Guild Wars 2

The following are requirements not suggestions, for the new ladder system.

• Queues need a ready check. This will drastically reduce the amount of AFKs in games. It is beyond me why something this simple hasn’t been implemented in a 15 months this game has been active. Seriously, it’ll take any of your coders 5 minutes to spit the 50 lines of code this will take.
• Unranked Queue needs to exist! Especially now that there will be a ladder, there needs to be an unranked mode were people can go blow off steam and relax without having to worry about their spot in the new ladder.
• Barrier of entry for new players! Again, with the new ladder, there needs to be a simple system so that new players don’t just get tossed into the ladder and throw games for others that already know how the system works. (Suggestion for how to do this below)
• Solo Queue needs Duo Queue. Adding duo queue won’t make it so that people only wanna duo queue, it’ll make solo queue more fun. People sometimes like playing with 1 other friend just to know there’ll be 1 less kitten in the game.

Barrier of Entry Suggestions: Instead of removing ranks altogether leave rank 1-20 and only rank 20s can queue up for Ranked play. This doesn’t have to be a hard grind to 20, it can be the exact same progression. The point of this should be to force players to at least get used to how the game works in SPvP, whether they play conquest, deathmatch, or whatever other gamemode you guys are adding. This way they get used to the dynamic mechanics of their class in PvP in unranked play where people will just be kittening around anyways.

/discuss

“Queues need a ready check.”
agree. all 5 players must press ready button before everyone is throw into the sPvP map.

“Unranked Queue needs to exist!”
agree. competitive ladder players can train for ladder in here.
casuals who do not want to train for ladder can remain in the 8 vs 8 hotjoin servers.

“Barrier of entry for new players!”
agree. a very good tutorial is required since 5 vs 5 competitive is very unforgiving.

“Solo Queue needs Duo Queue.”
no comment.

“Barrier of Entry Suggestions:”
if unranked queue exists, then maybe making a requirement on playing a certain number of unranked queue will unlock ranked queue or something like that.