I know that right now the first two arenas are completly farked. They are a joke. Its not possible to be an actual new player and enjoy pvp there. They have become havens of the lowest of the low. But dont lose heart in pvp in general, because revenge can be rather sweet.
I've got no PVP only characters as I run a very small guild and I have made pve characters with which to go thru the game again with my friends, guiding them. As opposed to cheapening the experience for them by running them everywhere. One of those was a Warrior, who in shiverpeak arena wore yaks bend gladiator gear and wielded a pretty decent hammer. He ran into the nameless mesmer in this story. This nameless, and might I add, talentless, dirtbag was wearing droks and using Illusionary weaponry and thought oh so highly of himself when he defeated my warrior. I told him that such was fine, I'd be waiting for him with my original character when he got to the competition arena. Well, tonight was that night, and aside from the cool halloween shit, it was the most fun I've had all week in guild wars. Needless to say he was rendered pretty much ineffective, Then I got to gleefully taunt him about how hes not so tough when facing an opponent who's also in droks and wielding an elite skill. Of course, it was short lived, it wasnt long before he was hiding behind "offline" or maybe it was "ignore" and spamming me with hate, cause thats the cool thing to do... revenge IS a dish best served cold.
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