Guild Wars 2

Hello Everyone.

My girlfriend and I have been wondering why GW2 does not have a Free-For-All PvP mode. We believe that with this any player’s true strength can be mastered. One might argue that WvW may have the answer though it is simply not rewarding enough unless you go with your server to towers and camps etc – and it does not count to your PvP skill. Another possibility is to find some spot in Tyria and grab as many mobs as you can and AoE them, that might be rewarding, but they don’t possess intellect.

PvP does not feel like PvP because you rely on the abilities of the other 4 team mates to capture and gain 500 points first. Whether you win or loose a game is subject to a number of possibilities: We all know what they are and Glicko does a great job of figuring out your capabilities – but as a team member. What Glicko cannot do is match you up with a Druid that has tons of heal if you and the three other players have 0 sustain. Either that or you end up with a team that is all condition based builds. You cannot possibly know what the other team is rolling to counter it and sPvP is quite unforgiving in this regard. On rare occasions when someone has the confidence to suggest a strategy and often, someone will say they go close. Great but what then? 4 players rushes mid and that is pretty much the time you know if you are going to win this match or not. If its obvious that your team is getting destroyed persistently then you sit in agony for 8 minutes. No one truly communicates to each other unless its verbal abuse because everyone expects the other guy to “be doing what they are supposed to”.

We think a free-for-all with kill/death ratios is a better indicator of talent than how many games you got lucky with. Match-ups can be based on your character’s K/D ratio, how many games you have played with that character and how much condition damage, damage and healing you have applied to players. This can also apply to the current PvP game style as well which may improve the PvP experience when you are with a team of players you have probably never seen in your life.

That would be chaos and…..

Extremely fun!

I can already feel my soul being ripped out from all the shout reapers…

I approve <3

It shouldnt be free, but pvp should be stand alone like gw1 pvp was. You could buy a cheaper version of guild wars 1 with pvp entrance only and all belongings to pvp. You couldnt enter pve zones until you upgraded in gw1. A good price for that would be like 15 euro for every new expansion with pvp entrance only and all new pvp skills and changes.

sanctuary.1068:

It shouldnt be free, but pvp should be stand alone like gw1 pvp was. You could buy a cheaper version of guild wars 1 with pvp entrance only and all belongings to pvp. You couldnt enter pve zones until you upgraded in gw1. A good price for that would be like 15 euro for every new expansion with pvp entrance only and all new pvp skills and changes.

are u serious?

a free for all pvp mode means you enter a zone full of players that kill each other because blood for da blood god
(and not a 5v5 where ur skill is measured on how fast u can cap the opposing team’s area)

to the op: you can achieve similar affect via the guild hall but obviously the players are required to be within the same guild

I would love to have a free-for-all mode even if it is just in hotjoin/unranked and would even pay for it if I have to instead of gliders and backpieces.

Practically any new PvP mode would be smart. Something without PvE type elements, but has teamplay strategy like a Capture the Flag mode for an example. This would be the time to release a new PvP mode with so many PvPers(many of them ESL players)leaving for Overwatch in a couple weeks.

Hunger Games PvP…. I like it!

Archon.6480:

Hunger Games PvP…. I like it!

Precisely!

Archon.6480:

Hunger Games PvP…. I like it!

Precisely!

Well, tho a deathmatch type could be fun and I certainly dont want to keep it from players who want it, I am strongly against the idea to use it as measurement of ‘skill’

K/d, damage, healing, score…all of this means next to nothing in the current game, I dont see that change significantly in a deathmatch.
Quite the contrary, imagine I would play a bunkery thief type, jump around the battlefield with the thief’s signature immortality and put two vaults on every downed to secure me the kill: k:20/d:0

I’d play it in a hotjoin scenario.

You mean “last DP thief standing”? After the first day you’d have matches where everyone is trying to hide in stealth while others fight it out, but as everyone is doing the same matches would go to timer all the time with barely any action.

It’d get old very quickly.