Guild Wars 2

Apollo.7389:

Wow very disappointing. Not only did you skip one of the best maps “Foefire” you are putting spirit watch again. I hope this means you fixed all the terrain bugs and OP tank running.

Can’t imagine why people like Spirit watch or Khylo. Best maps by far IMO is FoeFire, Temple and Niflhel

plus one for this. I think terrained levels make this game kinda awkward for non vertical classes.

Spirit Watch in tournaments wtf! worst map ever!
SO disappointing!
No more tourneys until 3/26 i guess………………..

we really need random map rotation implemented… now more then ever before

PS: what will happen with free tournament items? just curious

so is the rotation posted by op going to be the permanent rotation?

because if so, meh. other than the fact that capricorn isnt on it.

I think a good idea would have all people on teams vote for which map they want… Map with the most votes is the one played on… One map I don’t see ever being voted for is raid on cap.

2 pre made would end up voting in a draw. Id rather see each team bans 1 map

It is extremly frustrating to see Spirit Watch still in the map rotation considering the billion bugs on that map. Any plans for that?

Why isn’t raid of Capricorn on the list?

uberkingkong.8041:

Why isn’t raid of Capricorn on the list?

because its awful.

Any chance the maps could rotate at the same time as the daily quests everyday? A daily rotating map is certainly better then every 3 days but as always, random rotation would be best.

maps should be already random, cmon

bugged bridges are cool

Khylo is the worst map. Boring. It really should be possible to choose the map you want to play… but I guess there are not enough players playing sPvP so if the players got divided between maps it would take longer to get running tournament matches?

Or is there any other reason?

Make it possible to play only the maps you want. In single match tournaments and in the non-tournament hotjoin matches.

I agree that for real tournaments people should be able to play all the maps – and that’s why there need to be tournaments with more then 1 match again and then random maps chosen.

soo, which map is it gonna be today? it’s not mentioned in the first post.

Starting again with Legaca of Foefire it seems. I think they keep the same rotation and restart it every time(with the other map with the sharks and underwater capture point not included).

Edit: Oh I see it got edited 12 minutes ago. Seems almost the same but I think they switched the order of Spirit Watch and Temple of the Silent Storm.

Is it any way possible to speed up the map rotations? Like once a day? In my opinion, the map gets stale pretty quickly. Am curious as to the justification between twice a week instead of say, daily.

Why exactly is Khylo one week(seven days)? There is also a friday on 4/26.

Luthan.5236:

Why exactly is Khylo one week(seven days)? There is also a friday on 4/26.

because khylo rocks

Then Temple of the Silent Storm would need to be 2 weeks because it is the best map.

Why don’t you rotate the map every day. This just gets boring.

Seriously, can we get an actual response on why we have to play the same map everyday for half a week?

shockwave.1764:

Seriously, can we get an actual response on why we have to play the same map everyday for half a week?

Shhhh. you. This week’s flavor of ice cream is orange puke. You like orange puke, right? I mean you will like orange puke if I ram it down your throat for 5 days in a row.

It will get to the point, you’ll ask your self….“self, why am I not having orange puke rammed down my throat”? “I mean, I kind of liked it the first 4 days.”. “Now that it’s gone, I kind of miss it!”.

“In fact, I’m kind of missing some orange puke eaten, and thrown back up”. “I wish I could eat some more orange puke”. “Hey self…..is it orange puke if I eat it and barf it back up again?”.

“Heck, what makes orange puke “puke” in the first place?". “Do I have to eat it until I spew it up again to qualify it?”

For the love of god and all that is holy….stop messing around with us and give us a map rotation. We are not hamsters in your high school biology lab. Give us a kitten wheel that smells a bit different.

Firebaall.5127:

shockwave.1764:

Seriously, can we get an actual response on why we have to play the same map everyday for half a week?

Shhhh. you. This week’s flavor of ice cream is orange puke. You like orange puke, right? I mean you will like orange puke if I ram it down your throat for 5 days in a row.

It will get to the point, you’ll ask yourself….“self, why am I not having orange puke rammed down my throat”? “I mean, I kind of liked it the first 4 days.”. “Now that it’s gone, I kind of miss it!”.

“In fact, I’m kind of missing some orange puke eaten, and thrown back up”. “I wish I could eat some more orange puke”. “Hey self…..is it orange puke if I eat it and barf it back up again?”.

“Heck, what makes orange puke “puke” in the first place?". “Do I have to eat it until I spew it up again to qualify it?”

For the love of god and all that is holy….stop messing around with us and give us a map rotation. We are not hamsters in your high school biology lab. Give us a kitten wheel that smells a bit different.

the new map rotation is is horrible. Playing the same map repeatedly gets old fast. I really think that random map rotation would be a lot more enjoyable and I know most would agree.

Ug spirit watch again…

when will we see the new rotation?

Firebaall.5127:

Firebaall.5127:

shockwave.1764:

Seriously, can we get an actual response on why we have to play the same map everyday for half a week?

Shhhh. you. This week’s flavor of ice cream is orange puke. You like orange puke, right? I mean you will like orange puke if I ram it down your throat for 5 days in a row.

It will get to the point, you’ll ask yourself….“self, why am I not having orange puke rammed down my throat”? “I mean, I kind of liked it the first 4 days.”. “Now that it’s gone, I kind of miss it!”.

“In fact, I’m kind of missing some orange puke eaten, and thrown back up”. “I wish I could eat some more orange puke”. “Hey self…..is it orange puke if I eat it and barf it back up again?”.

“Heck, what makes orange puke “puke” in the first place?". “Do I have to eat it until I spew it up again to qualify it?”

For the love of god and all that is holy….stop messing around with us and give us a map rotation. We are not hamsters in your high school biology lab. Give us a kitten wheel that smells a bit different.

i’m begging you (anet) can we please get a random rotation or at leaster a shorter interval?
not for the love of god and for sure nothing holy.
just for us – your players <3

Get this horrible map SPIRIT WATCH out of the rotation. Take Temple out of it as while you are at it.

I like the way its set up. Gives just enough time to figure out a solid strat with a group of players and then we get a new map.

Apollo.7389:

Get this horrible map SPIRIT WATCH out of the rotation. Take Temple out of it as while you are at it.

What is exactly wrong with Temple? It matches the other games style and the only ‘game breaker’ is the capture that grants you all the capture zones. And that only happens near the end of the game and either ends a game that is lopsided faster or gives a chance to a team that is 100ish points behind to win.

Temple is interesting because of that buffs… I bet he lost a lot of matches because of noobs that did not pay attention to the buffs… but buffs are not everything. If they get the buff that caps(cause nobody of your team prevented them from getting it) all 3 points you just have to run to every point. Often more than 1 enemy person is down getting that buff which means you can get the other points fast cause they have less people up there and need to walk back first. Of course if the team are only trying to cap 1 point… then cap next point(like 5 people running to 1 point) then it can’t be helped. You need to go to all 3 points at the same time in this situation.

Also the other buff that doubles the points helps. Capture 1 point and with that buff it equals the other 2 points left still unter enemy control giving you time to get a 2nd one.

It’s fun to see: Everybody crying and they remove the map(Spirit Watch)… and even until end of May it got removed…

Seems they are not very confident in their ability to improve it and we’ll have to wait for at least 1 month before next patch/ update of the map again.

Or maybe they just removed it completely from tournament? Lol. This is a joke lol. I hope soon it will be possible to chose the map we want to play. If they wanto to make it esport they can’t fore you to play the same map for 3-4 days.

Or do you play in games like Starcraft II or Shooters games the same map for days until the game developers allow you to play another map?

Why did they remove Temple now from May?!

Not Temple. Spirit Watch. Because everybody complained – which is okay. But they should at least try some hotfixes and to them fast instead of completely removing it or removing it for 2 weeks.

Always the same… I’m sure next rangers will get heavily nerfed cause a lot of people whined. That’s how it works. They listen to the customers. Lol.

Luthan.5236:

Not Temple. Spirit Watch. Because everybody complained – which is okay. But they should at least try some hotfixes and to them fast instead of completely removing it or removing it for 2 weeks.

Always the same… I’m sure next rangers will get heavily nerfed cause a lot of people whined. That’s how it works. They listen to the customers. Lol.

Im fine with Spirit Watch being out, but the next months schedule is only Foefire, Forest and Kylo. The pattern repeats twice.

How hard is it to implement random rotation for a company as arenanet?

I fail to understand this.

Rerroll.9083:

How hard is it to implement random rotation for a company as arenanet?

I fail to understand this.

As they will probably tell us – its harder to implement than we think.

Even though Im sure there are plenty of software engineers and developers on this forum like myself that understand what it takes to do some of these things. If its really to hard to implement, then your backend was poorly written and you should feel bad Anet.

everypatch and every move from arenet going fail these days…i hate sprit watch also and i want random map system back !!! before 3months spvp is more fun but these days and %90 of game people doing duels and dont play capture , we dont have arenas but we have battlegrounds with full of people which doing duel ….gz arena !!!
old system much better than now and MUCH MORE FUN , i addicted to spvp but these days worsth thing ever in my life prefer to play monkey island 2

Don’t forget to return Spirit Watch next month in the rotation. We have waited long enough and it seems there were some fixes the last patch.

So restarting the same cycle with Foefire again today? Or will we see Spirit Watch back in rotation(then you should start with it today and not put it at the end of the list).

DiogoSilva.7089:

Their “excuse” does makes sense, though. Look at GW1’s random arenas: how many players build around flags? Who many made build around auto-resurrection? Pretty much none, because those maps were random, and wouldn’t always pop up. Playewrs had to use a generalized build for them all, and weren’t allowed to adapt.

A random map system would mean that any depth that would come from building around the secondary objectives, would be negleted. That’s cool for casual/ hotjoin (which already cycles maps), but generally, it will only emphasize more the builds that are already meta, by destroying the niche builds.

I dont think it would destroy any niche builds, from my experience people usually pick a build and only change some major traits, an amulet, weapons or runes\sigils before the match not completely rebuild their spec.

Parisalchuk.9230:

Apollo.7389:

Get this horrible map SPIRIT WATCH out of the rotation. Take Temple out of it as while you are at it.

What is exactly wrong with Temple? It matches the other games style and the only ‘game breaker’ is the capture that grants you all the capture zones. And that only happens near the end of the game and either ends a game that is lopsided faster or gives a chance to a team that is 100ish points behind to win.

I agree, Temple should stay but I also agree that Spirit Watch should be removed and a Daily map change would be better than just 2x a week. (I also think the water level should be completely removed from the game no one seems to like that map, I cant even remember its name because I really dislike that map)

Greenfish.1270:

Parisalchuk.9230:

Apollo.7389:

Get this horrible map SPIRIT WATCH out of the rotation. Take Temple out of it as while you are at it.

What is exactly wrong with Temple? It matches the other games style and the only ‘game breaker’ is the capture that grants you all the capture zones. And that only happens near the end of the game and either ends a game that is lopsided faster or gives a chance to a team that is 100ish points behind to win.

I agree, Temple should stay but I also agree that Spirit Watch should be removed and a Daily map change would be better than just 2x a week. (I also think the water level should be completely removed from the game no one seems to like that map, I cant even remember its name because I really dislike that map)

Temple is one of the best maps and everyone knows the water area needs tweaking. Specially because of the skills since you’ll need the water to jump and not die just like Jonathan Sharp mentioned it last sotg.

Is there any reason why don’t we get random map on tournaments? Is it a technical issue or is it a design philosophy?

I actually like the current map rotation, please keep it the same. I don’t like having a different map every hour or so like World of Warcraft.

What is the current map rotation and is Spirit Watch in it again?

I really like Spirit Watch. Please add it to the rotation,

When does the map change?

Tuesdays and Fridays