Would larger open arenas and a focus on 2v2+ fix PvP?

Example of 3v3 in Blood Moor D2.

Lots of interesting team tactics and individual character responsibilities. Zonning, protection, support, damage dealing.

With the tiny arenas 2v2+ PoE seems like a arbitrary gamble fest where somehow EA still comes out on top.

With larger arenas I feel like there would be space for maneuvering as a team. Also if EA is strong on its own, by having a team presumably you'd be better off with some non-EA characters than full teams of EA. Also removing obstacles from the interior of the map would decrease the ability of EA to be effective everywhere.

What do you guys think?

I'm especially curious to hear from those who have extensive pvp experience in both D2 and PoE (I only played a lot of PvP in D2, barely an in PoE).

Well, currently in HLD the team that has more good EA chars would win. EA is that stupid strong still. If EA was banned then yeah 2v2 and 3v3 would be really fun. There has been some team pvp once in a while already, especially in LLD!

Even without EA though, bows in general are really strong in teams, be it LLD or HLD. 3 tier1 bows wouldnt really lose to a full tier1 melee/caster team for an example. All this changes though if the maps are objective based, such as capture the flag etc.

Anyhow, I'm sure many people would prefer playing 2v2s and 3v3s over the currently most popular 1v1 bo7s. It just requires some organizing that no one really does at the moment.

These are abit old~ I wasn't Ea specc'ed at the time, I could personally say its the most fun I ever had in PoE.

The matches were close and exciting, It's a pitty how 3vs3 is not more commonly played, or simply commonly accepted, Pvp is mostly frowned upon on, For Pvp is the Only form of somewhat "end game" we'll ever have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbmUJ-1-iLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KfGr2qTkuw

Ascendancy won't provide level 100's an viable end game.

I used to play a lot of HLD 3v3s between 1.0-1.3ish(like we could go on hours upon hours and just having fun(dublicous, shadowthefall, richmightywitch, abeartrap, dullahantheheadless, slaydemkidz, hegemonica, mullaxul, missuse and some more)) but right now it's just not as much activity nor as fun as it used to be. I'd wish it'd change though as 1v1s are quite repetetive as you often face the same opponents and it's not as much of tacticplay

There is no pvp fix as long as EA stay in that state. If you want to be competitive, you'll have to play EA as it's the superior option in every aspect (damage, mobility and tankiness). It's the best pvp build in the game hands down.

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Tommie_Sjukskriven wrote:

I used to play a lot of HLD 3v3s between 1.0-1.3ish(like we could go on hours upon hours and just having fun(dublicous, shadowthefall, richmightywitch, abeartrap, dullahantheheadless, slaydemkidz, hegemonica, mullaxul, missuse and some more)) but right now it's just not as much activity nor as fun as it used to be. I'd wish it'd change though as 1v1s are quite repetetive as you often face the same opponents and it's not as much of tacticplay

Setup your LLDer already!
We play some 3v3's every few days + there's no EA

The title says it all. It would fix pvp imo. Too hard to get 3v3s together. 1v1 is too static. Small arenas don't allow for as much strategy. 2v2s is the main thing I want for pvp.