Guild Wars 2

1. ETA on private tournaments
2. ETA on ELO/ranking system
3. confirmation on the ELO/ranking system being solo or team based?
4. Duels? y/n?

People will get bored of PVP and the potential for an esports will fail, a response would be nice, thanks

A Response would be nice.. even for casual players.

4. Is there going to be any improvement made to allow two to four friends to play sPVP together (on the same team)?

I have suggested in other posts how an ELO/ranking system would address this.

Ulari

Ulari.9547:

Is there going to be any improvement made to allow two to four friends to play sPVP together (on the same team)?

It’s already been addressed and they said they would not be making any major changes for balance reasons.

Ulari.9547:

4. Is there going to be any improvement made to allow two to four friends to play sPVP together (on the same team)?

I think this is not so much needed as you can go into free tournaments with your party of friends. Plus the glory payout on free tournaments is better :-D

I’ve seen the stance that you don’t want groups of 8 queueing and stomping pubs of randoms, but I haven’t seen the idea of matching same sized groups suggested.

If I queue with one other friend, then penalize me and make me wait for a more specific match against someone else who queued with one other person. If 5 people queue together then force them into a match where 5 others queued together and fill the rest of the team with same sized groups (or individuals).

This would prevent pub teams from getting stomped by these groups coming in together as groups will only play against groups. This also alleviates the requirement of getting a team of 5 and working on competitive strategies from us more casual PvPers just in order to play together.

Sykotron.3768:

I’ve seen the stance that you don’t want groups of 8 queueing and stomping pubs of randoms, but I haven’t seen the idea of matching same sized groups suggested.

If I queue with one other friend, then penalize me and make me wait for a more specific match against someone else who queued with one other person. If 5 people queue together then force them into a match where 5 others queued together and fill the rest of the team with same sized groups (or individuals).

This would prevent pub teams from getting stomped by these groups coming in together as groups will only play against groups. This also alleviates the requirement of getting a team of 5 and working on competitive strategies from us more casual PvPers just in order to play together.

Honestly, in the previous MMO I played you’d regularly face premade groups in your pickup matches and it was infinitely more fun and balanced than things are in this game as of this writing. Hopefully that can be corrected through a variety of tweaks, because there definitely is incredible potential.

Sykotron.3768:

If 5 people queue together then force them into a match where 5 others queued together and fill the rest of the team with same sized groups (or individuals).

Pretty cool idea man. Maybe they could call this system “free tournament”.

I’m not bored. Maybe some little forum minority is.

Paid Tourneys need to happen soon. The wait needs to be changed too, 5 minutes is WAY too generous.

The only reason people would get bored is because the glory difference between ranks starts getting ridiculous. It takes more glory to go from Wolf to Tiger as it does to do the previous 30 ranks. Couple that with the fact that you get no tangible reward until the next rank and you’ve got a pretty boring reward system. Playing dress-up is fun, getting cool looking gear is fun, what’s not fun is having week or month long increments of 10 before you get rewarded. There’s 5 or 6 sets for each rank, why not give some of them at the halfway mark?

milo.6942:

Sykotron.3768:

If 5 people queue together then force them into a match where 5 others queued together and fill the rest of the team with same sized groups (or individuals).

Pretty cool idea man. Maybe they could call this system “free tournament”.

Don’t be a kitten. Maybe I should have used the number 6?

It wasn’t the specific number that mattered, though it was convenient for my argument. Tournament system is there for exactly what you’re talking about: premade vs premade.

so long as the elo system doesnt result in players stuck in “elo hell” then im fine with it

No, I’m talking about arbitrary vs abitrary. You should be able to have a team consisting of 5 premade members, 2 premade members, and one completely solo individual vs another team of the same make up. It’s not a full premade here which is an important distinction.

Sykotron.3768:

It’s not a full premade here which is an important distinction.

Did you know you could join a free tournament with a partial roster and get matched with other partials for a full team?

milo.6942:

Sykotron.3768:

It’s not a full premade here which is an important distinction.

Did you know you could join a free tournament with a partial roster and get matched with other partials for a full team?

I’m pretty sure that’s not true. I’ve never had a full team when I did any of the free tournaments, but I’m pretty sure I saw an entire enemy team from one guild.

My main concerns right now is teams will get bored because of lack of competition. Up and coming teams will get bored because there is no ELO to match there own skill so they will either stomp or get stomped – no decent games. No custom tournaments to have in community tournaments (guilds etc) and our team cant scrim any other teams.

Not impressed.

Emoqt.1853:

My main concerns right now is teams will get bored because of lack of competition. Up and coming teams will get bored because there is no ELO to match there own skill so they will either stomp or get stomped – no decent games. No custom tournaments to have in community tournaments (guilds etc) and our team cant scrim any other teams.

Not impressed.

There is a guild that has one player from each team that plays sPvP competitively and it is used as a hub to que up tourneys simultaneously to get good practice in. Teams like TP, TSS, iO, AC, vVv, iG just to name a few have a rep in the guild. That being said I don’t like having to resort to this method to get good practice in. But it is truly amazing that the community is willing to work together to improve their play ina friendly manner. I would like it if ANet would implement something in game to handle this situation better ie: elo/mmr etc.

I’m wondering ETA on TDM, CTL and/or CTF styles of gameplay.

I really hated every “cap point” objective in GW1 which is why I stayed away from Jade Quary and played Random Arenas instead. HA was great but took too long to build a team only for it to fizzle and everyone leave after losing first map. I did get to rank 9 though but eventually stuck with RA.

Why is there no duel option…SPVP geting boring immediately unless you have a formed group.

Sykotron.3768:

milo.6942:

Did you know you could join a free tournament with a partial roster and get matched with other partials for a full team?

I’m pretty sure that’s not true. I’ve never had a full team when I did any of the free tournaments, but I’m pretty sure I saw an entire enemy team from one guild.

It is 100% true. I do it all the time. I even enter myself as a solo player and I get on teams with 4 others in the same guild that just needed 1 more player apparently. There is a comment from a developer saying the same thing in one of these (many) threads on the subject.

Im getting boring because of the stupid burst dmg this game have… they first have to balance then add things like that… my point of view…

lol, bored after 3 weeks?

Sounds like you need to play less or find another game : /