Guild Wars 2

Hello! I’m Backpack and I have played this game with top players for well over a year at this point. I participate in the ESL Go4 Cups, ToL 2 (1st), ToG (2nd) as well as Mistpedia Weeklies and more than anything else, General Team Q. When I team Q, it is either with my competitive team, or with a very skilled pug consisting of the best players in the scene. We team q so that we can become better players and succeed in cups and tournaments that boast prizing such as in game rewards and money. The new implements to PvP scare me quite a bit. Since we team q only for the sake of bettering ourselves for these tournaments, for starters, we only want to play on maps in the competitive rotation. Skyhammer, Spirit Watch, and Courtyard have potential to become competitive maps (some more so than others), but as it currently stands, none of them are (Spirit watch is the only one I think would be nice to develop). SO I ask that these maps be removed from the competitive OR Ranked Rotation. Remove them, or implement yet another level of team q — Diamond league (or whatever elitist name you want) — this league would have only teams of 5 with a high MMR threshold, the map rotations would be that of a tournament, and the rewards would be slightly increased from ranked arena.

This “competitive” league could have games that are open to the public, in other words similar to games where you can watch top matches with a delay of ~2mins , anyone could watch these games.

Now I understand that this whole new league shabang is a stretch.
TLDR:: All I want is for the maps not currently in the competitive rotation to be removed from the highest possibly game mode (curently ranked arena).

Thank, Backpack

Agreed. One of the best things about TeamQ was not having skyhammer.

kitten here come the “pro” babies who got spirit watch removed in the first place. It is a voting system and so fair. How can you people be satisfied playing the same 4 maps and same game mode over and over. Variety is good for 99.5% of people. If its so important to improve yourself then why not going and play custom arena with your “pro” mates.

Everytime Anet ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING FUN LIKE THIS PATCH it gets shot down by people who are so ingrained in the same boring format.

tl;dr: Play custom arena vs other “pros”

There will be a limited set of maps available during the season. All maps will only be available during off-season play.

+100 with Backpack.8517, plz Anet listen to us or your game will loose a lot of pvp players

Lordrosicky.5813:

kitten here come the “pro” babies who got spirit watch removed in the first place. It is a voting system and so fair. How can you people be satisfied playing the same 4 maps and same game mode over and over. Variety is good for 99.5% of people. If its so important to improve yourself then why not going and play custom arena with your “pro” mates.

Everytime Anet ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING FUN LIKE THIS PATCH it gets shot down by people who are so ingrained in the same boring format.

tl;dr: Play custom arena vs other “pros”

A. We still want rewards
B. I claimed that I wanted new gamemodes and maps developed, however until they are implemented in real tournaments, it is silly to have them in the “ranked” team q rotation.
C. Different gamemodes require different compositions and builds… Unless you allow players to switch then it puts certain teams at distinct disadvantages regardless of skill
D. Although esports requires the support of the entire community, it doesnt actually happen withouth both the 99% and the 1%

Lordrosicky.5813:

kitten here come the “pro” babies who got spirit watch removed in the first place. It is a voting system and so fair. How can you people be satisfied playing the same 4 maps and same game mode over and over. Variety is good for 99.5% of people. If its so important to improve yourself then why not going and play custom arena with your “pro” mates.

Everytime Anet ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING FUN LIKE THIS PATCH it gets shot down by people who are so ingrained in the same boring format.

tl;dr: Play custom arena vs other “pros”

In all fairness what is fun about maps that can be down to luck, and put skill second behind gimicky builds and map features. I gain no joy from these new maps, and I’ve only slightly enjoyed courtyard so far as It seems to get voted in by pve players who we roflstomp 500-0.

lets hope they finally start to listen… but probably not :<

Get Courtyard the F*** out of Ranked Queues.

Backpack.8517:

Lordrosicky.5813:

kitten here come the “pro” babies who got spirit watch removed in the first place. It is a voting system and so fair. How can you people be satisfied playing the same 4 maps and same game mode over and over. Variety is good for 99.5% of people. If its so important to improve yourself then why not going and play custom arena with your “pro” mates.

Everytime Anet ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING FUN LIKE THIS PATCH it gets shot down by people who are so ingrained in the same boring format.

tl;dr: Play custom arena vs other “pros”

A. We still want rewards
B. I claimed that I wanted new gamemodes and maps developed, however until they are implemented in real tournaments, it is silly to have them in the “ranked” team q rotation.
C. Different gamemodes require different compositions and builds… Unless you allow players to switch then it puts certain teams at distinct disadvantages regardless of skill
D. Although esports requires the support of the entire community, it doesnt actually happen withouth both the 99% and the 1%

Nobody cares about esports. This game is a dead PvP game. There is no competitive world. There is nothing but the opportunity to have fun. I hope their metrics incentivise them to put all maps in for the second season.

Nobody cares about the “real” tournaments. Nobody watches it. Nobody cares. Its crap. Its pandering to the try-hards which has this game in the kitten.

Yeh different game modes need different builds etc. But:
1, Having builds across game modes reduces lameness
2, Nobody cares if you lose once in while due to builds. kitten me there is nothing in this game to care about. It is child’s play. Lets at least have some fun

Just got to spec differently for the other maps.

Guild Wars 2 is a casual MMO.

You may calm down now and stop acting as if this game was even remotely esports.

Harbinger.8637:

There will be a limited set of maps available during the season. All maps will only be available during off-season play.

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