Hi,
I rarely go into this forum so if by any chance someone already posted something like this (which I believe that this is the case) I am sorry, no spam intended.
Since I began playing MMORPGs (and even before that) I realized that I am a PvP lover. I played WoW for a few years and I was ADDICTED to PvP arena. When GW2 came out I heard outstanding reviews about this game so I decided to buy it, and rushed to PvP the moment I could (which was obviously right when I finished the tutorial). I joined a few PvP guilds, leveled my main (an ele) to 80, and went both sPvP and WvW several hours a day. It was and still is great fun, no regrets!
However after hundreds of hours of PvP I started to miss the arena format of WoW. I am not a WoW fanboy, but I really liked how it is simple yet complex to play. I always felt like I had to improve and enhance my battle abilities along with good co-operation. The point in GW2 (at least from my point of view) is that when you play sPvP there are additional several mechanics that you must take into consideration (like distance between points, or treb or forest creatures etc) which might affect your profession choice and/or play style. This feels like that if your team has a good profession/build mixture and it co-operates well, your abilities in battle are (slightly) less important.
Then I discovered these “king of the hill” private arenas. It is basically the same as WoW arena, two players or two teams play one against another to the death. I found it so fun playing I almost forgot about conquest for a while, but very often I couldn’t enter these arenas because they were full (this is an indication that I am not the only one who likes this kind of play) and if they weren’t, I needed to wait like 10 minutes before I was able to play. There are a few more problems with these arenas: no ranking systems, so players don’t feel like they make any progress, but just play for practice or for fun. In addition, the maps in these arenas are not well designed for deathmatch since they are conquest maps. Also since this is not an official sPvP format there are none official competitions of this kind (as far as I know).
I ask myself why this format isn’t officially included in the game. I don’t have any knowledge in game designing and very little knowledge in programming, but since this is such a simple format I tend to believe that it is quite simple to create. And its not that arenanet has no time to do that – The upcoming expansion includes a new “stronghold” sPvP format which as far as I know is not what I am talking about.
I really think that something like this should be in this game. Just plain PvP with no additional mechanics, two teams testing their skill in battle against each other. Whether you agree with me or not, I would like to know why.
tl;dr – Wouldn’t it be cool to have a deathmatch arena format in this game?