Guild Wars 2

The new reward system is pretty cool, probably this system will attract more people, old and new. But i think this will generate a massive hotjoin overflow because for sure, hotjoin will be the best way (time/reward) to get your progression.

And we said many times in this forum, hotjoin conquest isn’t usefull to understand how to play correctly this game.

So, what’s the future of SoloQueue and Team Queue?

I think Seasons and unique rewards for positions at the end of the seasons can be a very good way to promote team queue and solo queue but there is always the problem about Conquest like the only official gamemode supported by Anet.

And now with TDM too in hotjoin i’m sure hotjoin will have more success.

In a few words: New Rewards system + TDM will kill Soloqueue and TeamQueue.

Or, without waiting for spvp seasons, you can create specific progression (like the new reward system dungeon bar) for SoloQueue and TeamQueue with unique rewards.

So we can activate it if we want to get our specific rewards for Solo/Team Queue.

In my opinion the unique PvP back skin should come from solo and team arena only.

I think anet can create different levels for unique rewards, like a general spvp unique reward (like this new backpiece, doesn’t matter hotjoin/soloqueue/teamqueue) and a specific unique rewards for SoloQueue/TeamQueue (in the same way they implemented dungeon reward with this new system).

I think this new system is pretty interesting and offers a lot of opportunities, but they need to find a better way to promote Solo/Team Queue.

A lot of the PvP achievements are tied to the tournament modes only. I know that’s why a lot of my guild-mates stick to team arenas instead of hotjoin. They want their champion titles.

There’s no point really since in BOTH solo and team queue you’re going to end up losing 4v5.

AcidicVision.5498:

A lot of the PvP achievements are tied to the tournament modes only. I know that’s why a lot of my guild-mates stick to team arenas instead of hotjoin. They want their champion titles.

Yeah, but we have these champion titles and other old achievements since release, so i think at this point of the game, it’s a very little incentive to play soloqueue and teamqueue.

but i agree with you, titles can be a good unique rewards (i really like for exampe the old titles people got for QP) so i think the point is to promote solo/team queue with unique rewards.

I wonder whether there’ll be any additional rewards for playing/winning tournament/ranked matches (solo/team queue) after the patch.

Hotjoin will most likely be the fastest way to get rank points even when the rewards per hotjoin match are lower.

Ranked matches have leaderboards attached to them but will that be enough to keep players interested in playing ranked mode vs. just jumping in to hotjoin if there’s no other rewards for doing well in ranked matches?

Not long ago we had tournament match win chests and even though you could quite quickly get all (or at least vast majority) of the skins available in those chests (unless I’m mistaken) it was still something extra and gave few players a reason to play ranked matches.

So, do you think having no additional rewards will be enough to keep players interested in ranked modes? Or do you think there’ll be new rewards for winning in ranked matches? If so, what type of rewards you think there should be?

I certainly hope that there’ll be rewards for doing well in ranked matches. Otherwise the queue times will be even longer in the long run as players that want the rewards most efficiently will jump into hotjoin (no queues, quick rewards etc.)