Guild Wars 2

So it seems 8 team tournaments have been disabled, I can honestly understand that logic, given how few teams sign up for it, but on the other hand, what really is now the greatest award in GW2 PvP?

Rather than break into the issues with WvW, I shall just talk about SPvP and TPvP in particular. Right now for a competitive, arena type player the ultimate achievement is winning one singular match against Pugs/Pre-mades. One can argue that earning the gear and weapon skins is also a sense of progression and I enjoy this system, but it’s not something that say a Guild or a Team can push for. As a member of a guild that wins quite a few tournaments, but loses sometimes too, winning a singular match is hardly a great “honour” when you have done it once, let alone multiple times as quite a few players have. When it comes to WvW we are seeing several patches coming their way, and that’s great for the weekend warriors, but for those who enjoy the equalized, meta, 5 v 5 against actual talented teams, even more so now we are losing any purpose in this game.

I know that many sitting here will probably be thinking “Hurr Durr this game was never going to be good for TPvP”, but personally I see great potential in this game. From how deep classes are with new builds and setups still being discovered even now, to how well the combat system works, I really want to see this game shine for all competitive PvP’ers. What happened to the Monthly and Year Grand Tournaments that were spoken of? Why is that board in the Heart of the Mists, AT THE VERY LEAST, not updated with the best champions of the week say? All these things that could have been, don’t exist, and it’s frankly very dissapointing for someone who really is tired with this game except for the great combat itself.

When we look at games like WoW (How I deplore using it as an example), top arena players recieve additional awards, skins and what not. Now I love that GW2 is all equalized stat wise, but why can’t we have seasons with the top players earning legendary skins? Why can we not do something like APB and have “Points Weekends” or “Tournament Wins Weekends”, where winning or earning so many points equal special one time awards, such as legendary skins.

Right now PvP needs a true incentitive, guilds, social communities are struggling because although we have these random bounty missions, there are no defintive content to work for and master. What true honour can a PvP’er really achieve? What grand bragging rights can one have over another when everyone and their aunt wins single match tournaments? What is the point in actually learning to play in this game if it’s doctored for the care-bear weekend PvP’ers that complain their 100b Warriors can’t hit the enemy?

Personally this game has some great features, the combat is right, no matter what most under level 30s say, the classes are indepth and far more balanced than most other MMOs (Okay maybe Engi has taken a bit too strong of a knock hehe), and the skill ceiling is very high which is fantastic personally as growth to a level to compete with the best players/teams is very rewarding. It has all the tools, it has all the basics, so now ANET please build upon a section of gaming that was RED HOT before release, and is crying out for attention.

If I was the game director I would do several things:-

- Bring back 8-Team tournaments and make the rewards VERY VIABLE, personally I would get rid of 2-Team altogether.
- If not, then do as was recommended in another thread, and have an 8-Team weekend with 2-Team disabled, and award the best teams with some great legendary skins.
- Bring out the Monthly/Yearly tournament idea, immediately there is a great reward in DEDICATION. You can even combine it with my last point.
- Bring in private servers/dueling already :p

There needs to be an incentive, there needs to be an award. I always think of arena PvP like Gladiator PvP. In the arena the greatest honour was becoming known throughout the land, it was conquering the best, and it would be great for the game, for guilds, for PvP’ers in general, that there was something to push for.

It would be great to have talk of how Team A won the Yearly tournament, it would be great to have live streams back again with the high end PvP’ers.

That’s my two cents anyway, I don’t post alot but the deletion of 8 team tournaments drove me out.

TH

8 team was disabled because nobody played it, and has effectively been out of action since they implemented quick matches.

Yeah game has potential, everyone has said this at one point. No one knows what devs are doing. Somehow they don’t want to make money nor a good pvp game.

Game is actually fun, but playing the same map vs the same teams with the same builds burns out.

But hey, we have a living story and zerg vs zerg. Everyone will remember us for it.
Nonsense.

There is another thread in this forum suggesting the idea of 8 team tournaments running for a few hours on a weekend.

I think this is a great idea.

I think it should have win chests, which have items, which can only be obtained from 8team tournament wins. These should have pretty stuffs inside.

Gives atleast a little bit of prestige to tournament winners and competitive teams.

Laurels for legendary skins, because if we really wanted tpvp “top prizes” it would just be ele/guardians all day and night trying to get to that “top spot.”

because it represents < 1% of the game pop?

s/tPVP is < 1% of the game pop, naturally it gets a tiny slice of the development budget.