Guild Wars 2

So, i’m having sPvP depression – no matter what i do it seems i’m getting worse with no end in sight. Before you say that i should play more – i am rank 37 with over 500h in PvP yet lately i’m consistently losing duels with like rank <10’s. I play all the proffesions so i know the enemy abilities yet it doesn’t seem to matter. This is becoming so frustrating that i just don’t know what to do.
How to actually improve?

I feel the same. I’m rank 33 and I feel as noobish as if it was my first day PVPing at times.

Sometimes you put so much effort into the game, just to get defeated and /laughed at by a rank 2 Thief who accidentally caught you at 50% health and off guard and 2-2-2-2s you.

The only advice I feel like giving is that you should probably focus on one class. Knowing all of them is good because you know how to counter everything, but focusing on one class will improve reaction times because some thought processes will become automatic, and same goes for muscle memory.

I hope it makes sense for you. :x

Don’t be fooled by people who say they are better/worse than someone on the basis of a dual or a few games of tpvp.

Guild wars 2 is more of a twitch based game than other mmos. As someone who has played alot of FPS twitch games I can tell you that ANYONE can lose to ANYONE in a dual.

So get used to dying and being owned. Its gonna happen alot. Sometimes they get lucky. Sometimes you mess up. Sometimes their build counters your build. It doesnt mean you suck.

Its just like in an fps game. I can kill the best player on the planet at any time. Sure he is way way better than me. But sometimes in a 1 on 1 fight I will get the jump on him and get the kill. Same in strategy games. Someone can easily beat a far better opponent just by things going his way or all his decisions happen to be perfect that time.

So dont take everything personall and have fun. We all die alot. To people better and worse than us. Thats life in this game and I, for one, love the fact that this is present in the game. No gear differential has bought alot of egos down imo.

I have found that duels don’t really mean much at all. If I go into a 1v1 with a more support/team oriented build with less damage utilities or traits, the fights become much harder. However if you switch up your traits to work against the opponent you face, suddenly things become like night and day.

One solution I found to make the game more enjoyable, is to find 1 buddy to follow around in tPvP queues or hotjoins and make a build which synergizes well with them and constantly top the charts (not like glory points matter) while having a blast at the same time.