Guild Wars 2

And nobody knows what is going to happen afterwards!

Enlighten us!

(ffs)

Edit: Obviously there is going to be the four weeks of nothing followed by Season 3, but in terms of Pro League, balancing, maps.. you know, udpates, we know nothing. S2 is imperative in determining the direction tPvP will take.

1 month break then season 3 starts

Tontonino.9736:

And nobody knows what is going to happen afterwards!

Enlighten us!

(ffs)

they will make a balance sweep
they will test the changes over the interim period
the next season will start about a month after the end of the season

I just want to know if anet will go on with a third pro league or something similar to Go4 cup, so I can decide whether to quit pvp or not

dominik.9721:

I just want to know if anet will go on with a third pro league or something similar to Go4 cup, so I can decide whether to quit pvp or not

You can always try prestige 30 next season !

dominik.9721:

I just want to know if anet will go on with a third pro league or something similar to Go4 cup, so I can decide whether to quit pvp or not

That is precisely what I’m talking about, we all know there is going to be another grind session after this season and the balance patch

I’ll be more specific

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

1 month break then season 3 starts

detox time for hc pvp-ers and to buy those chineese shoe soles for detoxing.

They should release balance patch notes already to let us laugh for 2h straight

I am rather curious if season 3 is going to be the final total trainwreck.

Given that this pvp season is one of my worst gaming experiences in 15 years of mmo gaming, I can’t be the only one thinking that way.
Not if the forum is even barely a representation of player opinion.

Hence, I wonder what season 3 and the April update will do to this game to turn the HoT desaster around. For me, it’s make or break with GW2 as I am moving on from being salty to just not caring anymore.

I was past caring long time ago season was finished weeks ago only another 10 days or torture left! endless lose streaks no competitive matches. I fear S3 more of the same! I log in get my 15-20 blow out losses rinse and repeat

Anet will probably nerf Warrior, increase condition damage, etc…
Also, if you lose the 1st match in the season, you are going to lose forever…

Coelho Nat.4697:

Anet will probably nerf Warrior, increase condition damage, etc…
Also, if you lose the 1st match in the season, you are going to lose forever…

this agree +1 – so true !

Matisse.9356:

I am rather curious if season 3 is going to be the final total trainwreck.

I think it’s more likely to be the promised land, honestly.

First season had what seemed like solid matchmaking, outside of full SQers vs full premade, but it had terrible balance.
Second season has decent balance, but it’s plagued with this matchmaking system that it seems like nobody likes.

Third season they could find the goldilocks zone. I’m pretty optimistic with this analysis but I think it’s possible.

From what I read from Evan Lesh’s post everything’s working as intended so I really don’t think anything’s gonna change at least not for the better every change I’ve seen since release just makes things worse and worse and worse ( except for the wardrobe and dye change that was good).

Sarrs.4831:

Matisse.9356:

I am rather curious if season 3 is going to be the final total trainwreck.

I think it’s more likely to be the promised land, honestly.

First season had what seemed like solid matchmaking, outside of full SQers vs full premade, but it had terrible balance.
Second season has decent balance, but it’s plagued with this matchmaking system that it seems like nobody likes.

Third season they could find the goldilocks zone. I’m pretty optimistic with this analysis but I think it’s possible.

I don’t think they would. Thing is, with gw2pvp that you are either legend or a noob/tryhard/fodder. People look down even on diamond players. There’s absolutely no prestige. Some people, thanks to matchmaking, clawed their way into Ruby at the start of the season. And now that it is easy to get in ruby, ruby is looked at as if it is amber or something. I was one of those people, that clawed into ruby after being matched with godawful people. So much that I made a team and rather face premades with VoIP (i didn’t voip) than play the russian roulette that is soloQ and get the braindead teammates. Reached last tier of Ruby and certain other games released so I didn’t have time to play Gw2. Fast forward few weeks and reading the forum and how much people look down toward ruby players because everyone who wanted to grind reached legendary or got carried there. “Oh you are a just a ruby, you must suck balls, git gut pleb”.

And sadly, there is no easy fix for this. At least not casual friendly one. They can make you lose division if you terribad, but the casuls would instantly drop out of the race, as they already do because they can’t get “the wings”.

And with no fodder, you can’t sustain 5-6 divisions.

Anet needs to make core specs viable again so that F2P players have a chance at least. Ranked should be played earlier than rank 20. They should go away from this seasonal system. Reset it occasionally, yes. Having no ranked for a month and being forced to play the likes of skyhammer or spirit’s watch is a crime.

So no, I don’t think season 3 would be any better. They need to work on a lot of things and matchmaking is just a quarter of it, if not less. There are so many “make-it-or-break-it” things to consider that I simply think ANet didn’t put the time to.

Sure, they’ll release a balance patch to make people cry less. But that’s all it’s going to be … making people cry less. Doesn’t mean it’s going to magically fix all the issues the game has.

Anet started communicating with the forum about the current season after their wall of silence at the start. After the Matlab analysis they went quiet on the matter again. The analysis showed that S2 was only a slight improvement for representing skill than S1 and in some cases many times worse. Also that it can’t work without a large playerbase and S1 would be a preferable matchmaking system. For S2 matchmaking to work it would have to create games as close to even as possible (ie why not just use S1 matchmaking) and would still fail to do its job. So a revert is highly possible.

I just hope after S2 the devs open their eyes (and FIX) on the overuse of some professions/clases making the primary use and reducing the diversity on and in the PVP
devastating condi meta use (like condi put vs condi cleanse the balance between them)
encourage /improving some left behind professions/clases giving them equal chances
or else S3(if it will be 1) will be the same or worst and the complaints will be much much more

I don’t mind the MMR system, if only this MMR was actual representation of skill. I find it hard to believe that I’m so low in MMR that I’m matched with people who walk into traps,marks,whatever you name it, don’t know what cleave is, don’t know what safe stomp is and kiting to them is perceived as map exploit rather than gameplay mechanic. Those were the people I was matched with. Rotation was nonexistent, they were sitting 3 on a capture point for the dailies or God knows what. After I got myself into a team my winrate skyrocketed. And even though we did play versus people with VoIP we still won some of the games because of superior rotations.

All of the above feels insulting toward me. As someone who plays since headstart, I find it insulting to be matched with people who seemingly play this game for a week and “somehow” got carried to last tier of sapphire where I initially sensed the loss streak.

When I reached Ruby very few people in HotM had it (or above) I had it kinda early. However I took a hiatus of the game and in only couple of weeks Ruby is considered trash tier and it probably is, judging by the people I’m playing with.