Curse

esthetic · Jan 12, 2010, 03:00 AM // 03:00

I havnt played in a year, I used to spend some time in these arenas, now i see they are empty. What did ANet do to make it dead? didnt catch in any update, could we get some more attention to those arenas to make them fun? or are they gonna close them like TA?

GWfan#1 · Jan 12, 2010, 03:47 AM // 03:47

If ANet did anything "to make it dead," I think ANet just made other places/things more appealing than the low level arenas. Tbh, I havent even visited a low level arena in a few years and the fact that they are now empty for the most part only means that they will most likely stay that way.

The Drunkard · Jan 12, 2010, 04:06 AM // 04:06

How would we make them "more fun"? We already have titles and zbountys-nothing much you can do to them.

**Marty Silverblade** · Jan 12, 2010, 04:27 AM // 04:27

I don't think there is much point in restoring these arenas to what they used to be. They were fun, I loved them, but they really only serve to help new players (as in, completely new people, not just new characters) to get a feel to PvP. As such, the amount of people that would benefit from such an update would be tiny, and it's not like people don't get into PvP without them. Leaving the current mechanics but adding generous rewards wouldn't work, because then it would be like RA but with a level restriction, and a bunch of people with max AL armor and elites, thus defying the original purposed.

Analysis over, I can't see what can be done. I don't know the exact amount of people that play them, but other than getting a lot of new players in them there isn't much to be done.

Shayne Hawke · Jan 12, 2010, 04:50 AM // 04:50

There are two things that have to be done to "solve" the issue. The first would be to make it so that you can permanently play the arena without phasing out of it through experience or something. That can easily be solved by not letting the max level permitted in the arena to gain experience.

The second thing to do is to make PvP characters available for these arenas. This would mean soooooo much work. You'd need to scale down and/or limit attribute points, armor, weapon damage, etc., plus maybe put those restrictions of PvE players, even though those kinds of requirements might be hellish to just properly fulfill.

The reward of the whole thing would be minor. It's a neat idea to have PvP available at such an early stage and to be able to introduce people to it that way, but to try and change it at this stage of the game seems pretty pointless.

Zahr Dalsk · Jan 12, 2010, 04:57 AM // 04:57

People continued playing the game and at some point no longer had low level characters.

Enko · Jan 12, 2010, 04:59 AM // 04:59

it was useful back when it was only prophecies and after you finished the pve campaign, it was expected you would delve into pvp. the low level arenas served to ease people into pvp but nowadays doesn't really have a purpose beyond cartographer points.

darkknightkain · Jan 12, 2010, 05:27 AM // 05:27

The easiest way is probably to just have the opposite of "Journey to the North", so to limit the player stats & attributes down to similar to a level 10?

ie. say
- level 10 => say base health 280 HP
- 1 stat at attribute 9, 2 stats at attribute 6
- 60~80 armour (everyone plays low level arenas has dork armours anyways)

Who knows, with limiting attribute down to 6~9, may be it can attract those players who think "every" skills in the game were overpowered?

Missmelady · Jan 12, 2010, 07:45 AM // 07:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

I don't think there is much point in restoring these arenas to what they used to be. They were fun, I loved them, but they really only serve to help new players (as in, completely new people, not just new characters) to get a feel to PvP. As such, the amount of people that would benefit from such an update would be tiny, and it's not like people don't get into PvP without them. Leaving the current mechanics but adding generous rewards wouldn't work, because then it would be like RA but with a level restriction, and a bunch of people with max AL armor and elites, thus defying the original purposed.

Analysis over, I can't see what can be done. I don't know the exact amount of people that play them, but other than getting a lot of new players in them there isn't much to be done.

You can no longer use elites in low levels. It has been like this for a year or so now

Jarge · Jan 12, 2010, 02:11 PM // 14:11

Anet won't fix normal PvP, they won't even consider this. I would even wager they've actually completely forgotten this place even existed - I know I did.

IMMORTAlMITCH · Jan 12, 2010, 02:31 PM // 14:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Drunkard

How would we make them "more fun"? We already have titles and zbountys-nothing much you can do to them.

If anything titles and zbounties did the opposite of making the game more fun.

From a PvP PoV anyway.

Benderama · Jan 12, 2010, 07:40 PM // 19:40

a year/2 years ago they were dead if not lutching onto life by the strings since i had just started and i remember they were ghost towns :O never tried them but i thinl they'd be fun if Anet had little mini tournaments each week in a different stadium with the level limit ^^

Warvic · Jan 12, 2010, 08:28 PM // 20:28

U haven't played in a year? So u know alot of people use heroes instead of pugs. And with 2 extra games there are alot of outposts. So people are more spread out.

GWfan#1 · Jan 13, 2010, 04:28 AM // 04:28

Maybe you could host an event at one of the arenas or something lol, that might encourage some people.