Guild Wars 2

As a person who likes to do solo arena, I’d like to share my opinion on everything that’s wrong with the current system. Most of these are pretty obvious and I am very surprised they still haven’t been changed yet. It’s not meant to be QQ but as constructive criticism.

Ofcourse I’d like different modes to be added among other things, but this list is about the current system involving the mechanisms and design choices.

1. Matchmaking and leaderboards

Both are terrible, dragons and rabbits are still being put in the same team.
It’s really a gamble to win in solo queue and has nothing to do with personal skill:
either you get a good team or you don’t. The chances both sides get a good team are low (but when this happens, oh boy, then I remember why I like pvp).
Ideally rabbits should be put with rabbits, deers with deers, etc. If a rabbit is very good he should be put with deers, if he’s still good, with dolyaks,…

In solo arena win/loss shouldn’t be what decides you’re ranking. There should be a way to measure your personal skill even if you play with a terrible team. You should be able to go up in the leaderboard when you lose against lower ranked players, if you played well and your team just zerged around killing people nowhere near points.

2. Bad map design

Why is Skyhammer still in Arena? Every decent pvper hates this map. Theres litteraly nothing you can do against thieves and engineers pulling people from stealth on these ridiculously designed glass floors. The only fun games I had were when both teams had enough thieves and engineers to go A, C and hammer.
At least fear and focus pulls can be countered.

3. Queue system

The pop-up window should have an option to “wait for next match/different map”. This way you can skip maps you don’t want to play or you can finish whatever you were doing while waiting. It’s not rare that I have 3 x Skyhammer in a row or 3 x any map.
I want variety and choice.

4. No vote to concede

In cases of 4v5 or terrible teams, there should be an option to concede. I often see people giving free kills or just afking. I don’t like it when my time is being wasted.