Guild Wars 2

Hey All,

Just got to legendary on my necro – I have pretty bad MMR imo (My PVP win Rate has always been < 50% in ranked matches). I was 2 pips away from legendary in Season 1 (then fell back to t3 diamond) before it ended – as I tilted.

The majority of matches were also solo Q’d – with about 10 or so duo Q in ruby. 5-6 matches were duo Q in diamond.

According to GW2 PVP.DE – which I have been using to track my progress in the season:
# Account Pips total % Wins W/L Wins Losses
252 TPMN 125 Division 6: Legendary 45.97% 0.85 1876 2205

Okay so here is the build – I was using mostly and got into legendary and ripped up those diamond pips:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArdWnc0AN3gdbCubC0bilgBLKpFAaAUXhtwvKuIuEjiA-TpxFABLcIAQa/hyLDkwRAAgTAwBPAAA

I found this was more interesting than what was out there on meta-battle and gave a bit more umph… especially with the corrosive poison cloud used on soul spiral (the poison is insane). Was also pretty handy ensuring downed people didnt res up too fast.

Anyways I put up a graph of my progress through the season- it shows our teams score.
There were even a few matches where we managed to score 0 points !!!

You can see it was a rough start at Amber – this part was rough.
I remember emerald Tier 2 was bad, so was sapphire T4 playing some crazy builds.

But as the season progressed you start to see more wins than losses.

For those of you that love stats – I encourage you to track all your matches on gw2pvp.de – as it allows you to do funky stuff like this with the data later on.

It took me 624 matches to reach legendary – cause I’m no pro – but I’ve learnt a lot and had some very long win streaks – especially in diamond (once I started to use the build I pinged above).

Just remember metabattle is not the be-all and end all, sometimes you have to tweak it a bit.

Let me know what you think about the build I relied on to get through diamond –
would love to have feedback on it.

Happy PVPing all !

Gz man!!!
Well deserved.

Oh – if you’re wondering for more proof about the win/loss ratio – I did improve significantly after ruby.

These little gems should help show the win ratio in a bit more detail as time moved on.
Same idea as the prior little graph – the left hand side is legendary and right hand side is amber.

You can see I was clearly all messed up at the start so my MMR would have been on the ’you’re going to get crappy team mates mode’.

I’d love to read and understand your graphs, but, alas, I do not live in the Matrix.

I see from ur graphs that u never got caught in mmr hell. So the fact that ur win loss ratio hovered around 46% at start of season (or now) is not that material. What is material is that you, by ur own proof, never got caught in a horrible loss streak. If you caught a horrible loss streak (which I may remind u, can happen due to many circumstances having nothing to do w/ ur personal skill – including playing day 1 of seas 2 and getting trounced by pro leagues and dealing w/ teammates on free accts brand new to pvp), ur win/loss mmr ratings combined w/ ur huge loss streak would make ur ascent back up to legendary much more painful and prolonged, if not impossible.

There are some long loss streaks in my graph of matches – you can even see the blowouts.
Day 1 = Horrid.

I had two massive loss streaks – one of 18 games, one of 20 games in my history.
It also took me over 100 games before my Win Ratio was over 60% !

My longest Win Streak was 6 games in a row
So yes- I could safely say I probably was not on the side of ‘good MMR’

Maybe post this in nec forum. Also looks like slight varition of meta cryomancer. Congrats for making it.

TPMN.1483:

Hey All,
It took me 624 matches to reach legendary – cause I’m no pro – but I’ve learnt a lot and had some very long win streaks – especially in diamond (once I started to use the build I pinged above).

So feel free to correct me If I’m wrong…. 624 Matches…at the rate of about 4 an hour that’s 156 hours of pvp in about four weeks. So basically was a full time job to make it to legendary from low MMR. Not a criticism of you, but more of the system, cause that seems a little excessive to me….