Guild Wars 2

exhausting already. I’m a silver tier player, but getting stuck with players that don’t read the team chat, don’t look at the map, run one by one to center to a meat grinder, chase enemies around the map, don’t fight on points, run off from mid in separate directions after winning mid from the enemy team is all just tiring.

I’m tired boss, but mainly I’m just tired of players not paying attention.

In regards to the afk’ing. I had a player go afk in one of my placement matches, after coming of losses due to afks/dc’s and teammates acting non-teammatey. Once I noticed the player was afk, I announced in map “AFK All Stars will be reported immediately.” Suddenly that player started moving. Maybe it was coincidence, or maybe I scared them into playing and finishing the match. We ended up losing anyway.

But I have seen matches where my team is solidly winning, then one of my teammates goes afk until the other team gets to the point where they take the lead and they have a sure win, then the afk player starts playing again. I’ve seen that happen too numerous times for it to be coincidence.

That thief OP talks about sounds like the one I had in one of my matches recently. Didn’t seem to do much. Just run around the map near points but not really take them. I cought them dancing around enemy colored far and not actually standing on the point, and during fights, they ran around and occasionally attacked with #1 attack.

Just played my first 3 placement matches, lost all 3 by a wide margin and already discouraged with the season. I realize that the beginning of the season is always chaotic, but just watching my teammates run about aimlessly, running single file to mid constantly to be wiped, and generally not listening/reading team chat is just disheartening.

The devs of City of Heroes did this twice. They sent out emails to all players a couple weeks before hand saying that all characters on accounts that had not logged in in over a certain amount of time (I believe it was something like accounts that were inactive over 2 years) would have their character names up for grabs. This way, if a player wanted to keep their names, they could log in in the weeks before the “names release” happened.

Started out better than I had in previous seasons, until I hit a 12 game losing streak. Decided I didnt care about my MMR anymore since the matchmaker is crap. Just played for gold and rewards instead of placement.

You know, there shouldn’t be dishonor in Unranked pvp. The reason I say this is, I was queued up for an unranked pvp match, but my attention got distracted by the ambulance pulling up to the neighbors house of which I watched what was going on for a few minutes. When I got back to the game, I had been removed from the queue and had 40 minutes of dishonor. Really?

Ogre Wars has bugged out again. Maybri Shadowstalker has disappeared from the map and caused the event chain to stop. Please fix this and/or change the event chain to not rely so heavily on the NPCs to move.

The email you get at the start of Head of the Snake is not showing up for me. No way to even start the episode without it.

I think the drop rates for the uncommon items needs to be looked at. I’ve opened close to 40 chests over the weekend trying to get the Zephyr glider, and you know what I got?
Out of everything, I got one uncommon (Dwayna Messenger mini) and one rare (Advanced leather rack). The rest was just common junk and boosters I’ll never use. I would think that in 40 chests, the uncommons would have a bit of a higher drop rate than 1 in 40 (or more).

Im in silver, which would go along with what you explained.

Do bots actually exist in pvp? or I got stuck on a team of high level players that I shouldn’t have been with?
The reason I asked is I was just in a match that was surreal. All my teammates were grouped together tightly in the spawn area. When the match started, they all didn’t move right away and when they started moving, they stayed in a very tight knit group and went to our home point, and then all moved in unison to mid where they stayed most of the match. They were in a very tight group at all times. When I realized I was the only one on the team doing anything on the map, I stopped and watched them. They never moved off mid, and their health rarely ever dropped below 90%. Near the end of the match, they finally moved off midpoint going towards far, moving in unison. None of them talked at all except at the very end where one blamed me for losing the match. It was very strange.

Sadly, the updater crashes constantly for me when updating. It’s quite frustrating.

There is another exit from the spawn area. It’s far to the sides of the arena.

I have the feeling we are going to find out that the 6 elder dragons are tied to the 6 human gods somehow.

I learned a lot about rotation this season. I may not be the best, but I have learned a lot to the point that I can now see lesser experienced players making the same mistakes I used to make.

There’s a zone portal in northern Brisbane that is unused.

It’s best not to worry about your MMR. It doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

Isn’t the current MMR system and grind based system? You lose you get -18, but a win only gets you +7? How is that any different? Now you are grinding out 2-3 wins just to get back the rating you lost. Really what I’m suggesting is a simplified version that doesn’t have tiers, just a rank number.

Its obvious the MMR needs to be reworked. I believe that at the beginning of the season, there are no placement matches. Everyone starts out at rank 0. rank goes from 0 – 1000 or something like that.
For winning a match you get 1 point
For winning a second match in a row, you get 2 points
For winning a 3rd match and every match after you get 3 points until you lose then it resets back to one.

For losing your first match, you lose 3 points
For losing your second match, you lose 2,
and for the 3rd and ever match after, you lose 1 until you win.

For each top stat you get, you get 1 point.

When people start queuing up for a match, the game will look at their rank number, and start pulling people from queue that are from anywhere from -3 to +3 of each other. (In the event that it can’t find anyone, it the range will get bigger until both teams are filled).

This is my 2 cents for what it’s worth.

Just do what I do, exit the match as soon as it’s over, win or lose.

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Im not the greatest player, but what happened last night was a horror story for me.
On Colisseum, during pre-match, I ask if the thief is taking home, “Yes”. I said ok, I’m going mid. Match starts, and I take off for the mid point….ONLY I take off for the mid point, the rest of the team go to our home. I stopped at the top of the stairs and stood there while the other team stood on the mid point. Most of them just stood there while one of them attacked me. My team was was hovering around home until it capped and then they went to mid, to which they got slaughtered. I was already bitter from a 2 game losing streak and thought “I don’t need this BS” and logged off and went to bed.

its a bot pattern seems in many matches. they almost have a nickname pattern. this is described here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Let-s-talk-about-the-spvp-bot-array/

How to spot them : There is a definite preference for asuras and “fish-derived” names ( sushi, sashimi, little sharkie, etc), but all races have been observed. Different guild tags observed. The bots will always hook up, and path together. They will always fight together ( and multi-condi spike). They have a tendency to get pulled ( thru rotation teleports/jumps/charges) off spots normal humans would fight ( aka in the middle of nowhere, you’ll see 2-3 people randomly fighting and chasing people instead of capping). They have low cap awareness. They will stack to fight, then leave….after 5 seconds you can usually get back and recap. The worst mistake you can do is feeding the array in middle fights. Backcap em.

I don’t think they were bots as they didn’t follow the same path together.

Im not the greatest player, but what happened last night was a horror story for me.
On Colisseum, during pre-match, I ask if the thief is taking home, “Yes”. I said ok, I’m going mid. Match starts, and I take off for the mid point….ONLY I take off for the mid point, the rest of the team go to our home. I stopped at the top of the stairs and stood there while the other team stood on the mid point. Most of them just stood there while one of them attacked me. My team was was hovering around home until it capped and then they went to mid, to which they got slaughtered. I was already bitter from a 2 game losing streak and thought “I don’t need this BS” and logged off and went to bed.

With all the apparent bad match making, match manipulation, and low population for pvp, maybe there shouldn’t be any a difference between unranked/ranked matches?

Maybe just have a rank board for everyone that pvps without any kind of title reward, and have the pip reward track basically act like the regular reward tracks. You work your way through to byzantium. Once you complete the byzantium chest, the pip rewards reset completely from the beginning with cerulean?

Doing away with the seasons may help to alleviate some of the disgruntleness that players feel in pvp? Maybe?

I’ve seen this balance problem before. Arenanets issue is they have a game where there is hundreds, maybe thousands of possible character weapon/trait combinations across 9 classes. That is way too much to try to balance against each other. I’m a former City of Heroes player, and I saw this problem 10-fold in that game. It got to the point that they CoH devs figured out they could not balance all the ATs against one another and just gave up on the pvp part of their game.

As someone once said somewhere… there are just too many variables to try to make it work.

Seems there is a visual bug when applying the heavy armor Foefire wrap skin. Might want to look into it.

I learned to not even care about my MMR anymore. I’ve accepted that I’ll never be a top tier player and now I just play to have fun and try to devise better strats if I’m on a losing team.

So far I’ve seen players stuck in walls next to Wolf in Eternal Coliseum, in the Keep wall next to the mid point in Niflhel, and in the wall next to southern door of blue base in Legacy of Foefire,

“how i learned to stop worrying about my MMR”. Got home from work and logged in to play a few matches in ranked. Won the first by luck, and then lost the next 5. My rating tanked, and I was getting angry with the teams I was on. I started ranting in my guild channel about it, and finally one of the better PVP players said “then just stop playing”. So I logged off and got dinner. While eating, I sat and thought about why I was getting upset. While playing unranked, I never cared if I won or lose, just cared that I did my best and tried to have fun and never got upset even if my team lost by a landslide. So what was different? It was my MMR. I was so focused on wanting to get a better rank that I let it take away from just having fun. I realize I’ll never be higher than silver, unless I get a real good win streak, so screw the MMR and if I tank to Bronze 1, so be it. I’m not going to worry about it. I’ll just try to be continue to be a better pvp’er and gain the rewards as they come.

Just had this happen to a mesmer on my team. Got pushed into a wall in the keep in Nifilhel. Enemy team kept him there until they were sure to win and then killed him.

Since the Wings of the Sunless have now been added to the Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock, can we have the Holographic Dragon Wings, and the Holographic Shattered Dragon Wings added as well?

And maybe a Mini Shatterer added to the game…just sayin?

Finally got gold in this using a warrior in Ascended marauders armor, fire flank steak, strength booster, speed booster and a toxic focusing crystal. Finished with just shy of 13 seconds to spare.

Just spent part of a pvp match stuck in the map geometry because /stuck wasn’t working.

Well, i got +con damage exotic armor on my mesmer, and used Truffle Risotto and Toxic Focusing Crystals, and still cannot get gold in this after 3 hours of play. I have gold in all the other adventures. This is frustrating. But…
I believe there is a bug in the adventure. The #2 attack “Spray and Pray” seems to end prematurely. If you watch the channel bar when you attack, it goes slowly for about 2 seconds, then jumps to full ending the attack after 2 seconds. I bugged it. Maybe it will get fixed.

I’ve just spent roughly 4 hours trying to get gold level in the Scrap Rifle Field Test adventure in Tangled Depths. The best I got was 128 chak killed in 4 minutes. I got to 125 a couple times. I’ve watched videos on Youtube and did everything those players did, as well as look up suggestions on the forums and in reddit, and I still cannot get it done.

One thing I noticed in the videos posted is that there are a couple things that seemed to have changed between when those videos are posted to now. The #2 flamethrower attack does not seem to last as long now and the chak do not seem to not group together as much as they do in the videos. (This was also mentioned on reddit). It was also suggested that characters with high condition damage are more suited to this adventure, which to me doesn’t seem right. I would think that the adventures should be able to be completed by any character regardless of class.

My suggestion is to lower the amount of chak needed for Gold from 150 to 120.

The past couple days when I joined the queue for unranked, I never get a map choice, and everytime it goes straight to Battle for Champions Dusk. Is something up with the map selection process that the game is skipping it?

I was waiting in the queue for about 3 minutes, then I got bumped out and that message came up. The “Ready” screen never came up.

“You have been removed from the matchmaking queue and must re-queue” Can we get rid of this forcefully being removed from the pvp queue? Because now, thanks to the game, I am dishonored and can’t re-queue.

I’m sure this has been posted before, but I’m too annoyed to go look for it.

Marjory and Kasmeer have a house in Divinity’s Reach…why can’t we have a house?

It’s probably just the screams of the people who were killed in the Scarlet’s attack on Lion’s Arch…maybe

How about something new….Mini Shatterer!

This may have been suggested in the past, as I only just skimmed the forum for any post but anyways…

Seems lots of people have an over abundance of Tomes of Knowledge. How about letting Tomes be salvaged for 1 random tier 6 material?

I’d like to see this available on the Pact Supply Agents as well. I really want this backpiece for my mesmer.

Also, I think the Wing of the Sunless should be a rare drop from Tequatl, and we need a Mini Shatterer.

Supposedly at some point in time, Arenanet said they are going to stop supporting dungeons. If that is the case, then can I ask for one last change to dungeons?

Make dungeons completeable with smaller groups or solo play. And as such, adjust the rewards to match the player(s). If a solo player runs a dungeon, make all the bosses vets, with the final boss an elite. Make the end of dungeon reward only 10 tokens instead of 60.
If its a smaller group, adjust as needed. 2-3 man group, make the bosses all elites, with the end boss being a Champion, with end of dungeon rewards being 30-40 tokens.

I know most players are focused on Fractals and Raids, but I like to run a dungeon or 2 from time to time, but it seems that a lot of groups stand around wasting time trying to get people to join.

Hi all. I recently started trying out pvp in GW2. I used to play FPS online years upon years ago, namely Quake II/Quake III Arena Capture the Flag and Battlefield1942. The team environment always made it fun to me, so after 4 years of PVE in GW2, I decided to jump into the PVP arena. I’ve gone over pvp builds for my favorite characters, practiced with them, tweaked them, watched videos of other players, and I have improved a little but I have to say…

the matchmaking system sucks.

I realize I’m not a good pvp’er, but coming from team based games, I know a little about strategy, but seeing scores constantly being 500 to like 150 with one team completely demolishing another over and over is disheartening. I think I have been on only one match where the final score was within 10 points. Were matches always lopsided like this?

The problem I have noticed now with this is players zoning into a match, getting put on the losing team, then immediately leaving to go find another match. This keeps going until they get put on a winning team.

One change they should have made for this Halloween is get rid of the timer in the Clock Tower jump puzzle, and just let us run it without having to wait for everyone to finish or fail.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Whose #19? Dulfy’s? Or the game’s? (Dulfy started her numbering system before ANet offered one; ANet used its internal numbers, without comparing to any existing guide.)

Can you show a screenshot of where you think you are supposed to be? People are often able to provide specific help once we can see where you are trying to get to. (In at least one case, someone was just a single ledge away, but otherwise nearly on the spot…and they just couldn’t see the ‘nameplate’.)

Anet’s number 19.
Ironically enough, after doing tonight’s dailies, I zoned back to Silverwastes, and started going through the locations again. The badge popped up behind the tents in the camp.
Intermittent bug I guess.

The #19 badge on the list did not register when I picked it up. The rest of the badges worked. I even went and revisited all of the locations following Dulfy’s video to make sure I didn’t miss any, and I had not. Something is up with the #19 badge.

Apparently the Protect Krewe Leader Dobbs event in Timberline Falls has been bugged and won’t start since sometime in January.