The problem is that a lot of people dont have Bis and a lot of perks are terrible. After july patch things should balance out more
I LOVE arena because you can actually do other things with it. For example now I’m able to run around the world and gather/work on craft skills with arena queued, pop in for a 5 min match, and get back to gathering.
I’m finally able to pvp and work on other things simultaneously, which I couldn’t do when OPR was the only form of pvp.
OPR is such a long 20-40 minute time commitment, I just don’t want to deal with it anymore.
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What?
I play as a mage and enjoy it but does need solo Qs for sure
i enjoy it.
yes there are problems with solo queuing vs teams
best option use your voice chat.
try to have fun and find people you like playing with and can work together.
reinvite them into an actual stack and go have fun.
various queues and cross servers would be very nice to pad out dead servers and lighten the load any big servers.
but as it is i like it.
would love to see alternative layouts as well as OPR but for now this is fine.
One thing I forgot to mention that annoys the hell out of me about arenas is that the reward track for heavy is ass. Who wants 5x refreshing ward on their pvp set??
honestly i kind of want to try it for war but yeah its sort of annoying
these named sets would be a perfect place or replacement for faction gear where you can swap certain aspects out with those faction modifier things. throw them up in track 100+ or whatever.
I play only arenas.
It misses class finder, same like dungeons.
Also different lobbie for 3x friends and solo players.
Also where is 1v1 ? 5v5?
Not much better for dex when everything drops con
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I actually land heavies on light armor pretty regularly. The timing on a fully charged heavy is just enough to allow them to complete the dodge role/reposte or whatever they are doing defensively. I catch them coming out of the animations all the time. They don’t expect the timing, they are anticipating a light or minimum charged heavy.
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Amen brother.
Arenas are good in general. Issues with arena are:
- no cross server
- no ranking system
Since its not cross server we fix up solo q vs 3 premade. And its hard to play solo. From other hand if you have good 3 man premade its boring as hell since you will play most games vs players that are not fully gear up or just have lower skill.
This game mode is good but to make it great we need cross server and ranking system.
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no ranking system or incentive so why would people care about arena? They should add 1v1 mode so we dont have to stand outside WW to look for randoms to duel.
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Because it’s fun. Sure, we are also eagerly awaiting a ranking system but we are having fun anyway.
Playing on a serveur with +1k player and u queue all day long in 30sec.
Something that could be nice and very apreciate by evryone would be the detection of healer or not in 3v3.
For example, if there is 1 player reg in arena,with lifestaf equiped and +150 focus, then he can only do an arena game if on the other side there is also an player like that.
This way, if there is healer, there is one in each side and evryone is happy, and if there is no healer on both side, evryone is happy too.
Make health pot 1-2 min cd then arena would be fun
What would stop ppl from wearing different weapons when queue?
Well, when u are reg on arena you just cant swap weapon/armor/attribute anymore. Same when ur inside.
If you want to, leave Arena Queue or wait next arena.
They did it with “combat” mode, just add “Queue” mode the same thing.
Simple as that.
But u dont know ur opponents. Sometimes is change of results if u swap to different weapon.
I dont say its the perfect system, i say it would bring way balance that with the actual system.
no one enjoy playing vs premade team with heal when u have random dps in your team.
Most of the time ppl afk and w8 the end of arena.