I moved away from PvE because in order to achieve anything you need at least 27 hours a day sitting at a chair. PvP is now we’re cancer and AIDS pasients get quarantined. Unbalanced and full of brainded classes. Anet is always saving you money as no monitor is required anymore just standing there and hitting some keys will do the job for these clases. Unless you have a team full of people who indeed have 27 hours a day to play don’t think about playing PvP. You will be matched against pro players and teams and mached with inexperienced PvP players who can access ranked maches after just a few games. Off to play some better PvP games I don’t wanna wait around until it gets fixed. Should have been fixed just as quick as other things have been fixed in the past.
Yes, Amber to Ruby is going to come quickly with skill or very slow though grind, but since you’ll never know which tactic the player used to get their it’s worth of prestige is greatly devalued.
How can a player grind it?
- A.) It’s well known players are losing matches to lower MMR. I’ve faced two such teams today I was very suspect of and that was only in an hour of playing. As designed players have incentive to do this at any league division level Emerald and above.
- B.) Even if you are a mediocre or often bad player, If you play long enough you will get paired with a team either trying to lower their MMR or a team where the other 4 players are strong enough to carry you to a win.
- Eventually the combination of A & B will consecutively line up to allow a player to lock in each tier needed to obtain Ruby. You may need 200 hours to do it, you may do it in only 500 hours (numbers are arbitrary) luck gets sprinkled into the equation but what is clearly absent is a good scale. A scale that actually ties a league division rank to a players real skill in PvP.
Diamond and Legendary leagues do. ArenaNet is treating the rest of us like children at daycare. Eventually you’ll get your cookie if you repeat what we ask you to often enough.
What adds more insult to it all is the way it’s designed. Players solo queuing in hopes of getting their Legendary piece can grind up to Ruby where they will have successfully obtained 3 of the four pieces needed to forge the precursor, that last piece will require Diamond division which will not come with grind, because you can no longer rely on luck and teams trying to dump MMR to grant you those magical five string victories.
In Ruby you’ll loose those tiers. The only strategy that will get you to Diamond is to form a solid team which, if you solo queued your way to Ruby probably goes against your play style so you’ll finish out the season enraged as you win a pip, loose a pip, win 2 pips, loose 3 pips, etc….
