Guild Wars 2

With a July Patch, Courtyard will be available in the standard hot join rotation?

With the new 5vs5 format, many many matches are outnumbered or close to be empty, so at least we can have a map designed for small fights.

hotjoin does’nt suit 5v5, since 5v5 puts greater burden on each person in the team and almost always the eams will be uneven.

that said, an uneven 2v3 deathmatch would be even worse than a 2v3 conquest,
since atleast in conquest you can try to run between points and cap, who knows, maybe the 2 people are quicker travelling than the 3, but deathmatch the 3 can just roll around killing.

they NEED to bring 8v8 hotjoin back, removing it has destroyed hotjoin.

Yeah but 8vs8 was a pure zerg festival and u had always outnumbered problem + zerg problem.

Real problems are leave button, autobalance and switch teams in hot join, these options should be only available in gem store custom arenas.

In hot join servers people need to stay from the beginning to the end like in Xqueue, no chance to switch teams, no chance to choose teams .

And it’s important because hot join is the first step for new players, and if they see hot join sux, they think spvp sux in general.

philheat.3956:

Yeah but 8vs8 was a pure zerg festival and u had always outnumbered problem + zerg problem.

i dont wanna sidetrack this from the OPs question about courtyard being in hotjoin,

but i found that one team having a player or 2 less wasn’t an issue in 8v8 since if you have 6 people there will atleast be afew who could carry the others, but when you’re missing 2 people in 5v5 you’re practically missing half the team and the game becomes much more onesided than a 5v6 or 6v8.

on the flip side (and this relates to the OPs point) if they did bring back 8v8 and added courtyard to the hotjoin rotation that would be pretty bad, the map is too small, even 5v5s on that map are just a spamfest of AoEs, it’s best suited for a max of 3v3