Guild Wars 2

~there, the idea. Let us earn Gems through PvP then spend it in the Black Lion Store.

I believe an idea like this is needed because currently:
(1) PvP rewards are still boring. Yes, they are slightly better than before but look, PvP rank progression almost means nothing now. They don’t even show it to other players anymore, and even rank-specific skins are gone.

(2) There is not enough incentives to win. Win or loss, we all progress in the PvP track, only faster or slower. Plus, there is almost no PvP rewards that I cannot get by doing PvE. Speaking of which, where are our legendary rewards?

So that is why I think a Gem reward can help:
The reward rate should be moderate, say, 20 Gems per won unranked and 30 Gems per won ranked games. And absolutely no Gems for lost games. This would make PvP more rewarding, and provide good incentives to win the game.

What do you think?

Not sure if I should ask it here, but——how has the showdown with DoD impacted you guys? I watched you guys played against Ellusive and I liked all your builds, really brought new air to the meta. It’s a pity that DoD got lucky yesterday

infantrydiv.1620:

Lux.7169:

Don’t hide MMR’s so the people with bad MMR’s have less room to argue with the higher MMR players =\

…I’m being serious

^

Every time Courtyard pops up in the map pool it gets overwhelmingly the most votes and dada~~! Fun old school 5v5 begins.

Shows how people love Deathmatch. Besides, the map is so aesthetic.

Can we have some more like that? Maybe you bring Capricorn back and make the ship THE Deathmatch map, that would be awesome too.

Evan Lesh.3295:

I can confirm I am working on PvP features <3
No more details than that, though!

I hope I am not the one who realizes the tricky part this could be…

this is a proof that Evan reads forums and responds to us. That is good.
But in absolutely no way is this a proof that anything is being worked upon or that we can expect to see them in the near future…

Some might feel this is enough, but I am totally unconvinced. Call me paranoid~

I do not entirely agree on Guardian’s role. Yes, most of the times you see one in a rated arena team, but having experienced several matches that pure roamer groups can outrun teams with 2~3 guardians~
but you’re right that this class is too professional in the supporting role. Literally able to tank for and heal the entire group at the same time. Not so balanced, no.

I agree on the Ranger’s part. It seems that the balance team (assuming there is one) brought the class way too low in the attempt to nerfing Spirit Ranger, so while that spec and condi builds (i.e. Shortbow, Axe/Torch) are sort of balanced right now, the rest of Ranger is just underpowered. Greatsword ranger is supposed to be THE tanky spec for this class but for reasons unknown to me the class is able to fulfill this role in PvE but totally not so in PvP

Jekkt.6045:

so much negativity. you should just stop playing lol.

It saddens me greatly that you had to reply this way…but players are not to blame for this negativity.

A year ago (and almost a year before that), hosts of passionate players gathered and put together a very similar list like you here. There were even several CDI~~events in which that developers interacted with players to find solutions. People who wish to see GW2 PvP receive the glorious growth it deserves gave as many ideas as they could.

Those ideas were never implemented. At least, of now we are seeing no clear evidence that the ideas we contributed are being truly listened. At all.
And then there are the moderators, given the power of deleting posts and banning people from forums as they please…realistically. They go anywhere, silencing people who WANT to help this game grow before their voices can ever be heard by relevant minds up there. I and many you don’t see anymore are those who had been silenced, either permanently or temporarily. Luckily, mine was a temporary one, but not for long, I fear.

The moderators on Blizzard’s forums are vigil as will but NEVER have I seen a governing group as dictating as the moderators.

I LOVE THIS GAME. I TRULY DO. I would not be here if I don’t. Everyone here does. But we truly cannot help if just about everything sensitive we say are deleted/moved to trashcan before anyone can read them.

Alas, as I type these I realize your thread, though originally of good intention, might be deleted soon. I wish you luck. That the things you put together will at least be skimmed through by someone important enough to direct where the game goes before it is locked/deleted/banned …

…like many other threads whose only intention was to help the company.

1. Display players’ PvP ranks, not character levels while in PvP parties/matches

2. A menu that allow players to select from all the characters in their account upon entering a match

3. Cast Bars. Asuran casting animations are severely incomplete and this is a fact talked to death for not just once. Adding cast bars solves this problem without needing to hire more people on making new animations

DoYourBestBear.6810:

This thread was supposed to be about how in-game dancing strengthened the community.

As such, I have reported most of you for being off-topic.

kitten nn this has to be the most hilarious comment I have seen today XDD

I know moderators delete/infract people’s posts and suspend them but please please please leave him alone. At least OP’s reply shows some vigor this community direly needs

Zietlogik.6208:

You can’t deny Duke Nukem….but how long have you been playing? at least they removed the actual annoying ones like:

“You couldn’t keep the keep”
“The keep if yours! Keep it!”

mind you they were mainly exclusive to Niflhel, but I can’t remember if other maps had equally stupid quotes.

It was nice to have those removed, but the voice still sounded quite unnatural.
I don’t know if it is meant to be “unique” from the beginning but the feedbacks on that voice have been a bit polarized—-and understandable.
The voice is very vigorous and you know what, it is great when you are playing a Norn character~~but after awhile it starts to become a spiky sounding, distracting thing.

I too wish there is an option to turn it off while still keeping my characters’ dialogue voices.

Awesome feedback, friends! Please keep it coming.

I have updated this thread and changed the title so now the proposed product includes hair-style and total makeovers. Thank you, Lilith and Domino!

Why does this feel like a subscription fee?
It feels like a subscription fee because it is! The difference here is not everyone has to pay it. In fact, only a very small portion of ANet’s customer base (such as yours truly) will pay it. And they pay gladly.
I don’t know how many people care about customization or how their characters look when leveling, but I 100% do. Customization is exactly why I came to play GW2. The player power we have here is so insane it (in my opinion) should have charged us like Elder Scrolls Online did in the first place. In PvP I have been able to permanently retain the very looks I have crafted for every of my characters, every moment I play, and every skin I take. Why should I not do the same in PvE?

Why 1,600 Gems?
Having purchased and maintained a Custom Arena in the past, I say 1,600 Gems/200 Gold/$20 USD per month is a fair price to have this sort of full customization.
Originally I intended that transmutation charges should add 1 day to the time period but then I realized ArenaNet would probably lose money if they do that. Unlike Custom Arena, transmutation is not sharable with other players. It is, really, all about how you view your characters. That makes it precious.
This is even more expensive than WoW’s monthly subscription. Yes, I mean it. The way you guys price these transmutation charges you obviously want to make some frequent money off it. You deserve to. More than Blizzard does. And since that company is charging people around the world $15 USD per month to play a game that requires players to grind for months or pay another $60 USD to start having fun given they already paid $15 USD every month, I say I would pay you $20 USD per month to have fun every minute I am in here.

Map completion, Black Lion Chest farming, PvP~they all offer transmutation charges. Why not go for them?
I don’t know if you remember the GW2 manifesto, but one of them is that GW2 does not force players to grind for hours to start having fun. Currently 1 TC takes about 9 minutes if you use a fresh character to complete The Grove. 10 TC would take 1.5 hour or in reality more than 2 hours because you need to consider the character creation/deletion, loading screens and boss fights at level 1. PvP takes even longer as not everywhere in the reward tracks offer TC. Those hours I spend repeating such chores to get TC for my leveling characters is the very definition of grinding. I could have spent those moments simply having fun.
I don’t want that. I dare say nobody wants that.
Instead, please allow prodigal player such as me to pay you this honest subscription fee to Unlimited Transmutation, and enjoy every minute I have in leveling up, doing dungeons and solving quests.

So, that’s that. I have left you guys with this tiny business idea, and it is up to you to decide if it is worthy enough to implement and help making lots of monthly money.

Thumbs up if you like this and leave as many comments as you like.
Hopefully we can get some official attention on this one.
You will be happy. I will be happier.
Until then, I will reside in that little shabby corner you call PvP and enjoy those always different matchups/permanent transmutes/free trait resets/0 repair costs we PvPers have had since day one.

Because I am willing to pay that much just to play the way I like.

Hello there,
So I am a formerly-PvP-exclusive player who likes to explore, quest, slay monsters (and of course PvP) in style. And I would like to explain this idea I’m confident both NCSoft-ANet and us players would like.

What does Unlimited Cosmetics do?
Simple. For 30 days, any purchaser of Unlimited Cosmetics get to customize their characters’ looks with infinite access to the Gem-based services, namely:

1. Total Makeover Kit (originally 350 Gems)
2. Self-Style Hair Kit (250 Gems)
3. Transmutation Charges (600 Gems per 25 charges)

Why Unlimited Cosmetics?
Coming from PvP, I think I have experienced the best and worst of Guild Wars 2. We PvPers have enjoyed 1.5 years of free trait resets/0 repair costs/full customization of looks long before any PvEer does. It felt great.
Then Living World came and PvPers were practically ignored by updates most of the times. A conclusion I drew was that we PvPers hardly have to pay for anything we play. Once upon a time, we were really able to enjoy the full game of PvP (however unbalanced it might be) without using any Gem Store. Yet, with a little contribution to the machine, one can enjoy it even further.

Let’s just say the one thing I enjoyed the most in PvP was something that involved these unlimited access and customization of how I want to play my game, at a real money cost: Custom Arena. And you know what, I really loved it. That was the best purchase I’ve ever made from ArenaNet.

When I return to PvE after the April patch I discovered that this side of game is severely lacking everywhere unless you use the Gem Store from time to time. What’s worse, this Gem Store is dominated by rented stuffs. 1-time use and limited days of access to just about everything cool.
For example, when I am leveling up (most of my characters are somewhere near level 2), I need frequent transmutes, since I am constantly swapping out old gear for new ones every 5 levels my character needs to buy this whole set of 10 items (6 armors and 4 weapons) and then transmute them all to keep the look s/he has.
It costs 10 transmutation charges and really, feels like I am “renting” the look of my character as it is going to go away and needs re-purchase 5 levels later.
The more I level up, the more money I have to spend.
The more time I invest, the more money I lose.
It feels worse than renting. At least you get more from the stuffs you rent by using them more often.
Allow me to say that this company and its Korean overlords definitely want to make huge bucks off transmutation and many other services on the Gem Store.
It’s okay. We want a good game. A good game should come from a good company. A good company should make lots of money. But I don’t think THIS company is especially good at it.
Like I said, the PvE side is plagued by 1-time use services, limited days of access and non-revertible products. This kind if designs tend to drive customers away because they are 1-night-stands. Was the eye color off in that Total Makeover Kit? Too bad it is used up. BUY ANOTHER ONE. Need to check your bank very quickly from inside the dungeon? kitten the robot just expired an hour ago. PAY FOR A NEW ONE!

In PvP this would not be the case. Or it used to not be. If I make a mistake wearing the PvP armor I do not like, I just go ahead, salvage it, and attempt to build a new one. Eventually it will be correct.

Despite its amazing gameplay and beautiful art style, the game’s economy world gives you heart attacks like this one and often feels much worse than a rented game/MMO with subs.

So I offer this product idea of 30-day Unlimited Cosmetics, pricing at 1,600 Gems. If I have to rent, so be it. Because I will take an honest rent over losing money for my time investment in this game.

By applying this product, ArenaNet and NCSoft can make all the more money, while players like me get to play the way we like, and craft our characters at anytime, anywhere, with any mood, without needing to worry about paying extra money.

Blude.6812:

You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.

You know, I actually play PvP to get these charges but then I realize maybe they set the rate we can get them so low that we will simply use our credit cards…

…In a world that competitors like Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft offer such services by consuming only a marginal amount of ingame gold…ArenaNet would be unwise to make these cosmetics so costly. Especially when the art design/cosmetics is one of the major reasons people still come back despite the game’s horrible state

And yes by title I do mean putting it together with the other 6 dominion maps.

We players can adapt to different secondary mechanics on different maps, so it shouldn’t be hard to adapt to Courtyard when we see it pop up, since, Courtyard is straight-forwardly a deathmatch arena map.
You don’t even need to change the scores nor the timer.
Like the other maps, each kill awards 5 scores so the team making 100 total kills or making more kills before the time expires wins. Since the timer is only 15 minutes I imagine this is acceptable for everyone

If one side is falling behind, the team members could just rally at respawn point and unleash a 5-player counterstrike on the opposing team from higher ground. In theory, they should successfully push the upsiders back to the arena itself, and vice versa. There is therefore no worry for snowball effect.

So~can we have it? This would be a BIG treat to the entire GW2 community, not just PvP, since the PvEers are now playing PvP as well. Thanks!

(p.s. Also if controversial maps like Skyhammer can stay in SoloQ I don’t see why Courtyard cannot be in it. Unless you want to bait players into buying Custom Arenas…)

Is it fair that PvP cultural armor did not count towards the achievements/title?

Absolutely NOT. Having bought 1 Sylvari T3, 1 Norn T2 and much more in my PvP playtime, I can wager that 60K Glory and 60 gold takes the same or in my opinion way more efforts to get in PvP than 120 gold in PvE. It only makes sense that our hard work receive the same recognition.

How should the change be implemented?

Easy. Make the achievement track the skin unlocks themselves instead of soul-binding the armors. Since at this point the PvP culturals won’t return to the game (while the wardrobe skins do remain) tracking the armors would be impossible since they are destroyed on logging in. Tracking the skin unlocks is therefore a more feasible and applicable solution.

…like many things they could have done for PvP, all they have to do is care and make these small changes.

Chimpy.4260:

Locuz.2651:

Helseth has free acces to transfers i guess, since he is an official shoutcaster.

As i see it Helseth was around rank 90 on EU – > switched to the US -> whent 7-2 -> got to the top 10 on the US.

Has nothing to do with leaderboards being broken.

Since when has he been an official shoutcaster? Personally, as a single mother with three children I am disgusted. This clearly shows anets favouritism to the select few ‘elite’ pvpers, this is totally unfair and I am going to personally boycott any further gem purchases.

Miss Chimpy, might I pry on how does this relate to your status as a single, diligent mother of 3 children and your stop supporting ANet financially at all?

ZOMG Oni.5429 is Lord Helseth HIMSELF!?!?!!?

I have him on friend list since like late 2013 and I only just knew!

Last map was Skyhammer and it was July 9, 2013 when it came out
It was all quite controversial but has been almost a year now~~

~‘bout time to have something other than Courtyard to at least put a clearer direction on where the game’s PvP is heading towards…

that was quite tense. I think I saw Josh trying hard to not freak near the very end

And why does Lord Helseth keep drill around in his chair, was he nervous?

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you make it so that when you enter sPvP, your toon changes races and appearance, you can pretty much guarantee that no PvE player will ever try out/play sPvP again.

also, Helseth plays an asura mesmer…I dont imagine the Lord himself would be agreeable if he is forced to be a human

Rising Dusk.2408:

The tomes should be available for gems anyway. 200 gems per Tome would be reasonable and they’d make a killing from it.

Precisely. WoW has begun to make a huge profit by officially allowing players to pay 60 bucks for a straight level 90. Doesn’t seem so wrong if ArenaNet starts doing the same thing, cos man, this company seriously needs money…

No sarcasm. Totally serious here

Liewec.2896:

and when you have 20-30 minute queue times you will all complain about the lack of players, because they’re all in hotjoin with me!

Or that you are just afraid of becoming a better player?

Right now, PvP is in a (relatively) better place.
1. Our rewards are reunited(used this word because " gear union" is something supposed-to-be-since-day 1) with the rest of the game.
2. 8v8 is totally eliminated. Whatever is left of the original player base, though small, is more unified and together (at least hotjoin people will seriously think about 5v5 now)
3. PvE players are now willing to come and join us (thank point #1), queue time in solo arena is reasonable now.
4. We have a visually pretty, botanical map to freely duel anyone!

What should happen next?

Point capturing is still the dominant type of maps. Should there be several new 2v2/3v3 maps to compensate? How long will that take?
Furthermore, do we really need whole new maps for new game maps?
Before returning to Guild Wars 2 after its April pack, this one has been playing Titanfall . It is is a 100% PvP-centered game and is able to do Domination (what we have now), Capture the Flag, Attrition (similar to our WvW) all on the same maps.

Could we design the new game modes so that they can be played on exactly the same maps we have now, so instead of denying the old maps, we could capitalize on them?

This one truly hopes the sPvP in GW2 can fly high. Right now, it is on a better direction than before, but more need to come. What do you think?

Rank 10. Don’t think this would be too much to ask….

Know how it feels when you’ve done all you could but lost to something even worse than 4v5~?

Ralkuth.1456:

Go to WvW. There’s a vendor that sells karma blue gear, perfect for your level 2’s. There’s a full blue set for very little karma and you can put skins over them just like any other armor and enjoy full barbie-ness in PvP. They are even great starter gear.

You’re welcome. Oh, and you can also not worry about all those things if you have an outfit you like.

May the Six watch over you, good sir/lady Ralkuth!

I do wonder where the barbie-ness would come from since my char is a sturdy Norn~but thank you all the same. With luck we’ll meet on the battlefield and behold mah beauty

Hi,

I am a returning player, who left GW2 before the gear unification and just came back today. Rank 40 as of now. Not the most loyal PvPer around, but as you imagine I have quite some skins to re-apply to all my characters~~

As I logged back in today, I noticed that there are occasions I cannot use the shoulder skins I have AT ALL due the fact that, as an almost PvP-exclusive player, some of my characters are level 2 and there simply is not a shoulder item on them

And currently, the lowest level to get a shoulder armor is at level 15…which will take some time to reach on all my characters except for Warriors and Guardians since they have shoulder items based on the plot choice during character creation

So I am posting here to express this frustration and hope that you devs will consider adding shoulder items for completing the starting quests and reaching level 2.

Although, come to think of it~~going back to PvE,doing some quests and reading some stories wouldn’t be so bad either…

glaphen.5230:

Ferik.3127:

JETWING.2759:

MM Necro is ridiculous.
They call Warrior OP, but we need be fast and be aware all time fo stand alive while MM Necro only stay stop in center of the node and do this:

obs: without count conditions…

Say that to Spirit Rangers.

In no way should MM Necromancers be considered overpowered when we have a pEtTiNg ZoO that has minions not only hurt opponents but also buff ALL allies around

Careful of that Call Lightning spell, it might do 1000 damage every 20 seconds compared to a Flesh Golem doing 700 per .8 or Shadow Fiend doing 700 per 1.5 while healing you each hit.

A Flesh Golem does not insta-revive its master everytime s/he’s downed

JETWING.2759:

MM Necro is ridiculous.
They call Warrior OP, but we need be fast and be aware all time fo stand alive while MM Necro only stay stop in center of the node and do this:

obs: without count conditions…

Say that to Spirit Rangers.

In no way should MM Necromancers be considered overpowered when we have a pEtTiNg ZoO that has minions not only hurt opponents but also buff ALL allies around

As a meditation healing guardian main myself, I approve of Zealot to enter PvP.

We have healing bunkers that basically heal themselves but not so much the allies.

Healing support are, suffice to say, underrepresented in the game. There exists quite some builds that make newbies like pros because they have too much space for error. While nerfing such builds would surely enrage users of them (hence not feasible a solution), adding Zealot into the game provides hard counters so there is pleasing both sides.

Qaelyn.7612:

Ferik.3127:

The hammer can be calibrated. If you hate Armageddon raining on you, make it rain on them.

And that’s what the entire match becomes about — fighting over the hammer. And what’s involved in fighting over the hammer? Mostly, knocking/fearing/yanking people to their deaths.

Everything else becomes secondary or completely unimportant.

That’s the entire complaint about this map, but you act like it’s not a big deal. So either you don’t even understand what people dislike, or you’re just being argumentative for the sake of it.

Ferik.3127:

No one complains about a Skyhammer on their side.

“No one”? How arrogant.

I guess I’m “no one” because I don’t like it on my side either. On the rare occasion where I actually have a decent fight going on a point, suddenly my opponent either leaves or gets hit for 10k damage from the sky.

That’s fun?

Some people don’t play only to rack up wins, believe it or not.

On a side note, I appreciate your willingness to debate and not calling us trolls, which a lot of protesters eventually resort to.

However, disagreed. The cannon is a complement to DPS and point control, and traditional PvP skills are still the major factor on Skyhammer. Shooting people with the cannon does not get you scores. Capturing points and holding them does.

In my limited history of SoloQ, teams that commit more than 2 people to grab the hammer usually become too split to react to any node capturing going down there, thereby having the hammer in firm control but losing the game.

If your team has 2 people on hammer (1 shooter, 1 protecting him/her), you are left with only 3 people to capture A, B, or C. The opponent team would have 5 people concentrate on capping since they could just give up hammer at this point.

Liam McColgan.7689:

- Lord is worth 150 points and only ever used as a do or die comeback mechanic

It is also used as a do or die all-in mechanic when both teams are in any 300:300 tug of war. Your argument of it being only a comeback method is flawed

Liam McColgan.7689:

-kylo treb can be destroyed, so no one complains

The hammer can be calibrated. If you hate Armageddon raining on you, make it rain on them. No one complains about a Skyhammer on their side.

Liam McColgan.7689:

- In Nifihel no one goes for monsters in high rated pvp unless you absolutely can, capping nodes is of a much MUCH greater priority

So~~~should we remove Svanir/Chieftain from the map because espahts?

Liam McColgan.7689:

- Capricorn is bad design and promotes tunnel vision zerging and the underwater part…i think this is why is IS NOT in solo queue OR team queue

Agreed. And I see neither tunnel vision zerging nor underwater combat in Skyhammer.

Liam McColgan.7689:

-Spirit, again IS NOT IN team queue for a reason

The developers promised they will update Spirit Watch in the future. They said the same about Skyhammer. As long as Spirit Watch remains in the SoloQ, Skyhammer rightfully can stay.

Liam McColgan.7689:

-Temple buff timers are very good for strategic play

Skyhammer jump pads are also good for strategic positioning. In fact, every map we discussed so far (except Capricorn) have strategic positioning in them. For example on the Temple you will want to face the hole when you are capturing Stillness so you don’t get knocked down into the hole.

Qaelyn.7612:

As just one more indicator, go look at the hotjoin servers. Most of the ones rotated to Skyhammer have fewer players than other maps. I’ve watched half the people leave a full hotjoin server when Skyhammer comes into the rotation.

If we are using hotjoin to support competitive topics, so be it. I have seen Server 001~003 going up to 20/20 when it is Skyhammer, and down to 9/20 when it is Kyhlo. Next!

Thoth Divine.8642:

Am I the only one who likes Conquest? I liked death match style in WoW arena but they were much smaller places. Idk, I played Arathi Basin for 3-4 years and now this and I’ve yet to become bored of the style… Esp. since in my opinion maps are much more fun/better than any WoW PvP map.

I hope there’s some way to chose which mode you want to play tbh.

I like conquest as well, Arathi was my favorite WoW PvP map (2nd is Eye of the Storm~which I suppose qualifies as Spirit Watch in WoW).

It is suffice to say that conquest is the best choice for Guild Wars 2 esports, since the strategy of positioning is simply more complex than TDM. Statistics prove that, however, other game modes do need to exist, even just for blowing off steam.

Wintel.4873:

Allie Murdock.8152:

As for skyhammer in solo arena, we’re kicking around some ideas (definitely not ignoring you guys, just fyi). As of right now, we have no plans to remove it. We’re not quite convinced yet that the majority of our pvp population want it gone, so we’re trying to get metrics on that before we make any changes.

I hope that was some kind of bad joke. I really do.

Otherwise I’m just speechless at this point.

No it can’t be for real…Allie, please tell me that was a joke right?

At this point that’s like saying “we’re not quite convinced yet that terrorists are bad”.

Terrorists are sometimes just minority good guys that got branded villains by the majority “good guys”.
For one, I myself support Skyhammer to stay in SoloQ, so yeah :P

Allie Murdock.8152:

Hey all,

In case you haven’t seen some of the posts I’ve already made, I’m back! I’ll be covering PvP/WvW/Balance teams for community coordination.

That’s pretty much the short version. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here!

- Allie

By the light of Dwayna, it’s so good to see you again, Allie! This corner of the forums need more great souls like you and Grouch.

Karizee.8076:

I don’t rent games.

All hail the Guild Wars marketing slogan 2014!

ROFLOL nicely done

10/10

Woke up today in Heart of Mists
And wearily pretending
Will get better skins today
Rank Points and Chests, the game anew
I got up joining Solo Queue

So please let this glory grind proceed
And please don’t keep new skins away from me
And I will cherish every set you give
If you could please just hand in them to me

Oh oh oh

Fell on the way to grinding through
Collect the days of bad matches, so it’s better all the time
I don’t mind using cheesy builds
Alone and safe still in the Mists

So please let this glory grind proceed
And please don’t keep new skins away from me
And I will cherish every set you give
If you could please just hand in them to me

Oh oh oh

Heard ‘bout them rifts in Heart of Mists
One day, we’ll wear our skins to walk along Edge of the Mists
To Tyria’s broader and nicer PvE
Away and suave outside the Mists

So please let this glory grind proceed
And please don’t keep new skins away from me
And I will cherish every set you give
If you could please just hand in them to me

Oh oh oh

this thread has nailed it perfectly!

Also, so much this

Sunshine.5014:

I would buy the followings in a heartbeat (been saving gems without anything interesting to buy):

• Announcer sound packs
• Funny emotes
• Item that makes all the enemy displayed as Humans
• Icons next to my name so I can display my pvp achievements to other pve players.

PvP can be profitable. Their product managers just couldn’t figure that out. It is the same mistake they made with the balance: they don’t ask players what the players want; they assume they know what the players want. When they started asking, it was late, and they wasted a year of development.

Since a developer rarely truly understand what the customers want, it’s the faster iteration process that can save them. They will also appear to be more responsive, which is a bonus point.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Since Scarlet is touching different aspects of the game (PvE and WvW), could that be a precursor for her being around long after Season 1 of the LS? I would hope so, since I’m pulling for her to become one of our NPC allies in the future. You know, to fight the real enemy – Ellen Kiel.

All my likes on this day! That’d be the best thing to ever grace Tyria!

1 Questions about Skins in WvW

Are there plans to allow us bring the armor/weapon skins we earn in PvP into WvW?

I am a player who almost plays PvP exclusively in Guild Wars and the recent Edge of the Mists really got me want to give WvW a big try.
However, when I realized I cannot bring any of my PvP skins into WvW~~~it just nullifies my reason to switch channels at all.

Marcos.3690:

I hope they remove skyhammer.

Trying to fix it instead, is a loss of time. We need pvp resources put into new game modes and not into the crap Skyhammer. The concept behind this map is bad, you cannot fix it.

Arenanet please, forget about this crap map. You made a mistake, it’s ok dont worry. But now move on.

That remains to be seen. The prototypes of those new game modes looked hopeful~but not hopeful enough to disperse all the nightmares some of us dread. Remember how everything was so hyped up back in Q3 2012 and then~~~

~~~then it just happened. The collapse of the community. The economy recession. The departure of more than 100 PvP guilds/teams

Only time will tell if the legend of Guild Wars PvP can be reborn.

so you are the one who asked if Foefire should be removed….

tell you what
I love Foefire
imo the best PvP map at the moment
Temple of the Silent Storm being 2nd best
I also love Skyhammer
for too many reasons
and the point is
the devs love it as well
they absolutely do
Skyhammer is not Raid on the Capricorn or some living story planned to stay for like 2 weeks
just look at the art visuals and music that all went into it
so much time and effort is invested that it is too late to go back
it is a map that is to encourage competitive play and active thinking
maybe more making more maps like Skyhammer or giving you templates and we can change the way you think
~~~~~~sigh

I guess that does stop you from hating it

I feel like an Imperial soldier telling Stormcloaks to calm down in Windhelm
or a priest of Dwanya trying to persuade Norns in Hoelbrak

kirito.4138:

I think all maps should be removed and replaced with only skyhammer.

ROFL

So much this XDDD

to say Skyhammer is unfair, trash, should be removed from competitive play blah blah blah is quite ignorant.

The problem of this map is not that it is underdeveloped, it’s that it is overdeveloped. Where other maps (even Spirit Watch) have only 1 secondary mechanic to pay attention to, Skyhammer has 3, no wonder it seems to take away from the skill play

Battle of Kyhlo: Trebuchet
Legacy of Foefire: Guild Lords
Forest of Niflhel: Svanir/Chieftain
Temple of the Silent Storm: Collectible Runes
Spirit Watch: Spirit Orb
Skyhammer: The cannon+breakable floors+jump pads

disabling the option of joining Red/Blue team might solve the problem. Hardly anyone clicks on “join random team” because with team stacking happening everywhere doing that would just throw yourself into the weaker team

Evan Lesh.3295:

We’ve shown our prototype maps already for new game modes. Our current maps really are designed specifically for conquest. Trying to make a new game mode work on existing maps is really tough because options are so limited. Not to say it’s impossible, but I believe creating a map for a specific game mode really makes it fun to play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH6pVBl7zUs

Understandable, Mr.Lesh, but I would like you to elaborate if you can:

(1) Have you considered the option of taking specific parts from current maps and implementing new game modes into them?
Clocktower in Kyhlo, for example, would be a fine 2v2 arena with unbreakable windows. 2v2 streamers out there are already using Graveyard in Foefire, the beach are in Niflhel as their arena.

(2) If these new maps are tied to new game modes, how do you plan to make them work with the flow of hotjoin and/or rated-matches, which are entirely conquest maps?

(3) We now have 6 maps for SoloQ(counting Spirit Watch & Skyhammer) and 4 maps for TeamQ, each of them has an distinct secondary mechanic to complement the conquest theme. Will the new game modes be able to meet the same quantity and diversity?

(updated the votes. Voted for new map myself)

Based on the state of the game so far, if you can choose between:

(1) A new map of dominion mode
(2)A new gamemode on existing maps

for the next PvP update, which will it be?

Simply vote by replying below. This thread will be updated daily to record your decision.

(1)-New Map
7 votes
(2)-New Mode
20 votes

(Updated Friday, 7 February 2014, 08:23:24 PST)
(please refrain from voting “New Game” or hyperbole. Be practical. All is vain not.)

A requirement of Rank 10 to join Team Arena/Solo Arena would have sufficed.

If the developers think they should add unlockables to “prevent newbies from being overwhelmed”, this should just go along cos I honestly think competitive play overwhelms new players way more than just a few sigils/runes