This is bloodbird.9386, thank you for listening. I have read so many posts on forums, but I could not respond because I was banned for over criticizing A-Net PVP developers, but when you come from Guild Wars 1 Background you don’t expect anything less than GW1 content. To be honest, I was really disappointed because the game has no Purpose or a goal in PVP!!! Even for the best FTP games like League of Legends it gets boring after sometime if you are not in a guild or a ladder, the reason why people love it because after some time you want to know who is Number#1 who is the best! Which guild is the best guild in LoL or in the sever (North America, Europe West, Europe East etc), Mosco5 for example, and of course the rewards of 5Million$ for the winner.
I have seen a review for Elder Scrolls Online, its bit boring game play, however they have the Concept of Mega Server. This is pretty much the only reason am going to buy this game, if anyone plays the game, I can play with him. I just love this idea, they breaking away from the boring segregation of servers.
Now lets assume I have joined Anet team as the new head of PVP (Of course so that you can see my vision, I know you understand better than I do) and am told that we don’t have enough resources to build new maps and we need some changes very quick by the board of directors, i would first do the following:
1- Guild Vs Guild
8 vs 8 OR (for the time being 5 vs 5 to prevent Q-Over load, 5 members of the same guild should be enough to represent the guild, and 3 pugs or tryouts no problem, once there are enough members in Guild vs Guild Q, the stand down in guild is disabled untill the Q is disbanded.
The GvG is 1 vs 1, depends on the wins not losses, the losses should not be counted on the ladder only the wins should count, whoever wins more, is number #1 for the month and then again ladder reset, i dont know reset every 3 month or 1 month or a week. but the Q for example should detect highest wins guilds and match it vs something close or of similar wins, i prefer the ladder is in game in a GvG ranking tab, you see which guild is of more wins in NA and how many wins they have. the ladder keeps changing or updated every hour, and you can observe the GvG live or recorded.
2- GvG rewards
For every member who praticipated in GvG and who got a win should get a GvG token ,regardless of which guild he represented, the guild gets the ranking and the player gets those tokens, its something like Laurels, now if he wins lets say 100 GvG tokens he can buy an epic sword/Shield/Mace/Gear piece with it. it should be only be execlusive for the players who participated in GvG.
Also that makes sure that all the players whenver they repping a guild, they make sure they do their best to get those tokens.
All the items can be purchased with the tokens only, not with glory, also GvG titles would be nice as well.
3- Guild Alliance and Country Flags
You may assume that everyone who plays Guild Wars 2 are from North America, but many players are not from America, i have seen players from China, Korea, Japan, ME, Brazil thats on NA, of course you have Europe etc. Now the first thing i want to implement is that if you join a guild or represent a guild it has a “Flag Option” only the guild leader can chose it which can be displayed like Anet Symbol under the name, which shows where this guild is from in at least in “Guild Vs Guild” battle only! Guild “XS” US vs “XS2” Korea. This may sound trivial, but many people would love this (Am only assuming).
4- Mega Server for GvG battles.
This could be implemented down the line, instead of only best NA guilds and Europe Guilds you can have Europe Server guilds vs American Server guilds and they are updated in the same ladder.
5- Fast GvG implementation for conquest.
For the time being we can implement this on the conquest grounds, random map 5 vs 5, game is finished update ladder, players get tokens , gg.
6- Display of Guild Name, Guild rank and guild country before the game starts, the guild leader can chose to surrender before the game starts. but no one wins anything.
7- Guild officers can arrange GvG battles too, no two guilds can be matched, but the more of guild members who participate in GvG, the moer wins the guild gets.
Beside GvG:
1- Glory can buy you epic weapon set, some weapons can only be purchased with glory and weapons to be purchased with gems, but some of them exclusively with glory
2- The ammy points system instead of chosing the ammy, let the players adjust it how they want.