Guild Wars 2

I enjoy my hearth of the mist megaserver. Much love. <3

Do.not.remove.the.cap please. For once there might be a little bit incentive to queue up.

brannigan.9831:

butch.8136:

I just wonder if they’ll have the balls to give us pvp exclusive legendaries, armor sets, etc. And if so that they tie it into the upcoming ladders and seasons.

Amaze me, Anet.

That will be it for me personally. The pull something off like that in a reasonable time frame and Ill stay long term. If not ill be gone.

Next feature patch is in August (not 100% sure though) so I guess you’ll have to wait till then atleast.

It’s like farming hotjoin. Won all my tpvp queues and I’ve seen some sad gameplay.

Hotjoin is doing its job, learning the right mechanics etc. /sarcasm

I just wonder if they’ll have the balls to give us pvp exclusive legendaries, armor sets, etc. And if so that they tie it into the upcoming ladders and seasons.

Amaze me, Anet.

WTB a bank, mystic forge, TP.

Go.queue.Tpvp

15chars

Oh lol nice, they’re removing hotjoin? :p

Hmm for once I was completely ready for a gaming evening lol. Why does Anet chose to release it later than normally today. :p

(This is not meant in any spoiled, negative or whatever way. I’m just bored and want to contribute to the thread. #Dontkillme)

@skylight How is it easy for a pvp’er?

I agree that it’ll be easier as we’re getting new gold influx. But while there has been an increasingly amount of gold income on the pve-side (since release) there has been 0 gold income on the pvp-side (except the wintersday and the recent gold reward for matches).

But overall, I don’t really mind.

Silly mmorpg.com

Finally HOTM is gonna be filled in mega ‘Deso’ server. I won’t even have shark probably even though I got 2k games. lol

You can change for free in about 5-6 hours. I would wait.

This has been known for quite a while now. Next time things will be much better organized (I assume).

I hope the animation will be better than the phoenix atleast.

I hope it gets fixed with the patch today or I’ll be seriously bummed. :p

I guess in about 8-9 hours.

felivear.1536:

butch.8136:

In Anets defence: This has been common knowledge for a while now.

So, I totally get that, but why not add a vendor that sells you tokens for silver? That would have solved the issue and shown a shred decency.

Ye, I agree. I was responding to the guy that wanted that Arah skin.

In Anets defence: This has been common knowledge for a while now.

That past performance is only for 8 teams. That’s still 56 teams that are chosen randomly.

They made a mistake underestimating their event. What can they do? Learn from it but now they have to deal with it and make the right decision. This is the right decision (imo) for the quality (from an organising and viewing standpoint) of the tournament.

If he didn’t it would be a complete mess.

My guess is that they’ve stopped working on it because they’re working on ladders/seasons. Which would be a logical explanation but I’d rather see those soon then.

It’s extremely easy to hit top100 in soloq.
In teamq it would take a little more effort but still very doable atm.

^ i would hope so.

I think so, yes.

Preview of S2 tomorrow. Anet won’t drop the hype ball (I assume).

I got telenet, and from belgium. I’m not getting dc’d but I still have rubberbanding issues (+ skillag, etc.)

Looking forward to it. Everything seems nice and it’ll be like a new start. But yes, it’ll be a bit sore with the rank debacle.

Topic has been beaten to death by many people (like me). Lets hope for those seasons and ladders to be more skill-oriented and rewarded.

Lol I’m from BE too.

Romek.4201:

you dont wanna understand there are many people which jsut wanna pvp and DONT care for leaderboards mmr soloQ or teamQ?

this is an mmo and need this casual pvp – its like this in all games

and i have some friends which play hotjoin and simply hate solo or teamQ for reasons like :

• why they should wait 3-5 min for a match?
• what leaderboard? most players in gw2 dont even know there is a leaderboard
• just dont wanna care for teamplay and fokus only on his toon
• … other reasons

myself i play solo/teamQ only but i can understand this people and trie to force this people in soloQ/teamQ with removing hotjoin would simply make them leave pvp or gw2 complete

so stop this nonsense and let this people play the mode they have fun with and come back to the threadthema

i opend tread to help new players not getting stomped/farmed in hotjoin

You didn’t understand my post. But I’ll refrain from explaining as it’s indeed off-topic.

I got exactly the same issue since thursday. I’m so glad I’m not the only one.

silvermember.8941:

butch.8136:

silvermember.8941:

Or keep Hotjoin for people that want HOTJOIN.

I mean it is almost like people have a preference that is different from yours. The people that want to PvP are going to eventually get sick of hotjoin and move on up.

So no hotjoin needs to stay mainly because there are different types of players and catering to the few (you guys) has never been a recipe of success.

Whats fun about hotjoin?
Whats hotjoin about?

Serious questions. I don’t see why we can’t motivate people to do queues. Queues that have MMR (so when populated, create balanced matches), no auto-balancing, etc.

Hotjoin is a separate gamemode atm and it’s a real crappy one at that.

I wont pretend to speak for the people that enjoy HOTJOIN.

The good thing for people that like hotjoin is, it probably wont go away just because a bunch of self important players think it should (you would be an example of that). Its existence doesn’t negatively impact yours in any meaningful way other than you hate seeing other players having fun.
Everyday you have threads of people whining and kittening how other players (HJ heroes) are ruining their Tpvp or SoloQ. for whatever idiotic reason they can come up with for the day and now you want to completely force to subject themselves to the typical “hardcore” PvP rants that flood this forum.

It indirectly impacts the Q experience. People stay in hotjoin, farm hotjoin, learn the wrong mechanics (< new people) and are not motivated at all to try queuing.

About “hotjoin heroes” messing up the Q-experience. This shouldn’t be the case if there was a decent population and the MMR would do it’s job (granted it’s not broken). But even then competitive pvp will always have it’s QQ and flaming. That’s it’s nature. You can combat this by providing the right tools and reducing the opportunities to do these things.

GW2 pvp is conquest, whether you like it or not. Hotjoin has just become a wannabe deathmatch that is in no way balanced nor is it made for that purpose. The worst thing about it is the rewards. As I’ve said before there is no incentive to Q.

I do understand that people just want to yolo around a bit. Why wouldn’t this be possible in an unrated queue with appropriate rewards?

But even then, some people wouldn’t like the unrated Q environment/experience because even that would be too ‘serious’. Well for those people you can have some hotjoinservers and CA’s, but with no rewards at all or atleast very little.

GW2 wants a competitive pvp (=conquest) experience. I’m not saying this is what we like or not. But they should atleast build the entire pvp system around it. Balancing the rewards is one aspect of that. And since the beginning of the game, hotjoin has been detrimental to that.

I’m very aware they won’t ever do it but I still want to share my opinion on the matter. I hope that doesn’t make me too self important.

Here’s hoping for a good implementation of ladders/seasons.

silvermember.8941:

Or keep Hotjoin for people that want HOTJOIN.

I mean it is almost like people have a preference that is different from yours. The people that want to PvP are going to eventually get sick of hotjoin and move on up.

So no hotjoin needs to stay mainly because there are different types of players and catering to the few (you guys) has never been a recipe of success.

Whats fun about hotjoin?
Whats hotjoin about?

Serious questions. I don’t see why we can’t motivate people to do queues. Queues that have MMR (so when populated, create balanced matches), no auto-balancing, etc.

Hotjoin is a separate gamemode atm and it’s a real crappy one at that.

^ Did you guys do anything server-related last few days?

I play on a mac and I’m rubberbanding (with the occasional lagspike/skillag) like hell since thursday evening.

Nice suggestions but:

Keep hotjoin/ca’s as training grounds, duels, whatever the community comes up with. Do not give it any rewards.

Hey,

I’ve been having rubberbanding issues since this thursday evening. It comes with the occasional lagspike, skillag, etc. But the rubberbanding seems to be persistent.
I have it in WvW, heart of the mists, etc. It gets worse when I get in combat and intensifies the more people there are, the more effects that are going on.

I play on a macbook pro since around launch. I’ve had issues before but that was always when lots of other people had problems too. Especially the constant light rubberbanding is new to me. I have tested other games and I don’t have issues there.

Anyone else having these issues? Anet, help? :p

Feel free to move it to the mac subforum, but it might be a broader problem.

^ Again. Drop hotjoin, get unranked queu’s for some casual fun, testing etc. Let the MMR do it’s job there.

Forest, tip 3. Instead of afking on close, go check far. This doesn’t mean you have to push far, but if there’s a decap possible it’ll benefit you greatly.

Cap close – wait for crossers.
No1 crossing?
Go check far. If there’s someone on point:

- Safest choice: go back to your homespot.
- ‘Best’ choice: go help at mid. You’ll be 5-4.

If there’s no1 on point —> obvious decap or even a full cap.

Tarnus.8917:

butch.8136:

Did the ‘fix’ from yesterday mess other things up? I’m having the occasional lagspike since yesterday evening.

There was no fix yesterday.

I thought they changed something on the server-side which doesn’t require our clients to be updated. Anyway, i’m rubberbanding hard since yesterday evening.

Hotjoin, the disease of gw2 pvp.

Did the ‘fix’ from yesterday mess other things up? I’m having the occasional lagspike since yesterday evening.

What if the prologue of S2 starts tuesday aswell?
Colin said in a recent interview that they like to go even more ‘mysterious’ (= not spoiling stuff with release pages, etc.) with the living story.

They made a mistake by underestimating their event. Can you blame them? All former pvp events had problems finding 16 teams.
Now they have to deal with it and they did. Allowing everyone is just very hard from an organizing standpoint. I think it’ll be messy enough with 64 teams per region.

Important note: Keep those rosters, team names , etc for further events (if you plan on doing that). I’ll bet there will be ALOT of teams that won’t show up, etc. Punish those teams in the future.

I understand that they chose the ‘best’ teams because they deserve a spot. Those teams will be (I guess) chosen on their activity in past pvp events. They are the competitive pvp community and it’s a very small one.
If its completely random you risk having a very low-skill/one-sided tournament. This is not enjoyable to watch and streaming it is a very important aspect of the tournament. Atleast you’ll know have a guarantee that there will be some decent matches later on in the tournament.

Best solution would be allowing everyone, but that’s just not feasible.
Even better would have been, if they were clear from the beginning about the rules, etc.

^ Aren’t they fixing AI coming patch or was that only for ranger pets? Or am I dreaming?

Capricorn is getting ditched next week. You won’t be able to play it anymore in hotjoin.

Will the rewards stay the same or be expanded to accommodate the large interest?

I might not understand the issue entirely but didn’t skyhammerfarm work the same way?

Guess I’ll have to find myself a pretty staff for my ele. <3

Could be EU :p

15chars

Kill hotjoin.
Keep CA’s for training/whatever the community wants to do in it. But do not give it any rewards.

Give us unranked queue.
Give us ladders/seasons.
Give us pvp specific rewards (not just backpacks).