Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. Yesterday I posted this thread in Guild Wars 2 subreddit (http://tinyurl.com/ajo73zz) which was a question on whether it would be possible to set a place in one of the maps in WvW where everyone who wanted to do 1v1’s or small group PvP would head to. Somewhere that is isolated by zergs, commanders, etc etc and the only people that would go there are PvPers that are there for one reason, 1v1’s.

The main problems that I’ve seen as concerns by people in the comments of the thread was:

1) No way to communicate with people from other servers since the report function was removed in WvW. But there is actually a way to communicate with people. Target them, then type /invite or /join to make a party with them.

2) Takes up space from real WvW. This I really can’t suggest a solution to. I only go in WvW for PvP and not for capturing points or farming gold or badges. So for me personally is not a problem to “take up some space from the real WvWers”. For others it may be a huge problem. I will leave it to you guys to decide. Would love if you let me know in the replies here.

3) Class imbalance. Well there is nothing we can do about it. It is said that GW2 has several issues with this right now. Maybe some people even quit the game for this, I don’t know. But if people are still doing PvP in this game it means that they are willing to overcome this imbalances and just enjoy the PvP. What I’m saying that class imbalance is something that exists right now and they is nothing we can do about it as players other than give our feedback to Anet. Till then just enjoy the game.

4) “Just go in sPvP”. Well I really believe that sPvP is lacking right now. The maps have become repetitive, 8v8 is made by people who just farm points, there are huge queues till you join the match, there are these 5-6 builds that everyone uses and if you don’t you are bound to lose etc etc. Although this is just my personal opinion.

So I do believe that these problems are easy to overcome and therefor suggest this. The place that we will use for this will be in one of the 3 borderlands. I personally think the best one will be Blue’s Borderlands because Blue is by default the “weakest” out of the three and therefor won’t mind some WvW spots being taken by PvPers. For the exact place to be used I suggest we use the space right under the south supply camp, where if you remember, the fight club event happened before with success (http://tinyurl.com/8sxsfeo).

TL;DR: I suggest a place that will be always used by the community for small scale PvP in WvW, in one of the 3 borderland maps, just below the south camp on the map.

I would love to hear your feedback on this. Hope you guys like the idea.

so what your saying is you can’t cut it in spvp, so you want to disrupt not only wvw but the servers in the weakest tactical position on top of it.

how about this, you get your dueling community together on one server, and go into the mists waiting area and setup matches….then go into an EMPTY spvp maps and fight it out.

It’s not a terrible idea, but the real problem is that it’s not actually roaming, open pvp. It’s just duels. Duels can be entertaining, and it can be a good challenge, but it completely removes the strategic side of roaming pvp, which is a large part of why I so greatly prefer it over arena style pvp. What makes roaming exciting is never knowing who, what, or where you are going to fight and reacting appropriately to whatever comes up. Duels is just seeing who has better mechanics.

That said, duels can be entertaining, but there really isn’t any way to set this up as a long term thing. South of hero’s lodge is already a pretty well agreed upon dueling spot, but there are so few roamers that no one is ever there unless they agree on meeting up. Best thing to do is just take note of players that impress you when you fight them and /invite them.

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4) “Just go in sPvP”. Well I really believe that sPvP is lacking right now. The maps have become repetitive, 8v8 is made by people who just farm points, there are huge queues till you join the match, there are these 5-6 builds that everyone uses and if you don’t you are bound to lose etc etc. Although this is just my personal opinion.

So I do believe that these problems are easy to overcome and therefor suggest this. The place that we will use for this will be in one of the 3 borderlands. I personally think the best one will be Blue’s Borderlands because Blue is by default the “weakest” out of the three and therefor won’t mind some WvW spots being taken by PvPers. For the exact place to be used I suggest we use the space right under the south supply camp, where if you remember, the fight club event happened before with success (http://tinyurl.com/8sxsfeo).
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Summarized: SPVP is not near as good as it was in GW1. You can’t even do a simple 1v1 challenge match. Lets fix this by invading on a working combat mode.

I would say you should make this request in in your local match up thread. Not an arena but an informal challenge area while we wait for a decent structured 1v1 game mode. /beckon and /bow are used on my server for informal 1v1 matches.

As for blue borderland being weak, that may be true on your matchup but its a hard target on mine. Ques are not uncommon.