Guild Wars 2

I am not normally on the forums, but lately I have been checking them out to see what outer people are saying. It would seem that a lot of people have the same concerns that I do.

I want to first start out by saying that I actually consider myself a skilled PvPer and enjoy squaring off against other skilled players. I normally used to do SPvP late at night, where most match have 4 on a team at most. I have to say those matches are a lot of fun because they actually do involve skill.

Lately I have been finding myself getting match earlier on in the day and night where they are 8v8. These are terrible matches that involve very little skill (including coordination) and promote zerging. No amount of condition removal, stability, healing or even dodging can save you in these matches. It comes down to what zerg can spam and land the most attacks.

It is obvious that 8v8 in itself is a major balance issue. 8v8 seriously needs to be dropped down to 5v5. I wouldn’t be worried about server space because most of the SPvP servers are empty.

A lot of people make valid arguments for 3v3, 2v2 and 1v1. I have personally done 3v3 and 2v2 and even 1v1 matches, which are not just a lot of fun, but have way more balance than 8v8.

If Anet is serious about becoming a viable Esport and having spectators, they need to go to cap at 5v5 across the board., add 3v3, 2v2 and 1v1.

Click PvP, go to mists, choose a server with 5 people, check players, leave @ 8 people and repeat.

I would definitely like to see at lease some of the servers be 5v5, arena net probably wont do this though because those servers will always be full and the people shafted the 8v8 will complain and they will need to make all the servers 5v5 (which I don’t mind). Currently its me going to a point, capping it and getting zerged by 4 people. The rest of my team is nowhere to be seen, probably zerging an uncontested point. 4 people attacking me in an 8v8 isn’t a zerg, its the right amount of people to hold 2 points, I just like calling it a zerg because the match started as 5v5.

The game was built for tourneys and they are 5v5, so why 8v8 in spvp, to accommodate more players? Don’t know if they play at Aussie times but there are only 5 or 6 servers with more then 9 players, the rest are 2 (duels usually or they hot joined an empty match) and a big list of empty servers.

I would like to see 2 options that are pretty self explanatory:
Hot Join (up to 8v8)
Hot Join (up to 5v5)

And if all servers are full their could be a vote to accept new players option, expanding a 5v5 to an 8v8