Guild Wars 2

So I got a custom arena going, because I figured “What the hell..”

Didn’t want another 8v8 zerg arena, nor a formal 5v5 tournament style arena. I just wanted a place for casuals to come in, stomp and leave as they choose. So I settled with a 6v6 arena without Raid or Spirit Watch. Here’s the issue I’m seeing, though, with all of the arena’s that have been made.

There is no promotion available other than shouting your non-sense about your arena in a map chat of some kind.

Custom arena’s should probably be promoted by default to the top of the browser instead of being buried under the mass number of default servers. After all, people are paying for these and $20 is quite the good chunk of change as it is; I personally feel it should be more like a paid MMO price at $14/mo instead of $20, but that’s just me.

At any rate, am I the only one that sees a problem here besides the price of these things?

I also want an option to not let anyone in our guild arena except our guild members without losing progression. Stupid when we get 8+ in the arena and randoms join to ruin the event.

the custom arena needs more customization options!

I think it’s ok as it is but without more option it isn’t worth the $20 and there’s no way to promote these servers over the default ones as I said. This, above anything, needs changed.

There is a whitelisting feature in the CAs… You can whitelist your guild and only your friends will be able to join.

Also, it’s 20$ only for creating the arena, its 10$/mo for every next month as you buy the Time Tokens.

As for promotion, get your CA a nice name, organize an event on it, promote it in the PVP Events section of this forum and on Guru and you’ll get people playing on it. Of course in-game promotion features would be nice, but for now, that’s what I advise.

I think they need a filter option for showing custom arenas / default rooms. I personally prefer the default settings over the settings most people put on their arenas, so I would find the custom arenas at the top annoying.

Also, depending on how you spend your game time, 1600 gems isn’t really that much (like 55 in-game gold?). If you are the only person funding it and only do sPvP, then yes it can be expensive; but if you have guild members that pitch in and that do PvE it can be quite easy to fund.

And as for arena promotion, the suggestions said obverkid should help.

Roy.7405:

if you have guild members that pitch in and that do PvE it can be quite easy to fund.

we can’t level our characters or gain any outside-pvp rewards in heart of the mists, but we are expected to have to go pve just to pay to have the privilege to play against our friends?

huge joke