Guild Wars 2

Haven’t played for a year+ but is nobody playing 10v10 spvp (or was it 8v8) anymore? I only see 5v5 rooms and looks like Anet is focusing on 5v5 tournies. 10v10 was my favorite thing to do to just relax and dik around, where nobody bats an eye if you did terrible. Got excited by the new trait system but now I have no inclination on doing 5v5 as it has more of a ranked/competitive atmosphere and just becomes more stressful to do well individually. I dislike WvW as well. If I wanted to do serious 5v5 I’d play LoL…

many months ago, they wanted to force players to learn how to 5 v 5 so they removed all official 8 v 8 hotjoin servers.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

many months ago, they wanted to force players to learn how to 5 v 5 so they removed all official 8 v 8 hotjoin servers.

Uh, no. It was nothing like that, it was more of by a massive majority people complained on the forums how 10v10 was just a zerg and it was pretty much impossible to play 5v5 because the play now button was always 10v10; that’s when they decided to move to 5v5 and remove some zerg heavy maps such as the raid of Capricorn.

Chase.8415:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

many months ago, they wanted to force players to learn how to 5 v 5 so they removed all official 8 v 8 hotjoin servers.

Uh, no. It was nothing like that, it was more of by a massive majority people complained on the forums how 10v10 was just a zerg and it was pretty much impossible to play 5v5 because the play now button was always 10v10; that’s when they decided to move to 5v5 and remove some zerg heavy maps such as the raid of Capricorn.

no. minority on forums complained.
majority filled up the 8v8 rooms and having fun.

minority killed off the fun for the majority.

I miss the 10v10 rooms as well. I miss Capricorn which used to be my favorite map. It was also the only one to feature underwater combat which i thought was amazing to include.

I still think stronghold would be SIGNIFICANTLy better served if its player cap was raised to 8v8 or 10v10.

8 vs 8 was the greatest things for hot join. Me and some guild mates did the ticket 5 vs 5 game tournaments too but 3 of them preferred the 8 vs 8 over the 5 vs 5 from a fun perspective.

Was it 8v8 not 10v10? lol but either way, that’s just disappointing to hear. It was always fun to me having large fights in the middle of Foefire, Temple, and Nifhel maps. I mean, is 5v5 in one spot “zerging”? Because some players always split from the “zerg” to actually get objectives, and the group will break up to defend or invade another spot. Even if all 8 clash and I don’t enjoy it atm, I head off to get another objective. Was still a team game, not a deathmatch.

Speaking as a staff ele who likes to switch builds a lot and go zerkers for funsies, now I’m forced to deal with 1v1 and skirmishes instead of relying on and supporting a group. I did a few matches earlier, and the maps seem too large now. I was a much more visible and vulnerable target, so I had to build more tanky by default. Plus when someone leaves or it’s not filled on the next round, it’s suddenly much more lopsided as 4v5.