Guild Wars 2

I play only hotjoins and free tournies, and I dont care as much for doing objectives than having a fun fight with other players. When I spend most of my time in a match running from base to base or defending a empyty node, that is not fun. That’s why I play hotjoin/free, because it’s more about fighting whereas high end tournies are more about playing objectives.

My point is, with all the focus on balancing paid high end tournies, don’t forget there are players who just want to go in for a nice solo PUG random battle and that’s where hotjoin/freetourny comes in.

But hotjoin is too zergy and free tournies aren’t PUG only. If free tournies were PUG only, that would be great for me.

In addition, balance around FUN, fair fights. Fighting certain burst bunker or stealth builds right now feel neither fun nor fair.

Arenas would be amazing. Especially 1v1. MMOs need to start capitalizing on the massive amount of players who crave for good 1v1.

And of course it isn’t fun when those hotjoin fights consist of burst and bunker buiilds that are way too extreme.

Thiings that make hotjoin not fun:

Getting killed out of nowhere in 5 seconds…
Having people constantly restealthing or long (shadow refuge) stealthing

The worst part of hot join is how the glory gains encourage 7 people to sit at the same capping point intead of fighting / going for other points.

Yes, I want to farm glory too, but why can’t I try to win while doing that. It feels horrible and losing because of that is what makes me log out.

The thing I hate most about solo queuing free tournaments are the people who join (like the op) who play it just like a spvp match and go about losing the game because they run around trying to kill people and never supporting the nodes.

there was an interesting idea in this board area… hmm seaching … cannot find :(
idea was to split tpvp in 2 pools. If you join via complete group you will come in pool A. And if you join randomly you will come in pool B.

Accordingly teams of pool A play with teams of pool A and teams of pool only with teams of pool B.

isn’t that an easy solution?

Hotjoin 5v5 is what we need as casuals, i reckon. 8v8 way too zergy and folks simply glory farming