Guild Wars 2

I’ve been invited by other players after being able to defeat them to their parties to chat with them before and it mostly wasn’t good. First time I accepted an invite after I killed a player he said “kitten you” then left the group. Other times most players act all condescending to me which I just find weird, funny and uncomfortable…

Earlier today I downed a thief, he kept spamming invite and I just declined multiple times, was I being rude?

So just wondering if I should or should not accept invites from enemy players after beating them, or is it rude not to accept invites from other players you’ve defeated in WvW?

It’s your choice, really. I’ve had some of the best times, asking for a rematch/official duels like this, talking about our builds, even once when I was guarding Mendon and a group of around 15 players came and started sieging and one guy invited me and said “We come in peace.” to which I replied “Good, now start running, because our whole zerg just wp-ed :P”… I guess it was just your luck.

If i’m roaming, and solo or not in a full party I almost always invite ppl after a 1v1 fight or 2v2, 2v3, 3v2, w/e~ an say GoodFight.(win or loose) I usually try twice if someone doesn’t accept, and I make it a point to always accept other peoples invites. I never consider it rude though to decline, or get declined. No biggie, there’s a large amount of people who can’t take loosing, or win and can’t take a complement^^.

Accept only from enemys that are from decent guilds. Most of guilds won’t recruit flamers .

I had some nice (unplanned) duels yesterday against members from different guilds both GH and RoS. Most of them invited me afterwards and we talked about the match, where we failed etc.

I ended up chatting with one of them basically all night everytime we met or just out of fun.

I have been flamed by an enemy only once up to this point and he clearly wasn’t a good player to start with (took him + full group ~5 min to kill my healway guardian and he called me a hacker afterwards…).

If I play thief, I don’t usually take invites, as most of them are to complain about stealth, OP profession, lack of skill hiding behind a broken mechanic, getting them off-guard, etc…

If I’m on another toon, I’ll take the invite and its nice talk about builds and strats…

No.

Moving on.

One time I invited an invader to try to tell them that their treb wasn’t actually hitting our tower wall, but alas they would not accept and I didn’t get the chance to arrow cart farm them since they never opened up the tower before I had to log

Guild Tag is a big one. If you don’t know and respect the Tag don’t bother yourself.

I only take invites from people I know in WvW, otherwise, nope.

no, it is polite

rude is to accept and have a verbal re-duel

but i usually accept because i like to engage in trash talk.

i am after all a forum warrior/troll

There are some people who do it literally just to trash talk, but unless you get easily-offended, there’s generally little to fear from seeing what they have to say.

Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but everytime I have been invited to parties I’ve accepted and they are always nice people and either want to congratulate me or ask for a rematch.

I wouldnt say its rude to decline though.

It’s up to you. Sometimes people just want to ask simple things like what’s your build . But if you are really so sensitive (rolls eyes) that you let random dudes in the internets insult you, well then just decline.

I usually accept or send invites after a good solo fight. I won’t accept if there was some teabagging and dancing involved, but that’s just common sense.

It isn’t rude. but whether you win or lose you may want to accept the invite because you may get a cool discussion or gratz or something. I once had an underwater fight with someone for 10 minutes. They respawned and we battled atop center island. I got lucky on the island win. I went to the bottom of the stairs at garrison water gate and they came running down and stopped when they saw me.

I invited the person to my party 5+ times while standing there and he declined each one. All I wanted to say was “good fights”.

to counterpoint my chest thumping about how great i am above :P

I once got wasted by a thief 3 times in a row. I invited him to my group and he accepted. he said “umadbro?” his buddy said “who is this?” I said “Im the guy your buddy just wasted 3 times, you’re pro dude” then I left the party.

It’s all about how sensitive you are. If you can’t handle the trolls and trash talkers then don’t accept the invites.
I for myself love those, almost as much as I love getting to talk to other players, discussing builds and dueling. Forming a gank party with people from other servers is fun too :p

And I /join or /invite all the time really. Usually just trash talk 10 guildies chasing me around the map or people /laughing at me after zerging me down, or CoD kids teabagging my corpse after killing me with 5 more people or rangers exploiting the pet rez underwater, etc.

All the rest are for giving the grats and ask for their builds and stuff.

the few times that i’ve been invited after a fight, it’s been a positive interaction. i tend to bow or salute after good fights, tho.

It is not rude to decline.

I do consider it rude/annoying that some folks spam you with invites for hours. I’ve had that a few times -_-

Rok.5260:

I’ve been invited by other players after being able to defeat them to their parties to chat with them before and it mostly wasn’t good. First time I accepted an invite after I killed a player he said “kitten you” then left the group. Other times most players act all condescending to me which I just find weird, funny and uncomfortable…

Earlier today I downed a thief, he kept spamming invite and I just declined multiple times, was I being rude?

So just wondering if I should or should not accept invites from enemy players after beating them, or is it rude not to accept invites from other players you’ve defeated in WvW?

If you can’t handle an insult don’t accept, plain and simple. If you dont mind the insults but occasionally wanna say gg or wp to someone you had a good fight with, then by all means accept. Nothing rude about either choice really.

Had a fight with a necro last night. Caught it on vid. Even the bit at the end where he requested a group to say he thought I was good.

I’d had the same thought, but he beat me to it.

I find that thieves are the only people that have this behavior. Nobody other than a thief tries to invite me to a group after they get rolled. I guess thieves don’t expect to lose 1v1s very often, so they are more likely to react in an extreme manner.

Zackie.8923:

I usually accept because i like to engage in trash talk.

i am after all a forum warrior/troll

I agree with this guy, I always accept and make fun of people.
I also find it funny to invite people, then ask why they invited me.

It’s mainly how I got so many contacts on all the different servers. i’ve only had 2 or 3 bad experiences with party invites to and from enemies. So yeah I always accept. If it’s some jerk I report and leave. It’s simple. You don’t have to stay in the pt and engage in their troll/flames.

wish.3102:

I agree with this guy, I always accept and make fun of people.
I also find it funny to invite people, then ask why they invited me.

haha

Most they time its just dueling talking about builds etc…

The few times people have raged after I accepted the invite has been thieves and a mesmer the thieves were just childish cussing then leaving group real fast. The mesmer was rude calling it the win luck…. probably was /shrug

So if its a thief or mes you just beat sending the invite ignore it if that sort of thing bugs you, other classes tend to be chill and just want to duel to try again.

As a Thief I always try and invite people to tell them I’m sorry for ganking them as they were just walking around (especially if they are underleveled), but that it’s still a part of the game and I felt obligated to kill them anyway.

Nobody ever responds though, they must all think I want to gloat at them :/ If you get killed by a Thief from Tarnished Coast just accept the invitation, promise I won’t be mean or anything.

I didn’t even know you could invite enemies until I got an invite from “Jade Quarry Invader” in a jumping puzzle- he sent the invite to offer non-aggression when he saw me enter (which I accepted- I don’t kill people in jp’s).

Consider the situation if you want to avoid trash talk, but really, unless you’re fighting for your life, there’s really nothing to lose unless you’re very sensitive to verbal attacks.

Piogre.2164:

I didn’t even know you could invite enemies until I got an invite from “Jade Quarry Invader” in a jumping puzzle- he sent the invite to offer non-aggression when he saw me enter (which I accepted- I don’t kill people in jp’s).

Consider the situation if you want to avoid trash talk, but really, unless you’re fighting for your life, there’s really nothing to lose unless you’re very sensitive to verbal attacks.

Lol i tried to do this with someone i saw coming up behind me in the bl jp. i was at the top key waiting to port a few friends and i saw the oppponent jumping towards me. I invited him and he accepted. I then learned that offering a jump puzzle truce is hard when the person doesn’t speak a language i know :/

i think i got reported while being nice and offering safe passage too :*(

I find it impolite to invite someone to a party after you have fought them. So everything from there is likely to go downhill, so best not to accept the invite.

Its not but its always nice to say no thank you etc..
Now it is rude to join a group in wvw and log out in that group there still no way to kick some one from the group if the person is in a different zone or is logged out when in wvw.

For me, i find it very hard theese days to find decent fights roaming around.

So yes i accept invites hoping they wanna dual, but its like Rayya says. I ignore some also
from certain guilds ( after asking me to dual and gank me with 5 if I show up meeting-place:p)

The best way to make people want to accept, is to invite them once they are down, if they decline, that mean they don’t want to duel anymore and you can finish them

You don’t risk anything by accepting (exept a free report if you have to), but declining is not a big deal either.

Exosferatu.2961:

By the way, how do people message people from enemy server? And how do they invite you into their group? o.O

If they have you targeted and open the party window thingy at the top, they can just press invite, they can also see your name that way, and of course your name is visible while they wait for you to accept or decline

Genev.2450:

Exosferatu.2961:

By the way, how do people message people from enemy server? And how do they invite you into their group? o.O

If they have you targeted and open the party window thingy at the top, they can just press invite, they can also see your name that way, and of course your name is visible while they wait for you to accept or decline

They can’t see your name when they invite you, all they see is “Invader/Defender” and your server. But it becomes visible after a few minutes of having that pending invite. So the advice is, if you don’t wanna talk to them, decline the invitation and move on.

Engels.8537:

Genev.2450:

Exosferatu.2961:

By the way, how do people message people from enemy server? And how do they invite you into their group? o.O

If they have you targeted and open the party window thingy at the top, they can just press invite, they can also see your name that way, and of course your name is visible while they wait for you to accept or decline

They can’t see your name when they invite you, all they see is “Invader/Defender” and your server. But it becomes visible after a few minutes of having that pending invite. So the advice is, if you don’t wanna talk to them, decline the invitation and move on.

Depends on whether you use simplified or normal UI, with normal you can hover over the portrait and see the name – I don’t use simplified, but I know there you only see the invader/defender, though I do wonder if you can’t see the acct name by hovering too.

I sent an invite to an enemy after accidentally (somehow) putting an arrow cart build site on the wall of their tower. He was running around it (probably confused) and I just wanted to explain how it got there.

Rayya.2591:

Accept only from enemys that are from decent guilds. Most of guilds won’t recruit flamers .

Ungood.3054:

Guild Tag is a big one. If you don’t know and respect the Tag don’t bother yourself.

I only take invites from people I know in WvW, otherwise, nope.

In WvW, most of us will only recognize the largest WvW guilds on enemy servers. If anything, players in those guilds are more likely to be trolls than players in smaller guilds. Huge guilds don’t become huge by being exclusive.

If you just killed someone and they send you an invite, it’s best to decline because they probably just want to call you a hacker or something. If a player who killed you or you haven’t fought yet sends you an invite, it’s more likely a friendly gesture (especially if you’re in a jump puzzle). Make sure not to accept anyone to your party if you have party members who don’t want their locations exposed or are discussing strategy in party chat.

Personally for me I add enemies to party to say positive things about the team, to duel, or ask for their character build. So when they decline it makes me sad.

Much like the other posters have said before though, the choice is really up to you.

I always decline.

I decline people all the time, unless they’re actually running with me. If I’m commanding, I don’t mind having some pugs fill in if I have space. Usually, I’m in a full guild group though.

Enemy players, no. Stabbing enough places for new poo holes into someone isn’t likely going to bring on any conversation from an enemy player I care to have. I would not care for the praise or disrespect either way.

My policy is to accept all invites, report them if they are abusive and be polite and respectful when they are nice to you. I try to return any compliments that are offered as a gesture of good will. I’ve not had a case where someone that was contacting me to give negative feedback – didn’t also include a multitude of swear words. So everyone who was rude to me will have had a nice holiday (ban) away from GW2 to remind them it is just a game.

I didn’t even know it was possible until recently. Two of us (redundant here: there are only two of us) jumped down the well outside our keep in EB, looking for a thief inappropriately touching our gate. As it turns out, we found him/her/it…… on the way down. By the time we landed in the water we’d seen + selected it, and with two fairly glassy high-damage characters proceeded to smash the tar out of it in seconds.

As we were swimming away I saw someone’s join request flickering spastically on the side of my screen, but they stopped before I could say to let them in… pity, I wanted to see whakitten was about. I wouldn’t consider it rude not to accept an invite or anything, since… well, it’s none of their business if you’d rather not talk. But I figure it’ll either be a hilarious rage-filled rant, some sort of congratulations and/or request to try again, or some poor sod who was hiding in the end of a watery tunnel and had no idea there was a well, wondering what just happened.

Most of my partying with enemies in WvW has turned out pretty good, maybe I’m just lucky. If I just had a good fight I normally like to talk with the other person.

I think I had one time that started out a little sour with a theif, but it didn’t last long. I think I ended up chatting in that party of four enemies for the next hour or so.

I never accept the invites because I don’t really care about dueling or have the need to converse for the most part. I don’t think this is rude per se because most of the time they don’t have nice things to say.

Once I declined an invite and then promptly accepted an invite from a server member to discover that the guy I declined was in the party. I was expecting the usual trash talk to ensue but instead received a donation in the mail along with a compliment.

It goes to show that the community is made up of both decent and horrible people but I still will not accept the invites because far too often I am doing other things. Unfortunately dueling and chatting are just not on my priority list.

I find i try to invite/accept a lot invites hell after good random 1v1’s and hell its how random fight clubs get setup in the spur of the moment.

Sadly, my luck has been just the opposite of most others it seems… The majority of those that have invited me from enemy servers have either been chest-thumping little brats or raging, foul-mouthed sore losers.
Rather sad, really…
To be completely fair, I have had a small few contact me and show a bit of respect (regardless of who one or lost.) I was so shocked the first time it happened I didn’t know what to say…

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

My policy is to accept all invites, report them if they are abusive and be polite and respectful when they are nice to you. I try to return any compliments that are offered as a gesture of good will. I’ve not had a case where someone that was contacting me to give negative feedback – didn’t also include a multitude of swear words. So everyone who was rude to me will have had a nice holiday (ban) away from GW2 to remind them it is just a game.

Lol good luck getting them banned for swearing xDD
There are people who are known to run constant hacks in WvW and no bans :P
Unless it’s gold selling, anet doesn’t give a kitten

I generally accept all party invite unless I’m not in a good mood.
Generally speaking, most of the people I talk to this way end up being great people who I usually end up adding as friends. Great way to net work in this game too; usually I’ll get whispers from them saying Balthazar is open on their server or one of the dragons just spawned or a community event is going on and to guest on over.

Very rarely I would run into a complete kitten, but their is an ignore function for that reason alone ^-^ worse case you can just remember who they are, kill them again and just do the /dance emote on top of them and watch them rage quit the game.

Rok.5260:

I’ve been invited by other players after being able to defeat them to their parties to chat with them before and it mostly wasn’t good. First time I accepted an invite after I killed a player he said “kitten you” then left the group. Other times most players act all condescending to me which I just find weird, funny and uncomfortable…

Earlier today I downed a thief, he kept spamming invite and I just declined multiple times, was I being rude?

So just wondering if I should or should not accept invites from enemy players after beating them, or is it rude not to accept invites from other players you’ve defeated in WvW?

Is it rude to report people to the police for stalking? Is it rude for a girl to turn down a drunk guy?

If people act annoying, you have a right to ignore them. Not accepting rudeness is not the same as being rude, just like denying someone’s hate speech does not make you a bigot.