Dear Anet, once custom maps are out, so people can test stuff in a controlled environment, practice, duel, etc. hotjoin needs to just go. It teaches new players all sorts of bad habits as it is not an actual reflection, even remotely of what serious tourneys are like (which is why it is also bad for testing builds). If you get rid of it you will have a lot more people to queue to tourneys and can support separate queues and rankings for solo queue and premades, which also needs to happen. Yes I’m aware the premade queue would be longer, but so what, full pugs vs full premades isn’t good for either.
New players will then just solo queue and if the matching system works (cough) they’ll get matched up with and against lower rank players, and even if they get their kitten kicked, at least it will be kicked in an actual tourney environment where they can watch how the more experienced players are playing and actually learn how to play conquest from the start.
