I got legendary badge from all seasons, and x6 last one. This season i started on sapphire like season 3 and played 9 games against top tier teams-players.
Looks like;
- Druid and Revenant clearly OP.
- Warrior, Thief and Mesmer are same
- Necromancer and Engineer are dead
- Dragon Hunter playable on low tiers but they are trash on top tier. Has no chance against druid or rev
- Have no idea about Elementalist. I haven’t even seen one
My meta team choice is Druid, 2 Rev, Mesmer, Warrior.
I got legendary badge from all seasons, and x6 last one. This season i started on sapphire like season 3 and played 9 games against top tier teams-players.
Looks like;
- Druid and Revenant clearly OP.
- Warrior, Thief and Mesmer are same
- Necromancer and Engineer are dead
- Dragon Hunter playable on low tiers but they are trash on top tier. Has no chance against druid or rev
- Have no idea about Elementalist. I haven’t even seen one
My meta team choice is Druid, 2 Rev, Mesmer, Warrior.
I would replace mesmer with another druid but otherwise, that’s a pretty good assessment.
aka FalseLights Rank: Top 250 since Season 2 #5 best gerdien in wurld
RIP my ele I guess. Not so much because they are factually bad but because no matter what my gaming experience with one will be tainted by hate and fear of loosing matches.
If I play well I’ll be tolerated with ppl thinking I was lucky. If my team loose I’ll be the designated scapegoat.
That’s a lot to inflict upon myself considering I play for fun first.
First impressions: Impossible to progress without premades.
Win loss win loss win win loss loss etc.
I didnt think they could make a worse season than season 3, but they managed to do it.
How they make this matchmaking without season 1 pip system (-3 to +3 pips) is beyond me. Simply terrible.
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They need to make pvp skill-based instead of just needing to have the right comp running the cheesiest build. There is a reason a game like Rocket League is going so well right now as an eSport.
You can’t have an eSport when things are so unfairly balanced, you can only pretend.
We ALL want GW2 to succeed, but to be honest GW2 eSport proposition looks amateurish right now. Promoting build variety is the solution: you can only get balanced gameplay if players can find counters themselves, but right now everything is so one-dimensional (so much condi and ccs) there is nothing positive to look at when making a build on some classes.
Got to x7 legend last season, but so far:
This seasons matchmaking…literally trash
This seasons queue times in sapphire…trash
Trying to find a viable elementalist build in a kitten meta…beyond trash
Going back to Overwatch now, k, thanks, bye.
Played 9 games as an ele, won 1 of them. Playing intence with knowledge of my class (mained it for more than a year). Got instakilled by a random passing thiefs, warriors, guardians, druids, revenants, mesmers, necros etc.
Rolled a warrior (first time, never played a warrior in spvp), took the first build from metabattle, missed 80% of my skills, missused 90% of my skills, and won the game by stomping enemies.
And why should one play ele in current season?
Got to x7 legend last season, but so far:
This seasons matchmaking…literally trash
This seasons queue times in sapphire…trash
Trying to find a viable elementalist build in a kitten meta…beyond trash
Going back to Overwatch now, k, thanks, bye.
Yeah good luck with that, the balance is even worse to were over half the heroes in the game are underpowered and have no use in top tier pvp.
Matchmaking is also horrid on that game, but to each their own I guess.
Played 9 games as an ele, won 1 of them. Playing intence with knowledge of my class (mained it for more than a year). Got instakilled by a random passing thiefs, warriors, guardians, druids, revenants, mesmers, necros etc.
Rolled a warrior (first time, never played a warrior in spvp), took the first build from metabattle, missed 80% of my skills, missused 90% of my skills, and won the game by stomping enemies.
And why should one play ele in current season?
Same, playing elementalist is just the most unfair competitive MMO gaming experience I’ve seen. Not rewarding at all.
As solo all my matches are premade (3-4ppl) vs solo pug party. Feeling like a free pip to farm.
This. Anet promised soloQ wouldn’t have to face premade.
As a soloQ I have faced almost entirely 5-man premades that are quite blatant (all from same guild, with a few that all have very similar names, have literally had one match where the characters were named “Guy1, Guy2, Gal1, Gal2, Charr1”
As solo all my matches are premade (3-4ppl) vs solo pug party. Feeling like a free pip to farm.
This. Anet promised soloQ wouldn’t have to face premade.
As a soloQ I have faced almost entirely 5-man premades that are quite blatant (all from same guild, with a few that all have very similar names, have literally had one match where the characters were named “Guy1, Guy2, Gal1, Gal2, Charr1”
ANET only promised that a FIVE man premade will never face a FULL 5 solo q team. .
Read it carefully. That means if you are solo in a group with a duo premade and 3 solo players you can be matched with a FIVE man premade. And if the enemy team is a FOUR man premade it can be matched against a full SOLO q team.
Your typical average gamer -
“Buff my main class, nerf everything else. "
As solo all my matches are premade (3-4ppl) vs solo pug party. Feeling like a free pip to farm.
This. Anet promised soloQ wouldn’t have to face premade.
As a soloQ I have faced almost entirely 5-man premades that are quite blatant (all from same guild, with a few that all have very similar names, have literally had one match where the characters were named “Guy1, Guy2, Gal1, Gal2, Charr1”
ANET only promised that a FIVE man premade will never face a FULL 5 solo q team. .
Read it carefully. That means if you are solo in a group with a duo premade and 3 solo players you can be matched with a FIVE man premade. And if the enemy team is a FOUR man premade it can be matched against a full SOLO q team.
And what I’m saying is that AS A FULL SOLO QUEUE TEAM as in all 5 of us queued separately, we are facing 5-man premades.
I got legendary badge from all seasons, and x6 last one. This season i started on sapphire like season 3 and played 9 games against top tier teams-players.
Looks like;
- Druid and Revenant clearly OP.
- Warrior, Thief and Mesmer are same
- Necromancer and Engineer are dead
- Dragon Hunter playable on low tiers but they are trash on top tier. Has no chance against druid or rev
- Have no idea about Elementalist. I haven’t even seen one
My meta team choice is Druid, 2 Rev, Mesmer, Warrior.
Necro + Scrapper is the most OP combination right now…. idk how they made it to your “Dead” list…
This seasons just as bad if not worse than before.
Premade 5man guild teams vs my entire team randoms Check
Class stacking is still rampant. Check
Absurd amount of passive defenses that reward poor play Check
Absurd amounts of high damage/application AoE Check
Over inflated elite specs. Check
Next to no viable build diversity Check
Matchmaking geared for 50/50 to make it a grind fest Check
It’s been one evening kitten …. How can you judge a whole season on one evenings play? That makes no sense. There is always a time at the beginning of a season for people to get to their prospective divisions and games are iffy.
Season 4 looks great from what I have seen so far. I just reached sapphire tier 3 after playing 20 games today (solo queue) and most of them were close and fun. I am seeing a lot of pro players on my team and against me as well as many good players who I fought in legendary last season so it is great to be fighting players who made it to high legendary last season because before this season, sapphire and Ruby basically consisted of me absolutely destroying almost everyone in 1v1s and winning games very easily which is both not fun and does not make me improve as a player. I think season 1 style matchmaking is a step in the right direction.
As solo all my matches are premade (3-4ppl) vs solo pug party. Feeling like a free pip to farm.
This. Anet promised soloQ wouldn’t have to face premade.
As a soloQ I have faced almost entirely 5-man premades that are quite blatant (all from same guild, with a few that all have very similar names, have literally had one match where the characters were named “Guy1, Guy2, Gal1, Gal2, Charr1”
ANET only promised that a FIVE man premade will never face a FULL 5 solo q team. .
Read it carefully. That means if you are solo in a group with a duo premade and 3 solo players you can be matched with a FIVE man premade. And if the enemy team is a FOUR man premade it can be matched against a full SOLO q team.
And what I’m saying is that AS A FULL SOLO QUEUE TEAM as in all 5 of us queued separately, we are facing 5-man premades.
How did I not make that clear?
Well in that case i agree thats a bug and was not ever mentioned AFAIK. Please take a screenshot next time and post.
Your typical average gamer -
“Buff my main class, nerf everything else. "
Season 4 looks great from what I have seen so far. I just reached sapphire tier 3 after playing 20 games today (solo queue) and most of them were close and fun. I am seeing a lot of pro players on my team and against me as well as many good players who I fought in legendary last season so it is great to be fighting players who made it to high legendary last season because before this season, sapphire and Ruby basically consisted of me absolutely destroying almost everyone in 1v1s and winning games very easily which is both not fun and does not make me improve as a player. I think season 1 style matchmaking is a step in the right direction.
I agree. My matches have been very close and competitive. Last season every game was a landslide one way or another. This season, the matches are way more engaging and fun. I’m glad to see other people rise above the qq train and be honest with the state of the season.
win loss win loss win loss win loss win loss, every match is one sided, gotta love forced 50% w/l ratio :/
IDK why they go for a force 50% win ratio. All they should care for is giving overall equal odds of winning each individual matches not overcompensate wins or losses.
win loss win loss win loss win loss win loss, every match is one sided, gotta love forced 50% w/l ratio :/
IDK why they go for a force 50% win ratio. All they should care for is giving overall equal odds of winning each individual matches not overcompensate wins or losses.
+1 ^ yes it should just be each match they try and make it an even 50% chance of winning. Not try and give you an overall 50% win/loss rate.
Your typical average gamer -
“Buff my main class, nerf everything else. "
-support dh now fills the void of healbot ele. It is just as annoying if not more because of the stupid amount of knock back it has
-no one wants to play ele
-thief still has only 1 role no matter the build but all teams still want 1 for the most part
-berzerker is still all about spamming as much f1’s as possible aka not fun
-game is still full of passives, aoe’s, and brain dead spam builds
in short nothing really changed apart from the fact that now if you do not have stability you will hate yourself from all the knock backs. Also we are back to s1 matchmaking aka premade or gtfo, fun times oh wait NOT.
Season 4 looks great from what I have seen so far. I just reached sapphire tier 3 after playing 20 games today (solo queue) and most of them were close and fun. I am seeing a lot of pro players on my team and against me as well as many good players who I fought in legendary last season so it is great to be fighting players who made it to high legendary last season because before this season, sapphire and Ruby basically consisted of me absolutely destroying almost everyone in 1v1s and winning games very easily which is both not fun and does not make me improve as a player. I think season 1 style matchmaking is a step in the right direction.
That report. So, no more noobs paired with top players? Is this true for more than 75% of the matches?
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RIP my ele I guess. Not so much because they are factually bad but because no matter what my gaming experience with one will be tainted by hate and fear of loosing matches.
If I play well I’ll be tolerated with ppl thinking I was lucky. If my team loose I’ll be the designated scapegoat.
That’s a lot to inflict upon myself considering I play for fun first.
That was my Guard in S3. I get blamed for losing when it was actually the mesmer’s fault but they don’t see that.
Joined the same players next match except the bad mesmer is on the other team. They moaned at first until realizing their mesmer really was the one throwing the match
That had to have been the greatest satisfaction in Ranked since the season started.
aka FalseLights Rank: Top 250 since Season 2 #5 best gerdien in wurld
Took Ultimate Gunflame berserker build. Destroyed everything I saw, including Druid, Scrappers etc. Rev kicked me off a point one time which wasn’t a surprise.
They need to make pvp skill-based instead of just needing to have the right comp running the cheesiest build. There is a reason a game like Rocket League is going so well right now as an eSport.
You can’t have an eSport when things are so unfairly balanced, you can only pretend.
We ALL want GW2 to succeed, but to be honest GW2 eSport proposition looks amateurish right now. Promoting build variety is the solution: you can only get balanced gameplay if players can find counters themselves, but right now everything is so one-dimensional (so much condi and ccs) there is nothing positive to look at when making a build on some classes.
Rocket League has also a much better season and matchmaking system. Your rank on rocket league (the equivalent of gw2 division) is directly tied to your mmr and the matchmaking is completely based on your mmr.
In that game the rank actually shows the skill level of a player with very few exceptions. I don’t know why GW2 doesn’t do it like that, it’s really simple.
But for some reason in GW2 they insist in keeping the mmr of players and their division as completely different systems so it causes the divisions to be just a grind and don’t show the skill level of the players.
It’s just absurd to have a ranked mode that allows to have players from all the skill ranges in all of their divisions. Season 4, for what I read will be just pure grind and that’s it, even players in the lowest skill range can get to the legendary division with enough games…
This season is a freaking joke. I consider myself to be a good thief with hundreds of games played. Yet after playing around 30+ plus matches I have won about 25-30% of my games and this wasn’t even on my Thief.
I ended up making a Guardian and having a blast being unkillable while holding points. I didn’t even know what the spells did, I just smashed my fingers across the key binds and TaaDaa! – Raid Boss Activated.
I won’t be playing much more of this season and its a kitten shame.
Anet need to get a competent team unless all the rats are jumping ship as the game has almost sunk.
They need to make pvp skill-based instead of just needing to have the right comp running the cheesiest build. There is a reason a game like Rocket League is going so well right now as an eSport.
You can’t have an eSport when things are so unfairly balanced, you can only pretend.
We ALL want GW2 to succeed, but to be honest GW2 eSport proposition looks amateurish right now. Promoting build variety is the solution: you can only get balanced gameplay if players can find counters themselves, but right now everything is so one-dimensional (so much condi and ccs) there is nothing positive to look at when making a build on some classes.
Rocket League has also a much better season and matchmaking system. Your rank on rocket league (the equivalent of gw2 division) is directly tied to your mmr and the matchmaking is completely based on your mmr.
In that game the rank actually shows the skill level of a player with very few exceptions. I don’t know why GW2 doesn’t do it like that, it’s really simple.
But for some reason in GW2 they insist in keeping the mmr of players and their division as completely different systems so it causes the divisions to be just a grind and don’t show the skill level of the players.
It’s just absurd to have a ranked mode that allows to have players from all the skill ranges in all of their divisions. Season 4, for what I read will be just pure grind and that’s it, even players in the lowest skill range can get to the legendary division with enough games…
I wouldn’t compare some car-soccer game to an MMORPG PvP…. the way matchmaking/elo/mmr is amongst these games can no way function the same way.
aka FalseLights Rank: Top 250 since Season 2 #5 best gerdien in wurld
Got to x7 legend last season, but so far:
This seasons matchmaking…literally trash
This seasons queue times in sapphire…trash
Trying to find a viable elementalist build in a kitten meta…beyond trash
Going back to Overwatch now, k, thanks, bye.
Reached mid diamond each of the last 3 seasons.
I agree with your observation of the current season. Not really going to bother with this season since nothing substantial has changed.
As solo all my matches are premade (3-4ppl) vs solo pug party. Feeling like a free pip to farm.
This. Anet promised soloQ wouldn’t have to face premade.
As a soloQ I have faced almost entirely 5-man premades that are quite blatant (all from same guild, with a few that all have very similar names, have literally had one match where the characters were named “Guy1, Guy2, Gal1, Gal2, Charr1”
ANET only promised that a FIVE man premade will never face a FULL 5 solo q team. .
Read it carefully. That means if you are solo in a group with a duo premade and 3 solo players you can be matched with a FIVE man premade. And if the enemy team is a FOUR man premade it can be matched against a full SOLO q team.
And what I’m saying is that AS A FULL SOLO QUEUE TEAM as in all 5 of us queued separately, we are facing 5-man premades.
How did I not make that clear?
Well in that case i agree thats a bug and was not ever mentioned AFAIK. Please take a screenshot next time and post.
Is this true for more than 75% of the matches?