Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Random_Arenas

Remember these guys? Simple maps with simple primary and secondary objectives! Ones that aren’t centered around three rings! I feel that similar objectives (game modes I suppose?) can easily be derived from this humble little wiki page.

Of course things like time limit and/or score limit can be altered to suit how much faster paced this game is.

Thoughts? Critiques? Suggestions?

it was my favorite of all.

They became my favorite’s as well.

I did love the variety of RA.
What I did NOT like was:
a. getting a 3v4 because someone on your team left because you don’t have a monk (bonus irony points if your ritualist subsequently said “but I’M a healer!” right after the leaver left)
b. finally getting a monk and then finding out he’s a smiter.
c. rerolling as a monk yourself to prevent this from happening again, and then IMMEDIATELY getting teamed up with 3 other monks on your first match.

With GW2’s class system those sorts of situations shouldn’t occur, and balancing will be far less of a problem. I was really looking forward to getting RAs without the frustrations, and was really surprised when all we got instead was Conquest.

Just a fact, In RA it didn’t matter if u had a low skilled player as much as it does in GW2. Actually won so much with a lowskilled in RA, and had some fun. In GW2 it’s nearly instant gg.

Quincy.2198:

Just a fact, In RA it didn’t matter if u had a low skilled player as much as it does in GW2. Actually won so much with a lowskilled in RA, and had some fun. In GW2 it’s nearly instant gg.

A lot of the time no healer = instat GG as well. Or is nostalgia that blinding?

silvermember.8941:

Quincy.2198:

Just a fact, In RA it didn’t matter if u had a low skilled player as much as it does in GW2. Actually won so much with a lowskilled in RA, and had some fun. In GW2 it’s nearly instant gg.

A lot of the time no healer = instat GG as well. Or is nostalgia that blinding?

Good thing we won’t have to risk that this time around in GW2. However, in terms of team comp, I can see how lacking a tanky party support player like a Guardian or Spirit Ranger could mean GG as well. Nonetheless, I feel like the victors would more often than not be decided by the players’ skill