Guild Wars 2

Just started doing pvp in random arenas and have a few questions.

Is auto-balance broken? Last night I was in a match and we were winning 350 to 20 something and the auto-balance finally kicked in. Today same thing except on the losing team down by over 300 points and the auto-balance kicked in. Is that how it is supposed to work?

Is there a way to stop in game popups from taking over the screen at the end of the match? I know the match is over but I still like to avoid dying because the score screen pops up.

Is there a reason that people run in and try to rez you instead of fighting the enemy? Constantly (because I spend more time dead/dying than I should) teammates run in and start trying to rez me instead of engaging the enemy who is walking towards me to stomp. Noticed the same thing happening when I go for a stomp. Many enemies I’ve seen try to rez their down instead of attacking me.

1) Autobalance kicks in when there is a difference of 2 (or more) players between teams - so if it’s 5v3, there’ll be the autobalance countdown then one player will be moved to make it a 4v4. If you’re after winner bonus, it’s best to always volunteer, since that guarantees winner bonus (but getting autobalanced by being randomly selected doesn’t).
If a match is 4v5 for most of the game, and so the 5 are clearly dominating, autobalance still won’t do anything. Trying to move a player from the 5-player team would just make it unbalanced in the other direction. There’s no real solution, in a mode where players are allowed to enter and leave at will.

2) No, no there is not. For long enough, the ’death breakdown’ window always popped up when you died (but that got sorted sometime last winter I think, and now you can choose to open it manually instead of have this popup obscuring your screen). I keep clicking my reward track boxes to collect my loot, then the score popup appears over the top. It’s frustrating, aye! :P

3) A lot of people are really bad at judging res/stomp/dps/CC priority for downed allies and foes. You can only really work on improving yourself, and hope that those you get teamed up with are competent.

Thanks for answering.

For some reason I thought autobalance would be based on players pvp rankings as much as the team size.

Guess there’s nothing to be said about the popup then. If they wanted to fix it I’m sure they would have by now.

Ok well was just wondering if there was bonus points for an attempted res or something like that.

Kanebrake.6192:

Thanks for answering.

For some reason I thought autobalance would be based on players pvp rankings as much as the team size.

Yeah the ‘play now’ button’s hover text kind of implies that it decides based on skill, but it doesn’t (or, because everyone’s now rank 80, it does but that means nothing). Autobalance has always been completely random as far as I know – if several people volunteer, it’s the first person to click the button that gets swapped. If nobody volunteers, it’s names-from-a-hat.