Guild Wars 2

First off I am not the best pvper, not the worst by far, but not the ub3r l33t legendary player. So I know how to play. I pvp on profs that I am good at and understand. Far from a noob but not Legendary.

So here is my problem, since the start of the pvp season I developed a problem with high ranking players (or at least formerly high ranking players). Players who want to take charge and take none of the blame. Players who want to lone wolf it and ignore the team chat or give up on a match that they don’t want.

Players who claim to be the best in the matches I have been in have only dragged us down. Refuse to play with others and lashing out at their team. I have lost so many matches due to behaviour like this. These people really suck the fun out of PvP and I have never won a match with a player like this on my team.

So a friendly reminder; this is a team game. Communicate with your team. Discuss what your build can do during the ready up time. Work as a team. Learn from them, adapt and most importantly have fun.

Well, teams are much more aware and better at keeping themselves and even the pugs that get matched with them alive. However, this season is in essence about every man for himself.

Thats what solo queue has become from my perspective. I had a player last night just stand next to me, long ranging the enemy. I thought surely he would try to get me up at some point as the enemy hadn’t noticed me.

He did not, and he died. If this was a singular instance I would say hey, no big deal. But it happened to me and my friend several times through out the night.

In fact it was rampant. Anet did as the poll wanted they pushed teams of 3, 4 , and 5 out of ranked. What people don’t realize is they used to be on the team with the team of 3 and 4 and used to reap the benefits of that just as much as they were hurt by it.

Switching to solo queue is fine Its actually been better for me personally, but, it will hurt teh fact that teams can only go to unranked for practice now. It will lower the teamwork skill level of the entire population.

Its a team game but if you play full solo there are a lot of players play it brainless lone wolf don’t care about anyone only themselves and 1v1’s and trying to farm necros. This really can hurt players gaming experience. some games feel like im playing in team with easy difficulty bots thats just move everywhere where they arent useful
The problem is a lot of players don’t have teamplay skill or very low teamplay skill. They just roll most OP classes with high damage avoidance and healing/regeneration +high burst and thats it they maybe can win 1v1 with op duelist class but it don’t improve their teamplay skill.

In a solo/duo system, you don’t have enough time to communicate things in pvp. The game is way too dynamic and leaves no time to use the chat unless you’re defending an uncontested node by yourself for a while. You have to rely on your teammate’s ability to judge right in most situations which is actually fine if people are matched with other players of equal skill. That said, the game would benefit a lot from an in-game voicechat similar to Overwatch, but that will probably never happen.

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So a friendly reminder; this is a team game. Communicate with your team. Discuss what your build can do during the ready up time. Work as a team. Learn from them, adapt and most importantly have fun.

This.

I’ll admit that at some times I have to take charge with team chat, but that’s only because watching silence as people melt is so kitten frustrating I’m almost forced to.
I’d love to just have my instructions and go, but at some point you just feel compelled to at least suggest something if what is happening isnt working.

You have to take a big-picture view of the situation. You see, the issue isn’t that people are incapable of teamwork, it’s just that they feel like it’s wasted effort.

When you have threads like: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/It-s-a-you-issue/page/2#post6438934

You begin to see the other side of the coin; people have to deal with so many dead-weights, that they no longer see the value in relying on others. The natural consequence to this is trying to lone-wolf it — to be the carry for the team. Even if such behavior ends up being detrimental, it at least makes said players feel more “in control.”

I agree that we should all strive for better teamwork, but it’s important to realize the reason for the opposition.