Guild Wars 2

I know many ppl are clamoring for tournies and organized PVP. I for one solely play on random PUG hotjoins and find them much more fun.

I hope there are a large playerbase out there who are fans of the hotjoin system and that anet does not focus biasly towards the organized tournaments.

Keep hotjoin fair, don’t allow premades.

Agreed.

I prefer 5v5 tournament/premades BUT there are lots of times when my team isn’t on, or im in more of a chilled mood, can’t use my mic, or I might have real life DE’s that pop up randomly meaning I have to leave (can’t leave mid tourny but can mid-hotjoin).

I really hope they add a hotjoin 5v5 option which only allows balanced teams (you wait in queue instead of giving another team an extra player).

How can you find hot join fun, in it’s present state?

About 6 people stand on one capture point at the start of the game for a small glory. That leads to the other team capping more points. How fun.

How fustrating when a team just zergs with 5+ against one player on a capture point, then they all stay to capture that point. How fun.

I honestly did try to join a free tourney in a random roster, and have avoided that option ever since. I joined a group and NOBODY communicated, despite me talking in chat several times.

I am having a lot of fun in PvP but I really suck. The Hotjoin allows me to play and practice. I do agree with DalzK, balanced “queue’d” games would be nice.

I loathe the 8v8 hot join. I’m basically forced to play as bad as I can, strategically speaking, in order to get any decent amount of glory, and it’s not as if winning 2-3 matches in a row is gonna give me any chests with items that I can melt down for glue.
Winning a match gives ~20 bonus glory, I think.

So I pretty much just play tournaments these days, even if I have to solo queue (which is often the case, because my guild isn’t very active in the sPvP department), because if I practice in 8v8 it will pretty much make me a worse player in tPvP.

I really hope ANET gives us 5v5 hot join & make it so that the majority of the glory reward comes from actually winning, OR give an option to solo queue for tPvP in a separate system where you cannot join as a team (only solo queues, no 5man voip teams stomping anyone who solo queues).

I guess the thing is I listened to really loud music when I do PVP I actually enjoy the year randomness and chaos. I certainly wouldn’t be able to play organized PVP because I wouldn’t even be able to hear a voice chat because I am music playing.

And so it’s not so much as hot join being really o my god this is fun as much as it is my best option. That being said listening to really loud music or just music you enjoy and doing hot join PVP is still pretty fun. I just really want to see the balance issues worked out

It is not fun being repeatedly ganked by two thieves who are from the same server or are on each other’s contact lists. It’s absolutely disgusting to see this type of thing in hot join PVP

And you’re right being zerged is not fun but maybe if they increased player base defense and made larger health pools that would help the situation. Right now players are dying way to quickly especially to burst classes. I can dodge a few hard seekers from one thief but in the last game I played I had these two thieves griefing me the whole match. I know now what kind of person thinks this is fun but it’s probably some prepubescent or teenage boys who get a snicker out of making people miserable.

Thank god there is no full stealth thief like in world of war craft world of war craft. There are even people on the forums asking for full stealth ability I am just laughing thinking yeah because you want to go around thinking ganking people and not having to die at all

The player base for thieves is a really large right now in S PVP. Like half the match all I see are these going around spamming pistol whip, heart seeker,