Guild Wars 2

Love the Queen’s Gauntlet and cannot wait to get back in.

Only concern I have is, with the megaserver, I think they need to reconsider how we queue for the fights. With more people in the same instances, the lines to fight Liadri are likely to be huge.

I’m hoping this is something they’ve considered.

The arenas with Liadri etc. should have an option to be recreated in instanced area. this way, ANet would satisfy the people who want to test themselves in quiet place and without any shame. The public arenas should stay too for ppl who would like to brag or something.

Personally, I hate the queue system, the ability of other ppl to watch me training against some of the mobs, the waiting time…
but the fights alone are great idea and i find them very fun – except the time limit which is reasonable for a public arena, but very stressful.

Assuming the numbers on china sales are correct their servers are filled to the top too and ALOT of chinese players will be queuing. Zephyr Sanctum seems to have been remade with a canthan theme. So my guess is that it’s not gonna me a ctrl+c, ctrl+v when it comes to Queen’s Gauntlet too. Some things will be different….hopefully…

Sublimatio.6981:

The arenas with Liadri etc. should have an option to be recreated in instanced area. this way, ANet would satisfy the people who want to test themselves in quiet place and without any shame. The public arenas should stay too for ppl who would like to brag or something.

Personally, I hate the queue system, the ability of other ppl to watch me training against some of the mobs, the waiting time…
but the fights alone are great idea and i find them very fun – except the time limit which is reasonable for a public arena, but very stressful.

Same here. I wish they’d make it an instance. In addition to all of what you have, I wish there was a waypoint up on the top ring as well. Dying and having noone around to res you mean a kinda long run back.

I was always lagging in those kitten arena fights. 80 players fighting mobs directly below me didn’t help whatsoever.

Really hoping for a new round of arena encounters.

Vs. Scarlet
Vs. Logan
Vs. Trahearne
Vs. Kasmeer & Marjory
Vs. Braham, Taimi, Rox & Frostbite
Vs. Yourself

I agree that some form of separate instancing needs to happen, but I also like the spectator aspect of the arena, and I like that there’s the option to farm to kill time during your queue. There needs to be some kind of middle ground or option to streamline entering the arena if a player is only interested in the arena.

Does this mean that sovereign weapons will be making a return? While most look plain terrible, there are some (the one handed sword) that are rather nice.

Fingers crossed that the Sovereign weapons will become available again too.

With the Tower of Nightmares all the side room where instanced. To me, that means that Anet did listen to the concerns that where voiced during the Jubilee. Personally, I do expect/think that the solo arena fights will be instanced this time around.

Just another point to throw on the pile of reasons mega servers shouldn’t have been added.

The actual maximum capacity per map hasn’t been increased. You can still only get 150 people (I think?) on a map.

What megaservers did was basically turn all maps into overflows. So if between all the servers in a region (NA or EU) there’s less than 150 people playing on a particular map then they’ll all be on the same one.

But if there’s more than 150 they will still be split into separate copies of the map, just not necessarily 1 per server.

When the pavillion and gauntlet was first announced there were a lot of people predicting insane queues for the gauntlet, but even on Desolation (one of the most active EU servers) that almost never happened. The majority of people on each map were always down the bottom farming champions so there were relatively few people waiting for the gauntlet and as long as they didn’t all bunch up it wasn’t a problem.