Guild Wars 2

First off, forgive the pun. It was too tempting.

Anyway, reading over the pvp-forums and the wider forums in general, it seems like the is a lot of unhappy faces around (unhappy faces on a game’s official forum? What is this?)
But seriously, folks seems pretty downtrodden, about a lot of things, for example:

Spvp game modes are not fun.

There is no reward / gear skins are not good enough, when they are dyed red or blue anyway.

Hot join is a glory farm, Tpvp is the other end of the spectrum, how does a solo player get fun out of spvp?

So I thought to myself, you know what would be prettykittensweet? A social Mists.

Let it sink in. There you go. What do I mean by this?

Well currently, the heart of the mists is a place to stand and afk, a lobby, where you either wait for your next match, or you position yourself in a strong, respectable place, such as on top of a rock, then go and eat some food.

What if it was more? I think Anet kind of came on to this idea, but dropped out sometime before release. There is a half completed jumping puzzle under the lake, probably the result of some poor visionary’s failure to meet deadlines.

What if we had events in the mists? What if the keg brawl was removed from hoelbrak (or at least copied) and chucked into the mists? This, along side the other mini-games planned, could really turn casual pvp around.

Players could watch for fun games of keg brawl, with no effort of moving through two gates, navigating to the ice pond.
The mists would become a social place, where even dreaded pve’ers dare to tread. It would become a place to show off your flashy armour, in the colours YOU want it.

Give people a reason to be in the heart of the mists, and they will come, and spvp will benefit as a result.

Thoughts, opinions, criticisms and troll attempts welcomed.

“Think of not just the heart, but also the soul of the mists” – BigTeeHunter 21/10/12

Same thinking here, I suppose on 22-Oct they’ll balance skills and change some profesions. A part, we’ll have pay tournaments, but it’s inssuficient, this game needs more sPvP content now.

Thing is, keg brawl is already implemented, its just in the wrong place! Granted it may take a while to implement it into the mists map, but why not just throw in a gate to it? Keg brawl is by all intents and purposes a pvp game-mode, similar to that of huttball in SWTOR, although this version isn’t ruined by class unbalance.

I don’t see how Anet missed this, and to be honest, I think all mini-games belonged in the mists to begin with.

sPvP game modes are fun, I like conquest.

I definitely like your idea and totally agree.
As you are still ingame while you wait unlike in LoL where its a windowed Lobby and you can surf and stuff – people tend to jump around anyway and get bored quick when theres basically nothing to do. A little bit of fun stuff in between wouldnt hurt anyone.

Blazer Hellsing, you’re trolling every post. Please, stop this.

I really like this idea. Add some spice to the Mists.

This said: I think the system of the dummies, the trebuchets, the test npc’s and even the generals being there to test, is extremely well worked out.

It just lacks ‘fun’ and ‘liveliness’.