Guild Wars 2

Hello, this post isn’t out of hate it’s because of the fact you shouldn’t swap mid match. Here are a few reasons why it shouldn’t be allowed though these are obvious it’s good for people who ignorant to know.

1. Creates temporary 4v5 and throws the match. This makes it easy for the other team to create a snowball and turn the match.
2. People are doing it for the achievement so of course they’re going to play something they don’t main which will make it a 4v5 for the rest of the match
3. Even if “they aren’t going for the achievement” they end up throwing the match.

I understand that there are times that swapping can help a match in all but it is extremely rare that anyone who swaps mid match ends up helping a match. There are quite a few more consequences other than dishonor that needs to be added to the swapping mid match.

1. Can be as simple as you lose a pip if you swap, with the league system currently in effect it will discourage most people from doing so.
2. Make swapping and winning by any chance not count towards the profession achievement. This will stop everyone who does swap just for this achievement from doing so.
3.Make a system so when someone who swaps during matches over and over that they get banned for 3 days. Again swapping makes a match 4v5 and is right next to the people who just leave during a match.

To conclude swapping mid-match should be extremely regulated and even a ban-able offense at the most because it is annoying and it does throw a match. Thank you and please add on to this if you would like to.

I don’t get this temporary 4v5 business… Generally you swap when you have died, and you are loaded back in before the timer expires.

I did a swap yesterday, we had 4 Necro so for lolz I got our team a 5th mid match because the enemy was complaining about all the “bandwagoners”, then we just focused the one guy who couldn’t stop complaining all game.

sephiroth.4217:

I don’t get this temporary 4v5 business… Generally you swap when you have died, and you are loaded back in before the timer expires.

I did a swap yesterday, we had 4 Necro so for lolz I got our team a 5th mid match because the enemy was complaining about all the “bandwagoners”, then we just focused the one guy who couldn’t stop complaining all game.

What is their not to understand it takes about 2-3 mins for someone to chose and load back into a match. “Generally” 4v5 throws the match no matter how much time you’re out. Though as i said i acknowledge that sometimes when you swap you can help a match but it is extremely rare.

dylanirwin.6249:

sephiroth.4217:

I don’t get this temporary 4v5 business… Generally you swap when you have died, and you are loaded back in before the timer expires.

I did a swap yesterday, we had 4 Necro so for lolz I got our team a 5th mid match because the enemy was complaining about all the “bandwagoners”, then we just focused the one guy who couldn’t stop complaining all game.

What is their not to understand it takes about 2-3 mins for someone to chose and load back into a match. “Generally” 4v5 throws the match no matter how much time you’re out. Though as i said i acknowledge that sometimes when you swap you can help a match but it is extremely rare.

What is there not to understand that swapping and loading character before the death timer expires makes no difference to the game? The death timer is not 2-3 minutes, and if you’re dead then it’s a 4v5 anyway until you respawn, you just respawn on a different class.

If you are going to swap class, it’s because you have a class in mind, you’re not gonna sit there deciding on class for 2-3 minutes. The timer is 1:30 and those people would get dishonored.

2-3 minutes… for you maybe… for me it takes 20-30 seconds.

I swap if match is basically lost and I might be able to turn it around with another profession.