Guild Wars 2

Yes, there’s no GvG like GW1 in this game, yes, this is not a supported game mode, we know. Let’s call it organised guild fights.

Ever since launch there has been a steady amount of players and guilds, hardcore or not, that has been setting up these fights. Even now, while the amount of players is definitely a lot less there’s still guilds organising these fights. Heck, we have had two tournaments shoutcasted on twitch even. All of this done by the community, which in itself is amazing but please Anet, help us out a little bit, there are a few issues that could really help us out and with the upcoming expansion possibly have a lot of players return aswell.

The problems we are currently facing:

- The guild arena’s are too small. We heard that there at some point would be the possibility of making them larger but I hope this is still in the making?

- The FPS on the gilded hallow arena is really really bad, compared to the one with the pillars its a lot worse. However since the other one is obstructed by pillars most guilds still prefer this one.

- Getting two guilds into the same overflow in a guild arena poses often a lot of issues and frustration with people not being able to get into the same overflow, perhaps you could look into this?

Lastly, really, all we want is a large open area where we can invite and fight other guilds with no outer interference or obstacles in the way. Honestly the Obsidium Sanctum area is great for this but the interference from people and the limitation of matchups for fighting different guilds are the problem.

Please, look into this, I realize we are a small minority of the WvW community but most of us have been around since launch and love these kind of fights, please help us make it better.

No. Not here. Go away.

edit:
To clarify, I think you make good points about the guild arena. However, this isn’t a WvW thing and will never be. There’s a lot of overlap between the players interested in these things, but you’ll have better success posting this elsewhere.

It was asked before and after HoTs launch, whether we could expand the arenas and make some much needed balance changes to CoR and other OP skills that arrived with HoT, but only the latter happened, eventually.

Maybe they’ll announce something soon, or not. It seems like it was an after thought though, the arena is and was not a good place to GvG in.

Nobody cares about GvG except the few small guilds that still cling to it and BoRP reks them all anyway.

That idea of a game mode died a long time ago, which was fine as it served zero purpose for WvW and just gave guilds a safe space with rules to fight.

Anet barely glanced at it as did most players.

Sviel.7493:

No. Not here. Go away.

edit:
To clarify, I think you make good points about the guild arena. However, this isn’t a WvW thing and will never be. There’s a lot of overlap between the players interested in these things, but you’ll have better success posting this elsewhere.

I don’t see what your problem is.

He clearly states: “Hey, make arena bigger so we can move off BLs and let Sviel (and others like him) play without us bothering him and taking his spot when BLs are qued.”

I would love to challenge another Guild and be able to take like their Guild Hall or something like that lol.

Maybe the new guild hall will have a bigger pvp zone. That where most ppl want to gvg and they do its just tends to be smaller due to the size of the current pvp zones.

idea requiring less resources
enable the gvg fight to be separated into rounds. each round every player readies up and the fight starts after x amount of seconds. a round is ended by a leader clicking a small button with a “are you sure” popup. every round everything is reset: hp, endurance, cd’s.

idea requiring more resources
give gvg a pvp like game search. no lobby, you just enter whichever guild arena is hosting. entering a fight already underway puts you into the spectator stands. create shoutcaster mode which is exclusive to them, which enables them to enter anyones pov or pan the camera out just like in pvp shoutcasting.

Or, make OS guestable so that any guild, regardless of server, or tier, could join and participate. The size of its arena is good.

Of course, controlling the trolls is another problem… but there are ways to do that with the groups there.

It doesn’t take away from the WvW experience of others, draws back in a solid group of veterans that won’t JUST GvG, and it gives others something to choose to work towards.

Guild growth and progession:

PvX guild—>roaming guild—>WvW Fight guild—>GvG guild—>Dead Guild—>Snowflake forum guild.

How big could you possibly want a guild arena? a GvG is meant to kill everyone, not gonna be like wvw where you can just stealth yourself out and run away..

People have been asking for gvg support since almost the launch of the game and what we got was pretty much the guild hall arena and an expanded os room.

If that doesnt explain to you how unlikely any bones would be thrown to that crowd at this point i dont know what will.

If that wishlist is “a little”..

Jski.6180:

Maybe the new guild hall will have a bigger pvp zone. That where most ppl want to gvg and they do its just tends to be smaller due to the size of the current pvp zones.

They already showed us the new arena, sadly it’s not suited for GvG at all as it has a big hole in the middle and is the same size as the other arena’s.

Strider Pj.2193:

Or, make OS guestable so that any guild, regardless of server, or tier, could join and participate. The size of its arena is good.

Of course, controlling the trolls is another problem… but there are ways to do that with the groups there.

It doesn’t take away from the WvW experience of others, draws back in a solid group of veterans that won’t JUST GvG, and it gives others something to choose to work towards.

About a year or so ago, probably longer, we had like the dev guesting event and we had a dev joining our guild and we gave her a similar idea. To me it sounds ideal but I guess Anet doesn’t really want to change things as they are or recycle content just for our sake.

This game still has GvG?

What servers? how many guilds?