Guild Wars 2

So I know hotjoin is a hot mess usually but its a quick way for me to do my pvp dailies and try random-as builds just for funsies while wvw is slow and I’m inebriated

Tonight I witnessed something very strange that I don’t normally see too often in hotjoin (maybe it’s just me). A guild group trying to farm unorganized groups in hotjoin for 7-8 games now and counting………………………………………………………………………

Umm, okay cough [cough][POOR][cough] where is the skill in that? Fair enough though, if you need the practice but still, there’s a part of me that isn’t okay with that. Perhaps I’m just too uppity about that sort of thing but if I were in a guild that did that I would feel kind of…well you know…bad. Kind of defeats the purpose of hotjoin.

Anyway, this is my infantile attempt to complain about boohoo-anet-why-you-do-this. The ‘do-this’ in this case is why is it that when I’m drunk and want to play hotjoin I get paired with almost the exact teams and vs the exact same people. Is the population of the pvp community that likes to punish themselves by playing hotjoin that small?

Furthermore, while not inebriated, is it possible for people waiting in ranked and unranked queues to drop in and out of hotjoin games while they’re waiting and give them something to do? After all, wasn’t that the point hotjoin. With a name like Hot…Join it sound like it to me.

Finally, I would like to point the shame stick at any guild groups who prey on the likes of me who is preying on the likes of other people in hotjoin. You’re a fish too big for this tank so kindly f….go away.

Oh that’s right this is the internet so let me set up my cross first before I finish so that I can be crucified.

Edit: Upon closer inspection I was rambling a bit, highly sarcastic, and…other things. I would like to generally voice my opinion that Anet needs to make the distinction between the game PVP modes quite clear.

OP, if you encountered this Guild doing that kind of thing, you can do two things:

A. Go to Unranked Queue, which is unlikely you do, because you said you like to do your dailies quickly. Or,

B. Simply, go out of that map and search another hot-join server. There is hundrends of them and I don’t believe that a guild can cover them all. You simply have to go to the server list and search for one match you can enter: you don’t have to rely in the “Practice Match” button.

Sorry for you to get a guild group like that, trolls gonna troll. But I don’t think ANet can do anything about it, it’s the nature of hot-join.

About doing something while in Queue for Unranked and Ranked… they eliminated the possibility of hot-joins because a good amount of the 4vs5 were caused by loading times, crashes between loads, et cetera. So I think it’s unlikely to come, because the even changed the name to Practice Arena, and not “Hot Join”

Poliator.7021:

OP, if you encountered this Guild doing that kind of thing, you can do two things:

A. Go to Unranked Queue, which is unlikely you do, because you said you like to do your dailies quickly. Or,

B. Simply, go out of that map and search another hot-join server. There is hundrends of them and I don’t believe that a guild can cover them all. You simply have to go to the server list and search for one match you can enter: you don’t have to rely in the “Practice Match” button.

Sorry for you to get a guild group like that, trolls gonna troll. But I don’t think ANet can do anything about it, it’s the nature of hot-join.

About doing something while in Queue for Unranked and Ranked… they eliminated the possibility of hot-joins because a good amount of the 4vs5 were caused by loading times, crashes between loads, et cetera. So I think it’s unlikely to come, because the even *changed the name to Practice Arena, and not “Hot Join” *

Better advice

Poliator.7021:

OP, if you encountered this Guild doing that kind of thing, you can do two things:

A. Go to Unranked Queue, which is unlikely you do, because you said you like to do your dailies quickly. Or,

B. Simply, go out of that map and search another hot-join server. There is hundrends of them and I don’t believe that a guild can cover them all. You simply have to go to the server list and search for one match you can enter: you don’t have to rely in the “Practice Match” button.

Sorry for you to get a guild group like that, trolls gonna troll. But I don’t think ANet can do anything about it, it’s the nature of hot-join.

About doing something while in Queue for Unranked and Ranked… they eliminated the possibility of hot-joins because a good amount of the 4vs5 were caused by loading times, crashes between loads, et cetera. So I think it’s unlikely to come, because the even *changed the name to Practice Arena, and not “Hot Join” *

Thanks for the advice. I was aware of the ability to change pvp servers but I wasn’t aware that I had to sift through the pvp server list just to actually be matched randomly with other people. I assumed that was part of their matchmaking process but I guess I was wrong.

Forgive me, I’m being sarcastic again (I really do appreciate your advice though, it’s very kind and well meaning)

My post really isn’t about complaining about guild groups in “practice matches” it’s about the matchup system. The fact that I encounter the same people across consecutive games is my point. A random practice pvp mode should employ some element of RNG not me sifting through a pvp server list like it were 1999. If they can successfully implement rng into many other aspect of the game why can’t they do the same for “practice matches”.

Either it’s chance that I see the same people and hotjoin matchups truly are random but just lacking in population or it is not random in which case it should be because that would make it more user friendly and less lists of “100s of pvp servers”. It’s 2015 yo and well past their honeymoon stage, I don’t want to have to click through “100s of pvp servers” some of which are empty, dueling servers or private arenas.

I guess my drunk self can’t have it all.

ps. The loading crash excuse is umm interesting. What is more important. Bore people to death while they wait in ranked/unranked queues or fix the issue with loading crashes.

Oh my, I didn’t read the Edit. My apologies there, totally my bad. xD

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