Guild Wars 2

Hi,
Yesterday i watched the Guild Hall streaming and i found really interesting the guild pvp arena. I noticed an extreme customization for arena and i had some thought about leaderboard and progression system for guild arena.

I mean, if you want to add a leaderboard for Guild Arena you need to standardize map and numbers (for teams) or it would be impossible.

They announced a guild team leaderboard (for spvp) and world leaderboard (spvp or guild arena?) so i think it would be interesting expand this system.
And what about a progression? I didn’t really understand if fighting in the arena contribute to progression for example in guild hall upgrades or something else (like personal rewards).

I think leaderboard/progression and rewards are necessary for game mode, without these elements guild arena can’t be considered an official game mode but only for fun (sometimes).

I’m an spvp player but honestly i’d like to see a lb/progression system and rewards for this system with pve/www characters and gear based. It would be an alternative

After the new ascended system they want to introduce on 23th June i think is really easier to get a full max ascended gear for characters so gear always would be a variable but not so difficult to get.

Any thoughts?

they are leaving it up to us to provide rules and standardization. theyre giving us a sandbox in which we have the ability to create whatever we think is good within the confines of what assets theyre making available to us.

id say dont expect a ranking system for gvg out of hot, because theyre still formulating and iterating on that system through spvp. maybe in a year or 2 (or 3) when they decide they have a good competitive ranking system in pvp theyll migrate/adapt the final iteration into something you can call large scale gvg.

I agree with you.

But is there any progression system linked to fights in the arena? Guild hall upgrade?

Maybe i missed something.

what kind of progression would you want besides a leaderboard?

Guilds wanted a place where they could fight other guilds on any server without getting trolled. I think this meets their needs. Considering it was a game mode anet seemed reluctant to support in any form, this is great progress. I seriously doubt that there is a lot of additional bandwidth from their dev team dedicated to this. While there are many who gvg, I am not sure what percentage of the game pop partake in that – I think it is a minority…
The arena seems to meet the most basic needs for gvg, but also the duelers as well. I wouldn’t hold my breath for too much more at release….

philheat.3956:

I agree with you.

But is there any progression system linked to fights in the arena? Guild hall upgrade?

Maybe i missed something.

I think the progression/dedicated leaderboard was only for the PvP guilds(5man).