Originally this topic was going to have an ‘Equalizer’ theme to it with some songs synced to my pip bar. But with the addition of win streaks(+2 pips) and getting through the Divisions a lot quicker than I anticipated, I set up the 186 screenshots to some epic build up music.
A couple things to take note:
So in all, I played 190 games and lot’s of salt was thrown around as you can see in the chat box throughout my journey.
Hey ArrowSlanger, congrats on legendary via solo queueing.
While I didn’t soloq the entire way from amber to legendary, I did most of diamond as soloq and 4 tiers through legendary soloq. It can be done. Just to be clear, any match where I didn’t soloq I instead duo queued with a friend of similar skill and MMR.
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Grats. I would be more impressed if the match making worked.
Oh you definitely didn’t get to feel the real ruby struggle lol. I know some ppl that got half of ruby in one day just to lose it all next day, and they are not bad xD
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There is a lot of lopsided scores and a couple handfuls of entire blowouts. A half dozen of close finishes.
Good work, but it does also act as more evidence for those who feel the MMR does create heavily favoured vs unfavoured matches.
Hey ArrowSlanger, congrats on legendary via solo queueing.
While I didn’t soloq the entire way from amber to legendary, I did most of diamond as soloq and 4 tiers through legendary soloq. It can be done. Just to be clear, any match where I didn’t soloq I instead duo queued with a friend of similar skill and MMR.
Thanks! Soloq’ing is tough but in the end it felt more like a grind. I would say around 35% of my matches felt like both sides were even and it came down to not making any mistakes. The other 65% were more lopsided and already had the outcome figured before hand. The even matches started to show up around T3 of Diamond and up. I also started a couple days late and played 3 – 5 games a night except on the weekends.
I like how you couldn’t progress whenever you swapped to druid and quickly went reaper again which made you climb.
Reaper so balanced.
I like how you couldn’t progress whenever you swapped to druid and quickly went reaper again which made you climb.
Reaper so balanced.
I would swap to Druid after a loss or two using Reaper, then quickly switched back. Reaper was too much fun. The funny thing is from T4 Diamond up I was using a MM/Reaper hybrid.
I’m not impressed. You used OP builds and a high mmr winstreak.
Nice! Haha and that music! My heart sunk a little when your winning streaks ended! It felt like my own bar.
Originally this topic was going to have an ‘Equalizer’ theme to it with some songs synced to my pip bar. But with the addition of win streaks(+2 pips) and getting through the Divisions a lot quicker than I anticipated, I set up the 186 screenshots to some epic build up music.
A couple things to take note:
- My third match I took a screenshot but didn’t realize I was on the wrong pane so you can’t see my pip bar so I left that one out.
- Somewhere around Ruby and twice in Diamond I forgot to take a screenshot at the end of the match. Fortunately, those 3 missed screenshots were losses. So you can still see that every advancement was done solo.
So in all, I played 190 games and lot’s of salt was thrown around as you can see in the chat box throughout my journey.
I’m curious at later portions of diamond you seem to be using mm-build with scepter and dagger, care to share what kind of build you used? I see alot of mm-necros running around but they are usually power builds.
Good job dude, I have done the same quite recently and made a brekadown on reddit of the matches I had and the different team compositions (duo/trio/4man/5man) I had to play against during my journey. Took me 213 games total.
If you ever have the time, could be interesting to see how many true soloQ games you had in total.
In the end my only regret was not tryharding enough during emerald with a kittenty kitten venom share build I want to win with for the lolz. Made me waste quite some game there lmao. Once you tryhard you climb.
Wanted to make a gif of the pip climbing :P
Only 1/4 of my total games on my way to legendary were 5 soloQ vs 5 soloQ.
190 matches is way too much to get legendary and people say you cant grind your way up anymore, huh
Why is it too much? You can get into legendary under 100 total matches if you are helseth-lvl in solo/duoq. So being a bit average takes longer, it’s normal, you’re not going to maintain a win streak and breeze through everything if you are soloQing.
You dont even need to be a dedicated pvper to reach it, you have almost 2 months to make it. 200 matches in 2 months, how is that a grind ? It BECOMES a grind if you are close to 50% win rate and cant look back at your own playstyle and individual skill and if you reached a wall and cant admit : “yep, this is my actual lvl, i need to do stuff to improve and go higher”.
Originally this topic was going to have an ‘Equalizer’ theme to it with some songs synced to my pip bar. But with the addition of win streaks(+2 pips) and getting through the Divisions a lot quicker than I anticipated, I set up the 186 screenshots to some epic build up music.
A couple things to take note:
- My third match I took a screenshot but didn’t realize I was on the wrong pane so you can’t see my pip bar so I left that one out.
- Somewhere around Ruby and twice in Diamond I forgot to take a screenshot at the end of the match. Fortunately, those 3 missed screenshots were losses. So you can still see that every advancement was done solo.
So in all, I played 190 games and lot’s of salt was thrown around as you can see in the chat box throughout my journey.
I’m curious at later portions of diamond you seem to be using mm-build with scepter and dagger, care to share what kind of build you used? I see alot of mm-necros running around but they are usually power builds.
Sure. I started with the standard Shout build off of Mettabattle. It was a good build and I enjoyed it but then Brazil released a Healing Raid Necromancer video a few days ago so I checked it out and thought how I could adapt it to sPvP. So I came up with this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNAW7YnM0AN1gt1AebCs3glpBbqldBOWxhwTYLUaAUACAA-TJhHABeXGQgLCAa7PAwTAAA
I did switch one of the trait lines for Reaper and switched a couple of traits and utilities. But in the end, this build is a lot of fun. It works even better in coordinated team play.
Good job dude, I have done the same quite recently and made a brekadown on reddit of the matches I had and the different team compositions (duo/trio/4man/5man) I had to play against during my journey. Took me 213 games total.
If you ever have the time, could be interesting to see how many true soloQ games you had in total.
In the end my only regret was not tryharding enough during emerald with a kittenty kitten venom share build I want to win with for the lolz. Made me waste quite some game there lmao. Once you tryhard you climb.
Wanted to make a gif of the pip climbing :P
Only 1/4 of my total games on my way to legendary were 5 soloQ vs 5 soloQ.
This is good information. Now I wished I went through and tallied up my stats and put it out in a readable format. I ended up playing 190 games total.
That class diversity, though.
Grats on legend.
What scared me is that win or lose, virtually every game was completely unbalanced score wise. Come on ANET.
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