Guild Wars 2

Arenanet, please consider making a 5v5 hot join mode. 8v8 is just a zerg fest, and people don’t work in teams, they do whatever will get them good glory. An example:

I joined a match just before it started. The rest of my 7 teammates went straight towards the mine. I got to svanir, killed him, looked back, they still hadn’t captured it. There was one enemy guardian that took 7 people over 15 seconds to kill. My point here is, no-one was heading towards the keep, and basically, we lost the match, because they zerged.

Another thing is point capping. We only need 1 person capping the point, and I’m capping it by myself and 3 teammates come along to get the 10 glory. This may just be because the sPvP is “less intelligent” to put it nicely.

5V5 hot join will mean less zerging, because when I’m defending a point, getting zerged by 6 people is not what I call fun. You could argue that I could go PUG a tournament, but they always get smashed by pre-made teams. Some of these PUGS don’t even type in chat.

If 5v5 hot join was implemented, then it may encourage people to walk together, instead of zerging.

What are your thoughts?

i had some games yesterday with pretty much the same situation like yours. another thing that 8v8 is sometimes ridiculous when there are 3 thieves in the opposite team. they jump around like monkey and spam HS-HS-HS, 1 sec later-dead. really looking forward for 5v5 spvp in the future.

beezarre.4710:

really looking forward for 5v5 spvp in the future.

That’s only if they decide to add it.

when i 8v8 i put a pretty high emphasis on getting as much glory as i can, so even if someone is capping a point i’ll go there for 10 free points. i’ll also do things like do ranged attacked on guys who are downed already so i get free points from their deaths lol

8v8 to me is just testing builds, playing casual, farming some glory when your tourney team is not on, so i’m not going to expect people to play a team game

Pete.6037:

If 5v5 hot join was implemented, then it may encourage people to walk together, instead of zerging.

What are your thoughts?

Part of why 8v8 is such a zergfest is because of how points are awarded.

Hotjoin 5v5 would alleviate the numbers issue (which is definitely a separate issue), but I don’t think it’d do much about players zerging. Winning just doesn’t give enough bonus glory, so you’ll see people capping points and killing players in large groups for easy, quick and guaranteed points.

You don’t see this in tournaments because there’s an incentive to win greater than the paltry bonus glory you gain from hotjoin.