They’re literally the closest 10 players to each other in terms of mmr.
That is the problem. Why aren’t raw statistics from in game performance not a part of someones mmr? In a team game, you could have 2-3 people who were carried individually by others through winning games.. and then end up with these 3 people together who only feed..
So far it’s making me extremely salty. In my first game I was stuck on a loading screen. In the last 2 of my 10 placement matches, the same exact dude afk’d when I was at 4-4. This put me down at 4-6 but somehow placed me lower than my friend who placed above me with the same score. I mean what gives you the actual rating if not the raw stats you talked about before? Just wins? Would you say it’s fair on solo queue players who depend on the duo queue players to actually preform, causing our rating to fall at the same rate?
Holy, just discovered a build that is more borken than pre hot ele
It has:
5 second CD passive that is kittened broken
12 second cd burst that deals 15k and isn’t half of it’s dmg kit
spammable invis
can run travelers rune and it matchups up perfectly with smoldering
Craploads of team utility
I can even 1v1 condi mesmers.
I’m not gonna go into more detail, but holy crap this build is insanely overpowered. I’m glad it has no chance of getting nerfed before season 5, because it’s going to give me legendary with next to zero effort. I just won four pubs in a row with over 600k dmg average match and no deaths at all.
Aren’t you the mesmer that one shot everyone and constantly went invis?
I play DH dude.. my question is towards there being a bias in supporting condition based builds over power. As someone who uses both, it’s very obvious that condition based builds are currently stronger than power except for example, Bunker Druid, Power Scrapper, and Auromancer. I’m including the new changes which were announced to support this. It basically feels like we’re slowly being pushed towards condition based builds; and it’s something that has been happening over the year. The fact that many people complain about certain builds or classes doesn’t make those people completely wrong because you disagree with them. I mean people are saying stuff like ‘Rev was the only bunker build killer’ which yes, is not true but at the same time it removes a class build that could do it really well.
Imo, pvp really does back build diversity, and by removing the viability of certain builds, and classes it makes the game completely boring. Everyone plays very similar stuff, and many times depend on playing a certain way as it’s the most effective. The argument of there being 8/21 amulets on condition alone being a justification on adding more condition based runes and amulets is completely irrelevant when only 3-4 out of the 21 amulets are actually competitive in power based builds.
In terms of WvW yes, and no. The major problems are with Epidemic not having a limit on how many conditions are spread, whilst being unblockable for example.
Why do you (Anet) favor condition damage over power builds? This also pushes into WvW where you’ve pretty much assisted in promoting the very thing that made many old players leave, again, through epidemic etc.
If I’m completely honest, the majority of my school friends who introduced me to this game no longer play.. and the number of people leaving the game is dramatically increasing. I think you need to give players an incentive to actually play Guild Wars 2 first before you expect more players to play WvW.
Why are YB complaining about having less numbers out than BG? Not even 2 months ago, we were in a position of being constantly outnumbered across SEA and EU as YB would k-train our BL. I never ever heard a BG guild utter that they’d stop playing a week in order to drop down a tier for ‘more fair’ competition.. yet here yb is, with their main guilds not even bothering as they now have opposition on their strongest timezone (EU).. The fact is that for months you were playing a sever 50-75% of your population, and we still put up a good fight, where in some weeks were close to 20K off coming first on ppt.. and you are salty why?
I find it funny how you constantly sit, and moan on forums. In fact its more entertaining than cancer forums nowadays. You talk like number of players on a server is what is driving BG right now, when in fact last week TC outnumbered us on all maps during EU, and we still held them off in many of our engagements, not just that but we also out ppt’d them on most occasions during their strongest timezone. Let’s talk reset when all maps are queued, thus players in maps are equal.. do you still think its a numbers issue when you’re loosing against BG in the opening hour?
hello yb people, you had a map queue on your bl according to a homie on your server but i cant find you anywhere, i tapped your keep.. no body there, i got into inner firekeep, nobody there, i went to ak, and nobody is there? if you dont want to play plz bunker your ppt and let jq/tc come back to t1.
I think a majority of players who play wvw would disagree with what you’ve suggested, as this is completely different from what makes wvw attractive in the first place as a game mode.. It’s a nice concept though!
BG guilds are mostly avoiding EBG at the moment.. but it seems like returning players, new players, and duelers mostly want to play on ebg, so its pushing ebg into a map queue, which is kinda rough on some of our friends on ET who prefer not playing on the borderlands for obvious reasons..
I’m with zwolf on this, some excellent stuff in this patch. The rework of the desert borderlands, the reward tracks, the changes to stabilities are game changing. I do however wish that cannons stop scaling with the condition damage of the players using them as it’s completely broken. The damage is way too high.
“It simply unifies them together to play in WvW. Worlds that have been paired up will display with a plus sign to the right of the world’s name in the WvW panel. Players will also be able to roll the mouse over a world name to see which additional worlds are currently a part of that team.”
I haven’t played since before the expansion came out so I just logged in to see my home server, Blackgate, losing by a mile when the opposite used to be true. And we’re losing to Yak’s Bend? WTF LOL! Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone or what? Where’s Beastgate?!
YB got guilds from T1 that lumped into an already PPT heavy culture
People who aren’t happy playing against that are playing other games
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Blackgate culture didn’t drive PPT oriented guilds to Yak’s Bend. Which is why there is no longer anyone on BG to pull the PPT load.
Probably a combination of arrogance and elitism that killed BG. They will fall, and then they will blame Anet.
Mm maybe. I avoid the sever politics because well, I don’t care so much. Servers need balance, BG not having PPT groups is one thing but YB having virtually only PPT players is unhealthy as well because it creates a stalemate of nothingness due to bunker+PvD=EasyPPT. In a game where the winner gets diddly squat, this a bad news. Players will continue to not care.
Its a myth that YB only has PPT guilds. A myth propagated mostly by BG. The reason YB’s KDR tends to be low is because they are more welcoming of pugs than BG is. BG is so obsessed with KDR and PPK that they literally chase off pugs.
Blackgate is very much alive, but a lot of guilds are either on hiatus, or simply only playing weekends, and specifically NA hours. There is nothing to really gain from ppt right now, if there was a tournament, or any sort of competition you’d see BG first. But there really isnt much of a point if there is nothing to gain from putting in time.
Most of us have lives, and have far better things to do than ppt uncontested. We love to fight for ppt. This dude ’ Torqued is a typical bad YB troll. They have lots of ppt guilds who actively recruit on their mapchat (like ROLL, FoW, and a few others) by stating things like ‘we are actively recruiting players to help maintain PPT, and defend structures’.. If you think I’m joking, head onto twitch, and see it for yourself on YB streams.. I mean if you have massive volumes of people with that mentality, of course you’re going to be first. The fact is that BG always wins reset, and if we had something to fight for, you’d see more guilds playing across different hours.
I’ve tried everything, I mean my ping is stable at 130.. and I did initially think it might have been something to do with that, but I find nearly no delays in anything but my healing skills..
Hey, so I’ve been having this issue ever since patch day.. and thought maybe it was just me, but after speaking to a few people it seems like an actual problem. When I am in combat, I cannot heal.. I’m not stunned, or anything like that.. I’m playing offensively.. but when I turn to heal, neither glint, nor shiro will activated after I click them. I literally have to evade as far as possible, then press, and hold my heal skill for 5-6 seconds in order for it to activate. It’s been so bad that I’ve had to get a mouse that will allow me to key bind. I know the patch brought in a 0.25s delay, but come on.. its really frustrating to play like this, especially when trying to deal with the massive conditions given out by necros in particular..
Yesterday when the severs DC’d (I was in WvW), and thought I had finally received my first precursor drop (Dawn)! Except I disconnected immediately, then several more times after that, and when I check my inventory, it wasn’t there!! I was also automatically taken to Divinities reach, so was complaining on map chat about it, and found that someone else had this issue too! I sent a support request in game too, but I don’t really know how this works, so was wondering if there was any way for you to check my logs, so you can prove I actually received one? I was literally taking a screenshot as it happened, so unfortunately can’t prove it on my end.. but was hoping you will be able to see it..
