Guild Wars 2

As a PvP’er, I don’t like relying on other people to determine my performance. Hotjoin is awesome not only because everyone is looking out for themselves, but also because it gives superior rewards. You can get much more glory and rank points in Hotjoin if you’re good.

I got an invite from a friend to play tPvP today – just the two of us. I accepted against my better judgement, and it turned out as expected. We got crushed because the other team was a premade and they were helping each other etc, whereas ours was a disorganized team.

So my question is, why would any solo player ever submit themselves to a game format where they run a high risk of fighting players who work as a team? Isn’t it far better to just play 5v5 hotjoin where you can hone your dueling skills without having your fun ruined by your opponent’s teammates coming to bail them out?

tPvP is for players who enjoy a team format and gain enjoyment from coordinating with each other. tPvp also has a focus on winning the game (whereas hotjoin emphasizes glory points) which allows for more strategic play – again, something that can be enjoyable. With all that said, you may personally not find that fun. And that’s OK!

If you like solo play, then good for you! Stick to hotjoins and custom arenas. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. You should play the game however you like and whatever provides the most fun to you.

Why should I stick to hotjoin. Theres no point to playing hotjoin, better to play WvW instead of zergjoin, at least I get rewards for playing WvW over zergjoin.

My reason to play tpvp because it was fun, it was extremely fun when they had skyhammer but since they got rid of it, I’m having withdrawls because none of these other maps are even close to as fun as skyhammer is.

Sure owning people is fun, but watching people run off the cliff makes me laugh harder.

Since skyhammer isn’t here anymore, its back to playing against premades because a lot of people aren’t playing pvp solo que anymore.

Never faced a single premade team since they brought skyhammer, I thought it they did something to matchmaking but they didn’t, it was just that skyhammer was that fun that drawed in a lot of people and they kept playing it.

You developers and anet employees can check my matches, you can clearly see not a single full premade team (over 50 games of skyhammer) and since skyhammer is gone the last 20 games I’ve had at 5 or more of them was against a full premade and one of them was a premade way outside my leaderboard rating. You see the proof there, those whiners don’t give any proof they just give speculation.

Img below is a game that was solo que (I was at 72%) and I’m facing a team that’s in 100-200 leaderboard rating. Never seen a game like this when skyhammer was the current tpvp map.

Sadly, the tPvP community seems intent on killing itself off. You are correct, new maps and variation on the meta dependent on maps would bring in new players, which would make the ranking system more accurate and make tPvP more fun for everyone. The few elite at the top and the people trying to emulate them can’t stand change though. If it isn’t their meta (AoE spam, whether that be direct damage or condition damage) it is all the sudden not balanced. lol

It’s a multiplayer gear, therefore, many of its formats rely on cooperation.

Ashanor.5319:

Sadly, the tPvP community seems intent on killing itself off. You are correct, new maps and variation on the meta dependent on maps would bring in new players, which would make the ranking system more accurate and make tPvP more fun for everyone. The few elite at the top and the people trying to emulate them can’t stand change though. If it isn’t their meta (AoE spam, whether that be direct damage or condition damage) it is all the sudden not balanced. lol

Nice try, Engineer, but Skyhammer still wasn’t fun ;p

I have zero problems with other maps, excluding Capricorn, because UW combat brings some cheesy stuff there as well, like undying Eles with their Mist Form submarine escapes.

uberkingkong.8041:

Why should I stick to hotjoin. Theres no point to playing hotjoin, better to play WvW instead of zergjoin, at least I get rewards for playing WvW over zergjoin.

My reason to play tpvp because it was fun, it was extremely fun when they had skyhammer but since they got rid of it, I’m having withdrawls because none of these other maps are even close to as fun as skyhammer is.

Sure owning people is fun, but watching people run off the cliff makes me laugh harder.

Since skyhammer isn’t here anymore, its back to playing against premades because a lot of people aren’t playing pvp solo que anymore.

Never faced a single premade team since they brought skyhammer, I thought it they did something to matchmaking but they didn’t, it was just that skyhammer was that fun that drawed in a lot of people and they kept playing it.

You developers and anet employees can check my matches, you can clearly see not a single full premade team (over 50 games of skyhammer) and since skyhammer is gone the last 20 games I’ve had at 5 or more of them was against a full premade and one of them was a premade way outside my leaderboard rating. You see the proof there, those whiners don’t give any proof they just give speculation.

Img below is a game that was solo que (I was at 72%) and I’m facing a team that’s in 100-200 leaderboard rating. Never seen a game like this when skyhammer was the current tpvp map.

Lol, I’m that ranger and I was rank 33 on the leaderboards at the time of this game.

Also, I apologize.