Guild Wars 2

I know that most of you tryhard kids don’t like to acknowledge that hotjoin servers even exist, but the problem of unbalanced teams is a problem in hotjoins just like it is a problem in queued matches (though its not as important for obvious reasons, and this post isn’t about that).

If hotjoins are to be used as a training place for new players (or casuals), it is in everyone’s best interest to increase the incentive to keep the teams balanced. There are a few ways to do this, but I think that perhaps the best way would be to give extra gold to people who volunteer to balance the teams.

Personally, I almost always volunteer to balance the teams. It’s better for everyone: more competitive, more fun, and the result is a much better learning environment for new players. Not to mention, team switch wins are just more satisfying.

All we need is more incentive to volunteer switch.

easiest and only fix to hotjoin would be to remove the buttons to choose your side

before custom arena patch you could only join random and this is how it should be

Romek.4201:

easiest and only fix to hotjoin would be to remove the buttons to choose your side

before custom arena patch you could only join random and this is how it should be

I’d like it to go back to this, too – choosing sides can become a custom arena option.

As we are now, every time I look at hotjoin it’s incredibly stacked for one team.

Yeah, there’s always one guy who’s actually good then a bunch of hotjoin heroes follow him/her lol. random button pls

There is already a random button, and I don’t think it would benefit the community to take away the option to be able to select the team to play on the same team as friends and guildies.

IMO increasing incentives to switch is the way to go. If it were 1g (for example) for volunteering, everyone would do it and we wouldn’t have stacked teams nearly as often.