Guild Wars 2

It was an interesting experience to say the least.

Every other person was either a regen warrior, condi necro or spirit ranger.
Out of all the people there were only two players actually contesting points, myself included.
The rest were in a cluster at the center of each map brawling and throwing profanities at eachother.

Oh, and its still an unplayable lagfest for oceanic players.

So there you go kids.

Hotjoin.
Not even once.

That also sounds like Solo Q.

I’m surprised you didn’t run into 30 Thieves. They may not be at the top of the totem poll right now, but there are still plenty of people who roll them alongside the Warr/Necro/Ranger players.

Harbinger.8637:

That also sounds like Solo Q.

quoted for truth

I’d wager roughly 70% of my SoloQ team-mates and enemies are made up of Rangers, Necros and Warriors.

These classes are by far the easiest and also most forgiving, so it’s not surprising.

This hot join experience is what you ll experience in soloq when it comes to the classes you listed and that mentality is even plaguing the lower half of leaderboards.
Infact my last game before i realised i need to stop bothering was when i got with a scrub warrior that said he is gonna go afk if i dont reroll from my ele to something else..Then we got side points and while me and a mesmer were fighting 3vs2 at far that warrior and the rest of his species managed to lost close in what mathematically should be an in their favor fight.Then he said its my fault for playing ele and went afk
This game..this matchmaking..this ranking system.It will sink you down and then suck all of the joy and life out of you

Just pretend its a change of scenery. Before it was all thieves/mesmer/elemenalist in hotjoin.

Harbinger.8637:

That also sounds like Solo Q.

Beat me to it..

90% of my games

Spirit ranger
Warrior
MM necro / condi spam

Real fun, lemme tell ya.

Too true!
Also people 50x my rank, ignoring the nodes/round just ganking players as they spawn/jump into the map. Afk’ers. People that quit so it’s 1v5. Players abusing each other.

I know you mentioned the oceanic lag, I got 12,000ms today for around 2.5min, without DC’ing… Best I ever got is 430ms. (Been beta testing another game, it’s sitting between 23-45ms…)

5v5 Hotjoin > SoloQ.
Think about it, you won’t care if people leave, you won’t care if you ragequit because your team is bad, actually why would you ragequit anyway since nothing is at stake (not that there’s something at stake in tpvp anyway), no waiting time be it to find the match or before the match begins.
tPVP for the 7-9 round i did was plagued by the exact same things, afkers, ragequitters, players not giving a kitten about objectives, etc… Why would you even play this mode unless you have a full team.

I thought players would have figured it out by now.