Guild Wars 2

Read this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xnnlz/how_does_spvp_rotation_work/cp1pyz1

If you understand it, and practice it in every single game, then you have my permission to whine.

It’s easily the worst aspect of gameplay for 95% of players I encounter, even most of the players I enjoy playing with can improve on it, and the ones that frustrate me most are normally because of their inability to understand the above concepts.

Double the strength of that opinion for thieves, who are nothing without good rotations.

I thought the gw2 reddit was a PvE haven.

ellesee.8297:

I thought the gw2 reddit was a PvE haven.

It is but sometimes there is some PvP hidden.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Basic-guide-on-how-to-reach-legendary/first#post6073285

Varezenem.2813:

ellesee.8297:

I thought the gw2 reddit was a PvE haven.

It is but sometimes there is some PvP hidden.

Yep, and I’d call this one a hidden gem.

SolarDragon.7063:

Read this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xnnlz/how_does_spvp_rotation_work/cp1pyz1

If you understand it, and practice it in every single game, then you have my permission to whine.

I understand and I always rotate when/if needed. Sadly there are many who do not know or understand, and think personal score is the be all and end all of PvP.

BrotherBelial.3094:

SolarDragon.7063:

Read this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xnnlz/how_does_spvp_rotation_work/cp1pyz1

If you understand it, and practice it in every single game, then you have my permission to whine.

I understand and I always rotate when/if needed. Sadly there are many who do not know or understand, and think personal score is the be all and end all of PvP.

Then sir, I value your opinion and consider you at least somewhat entitled to whine. Make good use of your power.

Look this is what A-net should kittening do. A-net should do what the OP is doing right now. provide knowledge.

Nice post. To bad that most players who read the forums already knows this.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Nice post. To bad that most players who read the forums already knows this.

I might disagree with this given the tone of many of the posts here.

I’d like to throw this in here since I learned it the hard way the other day.

Some stronghold matches can be won by time out. BUT, if both lords are still in combat during timeout, the timer resets to 3 minutes :/

eliroth.3869:

I’d like to throw this in here since I learned it the hard way the other day.

Some stronghold matches can be won by time out. BUT, if both lords are still in combat during timeout, the timer resets to 3 minutes :/

The guide is more for Conquest since that’s the (somewhat) more balanced mode of play that most people prefer and bother to give feedback on.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Nice post. To bad that most players who read the forums already knows this.

I’ve been in matches with people who post here, one even told me nice personal score when I was telling him to stop going far and help us hold mid. He even had the cheek to say he was carrying the team. At the end of it he only had ten points more than the rest of the team. It was a close match that we lost, but if he had helped at middle instead of going far and getting killed before he could cap it, we probably could have won.

This is a real beauty. But there really is a lot of poor play where rotation is concerned. We had one match the other night where we won our first mid fight, and were fairly well ahead. I ping close because I saw enemy heading there (as ele I stayed mid), then EVERY single person we had in mid, except me, went close. I said, “don’t all go close, please”… nothing. I was then 4 man-ganked mid, with them too slow to respond and we lost mid.

We then went on to lose the match because 2 guards were glued to each other and wherever one went, the other followed, no matter what. This kind of play really really annoys me.

@SolarDragon is also bang on about thieves. Another match we had a thief perpetually went far, nowhere else, far. He died over and over and over again and STILL went far and we tried to tell him to rotate and keep an eye close, help mid as and when opportunity arose, maybe steal boss and at the end he said “you all talked too much”.

#facepalm

Celine.6857:

This is a real beauty. But there really is a lot of poor play where rotation is concerned. We had one match the other night where we won our first mid fight, and were fairly well ahead. I ping close because I saw enemy heading there (as ele I stayed mid), then EVERY single person we had in mid, except me, went close. I said, “don’t all go close, please”… nothing. I was then 4 man-ganked mid, with them too slow to respond and we lost mid.

We then went on to lose the match because 2 guards were glued to each other and wherever one went, the other followed, no matter what. This kind of play really really annoys me.

@SolarDragon is also bang on about thieves. Another match we had a thief perpetually went far, nowhere else, far. He died over and over and over again and STILL went far and we tried to tell him to rotate and keep an eye close, help mid as and when opportunity arose, maybe steal boss and at the end he said “you all talked too much”.

#facepalm

I love when there are thieves like this on the other team, my warrior eats them everytime.

Hahaha awesome… I’d love to watch that. As to what was said above about people thinking personal score means something. I couldn’t agree more. Yesterday we had a match and I kept an ele (okay she kept me too) busy mid (no one had the point) the entire game and I mean the entire game, while my team capped close and far killing the rest of the enemies. Eventually I was killed because all the team came to ‘help’ their ele. This too was to my advantage because the said ele had started on our lord (doing fairly pathetically), so on spawn I said “cap, I can keep lord alive” and we ended up with all 3 points while ALL the enemies tried to kill our lord at 370 points. This was a huge mistake on their part because I just kept all the NPCs alive at our base while we raked in the win.

At the end I had just 35 points, because I didn’t do anything but this. But, in this particular match, had I (and 2 team mates by the end) not done this, we’d have most likely lost.

In most matches I am somewhere in the middle usually, and if a lot of roaming from mid to close fights happen, at the top, but personal score means nothing in PvP… well I guess unless you get zero I suppose lol. The only time it matters is when you’re doing GMs and you need to get a combined score of x, y or z (I do GMs in unranked just fyi)

I do wish people understood rotation better, but also not to spread too thin and leave points we managed to cap wide open because someone decided to be greedy and go for the 3-cap.