Guild Wars 2

I’ve been gone for around a year or so, and a few dedicated players that still play made it sound interesting to come back and try, and here’s what I gathered from returning for a few games.

1) No new build diversity -

It seems that there hasn’t really been any new build diversity since I left a year ago or so, only number tweaking and the removal/addition of amulets. My specific examples on how to change that’s class specific to give a better understanding of what I mean can be found here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Countless-How-To-Improve-Build-Diversity/first#post6124703

TLDR: Compared to shield on mesmer, every other off hand weapon fails in comparison, aka power creep at its finest. There is no reason why this should still be the case.

2) No new game modes -

This should speak for itself, I could link countless threads of the community speaking out “myself included” asking for a game mode that’s fully supported, “not just a map that’s thrown into the rotation with no support aka courtyard” but has fallen on deaf ears. It still boggles my mind as to why something has not been implemented.

3) Team Que -

It looks like gw2’s decision making is led by the vocal minority and not the silent majority. And that has led us to what we see now in terms of matchmaking not being able to support full team que. My simple question to this is why not have both? Separate the leaderboards into duo que and team que and let the rest sort itself out. I’ve never seen a game mode that supports 5v5 team play but yet doesn’t let you que as five players.

Let me know your feedback, thank you.

Countless

This season is already way more fun then the last few. Team queue was deadly to the community. It kept new players out and discouraged participation.

SteepledHat.1345:

This season is already way more fun then the last few. Team queue was deadly to the community. It kept new players out and discouraged participation.

You seem to misunderstand my point. The point with the que system is that they are totally disregarding team que. Of course from a casual standpoint it’s going to be great because you’re not getting stomped every game. But there should be a option for team que as well as solo/duo que. Not giving you the option to que as a full team in a team based game type is ridiculous.

Countless

You don’t have a large enough population to support a team queue. If there was one, you’d be sitting there for an hour waiting for a pop.

SteepledHat.1345:

You don’t have a large enough population to support a team queue. If there was one, you’d be sitting there for an hour waiting for a pop.

That’s the same logic as saying they shouldn’t come out with a new game mode because it would fragment the player base. Denying something because solely based off that possibility alone is not only counter productive but will further damage the community as a whole. New ways to play/new game modes will only increase the activity within the current player base well as attracting new potential players, not the other way around.

Countless

SteepledHat.1345:

You don’t have a large enough population to support a team queue. If there was one, you’d be sitting there for an hour waiting for a pop.

This might be solved by enabling some form of team queue during certain hours.

It could artificially create a population spike big enough to support a premade queue.