Guild Wars 2

I wanted to comment on the season and the players’ profile, which has changed in recent years. This season is in a great in terms of competition, I started in T2 Gold and I’m coming to a T2 Platinum with a good winrate, I have not played many games yet, I’m expecting a bigger slack in January.

The point is, one of the comments I wanted to give about a placement, I believe it to be unbalanced in favor of the older players that farmed winrate with team queue. People with 8/2 starting in the Gold division and others in Platinum. Then Anet has to make an adjustment on the placement for next season so there is no abuse of the players and force them to play games and not sit at the top. One problem is, if you don’t get a good rating this season the next one placement will be based in your last season, like overwatch.

This game, yes, can be carried, by a good player … if you want to progress in the leaderboard you have to win 1v2 or at least not die. Don’t lie to yourselves.
This leads to another comment. People nowadays don’t want to get good they want to talk kitten on the system, builds and team mates. My experience from the first year of the game was get stomped a lot of times by teams like Paradigm in ranked. This didnt make me sad, I liked all the time to play vs teams and pros, because its a chance to me get good. And I still fill like that when I get them in opposite side, I want to kick their kitten. It’s a long curve of learn but after some years/games you’ll start to be in the same level as other pro players.

Another point is Duo queue with two good players, this makes carry games to much easy.
I would like to remove the duo queue for next season because we do not have team queue now, so we do not need the duo queue. Although every player from the pro scene knows each other and can join a TS to communicate better.

So in resume:
- People need that competitive feeling to learn play versus good players.
- Anet need to work in the placement and make players play games to set the real rating.
- Remove Duo Queue

Well I hate to say it. But for the most part this was the make or break season for PvP. It has failed big time to keep vets interested in PvP. Only reason why there is as many people as it is now is because ANet was forced to bribe their PvE population to just spam matches for PvE rewards that are time gated in PvE, but are not in PvP Ranked. Then ANet allow people who actually wanted to compete tho not good enoth to be in plat or legendary to have to have to players who just don’t care about winning as team mates. Also personal performance still has too little to no indication on shelthering the blow to having 2 or more trolls or team mates who’ve only has less then 5 hours of PvP experience.

I’ve carried some games with 1v3 but the amount of ratings I get for those wins compare to loss of ratings from having 2 or more of these team members that just afks or idle or just continue to suicide in the other team to speed up the match, is nothing. Going on a tear and dominating a game yelds abouts 12 ratings losing a game with 2 or more trolls in it yelds a 18 to 25 rating lose and worst pool of team members to play from, no matter if I got 3 or 4 top stats for defending or attacking or reviving, or healing,

Personal skill does not matter in your rating for matches so the lower you go. The more you might as well call it quits or hack if you want it that bad tho I wouldn’t recommend it for such a game with a league system that has absolutely no prestige to it. Even to most of the players who actually play the game.

Lets not even get into the Class stacking of high damage bunkers on the other team while you have one the one you swap out to. Just watch your team mates to instantly die at any point they walk into.

Also the expectation that got easy placement into higher division just throwing out garbage and unproductive arguements or speeches. Losing to you on a point while they have the two v one advantage, then come to the forums and tell you to get gud and learn to carry. When they can’t even beat you with 2 of them, and are not even willing to drop down to experience it. This is mainly because they already know better that they actually worst players then you that got carried by their old esteem on the freelo train.

The only solution thus far I’ve personally found to this problem. Is to just not care and go learn and be competitive in a actually Balanced Dedicated PvP that boast competitive and punish the non competitive behaviors that ANet fully promotes in a Ranked environment. %75 of the players in GW2 ranked these days would not be tolerated by the devs in these other Dedicated PvP Game’s Ranked Leagues. These players who either be banned from ranked after a few days a week max, or even a full account banned from said games.

My experience during this season were good matches without trolls.

And yes, solo queue need to arrive with the removal of class stacking.

baroi.3264:

My experience during this season were good matches without trolls.

And yes, solo queue need to arrive with the removal of class stacking.

Once that happens, i am happy with whatever low division i may stuck, but it just doesn’t make fun to play with 2 guards in your team against 3 guards on the other team….

I thought the season started out great, but as the playerbase dwindles my teams get increasingly bad. Yesterday really sparked the decline. Games were decided one way or the other by 300+ points. It’s not fun to be on either end of that. I might as well just flip a coin, get the win or loss and save myself 15 minutes. I say this starting the season in bottom silver after having won seven of ten placements. I then won the next 13 matches and was still in silver. The system still isn’t working properly, but i put up with it because I want to see ANET succeed.

BloodriverTim.2031:

I thought the season started out great, but as the playerbase dwindles my teams get increasingly bad. Yesterday really sparked the decline. Games were decided one way or the other by 300+ points. It’s not fun to be on either end of that. I might as well just flip a coin, get the win or loss and save myself 15 minutes. I say this starting the season in bottom silver after having won seven of ten placements. I then won the next 13 matches and was still in silver. The system still isn’t working properly, but i put up with it because I want to see ANET succeed.

I put up with it not because I want Anet to succeed, but that I want to get better.

The system is what it is. I’ve come to the conclusion (rightly or wrongly) Anet isn’t interested in listening to players or making genuine improvements. If they did balance patches would be more frequent, testing would be done in Unranked or off-season.

kitten we are “trialling” their new system during competitive season. No possible changes until end of season. That concept alone makes my brain explode.

The placement matches are too heavily rated and no one should be starting above Gold. Add individual contribution so players can gain rating separation faster. Duo’s is no big deal. Fix the scoreboard to show everyone’s stats, not just our own.

That’s about it. This is the best it’s been so far.