To be very frank, it’s too difficult to understand how the Mists work. More specifically, how the tournament system works. I’ll attach a recent conversation I had with someone who is fairly new to sPvP and is probably not even rank 10.
The point of this is, how many people have come and gone and not realized that tournaments exist, let alone solo queues? How many people couldn’t figure out how the interface works? How do you leave the solo queue? You have to go to the roster and select disband. That is anything but obvious. Knowing how ignorant a lot of the testers have to be in video games, I’m amazed this slipped passed ArenaNet. I personally think it’s amazing that someone who’s never played an MMO in their life could figure something like this out.
Point is, the UI is terrible, and there’s no obvious tutorial for how it all works. Even hotjoin is fairly obscure. I realize the scout is there, but from what I’ve noticed most people ignore them. They’re fairly useless in PvE, so people become conditioned.
A possible solution would be to just integrate the modes into the player UI, in the PvP tab. I know we used to have an instant join hotjoin button. Why not re-add that and add a tournament queue as well?
Ironically, in the lower left the PvP panel still has the same old beta message. "Press “Play Now” to instantly join a map with the default PvP character template!"
Anyways, these are my thoughts. Make sure to read the screenshots.
