Guild Wars 2

So I began playing SoloQ just this past weekend. I have gone 6-9, which I don’t believe is good, but maybe for SoloQ it is somewhat normal. I am very new to PvP in an MMO. I am mostly familiar with PvP in console games and Warcraft 3 which I played extensively.

First off, I play solely as a Mesmer, and I’d probably receive a B minus to a B in my current ability to play the class. Meaning I am rarely downed, and I can dispatch or hold off most players that I come across, and I have a good level of knowledge on all of the classes, as well as the maps.

Basically, what are people doing to be getting these high win percentages on the leaderboards for SoloQ?

Games are often 4v5’s and many players do not seem to know how to play a Conquest game type, and many refuse to communicate, or flat out ignore any sort of communication both before and during the match.

I understand that I’m just starting out on ranked and will naturally be paired with lower level players, but I don’t see how people are attaining such good, and sometimes perfect win percentages on the leaderboards, unless it is just pure luck. As far as I know, one player can’t carry a team in a Conquest game type and capture/hold points by yourself.

So, is there anything I’m missing when it comes to SoloQ? Or is this very typical and something that I should just get used to?

I’m very competitive and have become frustrated with my win/loss. I know I haven’t played many games yet, and there’s plenty of time to turn it around, but SoloQ just seems so unreliable. I also fear other players like myself becoming turned off from PvP in this game because of it, which I definitely don’t want, because PvP is one of the only things holding me to this game.

And please don’t take this as me saying I’m better than everyone else and should have better teams or whatnot. I am in no way a pro, and make my share of mistakes. I’m just looking for tips or anything that could help me or others out in SoloQ.

Also, do you think that Anet will ever reset the leaderboards, or add a Seasons type system similar to WoW or LoL?

I was originally going to summarize some of the other stuff on the forums here, but you can go look at the matchmaking issues and stuff in other threads. Instead some general advice.

You can’t sweat the losses in PvP. You will die, and you will lose. No matter how competitive you feel about it, no matter how good you get at it. It’s a fact. I think we can all agree that losing doesn’t feel as good as winning, but if you want content you’re designed to win at, you should probably be in the PvE portion of the game.

Try to enjoy the matches themselves rather than the result of it. And once they stop being enjoyable, put the game down for a bit. I mean, it’s not subscription, so you can just fire up the game again whenever you want.

The best way to win, if that’s what you wanna do is to learn to play every cheese class, there’s a cheese class you can play for every map.

Warrior/BMRanger on Spiritwatch
Guardian/Necro/SRanger On Khylo

Just make 5 classes specifically for each map and you’ll have a much easier time carrying.

Solo queue is rife with cheats (synch queue and match droppers) toward the very top so don’t even think about trying to win at those percentages. If you are a decent player you should be able to win more then half your games eventually. 15 games is nothing just keep playing and you will hit what your true skills merits.

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago
Also its obvious they didn’t sync together because the win/loss doesn’t match up at all. They all started from 0 like 2 days ago and here they are still going through this leaderboard like its some kind of joke to them. Also they didn’t play with some name that makes people think they going to win or its game over, they played anonymously as in someone who is pretending to be a nobody.

Well to help you win, one thing is for sure is your playing the wrong profession.
The next thing you need to play a meta build. However you can continue with your builds, but don’t come here crying that your not winning, because 9 times out of 10 its your build that sucks and if your not willing to change than its your loss. Currently Mesmer isn’t in the meta. Play warrior, ranger, necromancer or guardian they currently the best professions to win with these days.

Also don’t forget every month or two GW2 changes balance and a whole new meta is out. Like right now everyone is crying ranger, not too long ago it was engineer not too long ago it was Mesmer, not too long ago it was elementalist, a while ago it was warriors.

If you haven’t figured it out right now GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning to the game, hence why they change a lot of things about professions every month or two rather than make new game modes, new maps, better WvW, PvP, PvE.

Changing professions every month regardless if its balanced or not is #1 on there priorities, hence why its always happens compared to new PvP maps. If they could make a new map as much as they change the professions we’d have a lot of maps, and the game would still be balanced. Game has been balanced, they just too dumb to realize it.

uberkingkong.8041:

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago
Also its obvious they didn’t sync together because the win/loss doesn’t match up at all. They all started from 0 like 2 days ago and here they are still going through this leaderboard like its some kind of joke to them. Also they didn’t play with some name that makes people think they going to win or its game over, they played anonymously as in someone who is pretending to be a nobody.

Well to help you win, one thing is for sure is your playing the wrong profession.
The next thing you need to play a meta build. However you can continue with your builds, but don’t come here crying that your not winning, because 9 times out of 10 its your build that sucks and if your not willing to change than its your loss. Currently Mesmer isn’t in the meta. Play warrior, ranger, necromancer or guardian they currently the best professions to win with these days.

Also don’t forget every month or two GW2 changes balance and a whole new meta is out. Like right now everyone is crying ranger, not too long ago it was engineer not too long ago it was Mesmer, not too long ago it was elementalist, a while ago it was warriors.

If you haven’t figured it out right now GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning to the game, hence why they change a lot of things about professions every month or two rather than make new game modes, new maps, better WvW, PvP, PvE.

Changing professions every month regardless if its balanced or not is #1 on there priorities, hence why its always happens compared to new PvP maps. If they could make a new map as much as they change the professions we’d have a lot of maps, and the game would still be balanced. Game has been balanced, they just too dumb to realize it.

I didn’t intend for it to come off as “whining,” I’m trying to understand the mechanics of SoloQ; and I never stated they got lucky. I stated that I don’t understand as of yet how they are achieving such records if they are getting paired with poor teams, and I stated I’m unaware of a way to truely carry a team in a Conquest match by yourself. The only reason I mentioned luck, is if they were “lucky” enough to never get any extreme mismatches, both opponent and teammate wise, or 4v5 or 3v5 matches. I also don’t fully understand the match leaving mechanic, which apparently many people use. If sync queuing is still possible, then that is a very broken mechanic.

As far as those on the leaderboards you mentioned, it seems like they cheesed their way to the top in order to show Anet how broken it is.

I think being frustrated with losing is an acceptable and natural thing, and something I can accept. I have no problem losing if i deserve it. It just seems as if the way SoloQ works is extremely unreliable, I don’t know about TeamQ yet, as I haven’t tried it.

Thank you all for the input though.

uberkingkong.8041:

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago

That’s the same person fyi. I always got matched on his team for the most part. He just made a lot of accounts during the free weekend to show how broken SoloQ is.

It’s all about how you start. If you can have a strong start you’ll get match up with better players. On the other hand if you have a lousy start good luck climbing out of the pit.

SoloQ is pretty much broken, and I’d wouldn’t worry so much about the leaderboards.

Well just do what Darnis said, we both are in agreement that you need to play the cheese “meta” professions and we both mentioned warrior, necromancer, ranger and guardian.

Like I said before GW2 keeps changing the meta and if your one of those people that quit not too long ago but when mesmers were op, well they aint op anymore, its time for a change. GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning back to GW2, hence why they change there professions abilities so many times that I lost count of them.

I just called you out because you seemed like you was one of those 4v5 or 3v5 whiners. I’ve played 170 games like 3 weeks ago, only 5 of them were xv5 at start and entire game, some people be overexaggerating about this stuff, if they truly get those kinds of games printscreen it and show it on forums. GW2 has very nice way of saving your screenshots, all you do is hit printscreen and it saves instantly.

If you didn’t know, I’d bet you that guy I mentioned has 4 or more accounts and he got to top 1000 3 times on 3 different accounts 2 days ago, of course he started from 0 as well. If he can go 46 wins and 2 losses starting from zero 3 times, than it sure aint that hard. Like Darnis and I been saying, play those cheesy “meta” builds and youll win, that’s how Anat ….. got his wins most likely. If you haven’t watched one of those euro guys either they got that far as well doing same thing, playing warrior, playing necromancer, playing ranger, using meta builds.

9 times out of 10 in GW2 if your doing something wrong, it aint your skill level, GW2 has little skill cap and its mostly the build your playing is wrong.

Harbinger.8637:

uberkingkong.8041:

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago

That’s the same person fyi. I always got matched on his team for the most part. He just made a lot of account during the free weekend to show how broken SoloQ is.

It’s all about how you start. If you can have a strong start you’ll get match up with better players. On the other hand if you have a lousy start good luck climbing out of the pit.

SoloQ is pretty much broken, and I’d wouldn’t worry so much about the leaderboards.

Oh yeah sure, he could probably do that all day and still come out the same, hes the 4th person I seen do this, well the first person I actually watched, he was some euro dude, I watched his entire stream.

Yall need to quit complaining, they do this repeatedly and if you paid them, they’d do it all day long, they know what builds to play and when, they know whats meta, as long as theres bunch of newbies and disbelievers that disbelieve builds carry that much weight, they’ll just continue to faceroll you all day playing the meta builds while you play some junky one that they kitten all day long because your not killing fast enough, your not able to hold that point, etc.

I was joking one day and said in map chat “will pay someone 1000 gems to carry me to top 100 on leaderboards (this was a week before solo que leaderboards came out)” and some celeb that was worthy of carrying whispered me 5000 gems and he’d do it.

If you offered someone 5000 gems they go all night long on all those alt accounts or whatever accounts you want and get you top 100 on solo que or team que, they know the right builds to play, they are more than capable of playing them, they have friends if they need them to help carrying you up team que.
A lot of good players sit in HotM all day long anyways, I wouldn’t be surprised if that guy whispered me would split the 5000 gems and ask them to tag along.

So basically, I could grind CoF P1 until I accumulated 170 gold, then buy 5000 gems and have someone use my account and they’d easily get to top 100 on leaderboards if I really wanted too.

uberkingkong.8041:

Harbinger.8637:

uberkingkong.8041:

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago

That’s the same person fyi. I always got matched on his team for the most part. He just made a lot of account during the free weekend to show how broken SoloQ is.

It’s all about how you start. If you can have a strong start you’ll get match up with better players. On the other hand if you have a lousy start good luck climbing out of the pit.

SoloQ is pretty much broken, and I’d wouldn’t worry so much about the leaderboards.

Oh yeah sure, he could probably do that all day and still come out the same, hes the 4th person I seen do this, well the first person I actually watched, he was some euro dude, I watched his entire stream.

Yall need to quit complaining, they do this repeatedly and if you paid them, they’d do it all day long, they know what builds to play and when, they know whats meta, as long as theres bunch of newbies and disbelievers that disbelieve builds carry that much weight, they’ll just continue to faceroll you all day playing the meta builds while you play some junky one that they kitten all day long because your not killing fast enough, your not able to hold that point, etc.

I was joking one day and said in map chat “will pay someone 1000 gems to carry me to top 100 on leaderboards (this was a week before solo que leaderboards came out)” and some celeb that was worthy of carrying whispered me 5000 gems and he’d do it.

If you offered someone 5000 gems they go all night long on all those alt accounts or whatever accounts you want and get you top 100 on solo que or team que, they know the right builds to play, they are more than capable of playing them, they have friends if they need them to help carrying you up team que.
A lot of good players sit in HotM all day long anyways, I wouldn’t be surprised if that guy whispered me would split the 5000 gems and ask them to tag along.

SoloQ is broken plain and simple. And we should keep complaining until they fix it. I want competition and a good game when I play. This rarely happens because all of my teammates are from the top 50, and we smash the other teams. This isn’t fun for either team.

The game’s MMR is terrible.

uberkingkong.8041:

Well just do what Darnis said, we both are in agreement that you need to play the cheese “meta” professions and we both mentioned warrior, necromancer, ranger and guardian.

Like I said before GW2 keeps changing the meta and if your one of those people that quit not too long ago but when mesmers were op, well they aint op anymore, its time for a change. GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning back to GW2, hence why they change there professions abilities so many times that I lost count of them.

I just called you out because you seemed like you was one of those 4v5 or 3v5 whiners. I’ve played 170 games like 3 weeks ago, only 5 of them were xv5 at start and entire game, some people be overexaggerating about this stuff, if they truly get those kinds of games printscreen it and show it on forums. GW2 has very nice way of saving your screenshots, all you do is hit printscreen and it saves instantly.

If you didn’t know, I’d bet you that guy I mentioned has 4 or more accounts and he got to top 1000 3 times on 3 different accounts 2 days ago, of course he started from 0 as well. If he can go 46 wins and 2 losses starting from zero 3 times, than it sure aint that hard. Like Darnis and I been saying, play those cheesy “meta” builds and youll win, that’s how Anat ….. got his wins most likely. If you haven’t watched one of those euro guys either they got that far as well doing same thing, playing warrior, playing necromancer, playing ranger, using meta builds.

9 times out of 10 in GW2 if your doing something wrong, it aint your skill level, GW2 has little skill cap and its mostly the build your playing is wrong.

Heard. I get what you’re saying. It’s more about what class/build you run than actual skill with any certain class/build (I’m not saying that skill doesn’t matter). That’s a bit unfortunate, I don’t care about winning so much as to play with classes I don’t enjoy using. I also never played when mesmer was OP, I just started ranked PvP.

I’m not saying that all of my matches are Xv5, but a few of them have been (with me both having the advantage and disadvantage), I do only have a very small sample size to go from through. I was mainly putting the fact out there that it does seem to happen.

If you get teamed with bad players always and have to carry them id recommend playing a class and build that is good for roaming and 1vs1. If everyone beside you is just trying to get as many kills as possible and doesnt care about bases its pretty hard to carry them as a support guardian for example, a thief with good mobility and shadow trap on the other hand can to some extend make up for the things his team fails at. As mesmer portal can help a lot keeping control of the map in your case.