Guild Wars 2

If you’ve ever been to Courtyard, you’ll see that map is not a Conquest map, but a map using rules closer to GW1’s “Kill Count”, one of the rules used in Random Arenas.

Those rules were good:

• Annihilation: Enemies do not revive automatically. Team who defeats all enemy players wins.
• Annihilation with priest. Each team has an NPC that revives the whole team every 2 minutes. You must defeat the entire enemy team and the priest to win.
• Annihilation with Obelisk. Kind of a reverse Spirit Watch. You must bring an object from your base to the center of the map to capture the Obelisk. While it is captured, it buffs your team and hurts the enemy team.
• Kill Count. The team with the highest kills when the time ends wins.

But they are very different to conquest. While in Conquest splitting and rotation between points are key, in Deathmatch, the whole team sticking together works better. So very different builds can be necessary, and not everyone can do well there with the same professions.

Because of that, Courtyard, which used different core rules, should not be filtered along Conquest, it should have its own filter. That would also allow putting in in ranked, since people would be able to filter it out if so needed.

So, is there any possibility of that ever happening? Or are we stuck with Stronghold and queuing in ranked for up to 3 more minutes to avoid Courtyard, and taking ages if we actually want to play in Courtyard because people may avoid it?

I cant stand courtyard.

the map is too small, its terrain too limited, it has no points to do dailies on. thus on top of being a bad map you cant do dailies on it. if my daily win is complete, and i get courtyard, i just log or afk from it, thats how much i hate it.

i dont want to strand people in a 4v5 but that map is just that horrible i just can’t take it. please provide me with the option to get out of it without gimping my team down to a 4v5.

thank you.

I love courtyard.
All those people who don’t even know how to play their class outside of 1v1…just great.

And it’s the very best map to play power necro.

Entenkommando.5208:

I love courtyard.
All those people who don’t even know how to play their class outside of 1v1…just great.

And it’s the very best map to play power necro.

You don’t understand how the map works. It’s just everyone fighting in some narrow space. Great for the aoe spammy classes like your necro, but hardly any skill involved.

If you want team deathmatch, it needs to be a more open space area. Hopefully guild arenas will solve that.

the gw1 random arenas had great annihilation maps.

why can’t we use them?

style.6173:

Entenkommando.5208:

I love courtyard.
All those people who don’t even know how to play their class outside of 1v1…just great.

And it’s the very best map to play power necro.

You don’t understand how the map works. It’s just everyone fighting in some narrow space. Great for the aoe spammy classes like your necro, but hardly any skill involved.

If you want team deathmatch, it needs to be a more open space area. Hopefully guild arenas will solve that.

I don’t play necro only. I love it with any class.

I definitely had my best matches there.
It feels so much more satisfying to win by one kill when the teams are very balanced than winning 500-499 in conquest.