Marxx.5021

There is already random mode - actually two. It is called ranked and unranked.

When everybody says sPvP is dead or Anet doesn't care it is not just some meme. It is for real. It is not worth putting so much effort in commenting though.

It is about bad game design imho. There was incentive not to go AFK even in one sited or loosing matchups. Anet removed that - end of story.

sPvP is not exactly a valid game mode. A few game designer still use it as test area for broken specs though.

There is no propper balancing for PvP. Why would it when the game mode died 7 years ago. The only real complain is introducing more and more overpowered BS making competitive games even worse.

There are no balance patches. Only breaking specs - fixing them - breaking them again. And this goes on for quite a while without progressing to something better.

PvP is dead because of Anet who has zero interest in that game mode.

What a joke preview. I wonder for what these game designers are getting paid for considering how bad they are at their job.

Necro swords are not a problem compared to other new weapon specs like warrior. It is as unbalanced as it can be.

Swords do not have enough damage though. Not sure if its worth taking at all in sPvP.

Sword/sword power reaper seems to work well in sPvP with Blood Bank. It is like when Reaper was new and tanky years ago.

There are ATs round the clock. You can play with premades inhouse at any time. There is unranked 24/7. Where most AFK happens is in gold. There you can meet people having no clue about anything. Thats because running with a naked char in circles already earns you a high silver - low gold rank. You don't have to know anything except how to queue. The least you can do is to help such player to reach the rank they deserve ;-).

Most often the worst players complain about AFK. PvP is not for you when you have a problem with AFK.

sPvP is no active developed game mode for years. Chances this will ever change are like zero.

They have answered it. Their preference are support and boon spam classes. It is not so much about balance obvously.