Guild Wars 2

Grats guys! I was in overflow purgatory so I missed it =[ But here’s to more to come!

I’m a PvE player that doesn’t PvP, and most of the reasons listed in this thread are totally off for me. For example, lack of rewards? WvW has crappy rewards yet it’s still popular, isn’t it? It’s pretty fair to get no rewards from PvP and just play it for fun, imo.

The reason I don’t PvP is because it’s too hard to learn how to. Compared to other games it’s very hard to find resources to learn the metagame, for one thing. But the main thing is that whenever I do tournaments I always get matched with people much better than me. I’m only rank 9 with 12/32 tournaments won, yet I’m consistently being matched with rank 20+s, most of which with champion titles, most of which seem to know what they’re doing. I can’t learn how to play when I’m being thrown into an environment where you’re assumed to already know how to play. I can’t learn through hot join, either, because that’s nothing like real tournament play. It’s not a matter of not being willing to learn how to play well, it’s that there isn’t an environment conducive to learning to begin with.

Alibis.4079:

For Ebay I’d like:
1. Crystal Desert
2. Yaks Bend

Think it could be an extremely close score if CD was thrown in the mix.

I’m from CD and would love to see this match up

Why don’t we just decide instead of leaving it to rng =[

An interesting idea I saw in another thread is that since they already predict the results and make it harder/easier for higher/lower ranked servers to gain rating, why not give that handicap in terms of ppt also. It would raise morale on servers that are getting facerolled, and make it more challenging for the servers doing the facerolling to actually WIN rather just improve rating.

Sorry if I implied that TC itself was robotic, I was more so criticizing what previous posts were saying about how CD should become. Your zergs are extremely well-disciplined, though.

Waffler.1257:

This thread is depressing on so many levels. If CD ever “improves” to the level of TC where players have to do sentry duty, players must be on VoIP, players must run around in at least 15-20 man zerg balls dutifully following the commander, and players must all wear PVT gear with masses of AoE fields/finishers for their utilities… I will say that I will be one of the first to transfer off.

This. It’s good to consciously try to better yourself. And it’s great that there are training sessions to raise awareness of how to play better, etc. But when you’re just a body using cookie cutter builds and equips, on a voip 24/7, basically just being a slave with few to no choices of your own, is it still fun? When does it stop being a game?

The tiers separate servers with different philosophies in this subject. The higher tiers are more disciplined. When I see TC, they seem extremely disciplined, very military-like. From watching them, I can tell that I would hate to play on TC. Brom’s response that “uplevels should do nothing but scout” cements this. And no offense to them either; different people like different things. But I like the atmosphere of the mid-tiers where it’s less serious and more fun. The last couple weeks against YB and KN were great match ups; I’m sure everyone that played in them can agree. No one was complaining about how undisciplined we are then.

Basically, and to state the obvious, this whole mess is just because the system put us in a league above our own this week. The fault isn’t in the players.

Match ups with servers from 2 different tiers make sense to break the monotony, but when there are match ups with servers from 3 different tiers, it’s not fun for anyone. The results are already predetermined.

We’re not talking about tiers anymore, only ranking points? Fine, it’s ridiculous how two servers with an over 300 point difference can be matched together.

Thanks for the epic match up this week, YB and KN! May we meet in the fields of battle again!

And CD is now (very slightly) ahead of YB after days of being 7-8k points behind, with KN trailing behind by 4k points! What an insane match up!

I’m also having this problem