Guild Wars 2

Divinity.8041:

You are not the only person who abuses the system, and this is not a “season” where you get to a rank and stop playing, by virtue of you not playing like you say you did, you should have been kicked off the ladder, but like you admit to saying, it is a broken system.

Normally I wouldn’t care because nobody actually cares about rank on SoloQ. You are part of a great team, but please don’t act all righteous and say you legitimately got there in a broken system. You admit the system is broken! Please don’t try to counter argue, because it is simply he said she said. Other top players know exactly what you did, so please don’t try to hide this in such a microcosm of a community.

Show me rank #1 with some actual game played, and then maybe I might have an ounce more of what little respect I have for SOLOQ boards right now.

I understand you are rated #1, but let’s see what happens when you actually start playing games in a working system against people that you might actually lose against.

Let me guess, you are going to stop playing after this resets and claim #1 player in GW2 or something lol.

So let me get this straight:

1. By simply playing when the leaderboards were released, and before anyone even knew how they functioned, I abused them simply by playing?

2. The burden of proof lies on me to prove that I did not abuse the system, as opposed to you making the claim?

3. I’m not allowed to defend myself as the fact that I abused the system is self-evident.

4. I probably am unable to regain the rank in a legitimate system and therefore plan to retire claiming my title as R1 in GW2 (A title which has already been taken from me on the leaderboards)

Gotcha…

Your entire post pretty much consists of baseless assumptions, and I don’t much appreciate my name being slandered, as I did in fact legitimately gain rank 1 in a broken system as you put it.

When I said good people, I was referring to people that were ranked highly on the leaderboards at the time, which off the top of my head were some of the following: Super, Boon Sheva, Helseth and Bgsapollo.

Every person I’ve played with or against can attest to the fact that I did not sync queue at any point, whereas you won’t be able to find a single person claiming the contrary.

You will not see my name on top of the leaderboards after the reset, as I have already said that I have no interest in the PvP side of the game any more. Nor will you hear me bragging about R1 soloqueue, as I don’t feel the need to boost my ego by bragging about a title achieved in a broken system. I am far more proud of what I achieved with my team than I am of going 11-0 on the first day of leaderboards and then playing a game every now and then afterwards.

Please stop making baseless assumptions about me, and broadcasting them to the forums, thank you very much.

Divinity.8041:

seriously…

Why would you want to be rewarded for something that nobody actually cares about? Most people at the top cheated/synced and/or abused the MMR system (Hi azh!), and should actually be punished lol.

Care to enlighten me how I did any of those things? Don’t call people out based on your assumptions, I simply played normally for the purpose of getting rank 1, which I got by going on a winstreak against good players early on, and have since then lost interest in playing the PvP side of the game.
The only reason I play every now and then is as a testament to the broken nature of the decay of the system, which is hopefully a more powerful statement than any verbal argument I could make.

Axis.1085:

I have lost all respect for top players after seeing how many of them are abusing Solo Q Leaderboars. Azshene from Team Paradigm/Curse, Helseth ans some others. I even heared how they are dissusing on twich how to exploint and sync. I thought you guys coud better. Shame on you!

The advantage you get if you have a great win ratio is huge after you get a ranking on leaderboards. It means you will get teammates around the same ranking as you are and this will make it much easyer to be on top. And if you have powerful friends (read other top players), you can exploint the game together and win.

I even created a second accout to test out if its possible to get a long winning streak at start. No chance. It doesnt matter how well you play., its not possible to get a winning streak 10-0, 10-1, without cheating.

I thought soloq woud be a place where solo players can play with other players on equal terms, but its not. The big egoes from turnament games just cant exept that they lose, so they do what most top people on leaderboards do… they win by cheating.

Why dont you just leave us solo players and go and play tournaments?

Its like ok to cheat in PvP as long as its socialy accepted, right? “everyone” does that.
It reminds me of doping in cycling during the 90.`and 00.`
Someone may say… come down, its just the game, why do you care? or why dont you do the same? Hmm… its sad to seee how this game devaloped from GW1…

And time will not change this, it will just increase the differance between those that cheat and those that dont.

Please don’t throw around names unless you actually know what you’re talking about. I’ve never claimed any such thing on stream, and all the games I played, were played as a solo queuer without voice communication. There was one single game where I by chance ended up in the same team as Symbolic but as you can tell from the vods on his stream, we weren’t even in the same TS.

Having a high winratio doesn’t necessarily equal sync queuing, and assuming things without proof is a good way to make yourself look ignorant.

BlueprintLFE.2358:

I love this skill in concept, but I Laugh at Guardians that use this skill in TPVP or in WvW. Only place I have seen it used well is to block the keep stairs in Forest. Otherwise I’m praying that someone pops sanctuary as ill just auto attack you through it and laugh as you waste a utility skill. When I switched from guardian to warrior in TPVP and I would see a guardian use this ability to Rez a teammate I would just 100B on the edge of the bubble and hit then both.

It’s a great concept, and if you are going to make a utility skill with a 90 sec + cool down that lasts for 6 seconds, than those 6 seconds better be worth it. The bubble definitely needs to be a little bigger, so that it actually makes a sanctuary.

Love the skill concept, but the area is too small.

Edit: And if you are using sanctuary as a ranged interrupt, that’s good for innovation but for a 90 sec + cool down its not very efficient.

I don’t really see that scenario playing out unless the downed guy has already lost a bunch of hp or has aoe’s placed on top of him, as the res would go off before you’d get back to the bubble and start doing hundred blades. Even then, if the sanctuary is placed right, the stomper will still be knocked away, but would have to run around to the other side of the sanctuary to deal damage to them. It’s generally not a good idea to sit at the very center of the sanctuary and expect not to take damage.

Also, while it’s not the most effective use of the ability to interrupt at range, then it’s one of the only ranged interrupts guardians have available, and if it interrupts something as big as a rally signet then it’s definitely worth the large cooldown even still.

I feel the high recharge is justified as it’s useful in so many situations, and afraid that making the area bigger would just put the ability over the top.

Personally I find it really amazing in tPvP, I’ve lost count of the times this has saved the lives of me or my teammates in large fights, helped me survive against 3 people for enough time for my team to show up, or used to secure stomps or rallies (especially useful when thieves try to rally allies with shadow refuge). I personally rarely just stand around in it after popping it, but use it as a pillar to kite my enemies around, that’s situational though.

Bonus uses:

- Knock people off clock tower with it when they position themselves on the walkways on the sides or above.

- Lock people in tight areas like the crevices around the mid node on legacy or the area between the 2 ledges midnode on forest. You can even have your allies bait enemies there.

- Block off paths/stairs to stop people from assisting nodes or chasing your allies.

- Use it as a ranged interrupt to stop res skills like signet of undeath.

In my opinion it’s one of the most powerful skills in the game when traited so it’s area targeted and has shorter cast time, mainly because it has so many viable uses. It’s just a matter of how you position it and the timing of when you use it.

This post is split into 3 questions, all focusing on spvp:

1. Looking at the current state of spvp, it is primarily dominated by certain classes with certain builds, namely:

Mesmers, due to their high damage output, utility, control and access to immunities.

Ementalists due to their high mobility and survivability while still retaining high damage output and teamfighting utility, particularly when using cleric’s amulet builds.

Thieves due to their ludicrously high “out of the blue” burst capability as well as evasive abilities and mobility, their strengths are mainly due to macroing however.

Are there any planned changes to these 3 professions?

2. Are you looking at modifying rally abilities? as they seem to be integral to the current teamfighting meta, and some of these are way stronger than others(mesmer/necro/elementalist), and in general they have the potential to heavily turn a fight around while being difficult to interrupt

3. Lastly, any hints on your plans to buff some of the more underrepresented professions/builds? Like engineers, rangers and warriors of which you barely see any these days.

If they have a Siamoth (pig) pet they can also find Feathers or Tuft of hair, which allow them to go invis for 3s when used.

Generally if they have a boar type pet out, keep an eye on the ground, because whatever item they dig up you can pick up as well if you’re faster than the ranger.

Source? I must’ve missed that one. In any case, it’s to be expected that it takes more than just a few days to release a blog if that’s the one he was referring to, give them a bit of time, there’s still 9 days until the 15th.

You mean this one that came out last month? https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/structured-pvp-iceberg/

I just wanna chuck it out there, but I didn’t quit, I’m just studying in USA for a month, and my laptop is too bad to run any games on I’ll be back next month and will start streaming again then. <3

Talek.1905:

Actually they lost, quite few times, even with randoms.

I’m not trying to derail this thread, but I just want to clarify here.

Team Paradigm and Paradigm Shift are 2 separate entities under the same banner. Paradigm Shift is our main guild within the game, our teams also represent this guild when outside of tournaments to be part of the chat. Team Paradigm consists of our two main teams; NA and EU. These are our 2 tournament groups.

As a collective team, TP EU (not sure about NA) hasn’t lost any games yet. We do occasionally play with viewers, friends and fans for the fun of it, but we don’t count those games as part of our record since they’re not played as a whole team. Just to clear up any confusion.