Guild Wars 2

maniamsmart.7981:

4. Fight on point.

PvP ranked games are based on a conquest style game type. You capture a point and hold it to gain points. If you leave the point, you risk the chance of losing the point. If you’re going to help defend a point or try to gain another point, fine, leave the point. But if you’re leaving to fight someone in a random location, why? You may risk dying, and then on top of that even losing your point. Fight within the boundaries of each capture point and you’ll be much better off. Not only that, but the players that know how to play PvP will be at those capture locations, so if you die you can get revived. If you need help, they’ll help you. No one is going to help you if your stuck at your base fighting someone trying to waste your time.

imho this tends to contradict with your first tip of not dying when it comes to newer players. With so many professions that do well in confined spaces it seems like a particularly bad idea to confine yourself to a tight space. I see a lot of players make this mistake, they play on the point and refuse to move which leads to inevitable AoE/Melee cleave deaths.

my two cents, fighting close to the point and killing the attacker then retaking the point generally does better than refusing to move from it.

Hello Everyone,

I have played GW2 for about 3 months now, I switched from 8 years of WoW and I am really loving the WvW pvp in this game. My first character after buying the expansion was a revenant because I loved the idea of a magic using melee shredder and I love it.

The only problem is, I find myself using the hammer more than anything else because I like backline dps, I think I want to roll a profession that excels in doing damage from the backline and has utility for teamplay but I don’t know enough about the game to choose.

Help a newbie pick their new profession?

Thanks ahead of time!