Guild Wars 2

hello, fellow pvp forum people!

question!
how many pvp forumers here play hotjoin mainly?

me!

well, in the past, i participated in some solo arena and team arena before they merged these two and gave birth to unranked arena and ranked arena.

i did some ranked arena during the first test season, and some unranked arena when i feel like it. but most of the time i was in hotjoin.

my gaming hours are very limited so i do not wish to wait for long queue hours.
the hotjoin server browser is much faster than the queue waiting time.

so, how many of you are out here?

i know liewec is one, and i think perhaps zietlogic too.

discuss!

I did but not anymore.

I only did HJ becouse I fealt insecure and didn’t want the team I joined loose becouse of me. In HJ it didn’t feel as important so I choose it.
But after a year or more of HJ and loosing becouse of leavers and side switchers I got tired of it and realized that I don’t get any better like this so I finally tried Unranked and to my suprice teams where perfect and players where kind enough (Most of the time) and I continued like that. Now I only Play HJ (Practice) to try out new builds even though in Practice that is pretty rubbish since iether you outnumber your enemy or you will get outnumbered so you doesn’t realy get the feel of your build as it should be.

I usually get 30min now and then so I rather do 1-2 matches in Unranked or even ranked then going Practice and hope my team will win. Becouse in practice it is rarely about skill it is only about being in the team that has most players.

far

only did HJ waiting for queue pop when it was possible to do so.

went there to try a build on patch day but the games are so lopsided, I ended up facing a full 5man zerg alone.

one versus five

ended up queuing unranked instead.

i have played more than 8k pvp games, about 1,5k are hotjoin games

i dont rly like hotjoin, i join it sometimes to do daily achievements quickly and to test some builds

i played exclusive hotjoin since release (hit rank 80 a long while ago from hotjoin alone)
but since the new UI and queues i was under the impression that Unranked was the new Hotjoin so i’ve been playing there instead.

I used to do a fair bit of hotjoin around 2 years ago, it’s no fun anymore since they’re just filled with farmers now.

I played hot join quite a bit when the game was first released. It was fun and nobody really cared about winning, it was just death match for the most part. It was just good mindless fun. Now though, I haven’t touched it in ages. I really don’t see the point, most of the time it’s just filled with farmers and the rewards are worse.