Guild Wars 2

I’m an sPvP neophyte and and I’d like to do sPvP with a team that includes a guildie who has never done it.

Other than participating in tournaments, is there a way to do sPvP with a buddies? If so, is there a way to do this in matches where your group’s abilities are on par with those of your opponents?

Up to now, I just press the “put me in a group” button, so I end up playing lowbies. This is plenty challenge for me — it’s a red letter day if I am tops in score on a winning team.

Only Tournament mode allows you a guaranteed spot on the same team as your buddy. Though some tricks do exist to playing together in casual sPvP. First, once one of you are in a server, the other one can right click their portrait and choose “join server” to hop immediately onto the same game. Easier than running down the server list. If you’re worried about the player skill, then the new player should hot-join a server first and the experienced player follow.

Second: once inside the server, if you bring up the scoreboard you’ll see a little square with a plus sign on either of the top corners. You can use this button to swap teams, assuming the team you’re swapping into has less members. You might end up doing this nearly every match or so, but I’ve found it works out about 80% of the time. The other 20%, well, you’ll just have to deal with trying to kill your buddy.

And since I figure you, and your guildie, might be able to use it, here’s a newbie guide to sPvP.

Hope that helps.