Guild Wars 2

I know it’s silly to compare but I was playing on Pokemon Showdown the other day (great site for competitive play)

and I think GW2 could take a note from other games a bit, using their own philosophy from the beta: Restriction breeds creativity.

LoL has this with the banned list. Pokemon has this with the various clauses. TF2 has it in the forum of side grades and specific slots.

But… GW2 has no slots that don’t just directly hurt the character so that’s out of the question. and a ban list? with 8 classes? LOL that’d be dumb.

So I was thinking:

Diversity Clause

-All teams running multiples of the same profession must have at least 30 trait points in a different tree.-

This would be a pain to implement in solo queue. However for team Queue it might give a healthy edge to the competitive play. Also this might make live tournaments more interesting to watch which helps the e-sports push.

Balancing around this is much easier than focusing on what class/build can do what, and forces diversity within the community. Lesser used builds become viable due to the lack of saturation. This also all fits into A-nets initial design decision.

A lot of people complain about one thing being OP and what not, but if there is only one then it becomes a thing to counter, teams fill their weaknesses and strengths accordingly allowing for more strategic play.

In the end I think the game going down this path would be much healthier for the community as a whole, and I could definitely see players returning due to a healthy growing community.

A-net wanted a fluctuating meta to build upon, I think minor clauses like this depending on the development of the game could be the start of something great.

Anyways Thoughts? Criticisms?

Impractical, and awkward given the small pool of professions.
If this were a game with 40 professions, then clauses or bans would work well.
For example how do you fit this in the solo que? You don’t. 3 Thieves up in a que and the game explodes?

ensoriki.5789:

Impractical, and awkward given the small pool of professions.
If this were a game with 40 professions, then clauses or bans would work well.
For example how do you fit this in the solo que? You don’t. 3 Thieves up in a que and the game explodes?

as I said it would be a pain to implement into solo queue, and the focus of the rest of my post was more directed into team queue

Maybe not implement it that specific way but honestly being out comp’d in solo q is just… sigh….

But we don’t have the pvp population to limit professions/players in any way. Look at how bad matchmaking is, slow q times are, then add in a new limiter…. q’s would take 30 minutes…