Guild Wars 2

Firstly, add more game modes. I know this is a common complaint, but it’s really a big issue. Conquest doesn’t provokes much actual “Player vs Player”-action, it’s rather just a matter of run around and take points. If you’re outnumbered, or it just isn’t time efficient, get out of there and try to capture another point.

Don’t get me wrong – it isn’t supposed to be all out deathmatch, but the Conquest game mode just makes it to be all about the objectives, making the PvP more of a lesser side effect. Conquest would be great. . . in a rotation of game modes.

Look at another classic game mode: Capture the Flag. One person becomes the center of everyone’s attention. The other team does everything to kill whoever is carrying the flag at the time while the other team protects him – by killing the others and to a lesser extent gives him direct support.

That’s a game mode that provokes some more intense PvP action and it still allows for some good team coordination. Of course, this is just an example and there’s a lot of possible game modes that could be created with a very similar atmosphere!

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The Second point I want to make is that, at least for me, all the fun that sPvP provided was the PvP gameplay, but I didn’t feel like I was making progress. The randomization of the “reward-system” just wasn’t appealing at all. I had no specific goal to work towards!

If I may compare this to my PvE experience (without being yelled at), half the fun of doing anything was that I had a goal. First it was a full set of Exotic, then 5 specific and expensive weapons for my Elementalist. Then a second armor set, for more offensive stats and a different look. Now I’m slowly progressing towards Volcanus for my Warrior.

Of course you can’t add all the things you can do in PvE into sPvP, but the point is that I’m missing the feeling of progress. I want to develop my character. The titles and the almost random items isn’t appealing enough in order for me to actually enjoy PvP (which I generally really, Really love in MMOs). Maybe if I could straight up buy the items I wanted with Glory points, if they where available for my rank.

(English isn’t my native language, as you may have figured out by now. Thanks for reading)