Guild Wars 2

Ok, so we’ve already seen that people are using empty hotjoin servers to run community-organised dueling, sometimes even tournaments.

But from the people asking cluelessly for 3v3 Deathmatch and other such formats, why hasn’t anyone actually gone and tried to do it right away? Empty hotjoin servers support 3v3 just as much as they support dueling. Or heck, 5v5 deathmatch – just ignore the points and meet in the middle? People who die agree to sit out the rest of the match?

I’m really interested in seeing something happen in this area amongst the community, because I want to see what DM tactics and gameplay look like in this game. I am personally skeptical that it would be deeper than objective-based combat, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.

this games combat is much better suited to small skirmishes, big fights just become an aoe zerg which is stupid. problem is you always get trolls who will join hotjoin midfight and randomly attack in the middle of a 3vs3 or duel so its hard to organise.

GW2 doesn’t support dueling well.
Like at all.

Finding a server with other people looking to duel, especially people of similar skill, is an utter pain in the kitten.
If ‘play now’ does not grace you with a lucky draw of the hat, you’re gonna have to spend a good half hour jumping threw instances until you find someone worth dueling.
BAD BAD SETUP.

Finding a worthwhile 3v3 server would be about 5 times as hard and interrupted at least twice as much by random puggers looking to just randomly kill kitten without regards to the constant stream of ‘this is a dueling server gtfo’.

A matchmaking system setup for it would avoid all of those problems.

Pug conquest is gay, just gonna throw it out there, so I don’t really see any problem with asking for more ways to PvP.

dimyzuka.7051:

this games combat is much better suited to small skirmishes, big fights just become an aoe zerg which is stupid. problem is you always get trolls who will join hotjoin midfight and randomly attack in the middle of a 3vs3 or duel so its hard to organise.

Considering the last game I played was Dark Souls, where they had an organised dueling scene despite the developer’s best attempts to make it impossible (you can’t guarantee you’ll connect to the right player, and anyone can invade you and grief both of you) I’d say this game has it fairly easy.

When you organise your tournaments, just make sure you have enough observers/referees/people waiting for the next round to fill up the empty spots.

If any random DOES manage to join the game, and won’t leave when politely asked, then the participants on his team will stand aside, and the participants on the enemy team can just team-gank him until he leaves.