Guild Wars 2

My overall understanding is that spirit watch is still not a favorite of the community. At the same time, many people are getting bored of all conquest maps ending up feeling similar. Finally, when it comes to watching especially, one of the big problem of gw2 conquest is the linearity, since the whole game is a never-ending fight for capture points.

So in general, I think it would be beneficial for the secondary mechanics to create different game phases.

Here is for example my suggestion for spirit watch (numbers can be changed):

• It starts as it currently does, with the conquest game
• At 12 min mark, all cap points are blanked and do not give points anymore. The points you own before the orb phase give you a bonus depending on the point (strength for wolf, defense for bear, speed for raven). After a few seconds, 2 orbs appear in the middle area but close to the respective spawn. Each of these orbs can only be taken by the respective team. They function very similarly to the current orbs (i.e. they disable your skills and offer new ones). Then it becomes a race to the mid point. If the orb is dropped, it can be taken again (by the same team only) after 3 seconds. The first team to score gets 50 points. The time limit is 1m30.
• Back to a conquest game, starting from the fully uncapped map.
• Orb phase again at 8 min and 4 min.

Overall, the benefit of this is to create clear game phases, with interesting strategical questions (split for the race between offense and defense). Plus the relay race it would create sounds fun to me.

In general, while this is just a suggestion I like the idea of the orb phase being separate from the conquest game (while still related) to create a unique dynamics. What do you think? What would be another way to make spirit watch more unique and enjoyable.

I don’t know if this is a good idea, but it sounds like fun