Guild Wars 2

Returned after a couple of years and was top player in 4 games (despite not keeping up with the meta), went 1-8….matchmaking is a joke.

Also, no surprise that regular servers show 30 total people playing at one time.

Oh…and Ele’s everywhere stacking burning. Great fun.

Horribly imbalanced PvP + broken matchmaking + low player count = game is beyond saving right now. Maybe expansion will help.

Good Tofu.9376:

Returned after a couple of years and was top player in 4 games (despite not keeping up with the meta), went 1-8….matchmaking is a joke.

Also, no surprise that regular servers show 30 total people playing at one time.

Oh…and Ele’s everywhere stacking burning. Great fun.

Horribly imbalanced PvP + broken matchmaking + low player count = game is beyond saving right now. Maybe expansion will help.

you might be interested in reading my post about the TTK ^^
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/PVP-basic-game-design-TTK-time-to-kill/first#post5472267
it is kinda on the same wave link, and explains quite the major issue of balance in the game

After not having played for a couple years, matchmaking for you is going to be really whacky at the start (not that it turns into some glorious system in the end either, but it should even out, and you should see improvement atleast). The system does not have any MMR for you, so it doesn’t know who to match you up with. And I honestly have no idea where you’re getting your stats that there is only 30 players online? I’ve been in quite a few mega-guilds before where it wasn’t unusual to have 100+ players on during peak times in the guild alone. The game certainly isn’t dead.

Also, the point system doesn’t mean much, especially if you’re losing games. For example, I was on a team last night that completely mopped the other team as far as kills. I had something like 18 kills and over 200+ points, but we still ended up losing the match purely because they out rotated us and their top player had something like 75 points. Kills and double caps are easy ways to inflate a team’s points without actually winning objectives to win the match.

It’s 2 yeras that you don’t play and you pop up now to say that the game is unbalanced?
Wow, you’re the one that we need to save us!!!

Seriously… if you don’t play for 2 years you need more or less 3 weeks to learn how to play your class and your build in the current meta, how to fight every spec, what kind of skills you need and how to fight a condition build, that actually can really be dangerous.

For example I’ve not so much problems against eles that stack burn why i know how they stack burn and how to counter them, expecially with my guardian meditation and my necro MM (not the best build but a really funny one).

The game isn’t perfectly balanced but it will never be. Actually is more balanced than 1 years ago and a good player can make the difference, every class he chose to use, expecially if he can fit the role he chose.

About matchmaking it’s better than some time ago. Now frequently i fight in solo with a team that is similar to the enemy team. but ANet can’t chose if that player is a good player or a noob.
But o that there will be a hope in the futur with the expansion why Anet annunced the Leagues, that will grant better chances to play with balanced players to your sPvP level.

Yesterday with my guild i played a lot of matches, winning a large amount of them. Today we lose more or less 2/3 of the matches, with the same players and build of yesterday.

It’s like you play some of the biggest online shooter games. You’re balanced why you can chose more or less the same weapons of the enemy but if you find a noob in your team you lose the match.

i think that actually the game is well balanced, there’s only some things to fix and tone down/up and the game will be good.

If you after 2 years pretend to win every match because 2 years ago you’ve been one of the best players of the game… you’re a gw2 n00b.

Find a good sPvP guild, turn back and learn to play with the current meta and only then you will be able to say something.

Actually you’re a old player that act like a child pretending to be good in a game that don’t know.

L2P

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Yup, it took me ages to get used to the balance patch. I went from owning the owned overnight but I’ve settled in now and got my mojo back. You need to adapt and overcome.

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Achievementpoints doesn’t show anything about skill. You might think that it does but it seriously doesn’t. You might be a good player but this is telling us nothing.

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Scruuuuuuuuuub! Obviously you can’t be good at PvP without achievement points.

DTATL.9641:

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Achievementpoints doesn’t show anything about skill. You might think that it does but it seriously doesn’t. You might be a good player but this is telling us nothing.

Pretty sure he was joking.

About OP, I must not exist, I play and love this game since pre-release. I also often see familiar faces to this day, and I often see 100+ players in multiple maps I go. Stop hating, the game is alive and thriving.

If you go by points then you’re not “top player”. I question your “top player” credibility and can’t take this thread seriously.

H O T J O I N S B O I S

I played an ele once and wanted to be like an earth bender and never switched out of earth because that’s my style. I never win like that so ele must be a bad class.

Good Tofu.9376:

Returned after a couple of years and was top player in 4 games (despite not keeping up with the meta), went 1-8….matchmaking is a joke.

Also, no surprise that regular servers show 30 total people playing at one time.

Oh…and Ele’s everywhere stacking burning. Great fun.

Horribly imbalanced PvP + broken matchmaking + low player count = game is beyond saving right now. Maybe expansion will help.

Yay, another person who thinks they’re to good to play with the people they are matched with, loses a bunch of games and comes crying to the forums with a post titled “No wonder nobody plays this game.”.

Next time, if you don’t want to get ridiculed, write up your forum post, print it out, and put it into a shredder and never hit “post” it will be just as useful and you’ll still have people’s respect

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Pfffft that’s nothing. I get kicked out EVERYTIME I try to pug a dungeon team. W/E

PVE is lame anyway. Theyre like, “OOOOh I’m so pro coz I’m fighting computer monsters.” Anyone can do that. PVP is where it’s at.

DTATL.9641:

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Achievementpoints doesn’t show anything about skill. You might think that it does but it seriously doesn’t. You might be a good player but this is telling us nothing.

He was prolly trying to contradict the OP’s claims of being a “top player”

Dark Souls is rightfully considered fair yet challenging, despite the player being outnumbered and even overpowered by bosses (sometimes both in some cases like Ornstein and Smough).

In PvP however players have access to the same classes, builds, and gearsets so its even fairer than Dark Souls. At the same time however PvP is potentially more challenging than dungeons and fractals due to player strategies. Low end dungeons are more challenging than bad players whereas high end PK/PvP is more challenging than high end questing/PvE.

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

I know the pain….

3 years of WvW and PvP and my AP is lower than someone who PvE for the last 6 months

abc.5790:

DTATL.9641:

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Achievementpoints doesn’t show anything about skill. You might think that it does but it seriously doesn’t. You might be a good player but this is telling us nothing.

He was prolly trying to contradict the OP’s claims of being a “top player”

I know that’s what he was doing and it might not seem that way looking back at my post. All I’m saying is you can be a god at pvp with low AP and being crap at it while having 24k AP. There are a bunch of people that link AP with skill and I just want that to go away.

Agemnon.4608:

Dark Souls is rightfully considered fair yet challenging, despite the player being outnumbered and even overpowered by bosses (sometimes both in some cases like Ornstein and Smough).

In PvP however players have access to the same classes, builds, and gearsets so its even fairer than Dark Souls. At the same time however PvP is potentially more challenging than dungeons and fractals due to player strategies. Low end dungeons are more challenging than bad players whereas high end PK/PvP is more challenging than high end questing/PvE.

I meant GW2 PVE, it’s just not engaging enough for me to fully enjoy.

Otherwise OMG I can’t wait for Fallout 4. I’m ready to throw money at Bethesda for both PC and console versions. I always beat the game on console first then explore thoroughly on the PC version.

DTATL.9641:

abc.5790:

DTATL.9641:

Vapour.7348:

I’ve been playing this game for over 3 years (longest break 3mos) and I’m still a noob. fml.

Achievementpoints doesn’t show anything about skill. You might think that it does but it seriously doesn’t. You might be a good player but this is telling us nothing.

He was prolly trying to contradict the OP’s claims of being a “top player”

I know that’s what he was doing and it might not seem that way looking back at my post. All I’m saying is you can be a god at pvp with low AP and being crap at it while having 24k AP. There are a bunch of people that link AP with skill and I just want that to go away.

+1

Good Tofu.9376:

Returned after a couple of years and was top player in 4 games (despite not keeping up with the meta), went 1-8….matchmaking is a joke.

Also, no surprise that regular servers show 30 total people playing at one time.

Oh…and Ele’s everywhere stacking burning. Great fun.

Horribly imbalanced PvP + broken matchmaking + low player count = game is beyond saving right now. Maybe expansion will help.

Having the top score is meaningless.