Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to toss out a half baked theory and see how people felt about the idea.

While in tpvp it seems to happen rather frequently that people can die and respawn and be back into the fight before it actually ends. Is this a scenario that should happen?

The idea: if you die in ‘event’ range of a contested point your respawn would be halted (or delayed) until the point is claimed by one team or the other. I think this would add the depth with requiring intelligent withdrawals from losing points rather than a couple of bunkers knocking each other down to 90% health ad infinitum.

Along side this I think kills should be more strongly weighted, perhaps only deaths over those contested points.

Problems: 5v5 all bunkers, empowering certain other gimmicky builds.

or increase respawn timer

I don’t necessarily think that is the way to go, because 1 lost fight could very well decide the entire match, if people were sidelined for extended periods of time. Whereas with it related to point control, your teams coordination and tactical withdrawal could quickly get your team back in the fight.

Most respawn timers are on a wave mechanic, so killing someone could have them able to respawn in a second or in 20. But I don’t think there is a problem with respawn at the moment, killing an enemy does have a profound effect already. Things like this could also be abused by denying a point and keeping a team locked out of respawn. If someone dies and you’ve got 2 bunkers sitting on a point, how is it fair to keep the match at 4v5 for a longer length of time…

If your entire team leaves point swords vanish and respawns occur immediately, it isn’t as though the mechanic can only be used by your enemies, it is simply another layer.

People shouldn’t be encouraged to drag out losing encounters, they should rethink and regroup, imo.

lol I would love this mechanic!

Wipe the entire team and then don’t cap he point so they won’t respawn!!

google.3709:

lol I would love this mechanic!

Wipe the entire team and then don’t cap he point so they won’t respawn!!

You are a noob for saying this.. Because if it wasn’t capped the point wouldn’t be contested.

I actually think it would be a great idea

milo.6942:

or increase respawn timer

Or make all the respawn time be equal no matter what. 18,38,58s respawn wave make some unfair advantages over class, since some class can not be finished in one finisher.

fakeblood.2576:

google.3709:

lol I would love this mechanic!

Wipe the entire team and then don’t cap he point so they won’t respawn!!

You are a noob for saying this.. Because if it wasn’t capped the point wouldn’t be contested.

I actually think it would be a great idea

Love you too duck <3

Ur dear friend, Ak