Guild Wars 2

Disclaimer: I have only really played WvW for three years, dabbled a little in pvp way back when, around the time that the game first came out and SB pewpew was a thing.

I decided to mess around in pvp for the first time in ~2 years. Picked a build that I wanted to test the efficacy of in order to see if I would want to transfer it into WvW for roaming. Cleric based with survival skills, and I got flamed super hard. Are most people in hotjoin really salty for some reason or what’s the deal with that? Just wondering bc it made me log off and not even want to play anymore after several people decided to throw shade at me for my build choice.

P.S. Skyhammer is a terribad map imo.

Its kinda rare. Wear it as a badge of honor. (cleric based build in pvp made someone mad, realy?)

Hot join is a disaster area, you should give unranked a try. And probably play with map chat turned off. PvP in any game is notorious for attracting horrible whiners. Cleric’s survival sounds totally reasonable to me.

Fluffball.8307:

Hot join is a disaster area, you should give unranked a try. And probably play with map chat turned off. PvP in any game is notorious for attracting horrible whiners. Cleric’s survival sounds totally reasonable to me.

Yeah I mean I’m used to people whining in wvw and stuff, I was just appalled at how mad people were getting. I literally just wanted to try a build out and thought it would be a chill environment. I was just curious if there was like some unwritten rules about not using certain builds in hotjoin or something, but alright thanks for the replies.

Were that mad because you were doing well or because you were doing bad?

FYI PvP is more about where you are and when than it is about builds.

Sube Dai.8496:

Were that mad because you were doing well or because you were doing bad?

FYI PvP is more about where you are and when than it is about builds.

They were mad about losing 1v1s. But yeah in general that’s why I focus more on WvW roaming because it’s more about the fighting whereas I think pvp is more about map presence and cycling to create advantages in matchups. I can understand the appeal of that, but I really think that there should at least be a straight up 5v5 death match map in the rotation.

Mcrocha.3891:

Sube Dai.8496:

Were that mad because you were doing well or because you were doing bad?

FYI PvP is more about where you are and when than it is about builds.

They were mad about losing 1v1s. But yeah in general that’s why I focus more on WvW roaming because it’s more about the fighting whereas I think pvp is more about map presence and cycling to create advantages in matchups. I can understand the appeal of that, but I really think that there should at least be a straight up 5v5 death match map in the rotation.

There is and it’s awful because the map is kitten and everyone is built for conquest rather than death match.

Really? Which map is it? Every map I played on was Conquest. Is the map not in hotjoin?

Mcrocha.3891:

Really? Which map is it? Every map I played on was Conquest. Is the map not in hotjoin?

Courtyard, it’s in unranked. It’s like being in a really cluttered bowl.

I love cleric BM ranger build. I run it on occasion in unranked and do absolutely terrible and literally do not care at all. People tend to forget it’s a game with no downside to losing at all.