Guild Wars 2

I forgot I hated off season, I don’t know why it exists. To allow for the devs to find a balance patch? It would make sense if that were the case but that wasn’t the case last season and doesn’t account for the potential need for continuing balancing as the season goes on, in order to prevent exploits like last season’s infamous bunker meta, or the prior Vamp-Rune Cele Ele meta. Even if it does need to exist to continue anets weird system why does it need to limit everything to unranked? Unranked really needs a change to accomodate Off-Season.

For one, there is little to no matchmaking system, especially since ranked is locked off. I’ve been put on teams with great players against teams of 5 pugs who aren’t even dragon rank yet. How is that fair? Or to have a great player on a team with 4 pugs of equal caliber. I had to apologize to them because I was on the team of 4 competent players and I felt bad. I heard that it was based off the number of unranked games played and while that’s better than none, it would favor putting new players with league players because both would be at roughly the same number of unranked games. So that’s one thing that could be improved on.

The map selection aggravates me. I main revenant, I don’t care if it’s over-powered, under-powered, im bad at it, etc… I’m having fun, or at least I’m trying to. The reason this is relevant is that the maps that aren’t in ranked (Khylo post balance aside) do not work with revenant. Sword skills (and also enchanting daggers) do not work on Skyhammer, they will attack map objects. Conversely, revenants can abuse the orb on Spirit Watch as super speed and skills like Unrelenting Assault don’t cause the orb to be dropped. I also simply do not like the maps, there’s a reason they’re in unranked and not ranked. I know they need to exist in unranked but I’d like a selection button of “ranked maps” and an “all maps” under the conquest selection.

Finally, there is no indication of when the next season is. It’s an easy request, I’m sure that information exists somewhere online but it should be in game instead of “This season has ended.” You know, like before last season.

Maybe it’s too much to ask that off-season have minimal difference to on-season. Climbing the ladder is fun and I get that you need sometime to reset the thing, but I don’t get why the reset period has to suck so much.

And 6th post on this topic…

Squeeky wheel gets the greats. Its trash and I dont want to play with complete noobs there are enough in ranked.

It seems simple to me just have ranked that doesnt really mean anything like we used to but will keep the total trash of unanked only people the heck away from us.

It’s terrible, no one likes it.

Ranked players are super upset because the level is too low and totally random, so you stomp and you get stomped randomly.

Pro league players almost totally ignore the unranked arena and do only pvt arenas. Streamers don’t want to cast urnanked because is really similar to hot join level (many times hot join is really better and without queue).

Unranked community is upset because they’re receiving a lot of rage/insults from ranked player because they are not at the same level.

Main issue is this time should be used to improve your skill and organization for the next pvp seasons.

This is not possible in urnaked, this game totally lacks of a improvement/practice/training area.

People can’t improve in fight because there are not structured 1vs1 or 2vs2 arenas. With structured arenas i Mean arena where you can simulate conquest situations, so not fight on the nifhhelm beach but on node or in a small area around the node, where joining the game don’t force you to spam like crazy the join button from spectatore mode.

People have a lot of troubles to manage rotations because first of all if you’re weak in fight rotate is really difficult and in every case there is no training/guide/tutorial for this area.

A structured fighting arena (like 1vs1 and 2vs2 with tournament builds not yolo/troll builds) would be amazing and super important to practice.

Anet should really focus on this area.