Guild Wars 2

Is it me, or does the whole “meta” obsession really drag down the sPvP scene? I don’t mean just in the sense of the same cancer builds running around, but the fact that no one in this game save for the “top” PvPers tries to make any sort of reliable build, which then gets followed by the masses.

People think that going onto metabattle and revving up the latest meta build = ranked wins, when they don’t even know how to fight on points. PvP in this game relies so much more on your teammates when you only have a 5 man group, and it just shows when you are plowing through the opposite team, or when you’re getting plowed yourself. Coming from other MMO ranked PvP scenes, I was horrified when I saw that anyone and everyone hits the “ranked” queue button – people who run into zergs to die, chase someone off point while they get three capped…

It’s just amazing how the general PvP scene is not really there. Nothing is more fun than losing a match with someone who “doesn’t really like PvP XD!!!” How ANET thinks they can make this game an eSports game when you have zero gating to enter a ranked match is just hilarious. If you didn’t get in right when leagues dropped or run kitten build, you can only carry your team so much these days. Not going to bemoan the loss of pips as it’s been done to death, but there really needs to be some sort of gate for ranked. A real MMR system, some sort of progression through unranked, anything.

I don’t say all this as someone who thinks they are a pro PvP player. I’m just average, sometimes I make a game winning play, other times I am admittedly the moron who ran into mid solo into a 4 man meat grinder. That being said, I dont queue ranked on a character without being able to hold my own in almost any 1v1 and long enough for backup in a 2v1. I strive to be useful and understand what I’m doing before I subject others in ranked to my crap. I guess I assumed others who queued ranked also would have the same mindset and enjoyment of PvP, but over the weeks I’ve been depressingly wrong.

I don’t even know what this post is anymore. I think I wanted to rally against the “meta” and people who wont try anything outside of it, but I think it turned into a sobbing rant. I spent too much finger strength in it to delete it, so enjoy.