Guild Wars 2

This need to be removed.

Character swapping mid match should have never been brought back into a game where hard counters are prevalent. In both solo and team queue I’m seeing people re-roll mid match enable to hard counter the other team.

In original Guild Wars all builds and gear were locked once you were in match. This encouraged teams to run balanced team compositions enable to overcome most situations with intelligent play rather than build wars.

For the sake of the future of this game remove this feature

I’m almost positive they made it so you can only swap at the very beginning before the match starts…

Durzlla.6295:

I’m almost positive they made it so you can only swap at the very beginning before the match starts…

No, you can character swap at any time during the match.

Didnt know this was possible. Seems like a major design flaw.
Another reason for me to play wvw.

Rarnark.5623:

Durzlla.6295:

I’m almost positive they made it so you can only swap at the very beginning before the match starts…

No, you can character swap at any time during the match.

Are you sure? That sounds horribly stupid since you can’t even swap utilities mid match…. I’ll try this later I don’t think it works that way …

Durzlla.6295:

Are you sure? That sounds horribly stupid since you can’t even swap utilities mid match…. I’ll try this later I don’t think it works that way …

I agree, it is horribly stupid. Prepare to be both surprised and disappointed.

On the flip side, it horribly sucked to be disconnected mid or at the end of a winning match and reconnect only to lose rating/glory/chest for it.

Jumper.9482:

On the flip side, it horribly sucked to be disconnected mid or at the end of a winning match and reconnect only to lose rating/glory/chest for it.

You used to be able to re-connect on the same character if I remember correctly.

Yep you can swap anytime but you lose all the points.

I do sometime switching between Raw dmg char / Condi char depending on opponent team.

Durzlla.6295:

I’m almost positive they made it so you can only swap at the very beginning before the match starts…

Yeah, I thought it was like this a while ago (used to get a message saying “you can only rejoin on the character you queued on”) but it was reverted for some reason.

Kind of annoying because I can be in solo queue having fun and winning on some gimmicky burst build like killshot war, and then someone switches to Ranger to counter me. I would be an advocate of the idea of locking in classes prior to a match as well if that wouldn’t leave you with the chance of getting something dumb like 3 thieves on your team.

This is what happens when you complain about leavers. People were abusing this and swapping characters in the middle of the match and not having to worry about staying until the match completed.

This is why it was returned. Pick and choose your battles accordingly next time.

Chase.8415:

This is what happens when you complain about leavers. People were abusing this and swapping characters in the middle of the match and not having to worry about staying until the match completed.

If that’s the case Anet went about this the wrong way. Isn’t this why we have dishonorable? Instead we’re giving players who are having trouble beating the enemy team ability to counter them rather than outplay them.

I was in a solo queue against a double banner bunker team where one of the members of the enemy team swapped four times enable to counter us. We managed to get bottom buff and were holding 3 points for a while since they had double bunker. Naturally the enemy swapped to bomb/nade engi enable to put out massive on point pressure and neut the points once again.

I mean come on. This is getting ridiculous. At the VERY LEAST they could remove this feature from team queue. There are so many things wrong with this feature it blows my mind that it even exists.

Just so everyone knows

Initially you were locked into a character and even when you tried to swap/log out, you couldn’t enter the game with any other character except the one you started with.

Now since it seemed to cause some sort of bug within the system, the devs decided to pull the locking system until they can properly fix that. So now you can swap between characters in games. You don’t have a chance to change traits/utilities if you do though.

Originally locking down character switch and creating Solo que , was begged by the community in order to see more build deversity + new meta .

Now that every1 MUST HAVE META BUILDS SO THEY DONT DRAG THEIR TEAM8S DOWN – community mentality – , both are useless

Swapping characters mid-match in solo/team q. should not be allowed to occur. If you dc’d, you were able to join the match in progress with the character you first entered with.

Better solution is for devs to forceivly make soft counters. Then switching wouldn’t be all that bothersome or relevent.

I don’t know about you: in order to switch character/build, I need at least a minute. Making the match 4v5 for a minute is quite risky.

redslion.9675:

I don’t know about you: in order to switch character/build, I need at least a minute. Making the match 4v5 for a minute is quite risky.

In my experience it seems to be around 20 to 30 seconds, and if you character swap directly after dying the time investment is negligible.

Daishi.6027:

Better solution is for devs to forceivly make soft counters. Then switching wouldn’t be all that bothersome or relevent.

QFT

/15 chars

They need to fix this crap.

They fixed it a long while ago because everyone agreed that swapping mid-game to counter-comp is unfair, and now because they can’t fix certain bugs, they decided the best way is to allow this again?

I’ve faced teams recently that do this…it’s such a shame. No honor.