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Shadow of Light

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Australia

Mo/

02 Aug 2006 at 11:32 - 1

Can't see a poll option, so I'll do it the other way and hope my eyesight isn't failing.

When do you normally leave a random arena match? Select a few if you want.

1 - I don't leave until the match is officially over. To the bitter end!

2 - I will leave if my whole team is dead/has left; can't be bothered waiting for the arena to kick me out.

3 - I will leave if everyone is dead but me, thus denying the enemy the chance to gain exp from reducing me to kibble.

4 - I'll leave prematurely if it looks 'obvious' my team is doomed (even if people are still alive).

5 - I will leave as soon as I die, no matter the state of my teammates.

6 - I will leave as soon as anyone on my team dies.

7 - I'll leave if someone's running a build I don't like.

8 - I'll leave if there's someone in the team I don't like, or if insulted, or if someone's being a complete jackass.

9 - I'll leave as soon as someone else on my team has already done so.

10 - I'll leave prematurely if I'm dead, no one's ressed me in the last several minutes, and it looks like the rest of the match may go for some time yet...

11 - I'll leave prematurely if the solitary person left alive on the opposing team is so determined not to die/give up that the match has gone for too long already, and looks likely to continue in the same vein...

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

02 Aug 2006 at 11:38 - 2

If someone is running a pure anti-war build and i'm a melee class.. :/

If we're doooomed!

Tark Alkerk

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

In a Black Hole

less

E/

02 Aug 2006 at 11:45 - 3

problem is that there not all mutally exclusive i qualify for most of them
2, 3, 4, 7, 8, sometimes 9, 10 and also sometimes 11 depending on how stuborn i am feeling that day.
there you go there is a break down of the reasons of why i leave in RA.

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

02 Aug 2006 at 11:49 - 4

leavers are idiots

Cowboy Nastyman

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Me/Mo

02 Aug 2006 at 11:52 - 5

i leave when i hear that annoyingly familiar swooshing sound of mending being cast, that or any other obviously bad build on my team, i also will leave for about all the reasons u listed up top

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

02 Aug 2006 at 11:52 - 6

3, 10, sometimes 11

Charqus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:04 - 7

2+11 for me

General Surena

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Germany

None

W/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:08 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cowboy Nastyman

i leave when i hear that annoyingly familiar swooshing sound of mending being cast, that or any other obviously bad build on my team, i also will leave for about all the reasons u listed up top

That's simply arrogant but you know you can afford it. There is something called "communication" and I've seen warriors not revert to their mending build anymore after friendly advice.

gg elitists

Theus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

02 Aug 2006 at 12:09 - 9

I only leave when one of the members on my team leaves.

Considering that fighting 4v3 is pretty abysmal..especially when the other team has a monk.

And I'll leave if someone is running about.prolonging the match.

The truth itself

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Denmark

First Degree

Mo/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:31 - 10

Quote:

Originally Posted by General Surena

That's simply arrogant but you know you can afford it. There is something called "communication" and I've seen warriors not revert to their mending build anymore after friendly advice.

gg elitists

gg anti-elitist.

I'll leave for 2 3 4 8 10 and 11.

You may call me an elitist if you want, but staying in a useless team with a wammo using mending, that'd be a major waste of time.

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

N/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:34 - 11

1.

I am always optimistic. I've won 3 VS. 4 battles before.

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:36 - 12

1 is it, I don't leave in the midst of a match without a damn good reason (such as a power failure)

Rathcail

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

02 Aug 2006 at 12:44 - 13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadow of Light

1 - I don't leave until the match is officially over. To the bitter end!

Usually this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadow of Light

4 - I'll leave prematurely if it looks 'obvious' my team is doomed (even if people are still alive).

This applies when there's one teammate left alive who's doing nothing but running.

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

02 Aug 2006 at 12:44 - 14

1, unless I'm needed for something else by someone (which generally trancends mundane 4v4), or as said by Rath, 4 when one person on my team is just running.

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

02 Aug 2006 at 12:45 - 15

2 - Theres really no point in waiting for the arena to boot you.

3 - If I have no rez

8 - Theres no reason I should stay if theres a jackass on my team. Nobody has to put up with it.

9 - If 2 have left and its me and 1 more vs 4.

10 - If nobody's gonna rez me, I'm obviously useless to them.

11 - If theres a runner on there team and we cant kill him, I dont have to wait 10 mins for 25 faction.

Medionsaturn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nottingham, England

Berserkers of Lord Sendri[BoLS]

Mo/Me

02 Aug 2006 at 13:01 - 16

It usually depends on my mood. If I'm a Warrior and I'm in an all Warrior team then sometimes I'll think "This isn't going anywhere" and leave.

At the start of doing RA I'm at 1 and will occasionally go to 3. It'll go upto 4 if I'm not getting any success, and by the end of the time spent in RA I'll go upto 5. But 8 and 9 are always options that I bear in mind.

Feminist Terrorist

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Oh Noes! The 'burbs!

02 Aug 2006 at 19:23 - 17

1. Never give up, never surrender!

I ran once in RA. Had no running skills, and no hope of surviving, but I was not gonna just stand there and let them beat on me. Besides, I wanted to see more of the map since I'd never seen it before. Less than 10 seconds later, I was dead. Oh well.

floplag

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

SoCal

Gamerz United

Me/N

02 Aug 2006 at 19:29 - 18

so bascially what some of you are saying is that you only stay if the random builds of the team favors you ?

give me a break.. you stay till its over.. you chose to go into the random arena for what ? to pray for an easy victim ? gee, that takes skill, but you run if your the weaker setup ?

no matter what you enter, you stay till its done or your a waste of space in the game

Seef II

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

US

R/Mo

02 Aug 2006 at 19:44 - 19

1: 90% of the time.
2: sometimes.
3: no, I /dance if it's that hopeless
4: once all the rez sigs are used up and it's something like 2v4 with one guy degening out, I will leave.
5: unless my team is really really bad and hasn't ressed in 30 seconds, nope.
6: nope.
7: nope, this is RA after all.
8: nope, again, this is RA.
9: generally yes, depends on the team though
10: sometimes.
11: 10 minutes.

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

02 Aug 2006 at 19:48 - 20

If it's a losing group, I leave when the arena kicks me out.

If it's a winning group, I leave after victory but before the next map loads (providing I needed to leave for a reason).

Across The Battle

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

Jersey

W/

02 Aug 2006 at 19:54 - 21

Personally I like to leave right after people waste thier res on me :-D

TadaceAce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

02 Aug 2006 at 21:40 - 22

I don't leave when playing anything but monk in RA. Basically, if I'm not playing a monk, and I think the group is gonna suck, I blazingly charge in and die and we usually lose and I move on.

If I'm monking there is a real problem in RA. I WILL NOT stay and heal 3 incredibly idiotic people that couldn't kill a single boon prot premade given a lifetime. You know the people I'm talking about... MMs, wammos, rangers using power shot. That and literally 75% of the custom builds the average retard (I still can't believe the stupidity of RA newbs) uses. Oh and if you get another monk, a good monk in 4v4 doesn't need another monk, its just a waste of space.

Despondency

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

[kF]

W/E

02 Aug 2006 at 22:29 - 23

1 - Rarely, unless I'm in a good mood.

2 - All the time

3 - All the time

4 - All the time

5 - Very Rarely

6 - Never

7 - Rarely

8 - Rarely

9 - Guaranteed

10 - Always

11 - Most of the time, depending on my optimism level.

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

02 Aug 2006 at 22:38 - 24

I leave when 1 or two are afk. Otherwise I stay untill the bitter end

duverga

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

02 Aug 2006 at 22:49 - 25

12. As soon as the beer runs out.

Sekkira

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canberra, AU

03 Aug 2006 at 00:52 - 26

I'll go with Skuld. I've played a warrior a few times in RA and whenever I come across a crippling anguish mesmer (way before factions or the new prebuilds), I just ragequit. There was no point in playing if you're strolling towards someone who's sprinting away and degening you to death.

Shadow-Hunter

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Denmark

[HH] [Hax]

Mo/

03 Aug 2006 at 01:07 - 27

Allmost allways 1.. I dont go RA to leave.. Only time i leave, is if im the only 1 alive with a dead rez sig, and the other team is using cheap builds -.- (Touchers, anti melee when i play melee, Spirit camping Ritual lords, Assassins (no way im gonna get killed by a Ra Assassin) other stuff that i find cheap).. So mainly 1, and 3 if it looks hopeless, then i Run a little around, being annoying, then quit so they dont kill me >_>

~Shadow

Kula

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Coast, USA

Mo/E

03 Aug 2006 at 01:22 - 28

When someone else leaves first at time of zoning.
When a player is AFK.
When I know that it is a lost cause*:
3b. I'm dead w/ no more rez signet, and there's only one teammate left vs four opponents.
3c. I'm the only player left alive vs three or four opponents (unless there's a priest that will rez everyone shortly)

*No.3 is only applicable when I'm in "gain-faction mode" and I try to get as many matches/kills as I can in a short amount of time. Ergo, I wouldn't waste my time being a corpse for too long.

BDStyle

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lightning strikes twice

Mo/A

03 Aug 2006 at 01:30 - 29

I don't leave... period.

I think the funniest moment was in the fire island arena, I was running a water ele and 3 members dropped as soon as they saw we were all ele's.

I stayed... got the opposing team to just sit down and we chatted for 2minutes. (yes I died once for their win

)

Anyway it was very funny stuff at the time.

Ninetail Trickster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

A pleasant place that needs more rain. T_T

The Rose Society

03 Aug 2006 at 02:09 - 30

To the bitter end. I don't leave ever. Neverever. <.<
I've disconnected out of a few matches, as my internet connection is volatile, but beyond that...
Actually, I once spent an hour and forty or so minutes in a Shiverpeak Arena match. Just wouldn't end; the ranger was running, laying traps, and the warrior (on our team) was too smart to walk into them. So it just went on. And on.
R: -tries to lay trap-
W: -rush- -hackslashhackhack-
R: -run- -successfully lays trap-
W: -stops-
R: -Troll Unguent- -tries to lay trap-
W: -hackslashhackhackhack-
R: -run- -successfully lays trap-

.....and so on. I got to know my dead allies pretty well as we watched. ^__^ (And it paid off. The ranger got himself cornered. Dead ranger. x_x )

Leavers ftl. >.>

brokenmonkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

CA

[UC] Uber Crue

W/

03 Aug 2006 at 02:10 - 31

I dont leave i sit back and take it.

But OHH man when there a war running around AARARARAR im out of there.

TopGun

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

03 Aug 2006 at 02:17 - 32

If I'm in HA, monking for a PUG, then I'll call out, "IF ANYONE TRIPS THE TIMER, I'M DROPPING."

The only exception I make is if a group is relatively organized, but someone lags.

Oftentimes, people trip the timer anyway, and I go back to HA looking for another PUG, leaving 7 other people completely unhappy. Cruel, you say? Yes. Very cruel. And yes, cruelty may hurt, but it's too bad stupidity doesn't; if stupidity actually caused physical pain, maybe there'd be fewer morons running around wasting my time.

I wish my Guild did HA more often >.<

KiRi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Canada

Grenths Rejects [GR]

03 Aug 2006 at 02:31 - 33

1 - I don't leave until the match is officially over. To the bitter end!

I never leave a match, even if the others decide do.
many times its been my lil ole Mesmer against 4 others in one of those kill count matches haha.
Once in a while when that happens the other team might join in on the fun and start some one on ones but yeah. Its all fun :P
I hate people people leave after their first death in a match...

Demesis

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

03 Aug 2006 at 02:45 - 34

I leave as soon as I see a losing group or a group that has no monks. Heck I even leave before the countdown timer starts.

dgb

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

03 Aug 2006 at 02:54 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by General Surena

That's simply arrogant but you know you can afford it. There is something called "communication" and I've seen warriors not revert to their mending build anymore after friendly advice.

gg elitists

I've seen far more warriors resort to abuse when advised otherwised - I tried communication - it resulted in abusive communication - now I just leave. I play a monk, a precious resource for them so their loss.

EDIT: I leave when I think the team has little chance of making it to ten wins. This can be within the first 10s, or when the team is near wiped.

Plix

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

E/

03 Aug 2006 at 03:16 - 36

Number 2, 3, and possibly 9 if it seems we're screwed. Sometimes 10 but I might hang out for the puny amount of faction.

gamecube187

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

03 Aug 2006 at 03:21 - 37

I really don't see why people would do anything exept 1, 2, and ocassionally 4 (very rarely). Its called RANDOM arenas for a reason. Its meant to give you wierd team builds to see if they work or not. If you get a team with full eles or warriors or any class, or there is a wammo using mending, or anything else that might seem like your team is doomed, you shouldn't leave. Who knows, that might just happen to be one of the builds that will be accepted in Hall of Heros because your team gets so many victories in random and team arenas. If you leave just because it seems hopless, then you
1. annoy everyone there with the fact that you should have just gone to team arena (because you want to have certian things in your group despite the fact that it is random) and
2. you just wasted a player's spot that could have been used by someone that accepts that THE TEAMS ARE RANDOM.

It is just so anoying seeing people doing doing anything but 1, 2, and ocassionally 4.

BTW, to the OP, you forgot

12. I'll leave as soon as I see a class on my team that I don't like.
13. I'll leave if there is no ranger or warrior (and during the event, dervish) being a physical attacker on my team.
14. I'll leave if 3 or more people on my team have the same primary class.

I've only been doing pvp for 3 or 4 days now and I have already seen people do those.

Gonzo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2006

Netherlands

Defenders of the Blackblade [DotB]

W/

03 Aug 2006 at 09:48 - 38

Exclusivly 1, unless something important comes up and I have to leave gw for some reason, then i still finish the match and if we've won I appoligize. Can't be bothered to do 2 just cause i can't wait a few seconds.

Electric Sky

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

03 Aug 2006 at 12:37 - 39

i just wait till it kicks me out, but if everyone on my team has left the game before that, then i guess i might as well just leave

Ecklipze

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

R/

03 Aug 2006 at 12:52 - 40

I leave as soon as my computer lags out thanks to the big update.