Guild Wars 2

Yamsandjams.3267:

I’ve never understood how those work. You’ve got a 75% win rate across 20 games, yet are ranked lower than someone with a 71% win rate from over 1000 games.

Then someone with 55% win rate from over 1000 games is rated lower than you.

Also, someone with a 94% win rate across 17 games is rated lower than you, but someone with a 91% win rate across 12 games is rated higher than you.

Then to top it off, someone with the exact same win rate as you (75%) is rated lower, the only difference being that they have played 80 games.

I’m just confused as to what exactly is being achieved on these boards… I’m guessing they just use some kind of hidden numbers, but that’s silly.

I’s not simply about W/L. It’s all about a hidden rating (calculated with glicko?) I’d say. When you win a few times with little total games that value probably skyrockets, since you highly exceed the performance expectation of the system. The higher the value of your opponents is compared to your’s, the faster you rise. You could even see this in WvW at some points, where low ranked servers fought vs kitten servers and got an enormous increase in rating even when not even winning the MU.
What I can tell is that I’ve with and against players who’s names I saw in the upper quarter of the leaderboards. 1-2 wins in that “environment” could explain the sudden jump to the top. Maybe also the score you had on your losses (or the enemy on your wins) is a factor (as in WvW). These things just aren’t shown on the leaderboards. You could check the sPvP forums, guess there’s much more information (or speculation^^) about it.

johnsonade.9547:

Congrats on the placings! It’s weird when you see an engi you know is good but you never know how they stack up against the best players. This right here proves you’re a force to be reckoned with. I hope your ISP issues get ironed out so ArenaNet can notice how good you are.

Not that this rank matters much anyway, but thanks for your words. May try some more sPvP when the league starts, since I’m expecting a lot of blobbing :/

Roaming videos #9 and #10 online!

New video (duels vs. Hammer War):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0nhivZmfHc

Also began to write a guide:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Guide-WvW-SD-Control-Build-Roaming/first#post3935536
Take a look!

I find your video really entertaining, i hope you release something more in the near future because is really enjoyable to watch

kitten i’ve even cheered up irl when you’ve won vs that guardian in the video 9 or 10

New video (OS duels):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJmglwqqGI

Thanks for the duels Sil, it was fun! It’s nice to fight an engineer that’s running an original build

Just want to say thanks for this build, its a truly well balanced build, decent damage output while being able to take a few smacks. Actually works well in pve too.

Imma bump this for the sake of all you engineers out there. I got completely and utterly rolled by this build like never before. Literally. Not even the cheesiest condi thieves and PU mesmers beat my D/D ele as reliably as this guy.

This build is incredibly strong. We had our most experienced duelists in the OS and were unanimously amazed by this. The damage + the cc, I’ll just say hackusations were made…

A bit of hyperbole maybe, but hype is good Stop the perplexity triple kits, hop on this hypetrain!