Guild Wars 2

Haven’t played pvp in 3 years. Last major event I saw was the NA WTS play-offs. Looking online and it seems that PvP is actually getting the support I’ve been looking for since I moved here from gw1, perhaps it’s too little too late, but seeing as how I have a few months to kill before I get my RL related results back, I’m interested in checking out the game if people think the balance is slightly better and the competitive support is there.

Interested in what people who pvp (competitively) regularly think.

no. pvp is a kitten show full toxic players and win traders. balance is horrible and the skill floor is so far down from what it used to be. also, there is no competitive support.

it’s a complete ‘clown fiesta’ as the forum would call it

It is still a fun game mode … if you dont take it seriously Players’ skill has never been that low, mainly due to the number of passives effects (passive stab, passive break-stun, passive invulnerability, etc.) and the balance of the skills (always more stability, more heal, more breakstun, more damage, more condis, more CC …). The build diversity (in competitive) has been destroyed by the change of the trait system and the expansion, which makes the build “you’d like to play” totally unefficient and therefore non-competitive.

On top of that, some players are extremely salty and it vastly deteriorates the game experience. Arenanet seems to totally ignore the report button, while the number of salty players keeps growing.

And I haven’t mentioned the lack of rewards yet. Being well rated in PvP seasons gives you access to … a title ! Which is ridiculous, given the fact you can display only one at a time…

It’s really not worth it.

PvP (and open world occasionally) is the only thing i do in GW2. It’s fun but burst dmg is a bit out of control: you can get in downed state really quick vs some skilled players (professions like Thief, Guardian, Mesmer) if you are not playing very carefully. It really is a huge difference between bad and good players. Also it’s not always high skill/risk high reward: some builds allow you to play at low skill high reward, which is somehow acceptable for me as long as there is still fun in PvP:)

Unranked in pvp is a fun place with choice of conq or sh. Less toxic players there too. Ranked seasons just seemed to have brought in all the reward hunting pve players and big time cheaters so its a toxic environment.

They could fix ranked by making it TDM and only solo que but that would be too hard for them since they have invested so much time in just conq conq conq and more conq.

You can’t say gw2 is competitive but it is fun to a point. Now you can say gw1 was and is still the best pvp out there by it’s design.

its fun to play but I wouldn’t try getting serious about it

Plus you have all the issues with pvp that’s developed over time

I hop on and pvp everyday, except I’m usually just screwing around having fun, too many exploits and the communities too toxic to be serious about it

It’s been a while since I stopped caring about my rating , now i’m basically doing it for the Reward Tracks (sPvP/League) but I won’t purposefully make my team lose (except one time because of this guy, don’t do what I did)
. See, there are people who really want to win that they start cheating/hacks/etc, thoses who had the competitive spirit but they lost it because of the reasons before and thoses who just stay in the background chilling and not even the worst insult will make them stop.