Cool, I just had a run of several hotjoin games, trying out dhuum fire necro (didn’t like it, went back to terrormancer). It was an amazing experience. All players were fair, no one changed sides, ppl were friendly and exchanged tips on how to do stuff. The last game I was in was a super close match with 500 to 480 ot smth like that. It was awesome.
That clearly shows to me that even with this flawed hotjoin system it can still be fun, if not everyone is greedy for glory points… I hope I’ll have more of those kinda games.
Thx to the “always” invissible Mesmer, the S/D thief I never could hurt even remotely, the ranger who always pushed me back in the worst moments, the thief, who avenged his own death by slaughtering me like a pig and all the others. Sry, I forgot your names
Rank was never intended to be a representation of skill level. It is merely a representation of experience. Hotjoin is experience. The difference in difficulty and skillful play is represented by the decreased rank point reward between hotjoin and arenas.
yup.
lose in hotjoin = 200 rank points
win in hotjoin = 500 rank points
lose in team arena = 500 rank points
win in team arena = 1500 rank points
is this one of the reasons why more people are queuing solo in team arena?
Cool, I just had a run of several hotjoin games, trying out dhuum fire necro (didn’t like it, went back to terrormancer). It was an amazing experience. All players were fair, no one changed sides, ppl were friendly and exchanged tips on how to do stuff. The last game I was in was a super close match with 500 to 480 ot smth like that. It was awesome.
That clearly shows to me that even with this flawed hotjoin system it can still be fun, if not everyone is greedy for glory points… I hope I’ll have more of those kinda games.
Thx to the “always” invissible Mesmer, the S/D thief I never could hurt even remotely, the ranger who always pushed me back in the worst moments, the thief, who avenged his own death by slaughtering me like a pig and all the others. Sry, I forgot your names
yup, this is why i still play hotjoin.
once in a while, we get some good sportsmanship players together and everyone can have good old fun.
As Silentshoes says, if you take away the rewards for Hotjoin, all that will do is push the newbies/leechers/IPHIW! types into Solo Queue, making it that much worse. Better that Hotjoin remain so that players who don’t care about winning and just want to do Dailies/farm Glory/have fun have somewhere to go where they won’t bother the pro PvP players.
aye, this.
unfortunately, certain players still believe that removing hotjoin will improve their solo arena games.
A place where you can play in your own time and quit when you’ve had enough – no waiting, no dishonoured, no worry about win or loss (you can still go for it of course), no ranks, no leaderboard, no pressure, no monetary loss on food or consumables.
Get in, do whatever you like – try and help a weaker team to victory, spend the entire match duelling in a corner, try out or run into weird builds.
A place to bypass most conquest bullkitten. It always makes me laugh when players start getting worked up in chat about cap points and rotations in hotjoin – at the end of the day the only thing that matters is you had fun during the match – whether fighting some good players or whatever. Winning or losing conquest really isn’t that important in hotjoin, because the only penalty for losing is a few less rank points.
The only problem since 8v8 was removed is unbalanced teams – spectator mode and free team switching. This is the biggest problem with hotjoin, often turning a match into a boring one sided landslide. I hope this problem can be sorted soon, so that it can resume being the fun casual pvp mode it should be. Let “pro conquest players” keep to their arenas.
Cool, I just had a run of several hotjoin games, trying out dhuum fire necro (didn’t like it, went back to terrormancer). It was an amazing experience. All players were fair, no one changed sides, ppl were friendly and exchanged tips on how to do stuff. The last game I was in was a super close match with 500 to 480 ot smth like that. It was awesome.
That clearly shows to me that even with this flawed hotjoin system it can still be fun, if not everyone is greedy for glory points… I hope I’ll have more of those kinda games.
Thx to the “always” invissible Mesmer, the S/D thief I never could hurt even remotely, the ranger who always pushed me back in the worst moments, the thief, who avenged his own death by slaughtering me like a pig and all the others. Sry, I forgot your names
And yes, as shocking as it sounds, even in hotjoin you do occasionally get some good fun matches like this.
