Guild Wars 2

And i strongly believe that when it will comes out it will make a noise and its the future of GW2 esport game.
All these dodges mechanics are a very good mechanic in a 1v1 battle,in a battle that you fight 2 or 3 foes as a spectator you cant focus very much in the small details..sometimes animations are chaotic..but in 1v1 you can see more clearly what happens,how the player react,when he dodge roll,when he opens his cds..
I know that the game its not meant to be balanced around 1v1 but in conquer mode.But still even in conquer mode theres no balance.Still Builds-classes outshine and i know that LoL,the king of esports, aint 100% balanced at all.Games cant become balanced 100% but they can become fun to watch and competitive
Anyway its just an opinion and i would like to hear some others too..

It depends what players want to see in/expect from 1v1.
I believe it pretty much boils down to the following things:
(Occasional) fun for everyone and/or a place to kill time in when there’s no tournaments going on;
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Bragging rights (i.e. a competitive mode for dedicated skirmish players);
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Learning material (i.e. a place to hone your skirmish skills, test builds and learn how to deal with other classes – for the full potential the arena would come with an obs mode though). However, I believe it is custom arenas that will be implemented for that purpose already, amongst others.

Personally, I see little reason for a dedicated 1v1 arena, mostly because of the whole concept behind bunker vs burst vs attrition – some builds will simply grief or outbuild other builds, so it’d come down more to build warz than actual skill warz.

In order to avoid that, pre-set character builds/bars/skill choices would need to be implemented (I honestly cannot see that work in this game though), and changed on a regular basis (once a day, every two days, once a week or multiple times a day) – basicaly, an arena modelled after the GW’s Codex Arena would be called for. But that would at the same time limit the diversity and possibly drive players away because of limited choices/bad builds, not to mention the additional resources it’d take to change builds on a regular basis.

Besides, an actual observer mode for tournaments would already be decent learning material, so it’s mostly just a matter of fun vs bragging rights argument.
I think it is something that could be implement eventually, but for the time being, the priorities should lie with a general observer mode, match making system, bug fixes and other more prominent and pestering issues (the mode would need to come with a ladder, ranking and reward system and match making of its own).

Pretty much everything said. Mabye it has to be class matched (e.g. ranger vs. ranger, war vs. war, etc.) As Karla said it’s a “too much” of restrictions that has to be implented, to avoid bunker play and things of that nature. For me not possible.
Let’s see what a-net will do in the next years.

I see your points and i agree with the most of it..But i had much fun watching 1v1 fights..It was very interesting watching a necro destroying a thief combo.In tournaments i cant have a nice view of what is going in the map,i dont know if the spectator mode will provide that but right now its not fun to watch pro teams fighting…In Twitch GW2 got like 200-300 viewers and in the other hand i saw in this forum a post about an organized 1v1 tournament….This means that ppl really want to duel and the current mode doesnt have the succes that was expected.Even if spectator mode comes imo it will just gonna dissapear the GW2 channel from Twitch..Im not happy with the pvp game right now….

Are we talking about the recent announcements? Because I think they were talking about 1 team vs 1 team tournaments.

(not 1 person vs. 1 person duels.)

As i understood it was about one person vs. another person. So no team.

Jonathan made it very clear in the recent twitch stream that it is one TEAM vs. one TEAM. I’m not sure how he could have made it any clearer.

We don’t talk about Jonathans announcement. If we would, then please point me out where he’s mentioned.

Just to bring up the important sentence from the author:

“..a battle that you fight 2 or 3 foes as a spectator you cant focus very much in the small details..sometimes animations are chaotic..but in 1v1 you can see more clearly what happens…”

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/357921586

Watch from 8:10-8:30

You’re welcome.

I know this… But this link was NOT posted from the author in THIS topic. The author akka dardamaniac made the topic here and not Jonathan! Just read carefully. Srsly…

I find watching 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 fights enjoyable. However watching 2v1s over and over again is really bland. There is a lot of strategy in a normal game which can be interesting, however I just don’t see it being an E-sport game mode. The game is based heavily on strategy which effect isn’t all that apparent. I just can’t see that attracting a large casual viewer base. It might be a competitive game mode but not really an E-sports.

1v1s are just much more viewer friendly where the intricacies that effect the outcome being more apparent to viewers. The game just obviously wasn’t balanced for 1v1s.

It is possible to add in more of a 5v5 game mode that will attract a casual viewer base but right now conquest isn’t going to fit that roll.