Guild Wars 2

Before the flaming starts, I just wanted to say that after talking to quite a few people, I think the concept of arena’s in Guild Wars 2 would be fantastic. For once a game has an amazing engine and class diversity to create this kind of PvP other than WoW (which is horribly imbalanced). The concept of last man standing in a 2v2-5v5 (or higher) situation gets the adrenaline going nicely. It would also be a nice change from the simple hold the node PvP going on right now. Throw a matchmaking systyem in, and boom. Amazing.

SupGirl.5704:

Before the flaming starts, I just wanted to say that after talking to quite a few people, I think the concept of arena’s in Guild Wars 2 would be fantastic. For once a game has an amazing engine and class diversity to create this kind of PvP other than WoW (which is horribly imbalanced). The concept of last man standing in a 2v2-5v5 (or higher) situation gets the adrenaline going nicely. It would also be a nice change from the simple hold the node PvP going on right now. Throw a matchmaking systyem in, and boom. Amazing.

They want e-sport, Arena failed as an e-sport, even with WoW’s subscriber base, as a spectacle it is dull (it is pretty dull to play for many), it is too simplistic, there are not the multiple points of interest / tension you get in objective based stuff, requires less co-ordination/strats./tacts, is harder to balance and has a lower skill ceiling.

Something that people aren’t grasping is deathmatch arenas need CC. You have to CC targets that are dealing damage or healing. There is only a handpicked few of professions that have reliable CC. Thus that makes comps that you will see all the time, and even more class stacking than there is now.

Obviously they will need to lower burst if this were to be the focus point of their balance, because it would just be 3 thieves, 3 warriors, etc.

The point is, if they wanted to add deathmatch arenas they would have to change to much for very little.

“Obviously they will need to lower burst if this were to be the focus point of their balance, because it would just be 3 thieves, 3 warriors, etc.”

Nope, it would not be, since if they split dmg they would not burst anyone, since you know, they are easy to avoid, or if they focus on one target to burst him down, they still could get CCed away, blocked, retaliated, blinded, etc. So actually I would be happy to meet a team like that in arena mode, as much as I like to meet 3 thieves in tpvp…

P.S. If they wanted an esport, they should have made updates and patches aimed towards pvp, not pve. Now they have a PvP with as little as possible changed from beta, so the least they can do is give more modes, more maps, add duels, and just leave it like that, hoping for more people to become interested in pvp, then and only then they can try to make it an esport, since player base is very small now…

Lukin.4061:

“Obviously they will need to lower burst if this were to be the focus point of their balance, because it would just be 3 thieves, 3 warriors, etc.”

Nope, it would not be, since if they split dmg they would not burst anyone, since you know, they are easy to avoid, or if they focus on one target to burst him down, they still could get CCed away, blocked, retaliated, blinded, etc. So actually I would be happy to meet a team like that in arena mode, as much as I like to meet 3 thieves in tpvp…

Yep, and like I said, not every class has these abilities and would cause more class stacking. So, I guess what you are saying a team of guardians would be fine against burst teams. You don’t say?

I am saying that a balanced team made from different proffesions (necro/thief/engy) for example would be better against 3 same classes (war/war/war). Also if the stacking still occurs a lot, they can simply put a cap of 1 class per team, like many other games have done.

There can be no Arenas in GW2, the game is balanced toward conquest, Arena will never be balanced, and people would only complain for nothing, since the game is, and will always be balanced toward conquest.

Arena is only good if balanced, no balance, no Arena.

Ace of Spades.6325:

There can be no Arenas in GW2, the game is balanced toward conquest, Arena will never be balanced, and people would only complain for nothing, since the game is, and will always be balanced toward conquest.

Arena is only good if balanced, no balance, no Arena.

This pretty much put an end to the discussion.

Btw. as stated above, arena is an outdated PvP environment, and even balanced shouldn’t be implemented.

Why this is not in suggestion forum?
It should be there not here.

Man read the forums before you post

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Arena-Free-Paid-2vs2-3vs3-5vs5/first#post661023