Guild Wars 2

why cant i just randomly join a match anymore?

You can. Open up the pvp page and click the server browser tab (third one down). All the practice option did was throw you into one of those servers.

I don’t know why the practice button was removed.

yea i want the button not actually choosing the servers myself. Its faster.

maybe there should have a join random official hotjoin server in the game browser tab.

move the practice button there perhaps?

the practice button was a noob trap. noobs would click it and go in to a match where rank 80s are kittening around and zerging the kitten out of everything and basically playing conquest wrong in every possible way, and then theyd either quit after getting dragon stomped or come here and complain they were being dragon stomped and then quit. oh, and, the people doing the dragon stomps tell them they suck and they should quit too. is that really the kind of experience you want a new player to have when they first set foot in pvp? no.

good kittening riddance.

Personally, I like ‘Practice’ (and they NEVER should have renamed it into that) because it’s hot-join and I just cannot be bothered with metas and queues.

insanemaniac.2456:

the practice button was a noob trap. noobs would click it and go in to a match where rank 80s are kittening around and zerging the kitten out of everything and basically playing conquest wrong in every possible way, and then theyd either quit after getting dragon stomped or come here and complain they were being dragon stomped and then quit. oh, and, the people doing the dragon stomps tell them they suck and they should quit too. is that really the kind of experience you want a new player to have when they first set foot in pvp? no.

^ This exactly.

If you want to practice → go to unranked!

bottom right of server list you have a button that says something like “join a match”, is the same than practice button

Teutos.8620:

insanemaniac.2456:

the practice button was a noob trap. noobs would click it and go in to a match where rank 80s are kittening around and zerging the kitten out of everything and basically playing conquest wrong in every possible way, and then theyd either quit after getting dragon stomped or come here and complain they were being dragon stomped and then quit. oh, and, the people doing the dragon stomps tell them they suck and they should quit too. is that really the kind of experience you want a new player to have when they first set foot in pvp? no.

^ This exactly.

If you want to practice -> go to unranked!

That’s a wrong line of reasoning. It never was about practice, it was about having a hotjoin option.

To elaborate on my previous post: personally, I do not have the time to turn PVP matches into a career. I want to do my dailies and get my PVP fix. I do NOT want to bother with voice chat, teaming up or getting into arguments whether I am using the exact meta people think I should be using. I do NOT want to end up in endless shouting matches on who was the biggest fail. I just want to play a few matches and go to work.

I will freely admit hotjoin has/had serious issues, but those were something the developers chose to add (leave matches without penalty? seriously? stupidest idea ever) and which I’d happily do without.

But I do very much want the no-queue option back. At this point, it is pretty much the only thing in GW2 that still holds (a little bit of) my interest.

Broom.2561:

Teutos.8620:

insanemaniac.2456:

the practice button was a noob trap. noobs would click it and go in to a match where rank 80s are kittening around and zerging the kitten out of everything and basically playing conquest wrong in every possible way, and then theyd either quit after getting dragon stomped or come here and complain they were being dragon stomped and then quit. oh, and, the people doing the dragon stomps tell them they suck and they should quit too. is that really the kind of experience you want a new player to have when they first set foot in pvp? no.

^ This exactly.

If you want to practice -> go to unranked!

That’s a wrong line of reasoning. It never was about practice, it was about having a hotjoin option.

To elaborate on my previous post: personally, I do not have the time to turn PVP matches into a career. I want to do my dailies and get my PVP fix. I do NOT want to bother with voice chat, teaming up or getting into arguments whether I am using the exact meta people think I should be using. I do NOT want to end up in endless shouting matches on who was the biggest fail. I just want to play a few matches and go to work.

I will freely admit hotjoin has/had serious issues, but those were something the developers chose to add (leave matches without penalty? seriously? stupidest idea ever) and which I’d happily do without.

But I do very much want the no-queue option back. At this point, it is pretty much the only thing in GW2 that still holds (a little bit of) my interest.

As said, hotjoin still exists ^^

Krysard.1364:

Broom.2561:

Teutos.8620:

insanemaniac.2456:

the practice button was a noob trap. noobs would click it and go in to a match where rank 80s are kittening around and zerging the kitten out of everything and basically playing conquest wrong in every possible way, and then theyd either quit after getting dragon stomped or come here and complain they were being dragon stomped and then quit. oh, and, the people doing the dragon stomps tell them they suck and they should quit too. is that really the kind of experience you want a new player to have when they first set foot in pvp? no.

^ This exactly.

If you want to practice -> go to unranked!

That’s a wrong line of reasoning. It never was about practice, it was about having a hotjoin option.

To elaborate on my previous post: personally, I do not have the time to turn PVP matches into a career. I want to do my dailies and get my PVP fix. I do NOT want to bother with voice chat, teaming up or getting into arguments whether I am using the exact meta people think I should be using. I do NOT want to end up in endless shouting matches on who was the biggest fail. I just want to play a few matches and go to work.

I will freely admit hotjoin has/had serious issues, but those were something the developers chose to add (leave matches without penalty? seriously? stupidest idea ever) and which I’d happily do without.

But I do very much want the no-queue option back. At this point, it is pretty much the only thing in GW2 that still holds (a little bit of) my interest.

As said, hotjoin still exists ^^

Not entirely. The maps often have different rules. And finding one with an actual match (NOT a duel, NOT roleplay, not whatever else odd thing people come up with) takes an annoying amount of time in itself.

Broom.2561:

Not entirely. The maps often have different rules. And finding one with an actual match (NOT a duel, NOT roleplay, not whatever else odd thing people come up with) takes an annoying amount of time in itself.

They’re easy to find. Join any of the high-player-number generic servers named “Server##”. They all have actual matches going on.

Reicta.2178:

You can. Open up the pvp page and click the server browser tab (third one down). All the practice option did was throw you into one of those servers.

I don’t know why the practice button was removed.

Because ANet listened to the vocal minority instead of the people who actually enjoy hotjoin.

Broom.2561:

Not entirely. The maps often have different rules. And finding one with an actual match (NOT a duel, NOT roleplay, not whatever else odd thing people come up with) takes an annoying amount of time in itself.

I have created my own filters for the server list. One for normal 5v5, one to find duelling server and so on…