Guild Wars 2

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I just spent the last two hours of my time teaching three different PvE players how to play their Thieves in PvP and the response that I received from them was greatly appreciative. It is players like these that Anet is hoping to get to move into PvP with updates like the one that we had today, and while I disagree with their methods, it is our responsibility as PvPers to ensure that new players are welcome and actually want to stick around.

If you see a new player asking for help in the Mists, help them! Take the 5, 10, or 15 minutes to answer their questions if you have the time, and if you don’t, then direct them to their class forum and tell them that they can get assistance there. It won’t take you more than 30 seconds and it could potentially add another player to our small population.

If you’re one of those people who goes “oh great, the Mists is full of PvE scrubs”, in map chat every five minutes then just take two seconds to think about what you’re saying. You yourself were a “scrub” once upon a time, you didn’t just play your first PvP match in some game or another and dominate the boards. No, you had to learn, and that’s how you got to the point you’re at today.

Thanks for reading.

TL;DR: No, just no. If you don’t realise that there’s already a tl;dr then I pity you.

“If you’re one of those people who goes “oh great, the Mists is full of PvE scrubs”, in map chat every five minutes”

these people are one of the reason why the sPvP population count is low.

I always kinda liked helping new people learn to play All the BS talk and flaming bad/new players doesn’t really help anyone after all. Plus talking breaks up the monotony of otherwise waiting around for things.

They should add a rank requirement for entering solo Q/team Q.

I love helping new players, and do it all the time… Except in the middle of a match >__<.

I actually had 3 below rank 5 on my team, lost 36-500 :P. my 2nd match that day was even worse :o

Had a few of those back when I was doing lots of tPvP, best ones were the ones that when they joined were kind enough to say they had little idea of what they were doing. At least from the start I knew the match was probably a loss, explained to them a few things of what I’d like to see them do, while I did things to keep the match fun once it seemed like a clear loss. At least now the queues are separate, that kitten yolo queue is a dangerous place.