The removal of Hero battles

1.)When is hero battles going to be removed?
2.)There will be no 1v1 format for the game, which is what I enjoy the most... Will Anet add any type of 1 v 1?

1) I don't know, someone else will have ot answer.

2) sadly for you they are only adding Sealed Seck, which will probably be TA with maps from HB and TA.

1) no one knows
2) I'd say no because it's just going to get really gimmicky

sometime this year.

guild wars is about team play. not 1v1 defensive talentless button mashing.
it will never be formally implemented, ever. if that's what you'd like i'd suggest games from 2000 like diablo 2.

I just hope they give us fair warning for when it will be removed...Id like to know when I have to grind out those last 20 wins or so.

1. We don't know, but given that the September Monthly is over, it is liable to happen any day now. Perhaps when the Halloween update goes live, perhaps in November, perhaps in December... I don't think it should be too long now though.

2. 1v1 is not the playstyle of GW. If you can't play anything but 1v1, I suggest you uninstall and save yourself the trouble.

Why would they remove HB? Sure the whole Red Resign thing was a disaster but that's no reason to remove HB. That's not fair to the players that are going for title and do tournaments.

Solve the problem by adding some ridiculous amount of dishonor for people leaving or resigning early.

Guess what,Life isnt fair.

That is one of the MANY reasons HB is being removed

RR exists right now because they're removing it so everyone just wants as many points from it as they can.
and as xenex said this is just one of many problems with the most broken format of pvp.

Oh that's nice. I'm getting wasted and I'd to wait till the game is over?

Fixing RR may be as simple as awarding dishonor for leaving, which would then be countered by teams bringing BiP and saccing themselves to death on red for blue to keep winning.

As for why they're removing it, the RR issue is a minor reason, but the major reason is that it was a flawed format from the get-go, and the 1v1 playstyle doesn't fit with the team game mentality of every other PvP format. Also, skills now have to be balanced for 1v1, 4v4, and 8v8 formats. It would be easiest to remove the least popular of those arena types to make the others easier to balance.

Then go play another game, this one isn't for you.

I don't know what you're even going on about. They have to balance for 4v4, and 8v8, nothing else. (but even then, they balance with GvG in mind, which is why TA blows) Not sure if you've ever played HB but it was never 1v1, it was 4v4. The fact that there is 1 human on each team doesn't mean it's just those 2 people. That's like saying they should also balance for 6v6 because some guilds brought 2 h/h to fill slots in their GvG team.

HB is being removed because AI in PvP is a bad idea when it's scripted as badly as it is in GW.

If you want to play 1v1 matches, try setting up a tournament in maybe your alliance

1. the next major content update scheduled to happen sometime this year, maybe sometime this month

2. doubtful unless there is 1v1 version of sealed O_o (doubtful)