Guild Wars 2

I’m mainly a PvE/WvW player, but sometimes I like to mess around and have fun in spvp, especially now that there are actually pretty decent rewards. The trouble is that hotjoin is the most painful experience in this entire game. I’ll get caught up in a room where 1 team sticks together and chooses the same side match after match and basically spends the whole time kittening the other time in the kitten with a 500-48 end score. Now, I know this is hotjoin, but what I don’t understand is why most people seem to be so rude. I’ll vent my frustrations of how unbalanced or unfair I think the team split is, and usually no one will say anything, but sometimes people personally attack me and call me a horrible player.

Whats most frustrating are the people that whisper me something mean or awful, and then immediately block me after so I can’t even reply or verbally defend myself. In PvE trolls exist but they aren’t this maliscious. In WvW, my server is a kind and welcoming community, but in spvp its just some stressful environment where people only care about killing, insulting, and demoralizing the enemy. Is it not enough to just die from 4v1s? Why is insulting my player ability because a glass ele can’t survive 4 people kitten him? Its like I’m being bullied as though I were in the 5th grade..

I think it would help if hotjoin teams could be balanced in a better way than autobalance, but I have no idea how that would work. Anyway, after weeks or torment and frustration and disappointment, I’m finally going to quit spvp unless someone gives me a reason why this game mode isn’t a form of hell.

Hotjoin is not the PvP community. It might be PvEers or wvwers grinding as quickly as possible for their 2 tiers per day, but it is not the pvp community.

I also find the hotjoin community to be subpar, and unfortunately the PvP community in general has gotten less friendly over the last year or so. Used to be the best subcommunity in GW2; now…it’s average at best, and hotjoins are the worst subcommunity.

Have you tried solo/team arenas? Both can be joined as a solo player, and they’re much more friendly and even than hotjoins. I have never been able to think of hotjoin as anything more than a practice area, honestly.

its natural, in real life if you go to the most run down, chanti neighbourhood you know where the air is dirty, windows are smashed and litter and burnt-out cars fill the streets do you expect the people who live there to be happy?
this is the pvp of GW2, while WvW and PVE are the Newyork cities and the Londons, with their bountiful wealth and champaign with their meals.
in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

Is this your first online game?
im disappointed in you for being so soft.
Treat hotjoins as casual match making aka no one gives a kitten. It’s chill, people listen to music/play w 1 hand / watch a movie etc.

Liewec.2896:

in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

puddle water OP tho

Meanwhile they sit in their ivory towers gorging on omnomberries.. Viva La Revelution!

Liewec.2896:

in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche

Illustrious Fox.7196:

Liewec.2896:

in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche

Ahah nice one. I love cultured irony. Don’t expect many people to understand tho.

NevirSayDie.6235:

I also find the hotjoin community to be subpar, and unfortunately the PvP community in general has gotten less friendly over the last year or so. Used to be the best subcommunity in GW2; now…it’s average at best, and hotjoins are the worst subcommunity.

Have you tried solo/team arenas? Both can be joined as a solo player, and they’re much more friendly and even than hotjoins. I have never been able to think of hotjoin as anything more than a practice area, honestly.

SoloQQ not much better than hotjoin these days…

Fjandi.2516:

Illustrious Fox.7196:

Liewec.2896:

in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche

Ahah nice one. I love cultured irony. Don’t expect many people to understand tho.

As ‘let them eat cake’ isn’t an ironic comment, and Americans are renown for not understanding what irony is, the statement ‘I love cultured irony’ is in itself culturally specific irony.

Very clever sir :p

In other news, I am bored.

The normal PvP community inside guilds and team and solo queue is very nice I find. I have been blocked by a select few, but that’s up to them. I never block unless gold seller and I have had some of the best fun in this game in custom arenas with guild playing mini games like catch the thief/mesmer.

Ah so that’s why I get whispers from people like hooma.9642 crying about how I’m a noob for beating them.