You should PvP in GW2 if you are trying to relax from playing other competitive PvP games, and want to grab your friends and cheese thru PvP till season 5 comes.
You should PvP in GW2 because it’s pretty easy once you and your friends get yalls rotation down. At that point yall will stomp a large percentage of random teams ANet feeds to yall.
Lol what games are you playing that this doesn’t happen? The only ones that come to mind are sc2/quake, and those are 1v1.
And most comp games are simpler than gw2. It’s not that gw2 is outstanding per say, most comp games are little tykes level.
I know dota has solo mmr, but don’t try to hype that up as something that’s a fun, heartwarming experience to grind out.
Most of the actual legit eSports games. Since I play a lot of Smite lately I’ll use that as a example. Smite uses both solo, and mastery level ELOs. Smite also uses a item system so that players that have good game knowledge can go into not so friendly match and still win. From my experiences with my little 217 hours of played PvP time in Smite the matches are much much more closer and you can actually feel that every player can make or break the team. Also that if you are what we call a “Alpha” player you know that 9,3,3,3,2 without VoIP going up against that 5,5,5,5,5 team with VoIP you can actually still win during the end by Deicideing(Killing all of their gods and causing them a 50 sec respawn timer) the enemy team. In GW2 that 9,3,3,3,2 team without VoIP is normally fodder for that 5,5,5,5,5 team with VoIP because skill just don’t matter as much as communication in GW2.
In my experiences playing Smite I only have a blow out match like maybe 2 out of 10 matches as a solo queuer. In GW2 my experiences are I got blow out matches when I last played PvP like 9 out of 10 matches. No matter how good or kitten I was in my GW2 matches my team mostly lose by a huge mergin completely telling me that my personal skills don’t matter one bit. Because again competitive skill don’t matter more then the social skill in GW2 matches.
In smite you don’t need the “perfect” comp to win. You just need to be able to adapt to the enemy team and buy the proper, relics and items, and how more skill then the enemy team’s players to counter their perfect team comp in order to win.
In GW2 comp, communication and rotation trumps player skill 9 times out of ten times. I can be the best player in the match. However because GW2 is more social based then skill based it is highly unlikely for me to be able to hyper-carry my team to victory. Like I can in Dota. LoL, and Smite. Because once again all the enemy team has to do is kill my mostly clueless team mates and just rotate the other two points against me, since it’s a three point king of the hill type game mode.(Main reason no other real MOBA uses this layout for it’s competitive matches.)
And that’s just it. In GW2’s sPvP you can just casually farm others. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with GW2. I’m just saying it is currently not the game mode for me, when I want fun and competitive matches. Since GW2 is not built around players having fun and competitive matches. It’s built around players farming for dailies and other special items that ANet throws into the mix.
Also in Smite the matches are much longer and there is a surrender feature. However because the match ups are so much competitive. People even losing will not use that surrender option because in Smite unlike GW2 one player or play can turn certain defeat into a underdog surprised victory. So I only see players give up in Smite maybe 1 out of every 20 to 30 matches.
Again I think there are loads of reasons to play PvP in GW2, just currently none of them are reasons for me to play PvP in GW2. Big difference there.
I maybe a troll with class.
But at least I admit it!
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