A new blog post on the Guild Wars 2 site lays out the details for the upcoming release of a new PvP map. Called "Spirit Watch", the map features a "capture the orb" type of game play.

Here’s how it works: At the beginning of each match, the Orb of Ascension spawns at an altar, located in the center of the map. In order to pick up the Orb, a player will have to successfully complete a very short commune time. The player carrying the Orb will want to take it to any of the three capture points —represented as shrines to Wolf, Raven and Bear—located up in the surrounding cliffs.

While carrying the Orb, the player still has access to all of their skills, but has a 40% movement speed penalty and is unable to stealth or gain swiftness. If they teleport or become downed, they will drop the Orb.

Read the full description on the Guild Wars 2 site.

Grab an orb and run it over to a capture point....    that's some groundbreaking game design.

Guess there's only so much that developers can come up with for PvP mini-games.

Originally posted by SidQFT
Hutt-Ball anyone!?  lol

Had similar in GW1 - it is nothing new but gives more diversity of play.

Originally posted by SidQFT
Hutt-Ball anyone!?  lol

if there is one thing that I would love more games take from SWTOR, it's huttball.  It's probably the only thing from SWTOR I miss.

I'd love to see a similar game be added in games w/ pvp battlegrounds.

You could take this map and mod the play a  little - Catch the Chicken anyone? Remember that mod from Q2 - Q3 days? See vid below for a reminder - it would be a blast lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobYAm5Sk4I

Originally posted by fat_taddler

Grab an orb and run it over to a capture point....    that's some groundbreaking game design.

 

Guess there's only so much that developers can come up with for PvP mini-games.

well it was fun in GW1, but GW2 pvp is weak in every point i experienced. Lets see about this.

Originally posted by NC-John
better then nothing. People complaining about getting content?...strange  world we live in.

lol what's new if it's not some amazing evolutionary groudbreaking super duper fabulous killer never before seen idea, it's basically crap copied from another game.. seems the norm here.. anyway i'm glad we will get another mode of play as it does baffle me they only had a single mode for sPVP at launch since gw1 had a good variety of pvp modes

Originally posted by itgrowls
Personally I'm happy for the pvp people getting new stuff but as a PVEer, I have to ask, where are all the new DE meta's at? yeah...I doubt very much we'll see any new ones on Feb 26 and I really doubt they'll be doing something about loot so if they do add them you'll actually see your chest at the end of defeating the whatever it will be at the end of the new chains. That's what will impress me is if they actually fix the game, new content is fine but it won't help if you have at least 2 new neverbefore seen major bugs per week at least.

they are adding in the guild quests next patch so thats pretty big for the PVEers i know i'm excited about this.. also still trying to find a single other person complain about this so called loot issue in game if anything people are happy about loot now more than ever as you can get decent loot from lower zones now... also still trying to find someone in game that feels ascended gear has had any impact at all on the game as a whole other than giving people some extra things to do when they get bored.

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every thread about gw2 has tons of negatives in it.. bet your deleted post used either profanity, personal attacks, or blatant baiting... just a hunch

Originally posted by Aerowyn

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[mod edit] comone a new pvp map? how long do you need to make such one? 1 week? and it was probably finished a year ago- Gw1 had this map from start on, gw2 getting the old gw1 maps in parts over a decade.

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