Guild Wars 2

This is not a how big is your kitten compared to my kitten thread…I am just wondering how much people can put up with the grind to reach good levels of pvp…I am 400 glory shy of level 19 with about 300 matches and honestly, am starting to find it a bit numbing…PVE is not my thing…all my chars are level 2, just after the initial must do pve bit, they are all in the mists…

The skins up to dolyak are just so boring and plain…the medium armor duelist gear looks cool, will go for that but what is there to shoot for after 20? Anyone reached level 80 yet?

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Its a pretty amazing grind. I’m now 25, but my glory gain is much higher now that i no longer take my ele to 8v8. Instead i take an engi who has balanced stats, good heals, and plenty aoe conditions and explosions. Get credits for all kills while keeping team up.

You pretty much need to consistently get good scores. By the time you need 7.5-15k glory per rank, you’ll get nowhere getting just 50 glory from a match. So i can sort of understand people rolling OP stuff, as the difference can be pretty big and probably saves you craploads of time in the end. And the total glory required seems to be balanced around playing multiple classes..to avoid boredom at least. Most classes are not that attractive to me and you can only respec through the tiny amount of specs so many times.

Perhaps you can try farming glory with a (guild) friend. This way you can both focus on supporting eachother while stomping/ressing and get higher scores than you normally would. Getting good stomping utilities can be a valid tactic. It’ll also be less boring and you can try making good synergy over time together which is fun. For instance, i’ve always wanted to try an Ele with Churning Earth, then getting a thief friend to stealth me. I guess theres a ton of cool things you can try out, not even mentioning combo fields for giving eachother massive retaliation/stealth buffs and so on.

And yeah medium armor looks the least impressive of all, i agree. Im just wearing Pirate gear with purple and green dyes so i can at least look pimp in the Mists. But when the bucket of green/blue paint falls on you, most leather looks kinda crap.

33 about a bar from 34, I started about a week or so after launch, 2 lvl 80’s so i do pve, but once i started tourneying it was a wrap, seems to go fast if you are constantly tourneying, though it does get slower every bracket…. I can only imagine what it takes to get to 80+ lol
either way, its not a race so i try not to pay attention to it, theres really not that much armor im looking forward to other than the cultural armor anyhow, and i dont think its going to be based around rank, probably winning paid tourneys or something

Edit: also forgot to tell you, try playing some gimmicky specs like 100b warrior, or pistol whip thief or phant mesmer, you will probably die a lot, but it seems to be a way to make things more interesting,

shalmont.2539:

seems to go fast if you are constantly tourneying, though it does get slower every bracket….

I always figured that repeated 5 minute wait would be a huge waste of time.

the bonus you get from tourneys is what makes it better, granted… thats if you win…

I only started doing pvp this week but I am already up to lv 14, tourney chest always give me a glory booster so I keep one up when playing most of the time. That 50 extra points goes a long way. I really wish they had some way to display ranking, would love to see if any Dragons are roaming around.

I’m rank 34 and a few guildies are already 40. Hotjoin grind just seems a tad tedious except when I’m trying a new build/profession. Pugging tourneys also seems like a big waste of time because you will lose to premades and map chat premades will lose to regular teams. Honestly, I’ve noticed that I’m either afk in the mists or playing with my team when I’m online so the grind is slow going for me.

I’m 39 atm. I don’t imagine anyone being 50 yet as it takes 45k rank points to get a level starting at 39.

If only there was something else than capture the point…
Would make the grind a bit more divers.