Guild Wars 2

I go ranked. Got placed with 3 rangers. All 3 rangers cap home from start. Me and other guy go mid 2v4.

Now I want a real serious answer. Why should I not go afk¿

If you were watching the map, why did you engage mid vastly outnumbered?

You can’t help having bad teammates, but the least you can do is help yourself.

In addition to you making a terrible decision, did you watch what the rangers were doing? It’s pretty common for people that aren’t point-fighters like a scrapper to cover home for crossers and then cover mid from the cliff, essentially “going mid” at start.

Mid won’t be capped, you should wait for their support.

Salamander.2504:

If you were watching the map, why did you engage mid vastly outnumbered?

You can’t help having bad teammates, but the least you can do is help yourself.

So I should have capped home with them¿

Have to agree with the above. Someone else making a decision (be it bad or good) doesn’t give you the right to handicap your team. If it bothers you that much just leave the match. Key here is you had all the information but you still decided to charge in and face the outnumbered odds.

So tell me then, what do we have to do when this happens¿

Off the top of my head, you two could have gone far when you saw 3 go home, you could have waited for the two guys covering home, or you could have talked about the plan before the match.

You adapt. That’s why its a game. If you are not expecting curve balls then maybe try something else in the game that is more scripted.

Why didn’t you:

• Go far
• Decoyed some back to your team
• Lured one off to fight solo
• Regrouped
• Stalled
• Go for different objective

Why was going in 2v4 and losing the fight your only option here? You are trying to justify your action as a correct one and you can’t in the example you provided. You get teamed with a known hacker and don’t want to assist them with a win, different story. You have a real life issue, different story. People playing badly, it sucks, sorry, but still doesn’t justify going AFK.

TheGrimm.5624:

You adapt. That’s why its a game. If you are not expecting curve balls then maybe try something else in the game that is more scripted.

Why didn’t you:

• Go far
• Decoyed some back to your team
• Lured one off to fight solo
• Regrouped
• Stalled
• Go for different objective

Why was going in 2v4 and losing the fight your only option here? You are trying to justify your action as a correct one and you can’t in the example you provided. You get teamed with a known hacker and don’t want to assist them with a win, different story. You have a real life issue, different story. People playing badly, it sucks, sorry, but still doesn’t justify going AFK.

Well first, I’ve never said we lost 2v4 at mid cause we ran away. Then one dragonhunter noob came after me and like you said, I lured him away and practically 1-shot him. Then two rangers went far and got killed by the one revenant who was defending home (yes he 2v1 them). From there they kept doing stupid crap. Again my question is, Why should I bother doing something, if the match start with three people capping home¿ We all know that when something like that happens it will not be the only stupid thing they do. So why bother¿ I rather ask my wife to scratch my back a little instead of wasting my time on a 100% lose… You people seriously would not do the same thing¿

FOX.3582:

TheGrimm.5624:

You adapt. That’s why its a game. If you are not expecting curve balls then maybe try something else in the game that is more scripted.

Why didn’t you:

• Go far
• Decoyed some back to your team
• Lured one off to fight solo
• Regrouped
• Stalled
• Go for different objective

Why was going in 2v4 and losing the fight your only option here? You are trying to justify your action as a correct one and you can’t in the example you provided. You get teamed with a known hacker and don’t want to assist them with a win, different story. You have a real life issue, different story. People playing badly, it sucks, sorry, but still doesn’t justify going AFK.

Well first, I’ve never said we lost 2v4 at mid cause we ran away. Then one dragonhunter noob came after me and like you said, I lured him away and practically 1-shot him. Then two rangers went far and got killed by the one revenant who was defending home (yes he 2v1 them). From there they kept doing stupid crap. Again my question is, Why should I bother doing something, if the match start with three people capping home¿ We all know that when something like that happens it will not be the only stupid thing they do. So why bother¿ I rather ask my wife to scratch my back a little instead of wasting my time on a 100% lose… You people seriously would not do the same thing¿

Ask her to scratch your back during your game That’s true luv!

All seriousness, have you tried taking control of the situation? More often than not, i’m telling people where to roam at start and coordinating their rotations throughout the game. A bad start does not mean a bad finish.

People are so worked up at their starting performance that they don’t think to try controlling the situation (not that you didn’t, i’m speaking in general… most people prefer to autoafk and trash talk rather than helping their team).

If these Rangers got 2v1’s, I would have split them up and/or tell them to not far. You nearly 1 shot the Guard, I would have told the team to explicitly attack the DH – placing a focus target on him 100% of the time and coordinating Ranger’s pet CCs on that target.

There’s some things you need teamspeak for, but other things like start of game rotations and map pings, you do not. You’d be supprised how far a little comunication goes, even if it’s asking “who’s going home” at start.