Guild Wars 2

As the title states, this system is currently frustrating and annoying.

It seems as though every game I try to enter, one person decides to troll the entire room and click “ready” when there’s literally 5 seconds left in the game. Why do I have to wait this lengthy amount of time after all players have already entered the game?

As an example situation that commonly happens, 2 minutes passes by, and, eager to play, I will say in /map, can everyone ready up? One troll responds with “When this Justin Bieber song is over.” This happened yesterday, and he follows up with “u mad?”.

Yep, I’m mad. Why? Because 15 minutes of my life is being wasted every tournament I decide to partake in.

The proposed solution: Put a 1 minute timer on the game start, if it doesn’t fill up, remove players who didnt accept from the queue, and requeue the players who did accept in the front of the line. If you went afk waiting for a tournament roster to form which literally takes less than a minute, you’re ruining the experience for everyone else.

Before anyone makes comments to the nature of “queue with a team,” or “be more patient”.

1) I don’t always have friends online and would like to play the only reasonable pvp format this game has to offer (8v8 is ridiculous).

2) 15 minutes per tournament + the time it takes for other people’s games to end is way too much downtime. Every 4 tournaments I’m spending literally 1 hour of my life sitting around doing nothing. For someone who has 2 or 3 hours a day to play this is downright unreasonable.

Thoughts on this?

4 minutes to respec? you can change your skills even if you’re in the match, you know?

or discuss some tactics.

or tell each other how good their beer is.

alcopaul.2156:

4 minutes to respec? you can change your skills even if you’re in the match, you know?

or discuss some tactics.

or tell each other how good their beer is.

Why do 98% of all tournament players who set up their skills BEFORE they enter a game have to suffer for the 2% that forgot? One could even argue that you shouldn’t even be able to respec or switch skills after entering a game.

Because people might want to discuss tactics for the team composition they’re up against, because there might be a wait between matches and people go afk for a few minutes for drinkkitten etc. Essentially, it’s there to ensure that both teams have time to prepare and get ready for the match.

xBeefy.4073:

alcopaul.2156:

4 minutes to respec? you can change your skills even if you’re in the match, you know?

or discuss some tactics.

or tell each other how good their beer is.

Why do 98% of all tournament players who set up their skills BEFORE they enter a game have to suffer for the 2% that forgot? One could even argue that you shouldn’t even be able to respec or switch skills after entering a game.

you can respec depending on the the enemy’s team composition. you can predict what the other team does by pressing “B” and might want to respec depending on your decision.

it’s not about forgetting to spec their skills right.

and no, the skills and amulets or weapons should not be locked.

How about leaving the 4-min timer so that people who need to change gear before they enter, or wait for a crashed team-mate to restart can do that.

However, once the map is filled 5v5, the timer drops to 60 seconds, and when all select ready, it starts early.

This would at least prevent the full rooms from waiting up to 4 minutes when everyone is present, and still give a full team 1 minute to talk strategies.

xBeefy.4073:

Why do 98% of all tournament players who set up their skills BEFORE they enter a game have to suffer for the 2% that forgot? One could even argue that you shouldn’t even be able to respec or switch skills after entering a game.

Why on earth would you specc before you see what comp you are up against?

I agree. Once all players are in the map there should be a max time limit of 1 minute before the game starts. 4 minutes does not sound like a lot to some but if you do a lot of tournaments it really starts to add up. It’s a big waste of time

Its a little bit ridiculous. Some teams use it the way it was supposed to be used by respeccing for certain maps or certain team comps. Other people use it to troll the other team. Last khylo I was in, the other team told us to hold on while they determined their fantasy football picks. I wouldn’t be surprised if the timer got changed because too many people like to grief with it.

5 minutes is too long and useless. If you give only one or maybe two minutes, I can guarantee you people will find ways to do whatever they were doing previously in the same amount of time.

yes, 5 minutes is way too abusive. anyone who work will have problem with it. Only kids with all day avaliable to play would like this "feature"·

I think it’s fine the way it is since it lets one grab a coffee or grab a bite or so.

BUT I do agree on that ones everyone is inside the map it should be 60s. But before everyone is on the map keep it 5m. :S

Agree completely with the OP.

Am I the only one who thinks that as well as having a 1 minute timer, ALL respeccing should be prohibited during tournaments?

Encourage some skill.