Guild Wars 2

I believe it would be better to put courtyard in its own queue, like stronghold had its own queue in the BWEs. So you could make 3 queue preference settings:

• Annihilation (currently only courtyard)
• Conquest (all the conquest maps)
• Stronghold (currently only one stronghold map)

If that is already planed, consider this post irrelevant^^

“Annihilation” has already a name (“team death match”) but otherwise, I did, like many others, suggest and support this so…. +1

if campyard gets its own queue then failhammer should get one too,
or just remove both from the unranked rotation, problem solved!

Liewec.2896:

if campyard gets its own queue then failhammer should get one too,
or just remove both from the unranked rotation, problem solved!

The issue is not the dislike of the map, but the completely different mode of how it works. I know many people dislike Skyhammer, but it’s not about that. It simply is about courtyard not being a conquest arena.

The argument for this usually is that it would thin out the people in the various queues making them even longer and worse, but honestly I think it’s a good thing since if you want to play that one mode it’s usually exactly the one thing you wan’t to do, and not that “silly” other mode.

Exactly. Also, in the last guild chat, I believe, they said that PvP is the fastest growing area of GW2. So maybe it wouldn’t actually be a problem in the future. Also, there may be a variety of people enabling all game modes in their preferences and thus providing players for all game modes.

It really isn’t an issue to begin with when you get to optionally select the maps you want to play before the match starts. In my opinion, it adds much more flavor and dynamic to the game, the more different match types/maps we can get. If you don’t like the map, don’t select it before a match, simple as that. If others like the map and select, then learn how to play that map.

This argument only made sense, if there were no separated queues at all. Why apply to stronghold another philosophy than to courtyard, when both are simply enriching the gaming experience, by offering more than just conquest.

EDIT: Also the patronizing comment about not selecting it makes absolutely no sense. Why would I choose a map, which I don’t like in the first place? But that’s the internet… I guess…

That’s a great idea tho. So you’ll be able to have fun with 5 mates in this map (because 5 men group is the only way to enjoy this map I guess).

I would love a courtyard queue but also the option of 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 5v5

I do agree that courtyard should have its own queue, but think it should be 3v3. More than that is just a cluster-bang.

A 3v3 deathmatch queue would be incredible for me, I’d play a lot more. I’m sure some who don’t play right now would play if it existsted. I even suspect it could be more popular than conquest.

I mostly want Courtyard to have its own que due to having seperate viable builds to conquest.

To me it’s annoying setting up for a conquest match only to have to switch a lot of traits to cater for a TDM match.

been wanting this for months if not since courtyard came out a year and half ago. I get a lot of people hate courtyard, but honestly it is very much needed.

No. No to a separate queue for Courtyard, Stronghold, and yes even no to a separate queue for Skyhammer and Spirit Watch.

I really like Courtyard and I have always been up front about that. I always queue for it whether I be solo or in a group. Much to the chagrin of my guildies, I queue for it when I have someone in the group who doesn’t like it (50+% of the time I am playing maps I don’t like). Players need to learn to adjust, I run builds that are useful in as many modes of play as possible so I can adapt.

I have even grown to enjoy Skyhammer and Spirit Watch (though I never vote for them) for the change of pace. I switch from Necro to Warrior on Spirit Watch because he is better suited for the fast tactical responses needed in that mode of play.

It needs to be made easier for players to change their builds in PvP if that is the only way to get people to learn to play these maps… Even Thieves can work well in Courtyard surprisingly. We need more variety – not less. Unranked should include all game modes and furthermore so should Ranked.

Official tournaments should work all the maps in as they give would be sub-par builds and comps the ability to shine.

Schurge.5194:

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We never suggested to remove the maps. We ask for a special queue. I would not be surprised this would make them more popular actually.

I agree with you, build templates would fix a large part of the problem. But since they still haven’t done it while they did agree to a separate queue for stronghold, it makes sense to just have a queue for each game type (team death match, conquest, stronghold).