Guild Wars 2

Daear devs, you should bring us arena matchs. We all realy want 2nd kind of sPvP. Game is great allready but we realy want play arena’s (death match). You dont need change game to much just add 3-4 small maps with some kind of LoS’es and that is all. Few small maps a bit biger than clock tower should be enoug. In mine opinion you should brind 1v1/2v2/3v3 comps and that will be insane fun. All mine friends share that opinion.
Game is good balanced so is just add map, ad make it. Ranked and free joining one.
And we want be able to que togheter with friends for sPvP, we need it. Spectator mode is fun too. That game have realy huge potential as a eSport so we shoud take that.

No arena please, Thanks.
Custom servers would be nice tho, hopefully you’ll be adding custom servers with new game modes other than Conquest soon. rite?

Why no arenas ? You will not enter if you dont want, why are you trying to take it from us who want them so badly ?

Arena’s were the death of WoW’s pvp. ide prefer them not to put into GW. they way that they have it set up at the moment is fine. if there had to be a death match mode, then ide prefer it to be fps style for to 40 kills in 8v8 and such. but not arena.

Arena’s were death to WoW’s ? In what way ? I’m still playing them if I want and enjoing every aspects other than running arround pillar for 20 minutes after healers. This game has no healers so …

I think this would be a horrible idea for GW2 personally. Death-match style battle makes PVP too linear and a shade boring. Additionally…GW2 is just not made to handle deathmatch. Look at all the skills and the way their mechanics work. They are wrapped around the idea of controling nodes/areas, not just plain staying alive/killing enemies.

Every match would be games full of tank shout warriors, endlessly healing guardians, and tank engineers ect. Nobody would ever die.

There are PLENTY of healers and builds that can allow you to stay alive for ridiculous amounts of time….

if WoW’s pvp is dead right now then GW2’s pvp was never alive to begin with

Yes, and there are many burst builds that counter that healers builds.
To me it’s simply – if you would want – you will join it, if you dont, you will still play 8v8 and wvwvw, so what’s the problem ?

Vlaid.5790:

I think this would be a horrible idea for GW2 personally. Death-match style battle makes PVP too linear and a shade boring. Additionally…GW2 is just not made to handle deathmatch. Look at all the skills and the way their mechanics work. They are wrapped around the idea of controling nodes/areas, not just plain staying alive/killing enemies.

Every match would be games full of tank shout warriors, endlessly healing guardians, and tank engineers ect. Nobody would ever die.

There are PLENTY of healers and builds that can allow you to stay alive for ridiculous amounts of time….

Yeah, arenas made wow’s pvp. It was the only mmo pvp that i know of to make it to the MLG circuit, albeit briefly. You would be surprised at the number of players that still pay for a wow subscription just to play some arenas. Just keep balancing around 5v5 tourneys and make arenas a little side game for fun, like 8v8s are now. If they are successful, then they can think about making it ranked or add it to the tourneys in the future.

by death, i dont mean no one is playing it, i mean all the issues that came along with it, like constant balancing issues (i know befor that it still wasnt balanced) and its effect on not just the BG’s but PvE aswell. people weren’t happy about it. and im sure it was when wrath was out cause thats when i was still playing, blizzard themselves admitted on a panel that introducing arena was a mistake.

They admitted it was a mistake because it was hard to balance it with pve and more specifically raiding. As GW2 only offers 5man dungeons I don’t see it as much of a problem or interference. Also, as some people mentioned before me, if you don’t like it you can simply ignore this aspect of the game. Lastly Blizzard still hosts pvp arena tournaments and such, so mistake or not they are making it work and ton of people play and enjoy arenas every day.

There isn’t pve endgame in this game so it will not affect PVE, simple – make it just for fun, i dont need even any rewards for them, just bring me possibility to team with my friend and face other 2’s, just for fun. Everybody can make any character as he want in 10 mins, so even if it’s not going to be balanced at start, everybody will run let’s say guardians. So ? 2v2 guardians will be fun at start aswell, slowly people will adept and find counters to them, and more races will step into.

i never said that this was the reason they wont do it in GW2, i was explaining what i mean by WoWs PvP death. although there isnt any raiding as such, there is still PvE and you know, that once arena goes up everyone will start moaning for nerfs, just as they are now for sPvP, and the nerfs they could put out fot arena, would effect sPvP and PvE. as in Vlaid.5790 example, they’d nerf them from doing that, they that would make them kitten in sPvP, and then everyone would be moaning about that.

in the end it all comes down to balancing. if they could balance it with little hassle, then you can have it, but that wont happen.

No we don’t all want arenas or pug stomping. Anet is focusing on in game metrics to continually bring spvp and tpvp to a optimal balance state ATM and a lot of us want that. Adding these system would only take away from that. Arenas probably will never be in the game and if so, I’ll bet my mortgage it won’t be anytime soon. Not trying to be rude but your request for such drastic changes are not only very costly but also un reasonable at this time.

I have a hard time understanding why people would say no to an additional game ’’mod’’ if you will, just cause they don’t want to play it themselves?

Why the hell do you care? All this ‘’Was the death of WoW’’ garbage is the worst argument every, it holds no merit and is just casually slapped around because you’ve heard it from someone els.

On point: You should be able to join up with friends in PvP conviniently. Limit it to 2-3 or what ever, as long as casual crackheads kitten. Nobody likes to be stomped but I don’t play an MMO to solo PvP either, I shouldn’t be forced into tournaments to enjoy the game with my friends.

Lets please stop focusing only on WoW arenas. Guild Wars 1 also had team deathmatch arenas (4v4), since its launch. I personally played thousands of hours, tens of thousands of matches in these arenas, as did many of my friends. These arenas weren’t on a ladder system or MLG hosted, but they were still fun and competitive for many players.

Additionally, we had the 24/7 global tournament of Heroes’ Ascent (Tombs/Hall of Heroes/ Whatever). A reiteration of this format seems like it would work great in GW2 (minus needing to heal a ghostly hero).

Just wanted to say I dont care about any of the things you just listed, except for spectator mode. So saying its something we all want is not true. I hope they perfect the tourney system before anything ellse. I have no objections against arenas, I just dont think it should be anywhere near first priority.

I thought PvE and PvP was balanced seperatly in this game ?

TZITO.6512:

Arena’s were the death of WoW’s pvp. ide prefer them not to put into GW. they way that they have it set up at the moment is fine. if there had to be a death match mode, then ide prefer it to be fps style for to 40 kills in 8v8 and such. but not arena.

yea bro, arena killed wow, good one.

okplayer.8510:

TZITO.6512:

Arena’s were the death of WoW’s pvp. ide prefer them not to put into GW. they way that they have it set up at the moment is fine. if there had to be a death match mode, then ide prefer it to be fps style for to 40 kills in 8v8 and such. but not arena.

yea bro, arena killed wow, good one.

read on down sunshine.

faiaar.2178:

if WoW’s pvp is dead right now then GW2’s pvp was never alive to begin with

Wow has pvp? last I saw it was who could get the best gear the fastest.