Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone! I like to do my share of SPvP (just rank 12 though), and there are some things that should be better…

For example: my playstyle is rather tanky and distractive. I play a mesmer, warrior or thief most of the time and I always go for the tanky builds. This way I don’t get a lot of kills, but I absorb tons of damage, and manage to get my team members some time to actually go and catch those points, while I distract half the other team.

Regretfully, you don’t seem to get ANY points for absorbing damage and distracting people. Therefore I would really like it if Anet implemented a system where you also get glory based on the damage you have absorbed and the damage you have in turn delivered. It’s lame that you only get glory for running from point to point, so that every player just runs with the team and does nothing but try to get himself as much glory as possible, without really delivering any substantial support.
I do manage to get my team a win a lot of the time, but I don’t get any glory or whatsoever for playing this way, although I have a huge share in the victories.

More suggestions? Please go ahead and call them out! Thank you!

That has been talked about. If i’m not wrong, the sPvP will get base defeding into account in the future. (i’m not sure if this is official but i think it is.)

I hope the next few PvP updates will get this “fixed”

Ok, thanks for the feedback, but it’s really lacking atm.

You should ideally have one build for glory farming, and one for competitive play. Most people use a thief or a necro in hotjoin to glory farm.

Shouldn’t really be bunkering in a hotjoin. (who cares about points in tPvP)

When 4 people can go after you and not get punished by losing another point, why bother? If you want to use your bunker build you could probably use it to node fight though. Plus, being able to stand on the point at all times during a fight means you can get the skirmisher/defender combo every kill.

Well sometimes I don’t stand on the point but I just attack a base or attack somewhere they didn’t expect and then I don’t get any points for it, but I still put in a huge effort to tank 3-4 people the same time.
It’s hard to find any people for tournament aswell and it takes to much time for me. When I play I want to be able to jump into a match for 20 minutes and then stop after it. And I still want to play in style.