Guild Wars 2

I recently picked up Guild Wars 2 and am loving it. I played PvP in many MMO’s before (WoW, Rift, Warhammer) and am looking to get into PvP in this game. The question I have for all of you is: Where do I start? , and Where to look for guilds to join?
Like I said I’m still very new to Guild Wars and I feel like I should find a way to practice/improve before going guild hunting. Thanks in advance.

If you’re NA, transfer to the server Anvil Rock.

EU go to Desolation.

Lots of sPvP players around to meet, greet and play with.

What defective said, if your serious about pvp get onto those servers. And hurry free xfers end on the 28th of this month i think.

If you need any questions in general about PvP, feel free to message me about anything. Welcome to the community mate

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the part of this game which is decent (PVE) and maybe play some spvp or free tournaments just for fun, but if you think about dedicating your time to “serious” PVP- my advice is dont, pvp in this game is not even close to wow or war so much so that it still feels like its in beta stage of development.Imagine wow rogue who can vanish 15 times in a row and you cant see him while he does ambush+2 backstabs on you and if you build your spec aggressively all he needs is ambush to kill you, then if he fails to kill you he can run away faster than you can say wtf was that, or a mage who can turn you to sheep then pound you for 10 seconds as he pleases because you cant dispell and it dont break on dmg plus he has mirror images up at all times that do fair amount of dmg and can go to stealth just like rogue, or a warlock and shadow priest who can spam dots on you and those dots stack and everyone has dots yaay .PvP in this game may be interesting at first because of dodge system, the fact that there is no healers and that its a new game but after a very short time it will become nothing but annoying.And also, if you wanna compete at the “top lvl” for a chance to win some pointless rewards or to massage your ego you will need a team and 5 tickets for each match which can be bought in game shop for rl money or you can grind them in free tournaments and spvp by doing dailies even tho game officially has no grind policy.Good luck.

Best advice for new players starting PvP is—don’t do hotjoins more than once or twice just to get a feel for the maps and your skillset. Then jump right in to free tourneys. Hotjoins and tourneys both have pros and cons, but the cons of hotjoins are more harmful to your personal skill development. You’ll be a much better player after playing tourneys for a week than you would after playing hotjoins for several months.

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Best advice for new players starting PvP is—don’t do hotjoins more than once or twice just to get a feel for the maps and your skillset. Then jump right in to free tourneys. Hotjoins and tourneys both have pros and cons, but the cons of hotjoins are more harmful to your personal skill development. You’ll be a much better player after playing tourneys for a week than you would after playing hotjoins for several months.

probably agree with this, but if you solo queue frees you’ll probably end up quitting the game. Solo queue just doesn’t work in this game sadly; nearly 90% of the ppl playing frees are premades and will just out-rotate pugs because they are on VOIP. They rely need a dedicated solo queue system in gw2. You could try 5v5 hotjoin, but the people you’ll be facing are often rely unorganized and just zerg around, so you won’t learn much. February and March are going to be big months for spvp, as someone above said, the spvp is rely pretty much in beta still and we’re lacking alot of the systems we need as a community to promote the game on a competitive and casual level. Wish you the best though and welcome to gw2!