Guild Wars 2

For a over a week now, I’ve been stuck in Emerald T4. And it seemed the longest time of being in a hopeless limbo of losses. I managed to finally catch a win streak into Sapphire!

It was not easy the past week however. Starting out hard on Day 1, with a warrior to do the “win ranked” achievements definitely shot myself in the foot. Once in emerald, and back on my main (ranger) I started having those “10-15” losing streaks. My build once viable in S1 Ruby (which let me into Diamond before the season ended) wasn’t cutting it.

I would continue to tweak my build. but it was not working. Although I’ve improved I was still having a win ratio of 2/8. I became desperate. As my only goal this season was to hit sapphire at least (originally aimed for ruby).

few days ago I finally bit the bullet and turned my vanilla ranger build into druid. I tried to swear off going druid, but there was no options left to have a sustainable vanilla build. Which was only effective with 1 v 1’s and groups of new players.

It improved abit, I was now only having losing streaks of 3-4 (occasionally +5) but still was not enough. I had to do it. I went full bunker/healing druid.

I could now help my team much more. Blowouts of 200+ points started to become less often. win ratio became closer to 50/50 again… And finally. Finally. Hit a win streak to take me out of T4 Emerald straight into Sapphire!

Even though this was just emerald, this was my own mountain to over come. Through all the afk’ers, new/inexperienced players I was grouped with. I’ve climbed this tiny hill. Although there will still be more of the same in Sapphire. I could probably stress a lot less now.

I can only hope this post can give some inspiration to other stuck in their tiers. It’s still possible to dig yourself out of your mmr hole that has been dug.

You got out of the losing streak because you now have the right mentality, yes you need to carry! Always aim to play a support/healer build when possible(tempest shout/druid search and rescue) or play dps builds that can change the tides of the game in your favour :Thief( decapper/+1); DH( teamfight bomb, get support and blow stuff) or Scrapper ( sustain 1vs1 bruiser, can harass , hold vs2 for a little while)…