Guild Wars 2

Here is how I would balance Spirit Watch:
- make the Orb a carried object, so it disables weapon skills
- increase the respawn time of Orb
- semi-randomize the respawn time of Orb (e.g. 5, 10, 20 seconds after turn in?), so people don’t automatically know when to leave points to get the Orb (like in ToSS with Stillness/Tranquility). That way it is more of a decision whether to defend points or to go for Orb.

Stronghold:
Please stop forcing players into matches with Stronghold. If you think it deserves to be played in ranked, then give it the same treatment as other ranked maps, allow it to appear in votes and let players vote for what they want to play.

Just from my last 10 pvp games I played stronghold 6 times. I know Anet probably doesn’t care about adding more pvp maps, but I DO like at least SOME variety when playing pvp. I don’t like playing the same map twice in a row, maybe that’s just me. And there are always people who will vote for ‘unpopular’ maps, for just that reason, to change things up, even if there are only 5 maps.

Maybe if there was some way to guarantee you wouldn’t play the same map back to back. But whatever, minor concern. Just don’t try to make stronghold more than what it actually is, another map. It’s not another game mode.

You are not forced to do stronghold. Uncheck the box so you only have conquest as your preference.

ayylmao fam

uncheck the stronghold box

Darknicrofia.2604:

ayylmao fam

uncheck the stronghold box

what he said….when you move your cursor to selected ranked game, you’ll see a box underneath that says []stronghold [] conquest, uncheck stronghld if you don’t like that kind of pvp.

If you read my post properly, you will understand that I do not not want to play Stronghold, I enjoy some variety. To repeat, if Anet thinks Stronghold deserves a place in ranked, then it should be treated the same as other ranked maps, such that players should be able to vote on it.

I suppose an ad hoc solution would be to uncheck Stronghold after I play one round of it, then check it back after I feel like playing it again. But I want to be matched up in the largest pool of players possible, because that is supposed to lead to the more competitive matches and better guage of skill, right? That’s why I want to have both boxes checked, even though like I said, Stronghold is not really a separate game mode, just another map.

But no comments on balancing Spirit Watch?

Stronghold is garbage, I don’t know why anyone would ever play it.

I agree that Stronghold should be voted on just like the rest of the ranked maps. I’ll go even further and say that once the maps are voted on it should be majority rule. Truthfully I don’t really like Spirit Watch so I’m indifferent toward any tweaking that Anet may or may not consider doing.