Guild Wars 2

Hi, I think a solution to many of the problems WvW faces (GvGers, coverage issues, population imbalances, etc) is to create a WvW mode for Custom Arenas (CAs).
This will also help ANet monetise PvP.

Here’s how it can work:
1. CA creator will choose a single map. It can be EB, or a borderland. I also propose that a smaller scale, WvW-style map be created for 2-sided battles. (eg. 2 keeps, 4 towers, 4 camps.) This smaller scale map can be quickly made by chopping up & mirroring an existing WvW map.

2. This is the big one. The CA host can set a time schedule for the CA. Eg. The CA will be open from 8am GMT, until 4pm GMT, every Saturday and Sunday.

3. The host can set victory conditions, match length and reset times. Eg. It will run for a month, and whoever has the highest score will win. However, if a side manages to get X number of points, they will win instantly and the match will reset.

4. The host can set number of sides, and max number of concurrent players per side.
Eg. 2 sides, 50 players each.

5. Each side gets a unique password for the CA. A player who wants to join the CA will type in the password and automatically be assigned to the corresponding side. This also allows Guilds / Hosts to control who has access to the CA. You can also create an open match if you want.

By setting a fixed time schedule, you can customise the CA to meet the timezones of the participating players. You can give out the passwords to participating guilds, and thus have GvGs. You can scale the maps or limit player counts.

I think this allows us to enjoy large-scale PvP whilst being able to address many of the complaints we have with the current format. It also allows ANet to monetise PVP and leverage the existing CA system. I hope ANet will consider this addition.

Hmm, none interested? I’d really like to see large scale pvp that’s more controlled than wvw, but maybe people are concerned that it would take players away from wvw?

This would be awesome but they will never implement it. The reason is because it would kill off the already dead/ barely hanging on spvp community. Everyone who loves pvp would no longer do spvp and only this new mode. Basicially this would be too much fun and anets 10k they spent on PAX tournament for spvp would go to waste (even though it already has). I personally think this would end up with a lot of empty servers like the current custom arenas. A better idea would be to make a separate map for us to queue up for (you can even just let us queue for the EB jp outside of wvw) so we can have some form of real pvp. But again spvp dying off is the reason we can’t have nice things.

B/c they wanted to make it some big time stage esport, and they failed hard cuz capture the circle can be done by anyone.

It literally takes zero skill to go online, find the fotm bunker build, and go “literally cannot be killed” in a circle.

How stupid. How about bad kitten 5v5-8v8 deathmatches that arent over after the first loss. Apparently everyone NOT working for Anet i.e. the customers can actually come up with better ideas than their design team lol.

So Spvp but a bit bigger? GvG is going to be tired into Spvp so we can have real ranks of what guild is doing better then other guilds. In a way most of the time GvG in WvW is a non point system that is about pushes to whom is the last one standing or the one who gives up. Its pure bragging rights if you put it into Spvp then you can keep track of this better and see whom realty is better then others.
That and in a way you can do GvG in custom Spvp rooms better then say in WvW because there is no random zerg to simply kill every one who is GvGing.

In spvp builds are differentt and we cant get the same stats as in wvw. That is the problem.