Guild Wars 2

Today I have spend in total probably 5 hours playing in custom arena that had these sets of rules:

2 players per team / no capping / team that reaches 30 points win. Sometimes we interpreted the rules as if you die you cannot re enter combat if your teammate is still alive, sometimes we agreed to fight in a more free mode – you spawn and can choose to rush out (although not always advisable since you can get 1×2 killed).

It was the most fun I had in gw2 pvp all the way from the release. So thank you to the person who made this possible. I have to mention that there were many very interesting team comps, and WARRIOR (!!!) was very viable in 2×2 environment. If I recall correctly the team was condition warrior with longbow/shield+sword & hgh engy vs phantasm mesmer and bm ranger. Warrior’s team have won 30-20

I also have noticed that bunkers are not annoying (since mostly they just try to rez downed teammate) and pure burst teams do not win in 2×2 – the more balanced characters team mostly wins. So it is still mind boggling why does ANET ignore multiple requests for more simplistic modes, that surely will not consume so much time developing and would increase not only the amount of fun you can have in pvp, but perhaps even the player base. And again – thank you the person who created this custom arena.

P.S. Most of the player that were playing in this 2×2 servers were r40+
P.P.S. In your opinion should ANET ignore the blatant fact that most CA and hotjoins now are duels/DM and just keep pushing the conquest?

Maybe on the expansion pack, i also want this but i have lost my hopes, anet seems to love conquest even if it should be just a battleground rather than a competitive mode =(

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P.P.S. In your opinion should ANET ignore the blatant fact that most CA and hotjoins now are duels/DM and just keep pushing the conquest?

If people want to do conquest they have tournaments and private scrims. Doing conquest in a hotjoin format is just… frustrating.

I’m not knocking on dueling/2v2s/3v3s because I enjoy them too, but I don’t think it’s worth abandoning conquest as the main format.

Also, when you look at balance I can tell you right now that it would drastically change in these 2v2/3v3 servers if it was made into a competitive mode and there would be nothing but complaining about how 2v2/3v3 is unbalanced. This is because as it is you typically don’t have top players bombarding these servers with builds specifically set to exploit the 2v2/3v3 matchups. It’s just for fun, which is the way I think it should remain.

I think 2v2 or 3v3 with 1 cap point would make things interesting.