Guild Wars 2

Since Anet wants to “remove” PVP from the game slowly (I think that’s the case, because the things you can see below), let’s give them solid advice on how to make PVP worse.

Apparently people still play PVP after Anet( which is bad because Anet wants to “remove” PVP)
- removed SoloQ
- forces every player to wait in Heart of the Mist and do nothing while at it
- is balancing the game in a half-year frequency and is doing really bad at it
- ‘s matchmaking is utter garbage
- makes you play against premade teams, when your team isn’t
- made the leaderboards and wins unrewarding (the one who grinds matches the most is on top)
- nerfed PVP rewards
- removed certain maps (but not the ones the community want to be removed)
- and instead introduces another bad, frustrating map, forcing you to always play ranked PVP
- messed up the rank system completely (I remember the days when I was impressed when I saw a shark, it was PRESTIGE, I was jealous)
- makes interesting & challenging builds bad and promotes cheese faceroll builds (shoutbow, bunker guard, d/d ele, turret engi, PU mesmer, signet necro, …), resulting in stalemate bunker meta
- doesn’t communicate and sits the problems out
- the entire community is toxic (because of above reasons)

To make PVP even worse,

I advise all teleports to be removed. This makes the game more boring because it will be harder to cap a point.

Additionally I propose that once you get into queue for unranked/ranked, you should be freezed and not able to interact with anything (just like the match ready window).

Another thing, which I think Anet would really benefit from, is to remove custom arenas, because 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, pugquest etc. fun is something which shouldn’t be in the game, because it circumvents the efforts and measures Anet has done to deliberately remove players from PVP.

@assassin.7895, I’d recommend a more serious approach with less sarcasm next time but I do understand your frustration completely.

In my opinion, you make some good points about things that should’ve either stayed in the game or should improve.

While I do believe ArenaNet can’t possibly think PvP is how it should be at this time, I doubt that they will ever put the amount of effort and time into balancing and tweaking PvP that the PvP community so desperatly needs and deserves. Whether that is a lack of motivation, knowledge, time, money or anything else, I do not know. But after 3 years and 3k hours in PvP I believe I can safely state that PvP as we know now will not dramatically change for the better anytime soon, despite all the constructive critisism on the one place ArenaNet SHOULD listen, the Forum.

I’m always in for PvP and I really love it, but ArenaNet showed me from the start of the game that putting your hopes up will only be a let down in the long run. Patch after patch they make the wrong decisions about balancing and when something is as broken as the D/D Celestial Elementalist right now you will only fool yourself if you believe it will be fixed with, how it should be, a hotfix. We’re more then a few patches later and they are still as overpowered as something will ( hopefully ) ever be.

I do hope things will be better when the Heart of Thorns expansion comes out. But my expectations are that it will be even more difficult to balance PvP, simply because of the even more specializations and an extra class.

I don’t expect ArenaNet to answer this thread, but despite that I’d prefer they read this and come to an understanding with how bad things are in PvP right now.

Kind regards,
Solus

There are 2 reasons why I play this game.
1) lack of mmorpgs with decent pvp
2) /age makes me realize how much time I’ve dedicated.

If something else came along with a decent combat system and an active player base, I’d be gone and never look back. Unfortunately all RPGs seem to focus on raids and PvE.

Drennon.7190:

There are 2 reasons why I play this game.
1) lack of mmorpgs with decent pvp
2) /age makes me realize how much time I’ve dedicated.

If something else came along with a decent combat system and an active player base, I’d be gone and never look back. Unfortunately all RPGs seem to focus on raids and PvE.

Camelot Unchained
Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade
Star Citizen

Camelot Unchained!

I’m old—been around for awhile with MMOs and have always been purely pvp focused—look into the game above for your pvp needs (hopefully) due out at the end of the year.

I’ve been waiting for this game since Dark Age of Camelot ruled the pvp scene.