Guild Wars 2

Starting at 7pm on 8/9/11 to 7 pm 8/10/11, I played 24 hours straight of solo q without caffeine or any other drugs. Some things I noticed are:

-Engis are amazing.
-Eles are just as bad solo q as they are in team q and competitive play.
-Random map rotation is awesome.
-The classes mix consisted of about 25% necros, 15% warriors, 15% spirit rangers, 15% thieves, 15% engis, 5% guards, 5% mesmer, 5% ele.
-There seemed to be a pool of about 30 players that I kept playing with.
The longer I kept playing, the longer it seemed the queues took compared to the same time the previous day. The longest queue took 28 minutes which was in early morning.
-The team with the most combination of spirit ranger and necro won every single game. The team with the most ele and mesmer lost every single time. If a team had the most spirit ranger/necro AND ele/mesmer the results varied.
-There was 1 player who I didn’t sync with that I played with or against for about 20 games in a row.
-Out of the 52 games, 6 of them had unbalanced teams. 4 games we had 4 players, 1 game the other team had 4 players and 1 game they had 3 players.
-I had the best 10 hours of sleep I’ve ever had

Congrats on the gaming coma. I sorta did the same thing so it was nice to see some of the points you made because I can relate to them.

Batmang.5421:

-Engis are amazing.

Agreed. They have such a large influence in solo queue because of their utility and raw DPS. When I see a good engi and a necro on the other team I cry a little inside because I know I can’t bunker them for long. Plague signet+bombs+grenades makes it so hard to cleanse things like the 10 stacks of bleed or 5 stacks of confusion.

Batmang.5421:

-Eles are just as bad solo q as they are in team q and competitive play.

I’ll agree that eles are kinda weak right now and that’s evident in their competitive representation. The input-out for playing an ele in tPvP is just not worth it. But respect for those eles keepin it alive! Shout out to Vain, Zoose, cmc, and the other eles I saw in solo queue late at night. I only have the balls to play ele on very specific conditions like on Battle of Khylo.

Batmang.5421:

-Random map rotation is awesome.

Skyhammer’s still pretty annoying. I still win a lot on that map because I play a gimmicky Skyhammer guardian build. I always feel so dirty in the end. I think I’ve only lost one game where I controlled the cannon the whole game and that’s because the other team was just way better. Skyhammer’s probably the biggest counter to spirit rangers. The cannon instagibs all their spirits in one shot so it’s a love/hate relationship with that map
I still think Spirit Watch has the same problem with rangers running the orb nonstop. I remember someone saying they’d rather play Capricorn than Spirit Watch.

Batmang.5421:

-The classes mix consisted of about 25% necros…

Lots of them are pretty bad. I just think they’re the class with the lowest skill floor so most people pick it up easily. It’s those really good necros that I’m scared of.

Batmang.5421:

-The team with the most combination of spirit ranger and necro won every single game.

Not gonna agree or disagree but I did win a game where my team had 4 necros and 1 bunker (me). We ended up winning. Still wondering if we won because my team had the better comp or had the better players.

U should get some sort of achievement for 24 hrs straight SoloQ pvp. Thats some commitment u got lol, grats!

Hoonani.5714:

Batmang.5421:

-The team with the most combination of spirit ranger and necro won every single game.

Not gonna agree or disagree but I did win a game where my team had 4 necros and 1 bunker (me). We ended up winning. Still wondering if we won because my team had the better comp or had the better players.

GGs last night Charles ^^. I do remember the 4 nec 1 guard game. We lost by like 400 points rofl.

Fun threads like this deserve more attention than the endless QQ threads! moar!

So you pretty much admit that solo queue is pretty much flat out broken and shines out exactly what the most overpowered classes are in the game.

You know after playing necro for a bit than switching to spirit ranger, necros aren’t as op as everyone thinks they’re. I find some games even the warrior is more op than the necro.

I have to agree with you on one thing though, eles are very terrible right now. I just don’t see why anyone would play an ele. The only thing they do really good is bursting a treb down in under 5 seconds. I’ve never seen an ele burst down the lord so cant say anything abou that. Eles are so squishy they go downed while not even targeted due to all the AE they eat up. Eles are the squishy class in the game, more squishy than a thief.

the streak was broken! After 96 games the team that had the most spirit rangers finally lost -_-

On Eu its more like:
25% necros, 25% Warriors, 30% Spirit Ranger, 5% Guards, 10% Engis, Eles+Mesmer+Thiefs<5%

But I agree Engi is fun to play and if you dont get spiked heavily you can have a huge influence with your CC.