Guild Wars 2

I’ve only been playing pvp a little while and while waiting in the lobby for a match, I tend to practice on those profession npcs because I need the practice.

But I’m finding that often a match will come up as I’m practicing and all of a sudden there’s a match window obscuring my view as I’m getting clobbered. I quickly accept the match and then the map selection window pops up which obscures my view even more and cannot be moved. And even when you select a map it spins around for a while as other players are choosing maps, all the while you’re getting killed in the background because your mouse is unusable and you can’t see.

This is probably a newb frustration, or there would be other posts on this. What are other people doing? Do players practice only when not queued? Are these two activities mutually exclusive?

It would be fantastic if the match pop up appeared at the side of the screen, or was a little translucent, or if the practice session with the npc would pause/stop when the match screen pops up. I don’t suppose any of that is going to change, so the best strategy is probably to not practice while queued. Is that my only option?

I’ve posted on this a couple times. Everyone hates it but anet loves it because they hate us and like to frustrate us.