Comments on: Guild Wars Sealed Deck

By: taion

taion — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:01:31 +0000

For what it’s worth, the problems from the perspectives of high-level PvP players actually seem to be the opposite of what you’re suggesting. Normal GW sealed deck typically allowed players to select wildcard non-elites; the Codex Arena format does not, so build construction becomes relatively easy. Since there’s no intelligent matchmaking or automated tournaments (yet), actually playing gets a bit boring, and there isn’t even the amusement factor of taking something utterly degenerate into TA and just crushing people very quickly over and over.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00:56 +0000

Yeah, I basically agree. Random Arena is still going to be the Arena king. I do think Codex will be more popular than TA, and likely have a larger population sample than HB.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:49:02 +0000

Please add a “don’t” above, small but important difference. Basically, I fear that Codex still is small arena pvp mode that won’t become too popular.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Ah, that’s a genius way of doing it!

Sounds like a lot of fun. Might give GW another play to see.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:45:05 +0000

It is better than Team Arena or Hero Battles. HB were never too popular, but I think that Sealed Deck or “Codex” how they call it will fare much better.

Why?

I think the -arena-style combat- (I would like WORLD PVP, not separated into tiny minigames with same skills, different rules basically!) that is Guild Wars PvP simply does not keep too many people playing. I played Guild Wars for years, and it was for sure neither GvG nor TA, HB or Heroes Ascent. I personally like the Heroes Ascent Tournament idea the most of all these pvp modes. The more casual and mass battle oriented Jade Quarry / Fort Aspenwood and Alliance Battles especially are their most successful pvp formats, after all!

But I loved the mission type gameplay in Guild Wars PvE. Yep, it is odd but I loved this supposed pvp game for its PvE.

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:28:06 +0000

Had a bit of a play around with this and it is quite fun putting together the “least gimped” skill bar that you can :)

Maybe instead of changing the skills-change-every-day thing, they could make only some of the skills change each day. So for example, every day 5 of the 20 skills are removed and replaced with 5 new skills.

@Stabs: It doesn’t quite work like that. Every healer would have access to the same skills as every other healer. It’s just that the skills that all healers have access to are chosen at random each day. This basically makes it a race to find the best individual/team build and dominate with it, until everybody else catches on, and then you log out for the day and try again tomorrow ;)

So it’s a bit different from sealed deck in MtG, but still fun.

By: Yoh

Yoh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:02:13 +0000

Reminds me of my Magic: the Gathering days….. ah, good times.

It’s a good way of keeping things fresh.
Just kind of wish there was more long term reward, tournaments or something. So it’s not just winning for winning sake.

Still, nice addition. Makes me want to go back and play GW.

~Yoh

By: kaozz

kaozz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:20:26 +0000

This really sounds like a good thing for GW. Makes me almost wish I was still playing ;)

By: Stabs

Stabs — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:56:53 +0000

Rolls 10 healer alts. Now which one has the killer skillset today?

Seriously, hope it works. Sealed deck was my favourite mode for Magic: The Gathering even though I was a national constructed deck tournament winner.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:47:00 +0000

As a can of MTG’s Sealed and Draft formats, and of GW in general, I heartily applaud this design. Here’s hoping they keep on top of it.