Guild Wars 2

Hi, i am a r27 noob, or at least that is what some people tell me when we lose (well just 2 guys till today).

The opinions i’m gonna show here are my opinions, i’m not pretending to have the actual truth about anything, so please discuss what you think about my thoughts, but do it with respect.

My pvp experience begins as an elementalist. I have played ele the 78% of my games. One of the aspects i like about elementalist is that is very powerful in the sense that is very versatile and it is hard, something that i like, but sometimes i just see that it is too hard to master to be a quality player in your team compared to other professions.

So i recently (about 1 or 2 months ago) i gave my guardian a chance with a bunker build. The experience couldn’t be more rewarding. One thing i did not have with my ele, the sense of rewarding. I’ve been joining some solo arenas with a success ratio of 55% (20/36) and team arenas with my guildmates (48%, 16/33). As you can see i’m not a heavy pvp player.

That’s my history. Now the reason i’m writing this xD

Today i was playing some solo arenas and it was very fun, 3 wins in a row, till i joined another solo arena and we lost. I normally hold the center base, and that’s what i was doing, but i failed because i had to complain against someone belonging to the irrespectful people or more commonly known as “trolls”. We were loosing like 125-50 points and this guy began to call me noob because i was killed in the center. He then decided to stand afk in our base because he bet i wasn’t even 20. Another teammate said he was alone with 2 people in our base, but the “irrespectful guy” said we were noobs and all was lost, so he was not going to move.

He was r60 and said “27 haha; kittening noob”. I’d love i could have kicked him before for not moving almost the entire game.

This is just the second time this happens to me with someone, meeting a super Pr0h guy that think all the guys in their team are noobs. I know i shouldn’t bother myself, but it is so irritating that i had to express myself somewhere.

Based in my background my questions and opinions are:

- Am i doom to just play hot join because i’m not +r40? Is this the opinion of the community or just this guy?
- Am i the only one that thinks that solo arenas are like hot join but with just 5 people, and therefore it has nonsense that some people expect super organized groups like team arenas? In my opinion, if you want that, join a team, but don’t expect that in solo arenas.
- Related to the first question, does it has sense to call noob someone with r27 just based on his rank when it is so hard to gather experience today unless you farm it in some arenas? It seems to some people that i cannot play solo arenas because i am a r27 noob, but i cannot gain much experience in hot join, and so on…
- What are your strategies to deal with these “irrespectful guys”? Report him for verbal abuse? Does Anet really look at these reports or just treat them as rage momentums? Am I somewhat naive?, maybe this is just the bread and butter in any competitive game, virtual or real.
- What kind of balance does Anet perform when making up teams? I mean it, right now i think there is just a random boolean decision that decides if you’re going to red or blue team.
- Does Anet treat PvP today like if it was some kind of minigame in GW2? I remember GW1 for having a famous PvP scene. Maybe there are not enough benefits from PvP, so they’re trying to monetize PvP in the future with the next new changes in glory and its deletion, before investing too much efforts in development.

Please discuss.

TL;DR: than you for reading

Play what is fun and makes you happy. Who cares what some one thinks of you on the other side of the screen. Block them or whatever. Take a 5 min smoke break and hope they get a que before you. I play Elementalist almost 90% of the time in tpvp and I could care less what others think. I have fun on it.

Take it with a grain of salt. While it only takes one guy to make a rude comment to jade the team focus, there are usually 9 ( or 8, or 7 ) people focusing on the actual game and winning. Can’t have the sweet without the sour, and sadly games with constant kitten talking will happen, but thankfully there are really close games, fun games, nail biters that make it worth it to me.

Gratz on 27, it does take some time, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to 60. In my experience, the people who bark orders, call people noobs, and scream are usually under rank 30. While those people have spent some time, gained some experience and are proficient with one or two classes…Most rank 60’s have champ titles on all professions. At times, I feel that people under rank 20 or 30 don’t fully comprehend that all with all their time and effort it takes to go from rank 20 to 30, it is still less than the amount of time it takes a rank 60 player to achieve one rank. ( and even far less for 69 to 70 )

Personally, and I’m sure there are others with me on this, but it would be nice to remove sub-rank 20 players from tournies. There are a lot of frustrating things in life and in this game, but one that makes me cringe is seeing a rank 1 in Solo Queue or tPvP. How long does it take to get to rank 2, under an hour? Granted a few of those people may be playing alternate accounts, but generally rank 1’s have so little knowledge on the game. I would rather see them try out 5v5 hot join, learn the maps, professions, counters, etc…

I’m rambling, tgif.

Tom Deluxe.9105:

- Am i doom to just play hot join because i’m not +r40? Is this the opinion of the community or just this guy?

buddy, you better get a thicker skin, else you are going to suffer a lot through life.

id shot him once, sthing like: “id rather be r27 noob then standing in the corner loser. r27 will grow with practice, gaining ranks in no time, while sore loser is for life.”

yu dont have to fire twice. stay assured, glass cannon temper like that will bleed for a week.

there is no strategy to deal with rude ppl except of ignoring them because we don’t even have an option to report afkers