in this thread. Sure I miss some stuff that they will probably add later but I love the skill based pvp, I can 1v2, 1v3 ppl in both sPVP and WvWvW.

Solo roaming in WvWvW gets you ALOT of 1v1 fights, just get behind enemy lines and start searching. Or go down to jumping puzzle.

Best pvp since DAOC. No other games should be mentioned, they all failed at PVP. Most notably WOW.

ps. that lineage vid looked terrible, dont’ get me started on the game itself, one of the worst.

To me WoW pvp despite all of its numerous flaws was the best among many mmos I played. Skill based pvp? It is like that in every game more or less. Solo roaming in WvWvW is a good point but I would like it to be supported in some way, and I am sure many players share my thoughts. Like… a huge map WvWvW like based on “bounty hunt” style, free roam mode, large map with lots of environments, players dropping items after death, the more people you killied, the more items you will find, and the more items people will loot from you after your death (they won’t loot your own stuff from inventory just a bunch of random crafting materials and rarely some exotics, or recipes for them). In such map, your level isn’t maxed wnich means you have to level up all the way to 80 to be most effective. Also, you don’t get any gear when you get there. You join with your regular items and regular level, no additional skill points, no rules, everything is allowed, kill or be killied.