I started out in sapphire because I decided not to waste people’s time lasts seasons by playing professions I don’t know. This season I’m doing that, and not doing well, playing against experience opponents on classes I’ve barely played. I want to get that legendary, being massively behind in the achievements despite the number of divisions I’ve crossed.
Am I going to regret throwing a bunch of games playing these classes, and therefore never be able to play ranked PvP again? That seems like a really messed up system. Or does it take into account that I have no idea what I’m doing?
Edit: I’m just getting kittening obliterated against bad opponents, this can’t be good for my future teams, they’re going to think I’m beyond terrible.
I feel your pain, this was me last season and again soon once I unlock the “5 wins per class” again for this season.
All I can say is tell yourself and your team mates if they complain “hey man, don’t hate the player hate the game (or in this place the makers)”. Tell them if they want to complain to bring it to the forums for the removal of these achievements.
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
Ummm.
a) This season is different. If you loose a lot it means that the game will place you in favourable matchups to try and restore a 50% winrate.
b) You know there are these 2 other buttons to the left of ‘ranked PvP’?
You know those you usually want to click on when youre practicing.
b) You know there are these 2 other buttons to the left of ‘ranked PvP’?
You know those you usually want to click on when youre practicing.
Gee that never occured to me. Of course I practiced in unranked, but I’m not going to suddenly gain 4 years of experience on a new profession. My main can hang with anyone, I can’t use a few days or even weeks experience to be godlike at a new profession. Look at OEggs kitten .
I did 2 more professions this season at the start. It didn’t go very well and I still have a sub 50% (~43%) win rate despite making Ruby already 3 days in.
I don’t really care what other people think tbh or I’d never PvP due to all the kittentalk but I’d rather ‘throw’ early in sapphire than in legend where people are trying to get their diamond→legend or ruby→diamond or whatever.
b) You know there are these 2 other buttons to the left of ‘ranked PvP’?
You know those you usually want to click on when youre practicing.
Gee that never occured to me. Of course I practiced in unranked, but I’m not going to suddenly gain 4 years of experience on a new profession. My main can hang with anyone, I can’t use a few days or even weeks experience to be godlike at a new profession. Look at OEggs kitten .
I dont know what professions you are practicing with but in season 1 I abandoned my thief for a ranger and it took me about 50 matches to score better results.
And with still less than 300 games on ranger I dont even think im below average.
If you wish to learn rev or thief you will probably have to invest some more time, I’ll give you that.
b) You know there are these 2 other buttons to the left of ‘ranked PvP’?
You know those you usually want to click on when youre practicing.
Gee that never occured to me. Of course I practiced in unranked, but I’m not going to suddenly gain 4 years of experience on a new profession. My main can hang with anyone, I can’t use a few days or even weeks experience to be godlike at a new profession. Look at OEggs kitten .
I dont know what professions you are practicing with but in season 1 I abandoned my thief for a ranger and it took me about 50 matches to score better results.
And with still less than 300 games on ranger I dont even think im below average.
If you wish to learn rev or thief you will probably have to invest some more time, I’ll give you that.
Rev is broken OP, so that should go faster than thief…
Jade Quarry – Esparie
Illustrious Exhausted Primordial Legendary Druid, and Mesmer for fun
PvE | PvP (1500)| WvW | Fractals | Dungeons
Rev is broken OP, so that should go faster than thief…
This is what annoys me most about seasons. I’ll probably go for revenant and warrior, just like every other player out there. Seasons encourage people to play stupid builds like last season’s reaper and condi mesmer, and then you wound up with 8 reapers in a single match. Rather than legendary/unranked where you play what you enjoy and have 7 different builds in a single match.
I’ve plummeted so far in the rankings I’m losing nearly 100% of my matches to emerald players. Is this really not going to affect me when I go back to my main, I won’t be on idiot teams?
Edit: This is no longer a “am I making a mistake” thread, this is a “I made a huge mistake thread”. I’m at like 1-15 in my last few games. I should have done the profession achievements before I progressed to a high rank.
This is worse than faming PvE, I am never doing ranked again after I get these wins.
I vaguely recall that per profession MMR was talked about at one time. I wish that were the case, because my MMR is bad enough on classes I play regularly.
Playing an unfamiliar class is going to get me and my team slaughtered. So I feel your pain.
I finished the profession achievements in S2, during which I went on a huge loosing streak, something like 30 games. Many people made fun of me and said MMR hell does not exist. Ha ha, it sure did last season.
Edit: I feel your pain, but misery loves company!
Jade Quarry – Esparie
Illustrious Exhausted Primordial Legendary Druid, and Mesmer for fun
PvE | PvP (1500)| WvW | Fractals | Dungeons
Going after that stupid backpiece took me from a 80% or whatever win ratio last season to now being about 5 and 30 in my games over the weekend. Totally ridiculous. I assume I can never play ranked again because I messed up the matchmaking so badly (?).
Ummm.
a) This season is different. If you loose a lot it means that the game will place you in favourable matchups to try and restore a 50% winrate.
b) You know there are these 2 other buttons to the left of ‘ranked PvP’?
You know those you usually want to click on when youre practicing.
fluffball, swap to your main toon. When you get back to 50/50 swap to your alt again.
There is a tipping point you do not want to fall below, or your pretty much doomed to joke matchs for the rest of eternity.
What’s the point of this thread? You played classes you never played before and you lost a lot of games because of that.
The point is that it was a question, as was pretty clearly stated in the title! I was asking what other people’s experiences were. The point of the thread has turned into a warning for others though.
If I’d started out in amber I don’t think this would have been a problem. Maybe I just need to wait for the bad players to make it to sapphire.
Rotate them between w/ mains so I don’t drop too much.
Ha, that actually didn’t occur to me to do like 5 games on main, 1 on alt, 5 main etc. The number of alt games needed are so low so I was like “surely I can win 1 game.” And then get furious and keep trying and trying to win just 1 game.
Hopefully I can dig myself out of this hole with my main. If not, kitten it.
