Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, yesterday WoodenPotatoes and I (on my WorldofEnders channel) came up with and tested out a fun format/mini-game for PvP. We call it: Draft-Building!

WoodenPotatoes’ perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvWwIfB6nU
My perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXcbHpnCZ7U

THE RULES:
-Two traits are randomly chosen for you each by rolling a d6 for the line, then a d12 for the trait.
-One non-weapon skill is chosen by your opponent that you MUST use.
-One non-weapon skill is chosen by your opponent that you CANNOT use.
-You have 3 minutes to think up and put together a build using these conditions.
-FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Just wanted to share it with everyone because I actually think it’s a really fun thing to do! Try it out, and have fun!

I don’t want to be negative here, but what my thought is on this: The balance/builds are not funny, so let’s make it funnier by randomness. Shows me how boring/predictable the meta got, so ppl have to find their ways to make it satisfying.

On topic: The idea is really cool. It forces ppl to addapt to traits that they’d normally never choose. Also makes things a bit more interesting because we see some other stuff than the standard builds. Mabye an organized draft-version of this (a bit more complexe rule-wise) could attract many ppl. Also in a 5v5 environement it could work.
Mabye ask some shoutcasters and other ppl from the community to help building a tournament up with your idea. Would appreciate it!

A tournament would be great! Ideally, it would be great to have it as a death match though, so you don’t have to try to make your build fit into bunker/roamer roles., but even with conquest it could work.

I’m thinking a 2v2 or 3v3 death match tourney with these rules would be awesome. I would endorse it!

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

I don’t want to be negative here, but what my thought is on this: The balance/builds are not funny, so let’s make it funnier by randomness. Shows me how boring/predictable the meta got, so ppl have to find their ways to make it satisfying.

Oh come on, don’t be so negative. Every game out there will have some kind of a standard meta that is pretty static. This kind of a system would never work in a competitive environment so it is no way, shape or form trying to replace that. This is also why aram exists in moba games. Funzies is just funzies.

I’m totally going to have to try this out! Looks goofy fun.