Guild Wars 2

Hello
I play GW2 for less than 2 months, I got my first 80 lvl guardian that I play mainly as a dps.
I’ve had years of pvp content back in WoW so I get the concept. For about a week I pvp in the arenas (only practice) and one thing comes to my mind. Why is it so hard to fight anyone ? If I was a total scrub, I would not say a thing. I’ve trained on PvE to get the hang of this whole positioning and dodging, there is still lots to learn but the basics are grasped. When I first entered pvp lodges, it was a disaster (perhaps I am unlucky). Some matches were won, I tried my best and It ended quite nicely but when it came to close combat, I just got wrecked and dashed to the ground. Well gank party is normal but being destroyed like a plush toy in 1v1 is kinda weird for me. Due to some finishers I saw lots of high ranked players and I know that ranks merely show us that someone has experience, yet it is kind of harsh. By harsh I mean joining a game as a newbie and being smacked like a plush teddy bear, ripped apart and played with.
It would be a great deal to somehow even the odds for new players that have it harder to learn pvp or are new to this game because I (and some other players) feel greatly left out in many of pvp matches where MOSTLY skilled players stand toe to toe. Match making that is pairing players with equal ranks would be a nice change of things becuase only reading guides and how elitists say “L2P”-ing without a possibility to practice with equals, is kind of a bummer. If you think that I hurt my butt too much and that others are okay with that, let me know

TL:DR
My FPS sucks and I q_q because I suck at pvp

You are playing Practice, which is usually refered as Hotjoin. In hotjoin you are not matched with people of your equal skill, but with random people, and the only objective of this is to test new builds or learn a little bit about the maps. If you want to play with players of your same rank, you have to tap the Unranked button ^^

EDIT: Hopefully one day Anet will clarify to the new people one way or another that if they go to practice, its likely they are going to get rekt

Well now I feel more stupid than ever that I didn’t realised it earlier. Thank you for telling me this. By the way, practice match choice should have a caution info displaying for low ranked: “You enter practice match at your own risk. Due to high density of higher ranked players you might get rekt scrub. *Game mode advised for low ranked masochists”

No problem ^^

Thats what I was saying on my edit, usually new pople goes to practice and gets destroyed, which isnt the most beautiful approach to PvP :p

Go to practice servers if you gave up on life and hate yourself. Otherwise, unranked is your best bet.