Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I made a FtP account a few days ago. In case anybody is wondering, I had to play only 43 unranked games to get to Rank 20. I did not play any PvE or WvW, went straight to sPvP as soon as I could after making the account. I’m playing S/F Fresh Air ele, similar to Phantaram’s build but with modifications depending on enemy comp. So far I’m 3-0 in my placement matches. On my main account (the one I’m posting from) I have played 2.5k games and I bounce between Silver 3 and Gold 1, so I consider myself very average at best.

As for the matches, so far every thief has been bad. Every single one. In my first match the other team had 2 P/P thieves XD needless to say that was a blowout, they didn’t even reach 200 points despite the fact that one of my teammates was absolutely convinced that the beasts in Forest are super important. In my 3rd match I fought somebody with the “Primordial Legend” title, so I’m not only getting matched with/against people at my account’s level of experience. I’ll update this once I finish my matches.

So I ended up 4-6, 4 wins and 6 losses. I was placed into Silver 3, ironically at almost exactly the same rating as I was on my main account. If I was worse, I’d likely have been placed into Silver 1 or Bronze. My first 4 matches (the ones I won) were very close except for the one where I faced 2 P/P thieves, the losses were less balanced. There were few blowouts, but the other teams played noticeably better in my losses. I’ve attached the final scores of the 10 placements matches.

Bad behaviors I noticed:

1. Poor rotations. Example: Randomly going far when we could’ve controlled mid-home. This was the most common mistake. I most frequently noticed people rotating poorly on respawn after they got wiped at a point, or after finishing a small fight on-point. Seems like people really want to rotate after winning an easy fight, rather than defending.
2. 1v1ing on a bad matchup. Example: In my last match a thief kept trying to 1v1 a warrior. This was the second most common mistake
3. Lack of understanding of secondary objectives. Example: My team ignored Tranquility, I got there first, lost a 1v2, and ultimately the other team claimed it. One guy was yelling at the team to go to Tranq, but only got there after I’d been finished. He died shortly after. Or in the first match in Forest, where my teammate told us in all caps to get the beasts… when we were easily controlling mid-home.
4. Not focusing targets.
5. Focusing the wrong targets. Example: I had a match where a druid repeatedly targeted the other team’s support ele instead of the necro, at times changing the target from the necro to the ele. He blamed me for our loss at the end.
6. Players not playing their role. Example: Thieves not decapping far. Or that same druid claiming that he could heal/rez, but only got 1 rez the entire match (I also got credit for that rez and we both got top stat for rezzes).

So if you’re wondering what it’s like to play at a lower level with unskilled teammates, that’s my experience in my placement matches. I’m honestly not sure if I belong higher or lower on my alt account, I’m ok at FA ele but it’s not my main, I only played it because it’s a core build.