Guild Wars 2

sPvP definitely needs a few tweaks and additions to keep it fresh.

- More modes – why am I forced into playing conquest and only conquest? Not everyone idea of fun or competitive play is conquest. Sometimes you’d like the focus to be on playing your class, not the objective, in which case an arena mode would be perfect, or a deathmatch. Perhaps you’d even like to play another objective based game – there are many, but capture the flag seems the obvious choice. There are multiple maps but only one game mode… I don’t understand this.

- 5v5 games – why are normal games 8v8 if torny play is 5v5? Where is the point in this? How can you practice for torny play in an 8v8? It completely changes the dynamics of the game.

- Skipping maps – there should be an option to skip maps or stay on one map. I think PvE sharks have no place in a competitive PvP game and I totally hate that map.

Arena/CTF/DM would make this game the most popular MMO by far. At the moment there are a lot of people put off by the idea of a competitive scene that is basically battlefield 3 with wizards… I also think due to the lack of healers, the arena would seriously shine here.

i love this topic bc i barley play Spvp and im already sick of conquest so when im done everything i want to do in pve what do i have, WvW? thats not enough. i can go on WvW for a couple hours but after that it just gets repetitive. u dont want to feel forced to play WvW since theres nothing else to do. Death match is badly needed in Gw2, conquest is just not fun.

Arena/DM?

I don’t think a Death Match based Arena works in GW2, people die too easy. Maybe with a 50% less damage taken debuff it would be interesting.

CTF?

Might work, sure thing.

However, I would prefer if Arenanet focused on getting a ranking system and dueling in the game first. These are more important than the things you brought up OP :p

Arena is too simplistic, lacks depth and is dull. (and the TTK in GW2 is too low)

The reason that spvp hot join is 8v8 and tourney is 5v5 is because they plan on making this game an esport game, and they find it easier to balance for 5v5 than 8v8. The reason they only have one game mode is because they want this game to be an esport, and its easier to balance for 1 game mode. Their goal after releasing everything needed to make this an esport like a ranking / elo system, a spectator mode and other goodies will be balance. They want this game to be an esport game, and all efforts put into pvp will be for that sole reason alone. A low floor, high ceiling skill cap that anyone can get into and earn a ranking. Basically the LoL model, and they took forever to get another game mode in and even then dominion is barely played compared to classic.

i understand they want to make it a Esport but that doesnt mean us players have to suffer. they can always make conquest the Esport thing and add capture the flag and death match. team death match would work perfect for this game, the way i look at it is that they balanced the game by making all classes OP, so every class has their stuns, knockbacks, evasion skills, etc. From experience i know u can get away from a big group of players or atleast be able to survive for a couple mins fighting them im not talking about a zerg here im talking 5 ppl.

Valk.4013:

Basically the LoL model, and they took forever to get another game mode in and even then dominion is barely played compared to classic.

really? I thought so but didn’t know for sure.

well good thing both dominion and conquest are capture point modes then!

Xd

Deathmatch would work if there was a Death Penalty / Morale Boost. But there will be more to come defiantly. I’m 70% sure GvG will be added due to that being the most favorable game mode in GW1. They’re working on them currently, trying to perfect them and also get the bugs out of all classes and balance them even further for when actual tournaments will begin.