Guild Wars 2

I honestly believe that the downstate is one of the biggest drawbacks of spvp as it is today. I understand that it adds a certain level of difficulty in battles between premade teams, but when you just want to be on your own and try out your own skills independently of a premade team, the downstate hinders that.

I’m not going to divulge any further with how horrible it is, but dive straight to my question. Do you think that we will be able to disable it with custom arenas? I think Anet wants it in for team vs team battles since they think that everyone who does pvp should be in a premade team, so will we be able to create ffa tournaments where we could be rid of that horrible feature? What do you guys think?

I doubt this will be possible. The more people play without downstate, the more demand there will be for servers completely devoid of the mechanic. Unfortunately, it is here to stay.

But I sincerely hope I am wrong in my assumption.

It would be great to see an option to turn off downed state.

Thus far I see it as a horrible mechanic in PvP. It increases the time you cannot contribute, it makes revives incredibly easy, it favors the larger group, downed abilities are extremely imbalanced, it’s humiliating to the defeated player and encourages zerging in WvW.

PvP in GW2 would be 100% better without the downed-state and I for one would like to experience it in that way.