Guild Wars 2

February patch is a big disappointment, and the pvp player base is getting smaller with each passing day.

I quit the game month ago, came back today to see the changes, and quit again. Few things i’d like to point what this game needs, that should have been delivered with release or past patches, before i go back to WoW (Guild wars 2 made me realise how great wow pvp is, with ladders, many unique game modes, and it shouldn’t have done it in the first place, that’s just bad reverse marketing):

1. Ladder system – At the moment, there is absolutelly nothing keeping players in pvp. No achievements, monthly can be done in 3-4 hours, daily in 20 min max, Anet by introducing 2 team paid tournaments took away the point in leveling ranks – since now you can obtain nice looking gear from tourneys – no need to be rank 40 or higher atm. Ranking up to get the better looking gear was the only incentive pvp had, and Anet thrashed that, by introducing easy Paid tournament gear farm in 2 team pvp tourneys. There is a matchmaking system, but what is the point of it? Honestly, why should i care if i get in team with others on the same pvp skill, when i don’t know what my skill is to begin with? I got 0 motivation of playing pvp, since every victory gives me nothing more than 200 glory( which is useless), and a paid tourney gear ( which every player had farmed for quite some time now = useless too). Adding to that, that tourneys are on the same map over and over again = Playing becomes frustrating, and people get bored very, very quickly.

2.Reward system – Greatly broken. Until 2- team pvp tourneys, there was some point in ranking up, since getting Tiger rank allowed for some cool looking items, now everyone is running with Paid gear, and ranking up lost its sense. Farming glory is pointless, the only reason to do it is to buy kits to get rid of the junk from tournament reward boxes, nothing more. There is absolutely no motivation now to rank up or farm gear since it can be obtained easily from team vs team tourneys.

3. Game modes – That’s one funny thing. Anet stated, that they don’t see future for any new standalone modes, and they rather experiment in bringing new secondary mechanics. That made releasing new map pointless. Just another conquest map, for pvp players it;s nothing new, Hotjoin has already given up on capturing points, the whole purpose of the game is to cap 1 point, and then there’s a battle in the orb area to take it and get to that point. Raven point is lost and forgotten, rarely even being captured. pure CTf.
For some time after the release, players couldnt revive after dying. That created another mode, which can be described as " King of the hill’. I participated in few games, and have to say, that it was more fun, than i had in all past conquest matches. Last man standing in the team wins the game, that created new strategy, like kiting enemies while other teamates ress the dead ones, smart fighting. Felt almost like a real pvp arena.
Conquest was fun after the release, now it’s just annoying. People are trying to develop new modes themselves ( The map with water – i saw people writing on chat to leave points and go fight underwater – underwater deathmatch – and it was more fun than capturing only)

4. Variety – playing one map for the whole time is boring. Boring as kitten. A simple change, that each map would be generated randomly would change things up. But no, we have to play that one over and over again. After the update playing 3 map free tournaments is pointless, since you get 400 glory( if anyone still cares about it) for winning the whole thing, while winning each map on 1 map free earns u 200( meaning if u win 3 matches, you get 600).

5. Stating in simple matter, what the game has right now:

- No reason for playing pvp, rather than doing monthly and leaving.
- No reason for farming anything, glory is useless, there is no ladder, and the tournament rewards compensate for ranking up, no reason to do that anymore
- No rewards for winning games – glory – useless, chests – everyone is full of paid gear atm, only recycling junk atm
- No variety – same map over and over again, same mode over and over again,

Player base is getting smaller and smaller, as pvp isn’t any fun atm. It’s fun for beginners, but it gets boring very, very quickly. Thank god for pve mode, otherwise Guild wars 2 ( by the way, game is called guild wars, yet it has nothing to do with guild wars – what’s up with that? ) would die with it’s release.

Just stating my 2 cents, going back to WoW now for some real pvp action, will probably come back in march to see the update notes, but after january and february patches probably wont be expecting anything, as the pvp in this game goes nowhere.

Cheers.