Guild Wars 2

Sad Swordfish.9743:

Before this game came out I thought I was going to spend all my time in sPvP but the exact opposite has happened.

Now I wonder to myself, is sPvP on it’s way out?

Some people in my guild have hinted at that it’s the lack of things like in-game VoiP and a spectator mode. But some have also complained over the objective game mode being to one-dimensional.

How can it be that on Steam right now that over 150,000 people are playing? What is it that makes that game so competitive?

Because GW2 has awesome graphics, great feeling combat system. you got cool art, you got good controls, cool skills. You got a overall very balanced game compared to other MMOs. So why is the eSport not there yet?

There are a couple of different questions in there.

There will always be “someone” playing spvp during peak hours. Will it be amazing competition and skilled players all around? Probably not.

Of the 150,000 people playing, that does not mean that all of them enjoy pvp. A large majority of them probably do not and never even go to the pvp realm. They just enjoy hanging with their guild, farming dungeons and running world events.

There is no Esport for GW2 because of several reasons.
The biggest ones are:

A- No spectator mode for easy viewing of high ranking players and tournaments.

C- No ability to set up non ranked scrimmage matches with players of your choosing. You can’t get better in the scene unless you practice before tournaments against players of equivalent skill levels.

At the very least they need to have a spvp que system that is not random but based on some form of skill based rank.

Until those two major issues are addressed, there probably not going to get enough of a following to transform gw2 into an esport.

Just thought I would throw this in there since it wasn’t mentioned. The problem with the steal/backstab/heartseeker builds isn’t backstab or heartseeker. It’s the part most people forget to mention which is Cloak and Dagger.

So your a thief running around, you see a target, pop your Basilisk Venom and Assassin Signet and then one of your 3 stealth abilities, all while lining up behind them.
At a distance you begin to cast Cloak and Dagger then immediately hit Steal.

Steal teleports you to your target, hits heavy armor for about 1.7k, and AT THE SAME TIME C&D goes off for 2.5k , makes you invisible and your Basilisk Venom turns your target to stone. Now, instead of being able to just roll away, your target has to hit his cc break button before he can roll and in the time it took him to do that you have Back Stabbed for 6k+. At this point even if your Heavy Armor target rolls away, Heart Seeker leaps to him for another 5k+ dmg.

(edit: was running around on my warrior after posting this, got hit for 4k by steal and 5k by c&d. ouch. the numbers I was posting were from me messing around on my rogue against pvp target dummies. apparently the numbers are larger when you’re a thief who knows what he’s doing XD )

Again, the problem is that casting Steal does not break your Cloak and Dagger cast timer and instead ports you in range for it to go off uninterrupted.

The drawbacks to this build are it doesn’t really bring anything to a team other than you can instagib light armors, and some glass cannon builds every 45sec. Most Bunker builds won’t be worried by this build.

Even after you’ve blown your cool down wad, you still have 2 vanishes to mess with and deal damage to players, but you don’t bring a lot of utility, which is why it’s a problem in random pick up matches but not in tplay.

If you make it so casting Steal breaks the casting time of Cloak and Dagger, that build will go away.

Just a thought.