Guild Wars 2

This video is made to promote 8v8 deathmatch…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mxyE_Owv6Y

From what you can see in this video, 8v8 is fun. no healers? who cares, guardian books? hell ya.
We tried to play the 8v8 with different styles, for example, no stomping, no reviving the downed players,
I just hope that Anet will implement features can support this 8v8 style in Custom arena. for example no down state… if you have any suggestions about 8v8 please post here!

I am sure many of you want to try it [especially the hard core gvgers from gw1] If you have 7 players with you just post your name here and setup an 8v8 against another team. also if you have 8 players, I can always bring my 7 players to face you!

Here is another video, this 1 was more intense and longer! [small editing mistakes ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zlnUF2RFQ

If you are wondering how we managed to 8v8, we just joined a 16 man hotjoin server and swapped players before the last player joins. [this will hopefully be easier to do when they release custom arena]

I tought deatchmatch would be a bad and impossible idea for GW2. Until now.

+1

3v3, 5v5 would be better formats imo!

Looked so messy with everything going off. Should a tried it in 5s. So many colors brag…

8v8 puts wierd dynamics in play with lots of aoes only hitting a max of 5 targets.

5v5 Deathmatch = awesomesauce

i would love tdm game mode :/

5v5 on Legacy of the Foefire.

-> remove Points
-> win = kill guildlord (increase HP of GL)

nice, no?

Destiny.6738:

5v5 on Legacy of the Foefire.

-> remove Points
-> win = kill guildlord (increase HP of GL)

nice, no?

Put a flag stand in the middle and some archers above the gates.

ensoriki.5789:

Destiny.6738:

5v5 on Legacy of the Foefire.

-> remove Points
-> win = kill guildlord (increase HP of GL)

nice, no?

Put a flag stand in the middle and some archers above the gates.

Don’t go halfway. Put a treb and repair kit on it too. I hated when they took that out.

ensoriki.5789:

Destiny.6738:

5v5 on Legacy of the Foefire.

-> remove Points
-> win = kill guildlord (increase HP of GL)

nice, no?

Put a flag stand in the middle and some archers above the gates.

- gain all ~2minutes moral boost (increase HP)
- decrease HP when death

I really enjoyed watching! That looks like it was really fun.

Take a page out of fighting games. In fighting games, you have power gauges that you have to fill up in order to use uber special moves.

Do the same for deathmatch mode if the main obstacle to implementing it is the usage of elite skills immediately at the beginning of each match.

Make it so that we can only use elite skills after inflicting or receiving enough damage to fill the ‘power gauge’.

superchichi.6502:

Take a page out of fighting games. In fighting games, you have power gauges that you have to fill up in order to use uber special moves.

Do the same for deathmatch mode if the main obstacle to implementing it is the usage of elite skills immediately at the beginning of each match.

Make it so that we can only use elite skills after inflicting or receiving enough damage to fill the ‘power gauge’.

Then elites like Signet of Rage would be useless.

And not a single thief was seen that day.

edit:
no pun intended.

Cool video but I think 8v8 is too many players. Like others I’d like to see 3v3 or 5v5. That way the focus is more on individuals contributions and not just how many aoes can be spammed in the right area.

this would be insanely fun, especially if it was 5v5.

That really looked amazing! Possibly a tad messy just having an 8v8 deathmatch, but if some secondary (at least) mechanics were introduced, I think it (or 5v5) would prove to be a really captivating game mode.

Agree with majority 8×8 is too much. Dam I wish that anet would just develop a simple DM mode for various amount of players (2×2 3×3 5×5), it would require so little work, yet would go a lot in “fun pvp” department…

looks interesting, but i still think 3v3 or 5v5 would be better format, this is a bit too messy and zergy…

8 is fine if it involves full team on team clashes.
Zergy is only bad when one team is really outnumbered in the fights.

But yeah, anything seems fun at this point, with how stale GW2 is coming to be…
Just custom map making would make a WORLD of difference in this game.