Guild Wars 2

I would like to point on few issues we got currently in ranked que.

1. Class/build stacking
As many of you probably noticed, team composition is like half of success in PvP. Premades doesn’t have this problem, since they can pick ‘perfect’ setup for their scheme and maximize synergy between classes/builds before joining que, however if solo q players would try to change their random team composition they will be punished for class switching which doesn’t have any sense.

What I would like to see changed there?
• Allow players to see their team members builds. This way we could adjust our own builds to avoid build stacking or just maximize synergy between builds to have better teamfights or just to cover missing roles.
• Allow players to switch classes before match starts without penalty which we got now. If you want to avoid ‘Build Wars’ between teams, just hide enemy team composition before match start.

2. Communication
Since communicating with team is crucial for proper team work and nobody has time to type while fightning or even people doesn’t speak same languages (EU). We also know that Premades will be often running voice communcators which make life alot easier. So I think adding voice commands would be good idea to make communcation between players easier.

I would love to see some basic stuff like:
• I’m going close/mid/far.
• Close/mid/far is safe now!
• Close/mid/far need help!
• I’m going for <x objective, e.g. Treb>

3. Respawn Timers for ‘Objectives’
Not really ‘an ranked que issue’ and you may consider it weird, but I would really love to see timers on certain objectives just by looking at map, like: how much time left to Svanir/Treb/etc respawn? I know Svanir respawn every 3 minutes, but forcing players to memorize everything that happens around isn’t really the best thing, even LoL and Smite show respawn timers in jungle in those dark and evil times.

4. If que will remain Premades vs Solo Q…

If que remain as it is, it would be really good to bring back feature from GW1 Random Arenas, where winning team would stay together for next match (until they lose). This would help solo players form teams that would be able to battle premades more on equal footing and maybe who knows, some competitive teams could be born this way?

In closing…
I believe dealing with all those 4 points would make playing ranked arenas much better experiance for many players.