Guild Wars 2

Another night, mission failed … due to the queue.

Despite what some people think here on the forum, the lord rush stronghold meta is dead. It rarely works any more, and matches become extremely prolonged. I’ve seen 15 minute matches that only managed to knock 1 door down … that’s not 1 door for each team, just one door.

Add to that the reduced queue time favor from yesterdays patch and you have 15 minute matches + 6 or more minute queues (NA prime time) plus a couple minutes waiting to start, and so on to win two games in 40 minutes.

The math doesn’t work out.

We started the mission right before the first match, which we won. Hoped for a short queue, didn’t get it. 10 minutes left when we go in. Only chance is to take a gamble and go all-out offense. It didn’t work, and we did lose the game eventually but it was close and we probably would have won it if we’d started the match out properly … but not in anywhere near enough time to complete the mission.

EDIT: Also the 18 channel mission is ridiculous and I will not participate in it. Not because it’s difficult, but because it promotes not trying to win the match.