Guild Wars 2

Title says it all. Personally, I don’t like the possibility to change characters between tournament maps.
I fear that the game will then become people just countering their opponents team by changing characters and thus making it too “buildwars”-style.

It’s not really to buildwars style, its more of, I joined random tourney solo and now we have a team of 3-4+ of the same class. When that happens it’s basically saying, if you pug and get stuck with four of the same class oh well, your just SoL.

Yes but that doesn’t prevent organized teams from having an advantage. They can switch to professions that are more useful for the certain map or better in countering the opponents team.
It would be fine if switching was only allowed during the waiting time for the first map, but after that not anymore since you already had a chance to change character.

Even if this isn’t happening in a more metagame of switching builds to counter your opponents team yet…..it is definitely something that might start happening more as PVP gets more competitive. I would rather it not be possible and Anet just fix the matchmaking to ensure you don’t end up with a really poorly stacked team of 3+ of the same profession.

If they switch to certain chars or professions that they prefer to play on specific maps your team has the ability to do so as well. Tournaments are more competitive and giving people the chance to swap to a specific char just makes it that more challenging. If the people on your team have only gotten good with one profession and have no strategy or other profession to swap to for that map that is your teams own lack of skill is it not?

Well to me the whole point of the way the tournaments make you play different maps is to make sure no one team makeup is superior on all of them.

What’s the point if you can just switch between maps? Then eventually people will just swap to the default team makeup for each map that is best for that particular map (given enough time for people to determine what the best team makeup is for each map).

Which then boils down to what the game is about, team and player skill. If there becomes a default team comp for the map type and people always play that, then it truly becomes a matter of outplaying your opponent to win.

If it comes down to every team playing the same comp on certain maps, then this game will get boring quick. Lets hope it doesn’t come to that.

Exactly my thoughts @ Vlaid.
I like the part of creating a certain team build that can perform well on every map.
Being able to just completely turn your team around to fit another map better just doesn’t seem very “competitive” in my opinion.