Guild Wars 2

You need to do something about this and it needs to happen in the next patch.

If you keep saying “we don’t think it’s a priority” then you aren’t looking at the servers and what’s actually going on.

I’ve just been through 5 10 player servers and all of them were full of duelers at 8/10 9/10 players.

The community wants a place to test against each other, you either need to add simple dueling into the mists through a command, a PvP area or by introducing custom servers for it now.

People are getting sick and tired of trying to have a quick game and getting stuck into a dueling server, duelers are getting fed up of trying to create a place to duel and being interrupted by people trying to play the game.

This has been an issue for months, and it can’t continue.

Your quote marks are just wrong. They know people want duelling and have said as much but they dont think its a priority. A lot of people agree with them. Imo it isnt a priority.

Well if I remember correctly its on the list to do. But not number 1..

The fact is that it is harming what’s left of PvP. New people enter and don’t know what’s going on.

They get told to kitten off and leave when they try to play, they go to solo queue tournaments and they get told to kitten off because they don’t know what to do.

New player experience is lacking, I just came back from explaining the game to two guys that were in sPvP as new players and had no idea how the maps worked, how they could reset their skills, how a build might work or what to do in a team game.

GW2 isn’t retaining new players because their opinion is that the PvP has a steep learning curve, the dueling servers is only making it worse by confusing and splitting the community in hot join.

This is the reason why I don’t do hotjoins anymore. Ever.

I’m now a full-time tPVP player.

You might want to try to sign up for the 2-team tourney. The rounds start up almost immediately save the 2-3minute waiting period. And even if you’re expected to get stomped by a full premade with your pug team if you queued solo, it’s still very fun, sarcasm aside. Try it.

Theres no need to design a new map or create new skills, all the assets are already there… implementing dueling is just a matter of one guy coding for an hour and that it.. so please stop with the “not a priority” excuse.

I’ve played 586 tournaments, my team is currently on a hiatus because it was recently carnival in Brazil and well, the PvP in this game still needs a lot of bug fixes, balancing and more diversity in each profession’s viable builds, so they aren’t really in any rush to return.

I’m speaking mostly for the outcry I see in The Mists map chat and in each server I go into where duelers are raging at people trying to play and people trying to play are raging at duelers taking over several servers.

This is actually a reasonably large problem, but mostly because of the play now button. The fact that they haven’t fixed or removed it 7 months in just blows my mind. These dueling servers wouldn’t get randoms if not for people who are new to the game going to the pvp browser, figuring the best way to get into things is to click a button that says “Play Now,” and ending up in a server with two people dueling and not wanting to be interrupted. While they should add dueling, they could fix a hell of a lot of the problem by just removing that kitten button.

Yeah duelling really needs to be implemented, at the moment pressing the ‘join now’ button is pointless. At this rate the game will still not be polished enough for its ps4 launch :/

One of the debs stated in a forum that they were making an arena