Originally Posted by Alleji

Add a randomway button.

Seriously.

The #1 reason HA is dead is because r0's show up, spend 2 hours forming a shitty pug, lose, repeat a couple times, and ragequit forever. I'm sure everyone knows this.

The trouble of finding a group can be avoided entirely just by adding a "Random" button that you can press when you're alone in a party and get matched with other players. (Anet would get bonus points if they actually made sure to put two monks in every group) Then have the system assign a "RANDOM" tag to each group that entered this way and match randomways with other randomways so you would always fight another randomway in UW. After UW (or maybe after fetid) your RANDOM tag is removed and you're free to get rolled by real teams. However, if this works, there would obviously be more random teams than real teams in the mix (see RA vs TA) and you'd still have a high chance of facing a randomway on Fetid and on Burial.

That should give new players a chance to try the arena, actually get a bit of fame instead of getting rolled by organized teams right away, and a chance to meet some better players because I'm sure there will be plenty of bored r9's hitting the random button as well. From the point of people who play real teams, this would fill up HA and create more full runs.

Oh, and remove the need to "unlock" HA. Whose bright idea was it to make an arena restricted from new players when it desperately needs new players?



Of course, balancing the game and fixing stupid victory conditions in HoH would also help. I still want to shoot whoever invented the relic run in halls. Make 3-way matches to be always KotH and 1v1 matches always kill count (needs to be something with no advantage to holding team... elimination would be more fair, but it also needs to fit into the 10-minute time limit).