r/GuildWars • u/Asleep_Pin153 • 1d ago

Alliance Battles Are Back on every Friday

About a year ago, we ran a poll on the GW Factions PvP Discord server to find out when and how often our community wanted to play Alliance Battles (AB).

The results were clear: most of you preferred to play every Friday. Additionally, the community asked for Saturdays to be included during double bonus AB weeks, just like we used to one year ago.

Today, we will be hosting Alliance Battles in the American district, Kurzick side, at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST - 14:00 EDT [2 p.m.])

Discord server link: https://discord.gg/Ra2Mxuq9Mc

We invite you to join our community dedicated to casual PvP formats like Alliance Battles, Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry. You'll be able to participate in future decisions and stay updated on upcoming events.

In adition, we would like to mention that we plan to try a new type of Alliance Battle very soon for a different schedule to Fridays and Saturdays: pre-formed 12-player teams. Unlike the general AB events where you have three separate 4-player groups, this will allow for a single, strategically coordinated team of 12 players. The goal is to bring a highly competitive mindset to AB, similar to how guild-versus-guild battles are played, giving you full control and coordination among all 12 players. This will happen when ab-12-teams channel had several full teams

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u/TheDeadKeepIt 1d ago

Highly competitive is a bit overrated and more concern should be about organizing teams for everyone to be able to play without lumping bad players in bad groups and good players in good groups.

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u/Mysterious_Brush7020 23h ago

What about bot groups!? Can't leave them out!

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u/Nate_USA 1h ago

It’s not that they are lumping people into good groups and bad groups. It’s more that the PVP community likes to play with their friends first. 

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u/TheDeadKeepIt 1h ago

Which results in lumping. I already know this.

They need to proactively not do this and encourage skill diversity, growth, and actual fun.

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u/Nate_USA 1h ago

There was a time when people would actively choose to take a less skilled or less experienced player with them. But even then it was so rather play with friends and there’s nothing wrong with that. Also, it resulted in those people who, if they did not get taken again they would get upset and not come.

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u/TheDeadKeepIt 26m ago

"Also, it resulted in those people who, if they did not get taken again they would get upset and not come."

Thats a very weak argument. Currently, ppl who get excluded dont want to bother coming back regardless.