Guild Wars 2

Just sayin’ – it happens. Things are not as dire as they seem. Also, not that hard to find a group if you’re willing to download the various voice chats and ask around. Too much QQ on this forum

Kavia.8249:

Just sayin’ – it happens. Things are not as dire as they seem. Also, not that hard to find a group if you’re willing to download the various voice chats and ask around. Too much QQ on this forum

Seconded, and it’s even easier to find a team if you actually google it, or go straight to the forums dedicated to this.

Kudos on winning tho!

Kudos to you OP^^, indeed there is far too much QQ, reached 2nd map with a team of 3 thieves beating even a r30 guild team lol

Haven’t played in a while because all my IRL friends went back to kittening WoW, forcing me to follow. Are que times still an issue? What is an average wait time in free tournaments?

Arheundel.6451:

Kudos to you OP^^, indeed there is far too much QQ, reached 2nd map with a team of 3 thieves beating even a r30 guild team lol

Lol the fact that these were the teams kinda indicates that there is in fact a problem. Not the “QQ” or anything… but c’mon now…

It’s not too difficult to win 3 with pugs. Been doing that since beta.

But I think the QQ you’ve been reading about is the QQ about match making, ranking, etc… I don’t think that’s even the problem, though it would be nice to have them.

No there are no issues with que times during prime time with free tourneys, paid too, my team on EU today got instant pops today.

The longest I’ve had to wait for a free tourney (solo queue) at prime or relatively high population time is around 5 minutes.

Just sayin’ – it happens.

Nice, you won the lottery of having a good PuG and/or bad premade opponents.

Things are not as dire as they seem.

Oh, ok. I feel much better now with your 1-win anecdote.

Also, not that hard to find a group if you’re willing to download the various voice chats and ask around. Too much QQ on this forum

Ah, here comes the real pitch. More hardcores complaining at casuals for wanting to PuG.

Good to know the community didn’t completely die off, in case I wanna jump on and do some solo ques again. Thanks guys =)

Well, the thing about voice chat is true though.
Even the PuGgiest of the PuGs will benefit from some voice chat. An integrated system would be perfect, but since we don’t have that blessing, might as well download the most used ones (Mumble, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak) and set up a room somewhere for people to join.
God knows how hard this game is with voice chat already, figure without. ._.

I’ve actually won a good number of tourneys while pugging. Not nearly as many as I’ve lost (or won with a group), but still, it does happen. At least once a session for me on average. I’m always a bit amused though at the chat afterwards with how surprised everyone is. Sometimes I’m equally surprised. We had a comeback win the other day with a pug against a decent premade. We literally won by 2 points as we were slugging it out on the decisive node and ultimately the decisive kill after falling behind by 150pts or so. They were gracious enough to say that we “deserved the win”. Those are the moments when I really love this game.

Everyone complains about pugs having “bad” players, but I usually find that pugs have much better players than your average guild. The only reason pugs are not steamrolling most guilds right now is that the chances are pretty high to get at least one very inexperienced player in a pug. In a guild group, at least no one is rank 1.

No disrespect meant: there are also some very skilled guilds playing, and you may meet them in free tourneys farming tickets.

I agree, it is a great feeling when you beat the system and make that premade wake up in Khylo, only to find they’ve already lost to a pug. Sure, the whole PvP system could be a lot better, but it’s still fun most of the time.

I almost won a match with a random group. Me another Ele (friend of mine) and a theif vs 5, some other pug. Score was 430ish to 500. Not bad considering we were down 2