If PvP Was Team Deathmatch...

How would the meta change (if at all)

Conquest with 3 points make mobility across the map more relevant and forces players to split. If it was pure deathmatch probably the 5 players would stay together. Take a look at wvw gvgs.

More strategic matches would happen. Yeah they would group to start but that's how you die one shot. With concrap it's 1 or 2 rotators and 3 mid zergers. Nothing much different just have to worry about one stupid fast runner or 2.

They already have/had this with Courtyard and Hall of the Mists.

Given how one-sided Dragonball can be with a defined set of skills...just imagine one-sided how it would be with Core/HoT/PoF specs.

No supporting theself bunker buildsMore support allies support buildsNo builds that roam around for 1v1s/or Mass mobility for Point cappingMore builds geared towards teamfights

Aoe can also become less relevant.

The team that spams their area of effect skills first, wins. That's how courtyard was, a boring spam fest. RIP Courtyard never to be seen again (hopefully)

This game should give tdm another shot. Courtyard was too small CQB map. Tdm with bigger open map would have fun to try out

@maddoctor.2738 said:The team that spams their area of effect skills first, wins. That's how courtyard was, a boring spam fest. RIP Courtyard never to be seen again (hopefully)

If you have been bored then someone by the law of conservation of energy would have been having FUN!!! (500-0 slaughter without sneaky thieves stealing stupid points AHH the times...)

With Courtyard, there was something mentioned in the forums where Anet was looking at bringing it back but revamping its mechanics somehow.

I personally LOVED courtyard and it wasn't the most AOE wins, it was purely about strats and team comp. It was great...like a mini WvW.

I feel like Deathmatches would be very very fast in this game - too fast for a regular "last man standing" type scenario. People looking to do pvp dailies or level up would abuse it, the deathmatch mode would become constipated with people who don't care for strategy and just want to smash, and pvp overall would take a fall. Courtyard was a kittenshow in my opinion

Edit: Want to point out CY style deathmatch COULD work... but any mode without rezzes won't

I also really really really enjoyed courtyard and was disappointed with the strange switch to "hold the ball" or whatever they did to it rather than focus on the core feedback they received over the years. I think the amount of line of sight available was great, and the ability to bottleneck, but a bit more openness spread throughout the map would've helped as well.

In general though I genuinely feel deathmatch has potential, it would just need the full proper support and different rules/mechanics than its original form.

@LUST.7241 said:Given how one-sided Dragonball can be with a defined set of skills...just imagine one-sided how it would be with Core/HoT/PoF specs.Yeah, that. Snowball Arena is the same, but with Capture The Flag.