Guild Wars 2

Two man enter, one man leaves. No capture points, no teams, no 5v4, no excuses.
A fair contest of skill on equal footing.

Why i feel that every pvp mode in this game is actively seeking to punish me for craving such a battle (team members, be it mine or his butting in, 5v4 matchups going through, total chaos at team deathmatch map.

+1 if you want duels too. And not for 300 gold on maps that are not designed for it.

Also adding dueling option will greatly benefit other pvp modes. WvW and spvp do feature many zerg moments, it’s sometimes utter chaos. How is a newcomer to really learn to pvp there?

With duels you have only one opponent and yourself. You can learn more that way about how other professions fight, their skills, their builds and weaknesses. Instead of learning that zegs are chaotic.

People who’d spend their time in duels would come out a much more competent players to spvp and WvW, now knowing how to fight different opposition and ready to soak up more knowledge on team tactics and quirks specific to a given game mode.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Two man enter, one man leaves. No capture points, no teams, no 5v4, no excuses.
A fair contest of skill on equal footing.

Why i feel that every pvp mode in this game is actively seeking to punish me for craving such a battle (team members, be it mine or his butting in, 5v4 matchups going through, total chaos at team deathmatch map.

+1 if you want duels too. And not for 300 gold on maps that are not designed for it.

Also adding dueling option will greatly benefit other pvp modes. WvW and spvp do feature many zerg moments, it’s sometimes utter chaos. How is a newcomer to really learn to pvp there?

With duels you have only one opponent and yourself. You can learn more that way about how other professions fight, their skills, their builds and weaknesses. Instead of learning that zegs are chaotic.

People who’d spend their time in duels would come out a much more competent players to spvp and WvW, now knowing how to fight different opposition and ready to soak up more knowledge on team tactics and quirks specific to a given game mode.

Before everyone jumps to conclusions, this is not the same as my thread. I beleive OP wants a arena strictly for 1vs1. In which I think a rotation 1vs1 would be cool. Otherwise, if you’re for the ability to duel in PvE, check out my thread.
For example on arena dueling.
It’s still 5 vs 5, however, each round is one vs one. Sort of like a shoutout. One player is downed, and the other is brought in. This is just my idea though.

Indeed my idea is focused on 1v1 duels in the mists. Or in capitol towns, but as mentioned – only in the arena. In fact the latter option would be better as we could have drumroll player spectators for the arena matches! just walk into the arena on your character, take a seat and enjoy the fights.

I belive fights would be random, same as spvp queque – matchmaking system would pair you up with your opponents, you two duel then once it’s finished, next pair is up.
That would be the default mode.

You could however issue a challange to specified player, and if he accepts you two would be quequed to duel eachother in the arena when pairs before you finished their matchups.

A team duel option which would be 5 matches of 1v1 could also be possible. I can already see some guilds using this option to prove their supremacy one to another.

And there would be far less issues with premades, as here it would always be 1v1, so communication would not be a huge advantage, just your own skill in there.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

…player spectators for the arena matches! just walk into the arena on your character, take a seat and enjoy the fights.

This!

I love it. It adds a good amount of depth to the world.

I’d also love to have a /cheer or /boo option that kept rolling for a bit. Adding some crowd noise. Maybe have a mode that allows spectators to throw single use weapons in the arena too.

Heck yeah! and if we’d have arenas in each of capitol cities + lion’s arch + one or two arenas in HoT zones (golden city + jungle themed one) we’d have some nice variety to our arenas.

Would be also awesome if just like wrestlers we could type catchphrases for our characters to be displayed if they win, like “A fair battle is no longer fair when one of the sides is an asura.”

Ps. Mick Foley is king:)

Im all in for this In fact gw2 would be my only mmorpg if they put this arena in with spectators and laurel. And after the battle im off to ministers waypoint to boast of my victor!

I’d like to see how devs feel about the idea. I mean we don’t know if arena..net wants to give us an online arena in their game. Who knows!