Guild Wars 2

After fighting from Gold 1 to Platinum 1 I am noticing several things:

1. Queue times are much longer.

2. The matches are even more one sided.

3. Both sides still make very obvious mistakes.

4. Cheesy but often easily countered builds like Burn Guard are still used.

I am far from being an amazing player that never makes mistakes – but some of the errors in judgement I’m seeing is just astounding. I haven’t lost yet in Plat, but man have some teammates really gone out of their way to lose. Going far at the start without telling anyone, capping home then going far while mid needs help, not stomping or reviving. In my opinion, you should almost always go mid after capping home unless you see that somebody died before you got there. If the other team’s home player goes mid, your team is down one and will probably lose. That decap at far isn’t worth that much if you can’t defend it; meanwhile defending mid once its won is not that hard.

Anyways, it’s only a matter of time till I start to be on the victim side of things. The weird thing is I think I’d be cool with dropping back down so that I don’t have to wait 5 mins for a match. I’m playing for the backpiece as it is anyways. It’s just disappointing that the matches aren’t as competitive as I expected them to be.

Most people are just doing dailies or farming money/shards regardless of rank.

Winning is preferable but its not like people are thinking on a deep tactical level. Its just auto-pilot farming.

The backpack achievements also require getting wins on multiple classes which is why you see cheese builds in high ranks. People at a high rank need to get the 5 wins on an unfamiliar class they didnt use previously so of course people will play poorly and use cheap/easy builds.

God awful system for promoting competitive play. You should be able to get these achievements in non-ranked, but Anet has learned that nobody will play spvp if they cant farm pve gear.

agreed the more I rank up in gold the more I get losing streaks, like each time I reach high tier in gold , BAM, keep losing and losing and losing no matter how HARD I try there’s is nothing to do, I get games like you describe EACH time you see my necro boting far or, people fighting at the entrance of our spawn….I thought I had skills and I can’t even get passed kitten gold because people are just not there at all