Guild Wars 2

Here’s an idea to make PvP more successful in this game;

Re-include Solo Queue and the ability to Queue for PvP anywhere you want.

Also while you’re at it, do something about the 4v5s, AFKers and DC’ers. It ruins the fun for the team that gets hindered by some kitten.

Guys, you cannot help ArenaNet, they don’t want help. At least, for now. Lets face it guys, ArenaNet knows what they want regardless of what we say.

Right now the meta has a viable build for every class, but it’s still not healthy.

• Elementalists has tons of sustain and can pump out damage.
• Engineers has tons of CC on low CD’s with countless proc-ing making countplay against any attack a pain.
• Warriors being stronger bunkers than Guardians ever were.
• Guardians are incredible damage dealers with defenses relying on blocking.
• Thieves relying a ton of blind rather than invisibility
• Necromancers 1-shotting anyone below 50% health.

Mesmers and Rangers getting the short stick, no matter what they run, 2-3 of the 6 listed above will just completely hard counter them.

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What’s going to happen is when the new elite spec’s for every class gets released, completely revamping the meta.
So… What happens next after bringing back the PvP player base? Will ArenaNet have another Dhuumfire catastrophe and leave it alone for 6 months or are they finally going to change their mantra and take good care of PvP.

vlad.4871:

You can t create succesful competitive PvP in a game that has pve.

Starcraft.
Even Mobas are full of PvE aspects.

Puck.1509:

Helping GW2 create succesful competitive PvP

I’m sorry bro, it’ll never happen. Enjoy the game in a really casual manner.

Are we all forgetting one crucial element here especially to those who believe only a specific set of classes can contribute to a team with support an stability, heart of thorns will be releasing a few new supporting roles such as the druid for rangers an chronomancer for mesmer also Rangers can use a spirit build for team support, not too sure how it fares in the meta but maybe with enough time given you can somewhat master your playstyle around that build to become an asset to your competitive team. But i believe enough time given any class can make the cut. I might give the ranger a try actually, could be a good mix supporting role

Of course a pve game can be competitive, guild wars 1 was competitive all over. 50% of the competitive side of a game comes from its players not the developers.
Neeeever say never! Lol. But in all seriousness its not to late for arena net, last year boston tournament was really successful an intense. It can happen it just needs a few nessessary changes such as what i stated at the start of this topic to encourage people to take pvp more serious.

If more of the classes were viable I would play PVP more, but I get tired of the same five classes or even watching the same five classes on teams win. It’s boring and it undercuts my motivation to do spvp because the class that I unfortunately chose is not viable, and no matter how good I get (I’m ok) it will not be viable. Sure you find the class in spvp but top teams take five or six classes everytime, with few outliers.

You guys need to consider how many other online video games exist nowadays, including small time stuff like cell phone apps that suck people’s lives in to trying to compete for the best score in some level of Tetris.

The community in GW2 is actually normal sized and healthy considering this. We are far beyond the days of WoW when it was the only leading kitten game around. It just doesn’t work that way anymore. The gaming industry is too large and there are too many options for gamers. You’ll never see another multi-million player base due to this.

Gryph.8237:

If more of the classes were viable I would play PVP more, but I get tired of the same five classes or even watching the same five classes on teams win. It’s boring and it undercuts my motivation to do spvp because the class that I unfortunately chose is not viable, and no matter how good I get (I’m ok) it will not be viable. Sure you find the class in spvp but top teams take five or six classes everytime, with few outliers.

Well create your own team and or prove the community wrong. What class do you play by the way?
So far i would say yes the meta would be 2 heavy armored builds and 3 dps. I dont think its biased i just think maybe they havent found the right ranger to use in meta teams or any underestimated class at that. I asked someone once what the hardest class would be or the weakest and they said mesmer. Now i learned to be almost indestructable in a well coordinated team. I just think people loose and struggle to accept they were outbeaten and outplayed then blame an inbalance or any other reason. A good play an good decision making is what makes a good class not simply class skills

Nerifes.4931:

Here’s an idea to make PvP more successful in this game;

Re-include Solo Queue and the ability to Queue for PvP anywhere you want.

Also while you’re at it, do something about the 4v5s, AFKers and DC’ers. It ruins the fun for the team that gets hindered by some kitten.

Why did they rid the solo Q in the first place?
However I don’t think something as simple as that will fix the game, it may even create more issues in that you might find yourself with even less than 4v5 and even more afkers because they can.

*To avoid this, shout on map chat and form a team.

I do this most of the time and I never struggle as much as people seem to on these forums. I always get games after games.

Let me ask you this though, will you be willing to sacrifice fighting a boss or world event if the Q pops up? Because that is the question you have to ask yourself if they enabled queuing from anywhere, you will only get less people accepting the match as they will just wait for the next one.