Guild Wars 2

I felt the need to make this thread because it’s a problem i’m experiencing a lot personally and find it plagues a lot of otherwise fair balanced matches.

We all know how it goes. You’re fighting 1 or 2 enemies, you manage to put them in a down stated with just a sliver of health. But then, your team mate who’s 10 ft away, out of the fight, dies. Your adversaries (or adversary) both spring back into action and finish you off.

Who thought this would be a fair mechanic in teamplay, idk. It feels like something that works on 1vs1 just fine but in the bigger scuffles it just smells when it happens. Down down down, you’re putting enemies down, but it’s just too easy for all your work to be for nothing (and your long kitten cooldowns).

My solution; why not set a parameter where in multi-foe battles, auto resurrect only occurs when the LAST enemy foe goes down? It could be set to a radius, say 300-600, or something like that.

This makes much more sense in competitive play. If a player goes down, team player or not, it shouldn’t turn the tide SO much when they finally die. Especially when it can take then up to 30 seconds to finally bleed out. That can be an entire 30 seconds of you fighting and downing your enemy, all to waste. I always try my best to rez my team mates but when i fail to, i feel it’s just too consequential. If I successfully down my foe but my team mate dies, so be it. Please allow me to have my well earned victory.

Thank you.

The thing that I respect with the current mechanic is, a player can be rewarded by roaming and causing critical damage to an enemy; then roam again accross the map.

It was obviously a good play because 1) He helped his partner out across the map, but left quickly. 2) He did enough damage to you to be able to rez with 20% health an still win.
If he was on TS he would have said “Ok cleave him now”, at the exact moment you downed him.

Most often than not, it’s simply the luck of the draw for that player to be able to rez at that exact moment your partner got stomped out. But it was also how he played the map that allowed this to happen.

i can understand the frustration but i feel like this is such a big part of team play. Knowing where your team mates are, there health, whos the target, should i rez should i not. These are all so important, which brings me to another thing i love about pvp here.

Everything is important from a player perspective. Knowing your build and knowing team mates builds is so important. You were on the wrong end of this but these fights are so important when you think about it now. When you get in a 3 vs 3 and 1 player from each team is down. There becomes a huge stress factor on how do we apporach this. The better team play/support wins these fights.

Don’t forget spvp is team mode. So if you fought 1×2 it means your team fought 4×3.
4×3 and they still loose 1 player! And rally of downed by you enemies is good reward for it))

sometimes it sucks when your team doesn’t know how to handle down states but it’s a big part of the tactical play in this game and it’s very rewarding to, say, walk into a teammate that is downed and about to get stomped just in time to turn it around somehow.

should you go for the kill? can you kill his aggressor before he bleeds out? should you go for the ress? can you (or your teammate) interrupt long enough an attempt? can you actually sustain the cleave if you try the rezz?

or on the other side: can they banner? can you interrupt it? can you interrupt the healers and go for the stomp or should you just cleave? is it safe to let the enemy bleed out while you focus on the rest of his team?

being able to do the right thing to manage downed players is key to gw2 pvp even if it sucks being on the wrong side of it from time to time.