Guild Wars 2

The new game mode is simple, 3 players vs 3 players in the courtyard map (before it’s scrapped). This could also work 5 vs 5.
Players will start with a 30-second window to analyze the enemy comp (tweaking utilities, traits as needed) greeting each other and picking targets.

Once a team wipes then both teams respawn again with 10 seconds windows without skill/trait swapping. The objective is to wipe the enemy team no respawns until everyone is dead and learn from previous mistakes understanding the enemy team’s builds.

After one team successfully kills the enemy team they get a point towards their team they need 2 successful wins or if the other team gets a comeback making it 2/2 they must win the 3rd match.

The idea is to have 3 minutes to the death and once the timer reaches 0 put in sudden death with damage getting exponentially more deadly. This would allow the 1v2 or 1v3 scene to have a potential comeback with huge risk huge reward. (You want TDM to be fast)

Courtyard was a terrible team deathmatch experience due to spawn camping the spawn pit you had to jump down from when respawning, and the extremely long journey it took to travel the other path, all the while lasting torturing 8mins.

This mode would make a fast enjoyable experience with the only issue class stacking which if matchmaking worked better could be fixed, and the 3-minute timer on the deathmatch being too long or too short.

Adding it into the ranked scene would mean making it reward fewer pips because it’s faster, makes conquest reward more for longer matches.

Further feedback for this idea would be wonderful!

I think this is a fantastic idea. I would be all for it. PvP in Gw2 really needs something other that “Capture the point” modes and Stronghold didn’t quite cut it.

Anet has confirmed many times (once to me as well) that Courtyard isn’t begin changed and may go away. That begin said, I would love for it to make a comeback. It was my fav map. No capping BS and no 2nd mechanic. Just straight up comp vs comp where team strategy wins.

Sounds like as soon as the match goes into a Thief can just wipe the whole team.