Guild Wars 2

So, i dont really understand how this is not already in the game. But the thing im suggesting is that they add small arenas lite 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3, similar to what we already see in the courtyard map. No objectives, no flags to take, no lords to kill, JUST straight up DEATHMATCH. ( Perhaps they could have rounds, where the team with the last man standing wins, and maybe its best of 5 rounds or something, when a round is finished, next round starts and everybody spawns at the same time). This game mode would have seperate queues ofc.

This would be very easy to implement, and i know me and my friends would enjoy i very much, to be able to make your own team comp, to be able to do 1v1s in pvp. I also think many others would like this.

So anet, if you read this, please consider putting this in the game, thanks

also, free for all would be cool, but thats another story..

they have servers you can set that up in

Please 2v2s that can climb the League Ladders. I would never play another game. Ever.

Dude! I’ve been asking for a duel arena since day 1!! Maybe one we can bet gold on?

Anyways, there are a couple of problems with small scale combat, especially dueling. The first being that this game isn’t really balanced around 1v1. Inevitably the duel scene would be nothing but thieves (or whatever the most powerful 1v1 class is at the time) fighting each other, which could get stale quick..

It is a fun idea though! 2v2 might be pretty cool, and I could see that working!

No thanks. You can’t put all these game modes in and have balance. There’s other games out there for that.

+10000000000000000 do it!

Anet has already stated that this insanely popular and logical game mode and to date the only form of MMO PvP that has been esports most likely won’t be implemented! On the slim chance that they somehow come to their senses, it probably won’t be for a few years when PvP is a shriveled up husk of poor matchmaking, zero infrastructure, and unreasonably long waits between balance patches! But there will be loot boxes everywhere! Inside those loot boxes are more loot boxes!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Yea I can see it now. Bunkers bunkers and more bunkers. How exciting.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Yea I can see it now. Bunkers bunkers and more bunkers. How exciting.

As opposed to what we have now? WTS winners 3 cele + 1 soldier amulet? Logic! 3v3s would probably have teams run coordinated burst builds because… you know there’s no point to have to bunker on! Area denial bruisers like the insanely strong DD Ele would have way less impact because there’s no area to deny!

3v3s would, in a sense, grow this tiny, laughable competitive scene! 15 people can only form 3 conquest teams but 5 arena teams!

I’d list more positives but Anet has already shut this idea down! So whatevs!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

ellesee.8297:

uhohhotdog.3598:

Yea I can see it now. Bunkers bunkers and more bunkers. How exciting.

As opposed to what we have now? WTS winners 3 cele + 1 soldier amulet? Logic! 3v3s would probably have teams run coordinated burst builds because… you know there’s no point to have to bunker on! Area denial bruisers like the insanely strong DD Ele would have way less impact because there’s no area to deny!

3v3s would, in a sense, grow this tiny, laughable competitive scene! 15 people can only form 3 conquest teams but 5 arena teams!

I’d list more positives but Anet has already shut this idea down! So whatevs!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

yeah cause the wts team only had 4 players and why dont you name the other builds people had from tcg and ORNG who beat the abjured and put them in the losers bracket.

Also the very team who beat the WTS team in boston and in cologne had a bunker guardian, lets listen more to a person who picks and chooses small portions of facts to support his case instead of telling the whole story.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Yea I can see it now. Bunkers bunkers and more bunkers. How exciting.

Super hard to have game mode rules, right?

TDM 2v2 should have been implemented since launch, to find a team would be so easy you just need what one more person lol no need for soloq and that means better matchmaking. Conquest 5v5 punishes games like gw2 so hard because of population, finding four more players would include pain in the kitten plus awful matchmaking and fighting the same people once you reach the peek and on top of that leaderboards that were fail because of the same reason, that’s why I’m not hyped with the new league system.

I almost convinced that anyone who speaks out against 2v2 and 3v3 at this point are either A-net employees, or paid by them to keep the negative attention off the terrible game mode known as stronghold. Stronghold….. where the objectives can be ignored and you can still win the game based off kills because of overall poor design.

The only thing that makes me laugh at this point, is the “Having a new game mode will split the player base” arguments are gone because everyone knows stronghold is coming. But what makes it worse is that if the game mode flops, A-net instead of viewing it as a failure because nobody will play it, will refuse to make another game mode that is more reliable, takes less people, and is overall more fun to play, easier to shoutcast, and easier to maintain, aka 3v3 deathmatch. But instead they will refuse to accept that their unique little snowflake of a game mode is failing, and will continue to pour resources into a dying game mode while the rest of the small community will either leave, or continue playing conquest.

TLDR: Stronghold is poorly designed, you can ignore the game mechanics and win, and it wont work in a competitive setting. 3v3 takes less people, less time, less resources to make, and is overall easier to watch, easier to shoutcast, less time between games, etc. If I wanted to break down doors, I wouldn’t do it in a video game. TLDR is a lie.

Countless

2v2 and 3v3 doesn’t even have to split the player base. They already have the perfect system in place… Have all mode defaulted on, so anyone pvping could get called in for 2v2, conquest, stronghold etc, but opt out of any given mode, so you could just do conquest or 2v2. Have the options for 2v2 or 3v3 automatically grey out when quing with more than the maximum participants for the smaller game modes.

TADA! Everyone is happy, and people who like all types of play get tons of variety in their game play! Hire me.

2v2 and/or 3v3 arenas need to happen.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Yea I can see it now. Bunkers bunkers and more bunkers. How exciting.

Actually I expect 2 mesmers making you believe the match is bugged until they bug you to death mmm you could even do it with 2 thieves despite their state. I’m wondering will I have enough time to build some LF…I’m a TDM kind of guy but they need to succeed with 5v5 first before ever thinking about anything lower.

2v2 deathmatch ? custom arena don’t have courtyard ?

azizul.8469:

2v2 deathmatch ? custom arena don’t have courtyard ?

Custom arena isn’t a solution to a huge population that desires 2v2/3v3 arena play! No rewards, no matchmaking, no leagues, no ranks, no rating, no titles, no good maps, etcetcetc! Kinda takes out the desire to compete! Granted GW2 doesn’t have a lot of these things for conquest either but chalk that up to clueless devs and poor infrastructure 3 years later!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

2v2/ 3v3 or RIOT!!!!

But on a serious note, this will never happen. You should all know what ANET are like by now, and what direction they are taking the game.

They spend Soooooo much time in making stronghold when adding a basic arena with a couple of obstacles for LOS tactics would have been proven to be 1000x more popular. They don’t get it, and never will. They need to realise they don’t have the player base to make 5v5 an esports other than 4 (FOUR lel) teams.

More than one game mode and a proper league system with proper rewards should have been added at launch, now all thats left are the people who held onto that dream.

Wishful thinking.

Clearly a lot of people want this very much. Definitely, worth implementing and it wouldn’t be that hard as they already have team deathmatch and a decent map for it. Also, completely worth the risk, new game modes draw people in. Balancing isn’t a problem either, simply keep balancing for 5vs5s like anet wants. Then don’t worry about balancing 2vs2s the same way you don’t balance wvw or pve.

A topic with 19 post doesn’t show the assumed huge population!

But if you want to show how popular and easy it is to implement why don’t you first try to organize your own 2v2 event. There won’t be any reward sure but since you say it will be much more fun than anything else it should be enough to start.
Show how big the interested population is, show how simple it is, show that there are no bad meta emerging from this activity. Then you prove your point.

Actually there are pvp custom arenas dedicated to 2vs2 and they are almost always empty…would love to see this mode implemented so if you guys do too, please at least go to those arenas, so we can at least have some numbers to persuade anet.

Beach Volleyball has 2v2 system.

Why PvP in Gw2 doesn’t?

Ranael.6423:

A topic with 19 post doesn’t show the assumed huge population!

But if you want to show how popular and easy it is to implement why don’t you first try to organize your own 2v2 event. There won’t be any reward sure but since you say it will be much more fun than anything else it should be enough to start.
Show how big the interested population is, show how simple it is, show that there are no bad meta emerging from this activity. Then you prove your point.

This, over the years, has been one of the most asked for game modes, you’d have to be living under a rock to not notice the amount of threads asking for it. In fact, Justin once commented on one and said they had it in the back of their mind and recognized the desire for it, but this was well over a year ago. There used to be 2v2 custom arenas, but only 2 teams could play at once and even now, there are weekly 2v2 tournies. Problem is it’s all confined to small time frames and huge commitment to organization and that’s literally defeating the purpose of 2v2 being a fun jump-in-and-jump-out pvp mode when you want low commitment matches.

Also, there are a lot of Arena lovers who either left or just haven’t came over from Wildstar/WoW etc because conquest alone isn’t that great of a draw for pvp. Pvpers everywhere look for solid mechanic small scale pvp that doesn’t require grinding the best gear and is competitive. Gw2 has all the ingredients to have the best Arena mode in the entire MMORPG industry at this point but they still snooze on it.