Guild Wars 2

Why not ArenaNet? It’s a fun way to show off your skills while the audience is watching! XD

There is open world PvP on the WvW maps. If you mean why there is no PK system that allows players to attack other players anywhere in Tyria the answer is that it would result in the harrassment of players who are not interested in fighting other players but simply want to PvE.

The “audience” probably doesn’t care.

But mainly it’s because it doesn’t fit their design philosophy for PvE, which is for it to be 100% cooperative. They’ve said before that they want players to not only never worry about another person coming along but to actually be pleased about it. As soon as they can attack you that goes out the window.

Yes there are various work-arounds like making it an opt-in system where you have to accept an invitation before you can fight, but it still detracts from the idea that in PvE players always work together against the NPC enemies.

I kind of meant like being able to ask a person to duel with you in the open world.

Interesting on the 100% cooperation aspect aswell.

Skenderbeu.9102:

I kind of meant like being able to ask a person to duel with you in the open world.

Interesting on the 100% cooperation aspect aswell.

Open world dueling would only lead to harassment and trolling.

I believe the official response when this has come up before is that if you want to duel you can both go to an empty PvP arena. That’s basically what people did in GW1 and it seemed to work well.

The only downside is some guilds and outposts would have people endlessly spamming “any1 1v1?”. If dueling was ever to be considered for this game they would have to find a way to stop that. Preferably add an ‘invite to duel’ tool so you can only invite people by messaging them directly and make it possible to disable invites so no one can ask you.

imagine this:

Hey let me do this event to level up and get my heart complete to move next zone.
Punch in you face and hell no, because there is a thief killing lowbies and trolling whit perma stealth.

I dont want to return to WoW, or worts (AION).

Stealth kill PVP, imagine how many riot can cause in a open world pve GW2.

I remember reading in the wiki a year or so ago that dueling would be added to the game at some point. Not sure if that meant open world duels or just custom arenas though.

Sundar.1735:

I remember reading in the wiki a year or so ago that dueling would be added to the game at some point. Not sure if that meant open world duels or just custom arenas though.

whatever anet say before launch, you take the 50% and believe half of that.
dont make me remember you the manifiesto.

kishter.9578:

Sundar.1735:

I remember reading in the wiki a year or so ago that dueling would be added to the game at some point. Not sure if that meant open world duels or just custom arenas though.

whatever anet say before launch, you take the 50% and believe half of that.
dont make me remember you the manifiesto.

Another less cynical and realistic way to look at it was that manifesto met reality and reality won which lead to a change in priorities.

Obviously, if you are a PvP only player it doesn’t matter because the changes happened entirely as the result of PvE failing on its face.

If we ever see a “split” between players, similar to Kurzick and Luxon, to “fractions” it would make much more sense.

WvW is the best open world PVP you could want.
for people interesting in open world pvp then WvW is a pot of gold.

the only difference between WvW and the open-world pvp from other games is that you can’t gank people who have no interest in pvp, everyone in WvW is there because they want open-world pvp

silvermember.8941:

kishter.9578:

Sundar.1735:

I remember reading in the wiki a year or so ago that dueling would be added to the game at some point. Not sure if that meant open world duels or just custom arenas though.

whatever anet say before launch, you take the 50% and believe half of that.
dont make me remember you the manifiesto.

Another less cynical and realistic way to look at it was that manifesto met reality and reality won which lead to a change in priorities.

Obviously, if you are a PvP only player it doesn’t matter because the changes happened entirely as the result of PvE failing on its face.

Change “reality” -> $, add in the bulk of the original developers leaving and agreed.

Skenderbeu.9102:

Why not ArenaNet? It’s a fun way to show off your skills while the audience is watching! XD

1v1 =/= skills

This is Build Wars 2 – The Revenge of Hardcounters

Skills is how you play as a team, how you move, being smart and rotate good…you can kill everyone 1v1, you can be the best at it (And probably 80% because of the spec you’re running)….but if you (And your team) can’t rotate and move well you’re gonna lose anyway.

And yes audience would probably give no kittens…when someone starts 1v1 claims in hom map chat he usually ends up being laughed at (Also because it’s considered a wvsw/pve heroes behaviour) …the only 1v1 with some meaning is probably thief vs thief since it would happen quite often during tn but outside than there’s really no point and noone cares.

Besides the spontaneity and mischievousness, which is considerable, there is a great thrill and fun in World PvP because of the scenery involved when it’s beautiful. More so than Arena or Dueling, I know World PvP will never happen in GW2, but to wakefully dream of fighting in places like Lion’s Arch, Black Citadel, Rata Sum or Labyrinthine Cliffs, with its scenery so beautiful and terrain so perfect (verticality!) is sometimes more fun than actually playing the existing PvP options.