Guild Wars 2

Look, I’d been away from the game for a little while for real life reasons but I’ve actually always enjoyed the mechanics of GW2’s PvP. I got pretty good at and I think I’ve regained at least some of my old ability. My placement matches went really well as I had teams that actually talked before the match started (even a little) and could use map pings to communicate effectively. Since then I’ve dropped all the way down to bronze.

I’m the first to admit that I’d give someone making a post like this the feedback of “well that’s where you belong then” except that now, having live the experience of ridiculously bad RNG teams, I won’t say that anymore. I’ve (even in gold and silver) repeatedly had teammates who (upon asking) admit that they didn’t really think about the build they were using and that they just heard that you could get ascended gear in PvP this season really easily.

I’m getting paired (often!) with teammates who don’t CARE about competing. I even had one teammate who technically wasn’t idle but who never helped the team. I PMed him after (nicely) and asked why and he said it was because he didn’t want his /deaths count to go up…does that even increase in PvP? I don’t know – but the point is that I’m so tired of getting paired with players like these. It keeps happening now, especially in bronze (which I dropped to partially because of disconnects which oddly happened with GW2 but not any other internet-related product I use – and yes I know that the dishonor system corrects for overall d/cs but still…).

This season, and the solo/duo queue, are a massive improvement. But you made the loot SO good that we’re getting people in ranked that would normally get mocked for bad play even in unranked. If you get paired with these people repeatedly it just makes for the worst experience. I’ve decided to take a break until mid January, after which point I’m thinking the people who just want easy access to ascended gear will be done flooding the queue (but maybe not) and try again.

Seriously, this league season is great but I think it’s being trashed by the rewards.

If someone’s intention is to simply AFK their matches to the end of the Byzantium box, the rate in which players gain pips through losses is so slow they’d be better off just running fractals or AB multi-mapping.

Honestly rewards at this point and time is pretty much the only reason, most of these people including myself even continued to put up with this kitten show. I mean there are people in the top 250 that are just flat out paying their way through. If ANet does not take action not only against the people who are paying but also the people who are receiving. If not ANet might as well monetize leader board positions for them selves maybe have so sort of auction for the top spots on the leader board for gems. It seems their is a lot of interest for this sort of thing in this game. Lol

Phineas Poe.3018:

If someone’s intention is to simply AFK their matches to the end of the Byzantium box, the rate in which players gain pips through losses is so slow they’d be better off just running fractals or AB multi-mapping.

I disagree – I’d bet (feel free to prove me wrong) that even AFKing (or refusing to try) in PvP would get you to ascended armor faster than AB multi-mapping or fractal RNG.

The rewards this season make it worth playing. The game needs players if it is to thrive.

azurerogue.9240:

Phineas Poe.3018:

If someone’s intention is to simply AFK their matches to the end of the Byzantium box, the rate in which players gain pips through losses is so slow they’d be better off just running fractals or AB multi-mapping.

I disagree – I’d bet (feel free to prove me wrong) that even AFKing (or refusing to try) in PvP would get you to ascended armor faster than AB multi-mapping or fractal RNG.

As a player who has more then 30 pieces of Ascended Weapons and Armor alone before hand. Yeah it’s soo much more faster to get them in PvP now for the ascended piece/hour ratio then hoping for RNG in Fractals or crafting the time-gated mats for ascended gear.

Remember you have to actually put in effort to get your ascended gear thru PvE. Getting ascended gear thru PvP atm takes little to no effort what so ever.

Queue match and just suicide on DHs traps all match long with auto run. Or do the classy one and sit in spawn most of the match, then tell the other players on your team. “Shhh it’s only a game.”