Guild Wars 2

I really enjoy wvw, in other mmo’s my favourite thing to do was queue up for some small scale pvp with my friends. I often think to myself you know what guild wars 2 is missing, it’s battlegrounds like wow and war had.

Then here is spvp, soon as you enter the mists all your armour is gone, hundreds of gold and hours spent on armour and weapons, farming fractals for the best gear. Legendaries gone.

That’s probably enough to put off most players right there. Who wants to spend all those hours getting a legendary (I don’t have one but still) only to have it disabled in pvp.

If you can get past having all your hard earned skins gone then you get to select your armour and you get a simplified toned down version of what you get in the rest of the game, want to run 60% clerics and 40% knights, sorry. Got some crazy build with stats from 6 different sets, sorry doesn’t work in pvp.

So you get past all your skins disabled, your build not being possible and you think oh well at least I’ll have some fun hot joining with my friends. Sorry can’t do that either. If I do manage to get into a game with my friends they just as likely will be on the enemy team.

All these lovely battleground maps sitting here being unused by a good portion of the games population because they seem to be designed to make you not want to play them.

I’m not without sympathy for what happens in the other direction either. If people want to just pvp the character should earn XP and your skins you earn in PVP should be able to be used in wvw and pve.

Loosing all of your pretty skins is a small price to pay for a battlefield that is evenly balanced (in terms of gear) and being able to spec and build however you like between games to test things out. In fact, I often use sPvP to test out possible pve/wvw builds so I don’t ahve to drop 50+ gold on armor/runes/weapons/sigils in pve just to realize that I don’t enjoy playing that way.

Can you name another game that gives it to you so easy?

YojimboJones.6243:

Loosing all of your pretty skins is a small price to pay for a battlefield that is evenly balanced (in terms of gear) and being able to spec and build however you like between games to test things out. In fact, I often use sPvP to test out possible pve/wvw builds so I don’t ahve to drop 50+ gold on armor/runes/weapons/sigils in pve just to realize that I don’t enjoy playing that way.

Can you name another game that gives it to you so easy?

Skins has nothing to do with balance, how is the textures affecting balance. Yes I use the mists like most people for a free ride to lions arch and to test builds. Just be nice if people you know went there for pvp too

Because some of us bought this game only for the PvP?

Seren.6850:

YojimboJones.6243:

Loosing all of your pretty skins is a small price to pay for a battlefield that is evenly balanced (in terms of gear) and being able to spec and build however you like between games to test things out. In fact, I often use sPvP to test out possible pve/wvw builds so I don’t ahve to drop 50+ gold on armor/runes/weapons/sigils in pve just to realize that I don’t enjoy playing that way.

Can you name another game that gives it to you so easy?

Skins has nothing to do with balance, how is the textures affecting balance. Yes I use the mists like most people for a free ride to lions arch and to test builds. Just be nice if people you know went there for pvp too

Copy and pasting my response from another thread:

Skins serve as a measure of experience in PvP. Some people have grinded for thousands of hours to get a specific set. Some schmuck shouldn’t just be able to bring the same set into PvP because:

1. it would misrepresent his experience level
2. devalue the accomplishments of the PvP player who had to work 2-3 times as hard/long to obtain the same gear (you need to apply significantly more effort/time to acquire the same skins in PvP as in PvE).

It wouldn’t be so bad if SPvP wasn’t so boring to me. It’s not hard to rank up, it’s just boring boring boring….

For me at least.

SteepledHat.1345:

It wouldn’t be so bad if SPvP wasn’t so boring to me. It’s not hard to rank up, it’s just boring boring boring….

For me at least.

I agree. The best way to rank up is to glory farm, which is mind-numbing.

Tournaments don’t bring in enough glory, and they take forever to queue up for. PvP in its current state is indeed a borefest.

Chi Malady.2015:

Seren.6850:

YojimboJones.6243:

Loosing all of your pretty skins is a small price to pay for a battlefield that is evenly balanced (in terms of gear) and being able to spec and build however you like between games to test things out. In fact, I often use sPvP to test out possible pve/wvw builds so I don’t ahve to drop 50+ gold on armor/runes/weapons/sigils in pve just to realize that I don’t enjoy playing that way.

Can you name another game that gives it to you so easy?

Skins has nothing to do with balance, how is the textures affecting balance. Yes I use the mists like most people for a free ride to lions arch and to test builds. Just be nice if people you know went there for pvp too

Copy and pasting my response from another thread:

Skins serve as a measure of experience in PvP. Some people have grinded for thousands of hours to get a specific set. Some schmuck shouldn’t just be able to bring the same set into PvP because:

1. it would misrepresent his experience level
2. devalue the accomplishments of the PvP player who had to work 2-3 times as hard/long to obtain the same gear (you need to apply significantly more effort/time to acquire the same skins in PvP as in PvE).

That’s a fair argument, though matchmaking, glory and titles should be enough to show your experience. I have put 1066 hours into the game so far, yeah if you guys put 3000 hours into getting the gear I have then you certainly earned and should be able to wear it outside of the mists.

Good to see some people defending spvp in it’s current state, this forum section is mostly people hating on devs and complaining about balance and lack of features, so I’m glad there are people enjoying it.

Seren.6850:

I really enjoy wvw, in other mmo’s my favourite thing to do was queue up for some small scale pvp with my friends. I often think to myself you know what guild wars 2 is missing, it’s battlegrounds like wow and war had.

Then here is spvp, soon as you enter the mists all your armour is gone, hundreds of gold and hours spent on armour and weapons, farming fractals for the best gear. Legendaries gone.

That’s probably enough to put off most players right there. Who wants to spend all those hours getting a legendary (I don’t have one but still) only to have it disabled in pvp.

If you can get past having all your hard earned skins gone then you get to select your armour and you get a simplified toned down version of what you get in the rest of the game, want to run 60% clerics and 40% knights, sorry. Got some crazy build with stats from 6 different sets, sorry doesn’t work in pvp.

So you get past all your skins disabled, your build not being possible and you think oh well at least I’ll have some fun hot joining with my friends. Sorry can’t do that either. If I do manage to get into a game with my friends they just as likely will be on the enemy team.

All these lovely battleground maps sitting here being unused by a good portion of the games population because they seem to be designed to make you not want to play them.

I’m not without sympathy for what happens in the other direction either. If people want to just pvp the character should earn XP and your skins you earn in PVP should be able to be used in wvw and pve.

pvp in this game was an after thought not a forethought, once you realize that you will like most move onto another game more oriented to pvper’s…