Guild Wars 2

So with new HOT expansion is Anet planning on bringing in working seasons/ladders or maybe even working LB’s? You guys have a chance to revitalize pvp in this game but stronghold looks pretty sparse and will probably get boring pretty fast with 1 map to play in. I like the effort of the new game mode but the game needs meaningful pvp rewards and working ladders, also like daily automated tournaments would be sweet but i think most people would just settle for the first two.

Just a concern i had with Stronghold
Are players able to get on top of walls? power rangers would be so OP lol, they could just insta kill the skritt so it would basically be impossible to kill the wall.

Also the permanent stealth build they talked about on stream sounds really aids, people don’t want to watch people blasting stealth for 20 seconds.

I know the game mode is really new and its easy to criticize something you haven’t played i’m just voicing my concerns

Your absolute right with your concerns. It is obvious, that stronghold will be the next skyhammer, although it really had potential. But having it in the same queue with conquest makes it just a readicolous bad conquest map. It forces you to play strange builds, which you cant use on the other conquest maps and so you need to painfully respecc every third game. It will also not feel like a new game mode, just as some annoyning interlude between your good conquest maps.
Why the hell is it just 5vs5? It would attrack so many new players to pvp if it would be really GvG, but this way it will attrack no new players, just force the old ones to play something they dont like.
How can you really think a game mode, which makes players play perma stealth builds, is a good pvp mode?
Also it is quite boring to play a trebuchet. The argument, that it allows to play with your weaker friends, is ridiculous, because how should they ever improve if they are only allowed to use the trebuchet or give swiftness to some npcs?

Willson.8170:

Just a concern i had with Stronghold
Are players able to get on top of walls? power rangers would be so OP lol, they could just insta kill the skritt so it would basically be impossible to kill the wall.

Also the permanent stealth build they talked about on stream sounds really aids, people don’t want to watch people blasting stealth for 20 seconds.

I know the game mode is really new and its easy to criticize something you haven’t played i’m just voicing my concerns

I noticed the walls too. Even if they can’t get on walls there appear to be lots of high ground that would be perfect sniping spots.

Even more worrisome is the permastealth build they talked about. I don’t think the devs and designers at Anet understand. Hugh was almost laughing at the permastealth build. They even admitted it was a troll build!

Why would you allow such a thing when you are trying to attract players? Troll builds do nothing but drive players away.

It is simply amazing to me what kind of thought processes go through Anet dev’s minds.