Guild Wars 2

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While everyone is busy with ranked gameplay, i have devoted my time to exploring the areas of heart of the mists outside the main floating island. I have discovered that there is an ocean under all the clouds that can be accessed in certain spots and that the old practice area (the island to the south) is still accessible. Furthermore, you can use the ocean to traverse sections of the map that are all blurred out and find new continents and mountains. Truly breathtaking!! I find this 100x more interesting than playing ranked matches.

I know there is alot of pressure to attain more rank points but i really recommended exploring this beautiful and mysterious area for yourselves. Please message me in game for a tour

Cynz.9437:

BennyKay.6139:

during low population times, the game would rather allow you to play with people that may be outside your range (not horribly) than have you wait in a long long queue. This is done purposely since one of the biggest complaints in previous seasons was queue times. Its give or take. Would you rather a near perfect match OR have speedy queue times. Cant always have both.

I would prefer longer queue times because at the end you are just wasting a lot of time for matches that cost you rating.

I would too, but then everyone would go back to complaining that their Q times are so long. Its a catch 22 and the community will always find something to complain about.

BTW – in screenshots… we ALL appear AFK :P

during low population times, the game would rather allow you to play with people that may be outside your range (not horribly) than have you wait in a long long queue. This is done purposely since one of the biggest complaints in previous seasons was queue times. Its give or take. Would you rather a near perfect match OR have speedy queue times. Cant always have both.

It may not seem important but I want to point out that MMR is different than rating. Rating is the number we all see. MMR is a magical number created by an algorithm which happens to use Rating as one of the variables.

So Two players with a 1700 Rating and 120W/70L could (and probably will) have different MMR because of the OTHER variables taken into account when computing the MMR.

I see a lot of people using these two terms interchangeably and although they may be complimentary, they are different. Just some interesting trivia i suppose :P

good tip, i think if everyone did this once a day to a person who they knew was manipulating it could weed these players out pretty well.

Please let me know if you want to participate in some amateur level unofficial team scrims. Bring your own team or free agents. Ill try to get some prize $$ put together and possibly make it a bit more official on Battlefy if all goes well. Mail me in-game or whisper. Looking to begin in the next couple weeks and the matchup games will be based on average ranking of entire team. If free agent msg for invite. If team please specify team name and captain.

BennyKay.6139
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I Am So Angry.1609

someone please clarify since i do not like to read pages of BS. What the complainers are saying is that time spent in game alone should reward you with the maximum level of AP, not skill?? I will never be top 100 (maybe top 250) but kitten i try and practice all the time. If I never get that AP then I did not try hard enough and the people who did deserve it. If time spent playing this game dictated AP i would have 20k + but i only have 5k + since i mostly just PvP. I am not complaining to ANET to make HOT legendaries sellable on TP. Seems to me as a pvp player ill never get Nevermore…. But I dont complain about that. So why are the AP hunters complaining that they will never atain these measly AP’s from PVP?? This aspect of GW2 is competitive. If you can not handle skill based competition gtfo and go play final fantasy.

Honest John.4673:

Win/loss has no correlation on how good of a player you are. You heard it here first folks! This is the type of person you’ve attracted to your game Anet, are you proud?

Ehhh i think if you are silver and your W/L ration is 50% then you are not a good player. You will be hard pressed to find someone who does not agrree with that. Now if you reach plat or legendary and you W/L is 50% than it’s a different story. Get what i mean ??

JTGuevara.9018:

Haha! All you “pros” are full of excuses.

Shaogin posted a game where the team mmr difference is almost TWO HUNDRED points! You call THAT fair matchmaking? It’s laughable.

I can’t wait until some of you guys start tumbling down and getting a taste of the bronze life. Let’s see if you protect the system then.

MMR is different than rank. You have no idea of knowing the other 9 players’ MMR in the match, just their rating which is only a portion of the MMR equation.

Well first off rating and MMR are different, although complimentary. As far as rating, ive seen people in P2 lose anywhere from 15-25 per match so id say you are on the high end of normal. I am winning losing 15-20 per match in G3/P1. How much are youawarded for winning?

megilandil.7506:

Ryan.9387:

Look at their winrates. If you can pull a 70% w/l then you could be up there too.

The people up top generally belong there. If you reset MMR all you will get is a week or two of the same players curbstomping randoms as a duo. I’m sure you wouldn’t find that fun.

no, the extreme win rates of top players are a system fault, duoq + low population + playing in hours less populated+ infesting the top ranks whith their alts (that makes top players not playing versus top players) , if sistem works properly, top players had to play againts top players and get a win/loss ratio of 50-60% ( the win loss ratio of a player siting in his place must be of aprox 50% a little higher for better players a little lower for worse players )

higher winratios only may exist in new players whith skills, that fasclimbing the ranks or missplaced players by the placement matches

Im having a little trouble following your logic. Are you saying that top players sitting around for days is unfair. Do you see how volatile the top 250 is. You can not even sit around for a day or you will get bumped. So if you are ranked top 250 your Rating wont change for 3 days but you can be sure your RANK will. Listen, if you can not win more than 50% of your games you should be in silver and bronze. If you can bump that up to 55-60% you will be gold and higher. Alot of the complaining is because people are losing matches or are stuck at a 50% W/L. I started in S3. I did not play last season so i could not benefit from the previous MMR. Now im G3/P1 and will probably be around there for the remainder. I dealt with the grind just like everyone else. I had bad players. But i never allowed myself to lose more than 2 in a row. Individual mechanics as well as q’ing with someone WILL help. If you are unwilling to make that effort than the climb will be impossible. And as for the placement matches… I went 6-4 landed in gold 1, then fell a little, then gained more. So its not impossible to rank up, you just have to stop blaming everyone/everything else and look inward

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

So the thing about Staff Tempest is that it puts out more heals and more damage. It’s all around better than Dagger/Focus… except for not having Obsidian Flesh. I run Staff Tempest some games, but never against a Thief and never against two or more power bursts. It’s a very situational, but usable set. Some people just see success with it against some comps, so they decide to run it. When they run into issues, they don’t realize the other team’s comp is different, so something must be different. Their play is the same, so it must be their team. Thus, they learn nothing and keep playing it against bad comps.

I would agree. I did staff a few times with some decent results. I am still a slave to D/F however.

Rashy.4165:

Random comment from my own experiences: I try to wish everyone a good game in map chat prior to match starting, and one person said to me “don’t wish them luck, we aim to win”, to which I responded with “-shrug- sportsmanship” and got a blank “?” in response.

We lost that match, but still.

Lol well ill be candid. I was raised to always thank your opponent for a game but i was taught not to lie in competition. If I won because the other team was horrible i would never say good game, because it wasnt. I’ll say thank you for the match. Sportsmanship does not equal coddling. At the start i dont say good luck because your goal is to win. Its just words BUT it does say alot regarding the competitive nature of the player. I dont really talk at all during matches unless its to nail down a strat. But then again im usually teetering between gold/plat and i dont really have to type in a match. You can be competitive and have integrity and be polite. But no ill never wish the opponent good luck

suffish.4150:

Something I wish I knew when I started pvp is that it is more often than not a good idea to go for the far point at some time in the game. When I started, I was always told that the split was 1-4-0 and that nobody should ever go far. I see people saying this at low level (unranked) and I believe it really does limit progress.

Another thing is that it is always better to leave a fight and survive rather than just die on point. I always used to die on point, thinking that the extra time my team owns the cap is better than me moving somewhere else when in reality the only time you should choose to die on point is if you are certain that you will die anyway and want to delay the cap for a bit longer or to stop yourself from being bled out for too long.

When in gold/plat not sending a teammate far isnt even an option. Asking who is going far is just as common as asking who will grab home. I dont know why people continue to QQ over going far at start =(

you realize with a hard reset a former bronze player will not benefit them. At the start of each season your rank will be (1200+previous rating if any)/2. This is a soft reset. So all new players will begin at 1200 and players such as myself will start off around 1400. Because i performed well i will get paired with better players. If you did not perform well in the last season than you should not be paired with better players. You will only bring them down. A hard reset will reset everyone to a pre-determined # which is usually 1200. So good luck matching against previous legendary/plat players. And btw MMR is different than rating although the 2 numbers are complimentary. So when i talk about resets i use rating as an example number.

KassandraKieran.9704:

I somehow got Silver 1 after my placement matches and I had to play like 50 matches to get to plat. It happened fast and although I had no problem winning 1v3s in Silver, it was still sad, stomping new players wasn’t fun, I legit had to tell everyone in my team ‘never +1 me when I’m 1v1/2/3, go win the rest of the map instead’ at the beginning of every match. Some things I encountered (especially in low silver):
-condi druids (I think out of all the druids I played with and against only 2 were playing the meta build)
-staff eles
-staff eles trying to solo the Lord on Legacy just to die to it in less than 10 seconds
-DHs who died to thieves 1v1
-a DH who +1d my 1v1 against a warrior even though I told him not to, he died in 5 seconds, I rezzed him 3 times in that 2v1
-teammates who lost 4v2 while I was trying to survive 1v3 against 2 eles and an engi
-a mesmer who had no signets because “signets are not meta anymore, read the forums”
-a druid who asked me if I’m playing PU mesmer after I 1shot him with a condibomb
-druid and DH who came close with me at the start of a match, then proceeded to chase the enemy thief who was pushing it, left the point uncapped
-people who 3v1d Svanirs
-people with no builds/amulets
-people who stomped my clones
-people who called me a cheater because “how can you have so much stealth” (I didn’t, I put a portal down and blinked because I was pressured, came back after 15 seconds)
-people who managed to get wiped at mid before I could even cap close
-people who raged at me for going far when we were losing the mid fight
-people who groupcapped points (I’m talking 3cap when others need help somewhere else)
-no one knows how to cleave
-no one knows how to revive

It’s even worse on NA, I did my placement matches on my f2p account. Apparently it takes 3 DHs to kill a p/p core thief, people camp the treb on Kyhlo the entire match and there are at least 5 DHs in every match. (I also kept getting a medal for healing done on my thief for some reason).

What tales have you guys got from the lower divisions?

heh all that made me laugh. Ive seen all that and more. The mistakes i saw did not make me mad it was the fact that no one in silver can take constructive criticism. I main ele. I was 1v1ing on a cap i owned and my teammate +1’d the fight. It was an easy 1v1 and i did not want to kill the enemy since he was the one wasting time. I kept typing in chat to my teammate please leave please leave. My teammate finally killed the enemy and told me YOURE WELCOME. so i PM’d him and said i was in no danger of losing the cap in the 1v1 and he should have picked a fight elsewhere. He raged at me calling me a noob, etc…. i try to keep my cool but man its tough. We won the match regardless but just the lack of learning with those bronze/silver gods is astonishing.

hackks.3687:

You don’t need a guide. You need to watch the mini map. You look at the points you have, whether or not they’re contested, count enemies, and rotate help with apparporiate numbers. That’s rotating.

Rushing far because you can’t take mid is a whole different thing. And if you think you can leave your team and go far solo and be a benefit to your team then you need to think again. Virtually everyone I see going far is ignoring their teammates and leaving them short handed in a team fight and likely setting them up for failure and getting your team snowballed off the map. Running their solo after losing a team fight just spreads your team out at a time when they need to regroup. Seriously. People are kittening terrible at pushing far. If you really want to win, learn to team fight. Learn to create advantages in fights first, then rotating will get obvious and easy.

hi rigga, this is puny pepper, i have found you!! thats all, bye

imo tempest is great and necessary in every team comp. Even at the highest levels of pvp nearly every pre-made uses a tempest. Tempest has incredible sustain and the ability to do 200k + damage per match if using menders. The key to bunking with an ele is not just your heal skills, its constantly switching attunments, overloading them, and keeping auras up (which will also give you perma protection. So to say ele cant bunk or cant deal damage is inaccurate and i think you will be hard pressed to find a veteran pvp’er who will agree with you. I desent.

its ok you can only get 1 set of ascended. In another couple days everyone will have their ascended set and be gone

vove.2768:

Either that or allow to join as 3 and kitten .

WTF? Why five gets censored? 55555

Either that or allow to join as 3 and kitten .

Great job anet, another thing you cannot even do correctly.

Ok, let’s try it once again.

Remove duoqueuers from ranked, or allow us to join in teams of 3 and 5.

lmao i love this post. and agree with it.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

• People who fight off point or get kited by mesmers off point while it is not taken or occupied by opposing color
• People who say literally nothing until we are losing, then explode in rage because nobody knows what they’re doing.
• Thieves that refuse to switch if we have more than two thieves. (I can’t be really frustrated at this because some people may just have one character. That’s a failing of the game more than the player I think.)
• People who see 3+ stacked on mid and push it by themselves
• Any non-heavy that does the above (X2)
• People that wont regroup when team wipes and just run off to w/e point is being contested.
• People who go home out of the gate when its already being capped and stand there.
• Any non mes or thief that pushes far without help.
• People that push far and stand there in expectation, even if they manage to fully cap the point when opposing team just completely wiped. Rally at mid please, you’re going to get eaten alive.
• Thieves that don’t at least decap/harass far when it’s free (This is your job >:{ )
• Afkers.
• People who say nothing in game at all
• People who wont listen to the 1 minute call for “Proceed to [kittening] TRANQ”
• People who leave home abandoned when a thief/mes is clearly harassing home.
• People who have a downed ally in a team fight and a downed opponent in a team fight that wont stomp the opponent if the ally is not in danger of dying immediately.
• Unfocused necros
• The -other- kind of unfocused necros.
• Blaming the thief for the loss when the thief performed well/demoralizing the thief in game when far is being harassed properly, because your sorry butt can’t stay off the ground and you think that by blaming the thief nobody will notice.
• Thieves that port out of a heal when they arent in danger of being stomped (or that wont stealth themselves when they are in danger of being stomped when that option is available so I/someone can rez)
  *Thieves that do this but up a ledge . (X2)
• Failing to update on status of Lord.

If you do not fall into any of these categories Idec if we lose. Usually if team loses it’s because of one or more of these is being done incessantly (obvious pet peeves like “waaah, thief ported” aside) .

I agree with all except that I love pushing far as a tempest. I can indefinitely delay that cap and cause the enemy team to devote 1 or 2 people to taking their home or sometimes i can even down the far enemy and cap it. Either way i have had alot of success with it.

Im always the far superstar because in 1-2 perosn Q’ing I can not rely on other teammates to have great map awareness. Sometimes they do, sometimes they dont. But ill tell you one thing. I win 66.6666666% of my games by being a… SUPERSTARRRRR. Its cause i know how to delay that far cap for a very long time and bail IF i see i will lose the fight.

shion.2084:

I always ask if someone is going to try and be a “far superstar” off the bat when waiting for a match to start. With PUGs that almost never works out well.

And at the very least, if you do have the heavies mid to sustain it for a short while, you need to tell them their job is simply to kite mid. Plus the number of fricken times someone races over there and gives them five points….. Then we lose mid too….

Establishing who is taking home, 4 are going mid, and that I will provide group swift to the guards and necros is normally about the extent of my chat. That and a helpful reminder to please call a target mid. With the threat that I suck at it and if noone does I’ll start doing it

Shaogin.2679:

Getting in the top 250 is an achievement. I don’t get it, are you wanting AP to represent someone’s achievements in the game or just how much time they spent in the game farming AP?

If someone makes it in the top 250 and that gave him more AP than you, then that is completely fair. He was better than you or more determined than you in a particular game mode.

And if he is just someone that doesn’t farm AP and doesn’t have anywhere near as much than you do, then what does it matter? He wouldn’t be competing at all for some fabled top AP slot you people seem to be fighting for.

I guess my point is, I get that your goal in getting top AP is like a pvp player’s goal of getting to the top of the ranked leaderboard. But it seems with your AP goals, you believe anyone who puts in the same amount of time into the game, regardless of skill, should be able to receive the same amount of AP. At that point I just can’t help but wonder, what’s the point. If all you want to do is flaunt how much you smash your head on the keyboard in the game, just share screen shots of your /age.

I agree with you 100%. The whole “participation trophy” mentality needs to end. If you do not perform well you do not get a reward. Harsh, yes, but necessary. This is a game, and in games some will lose.

I am looking for a small and dedicated team to do league with. Im not new and have been on teams before but they were not dedicated. I am currently Sapphire rank / pvp rank 60. I main an auramancer ele d/wh. i am not looking for a large guild that spams recruiting or only cares about numbers. I prefer quality over quantity. I am competitive and am looking for a team who wants to win above all. I am also not looking for a team that is just learning the game nor am i looking for a pve guild that just happens to have a couple pvp’er.s . I pvp and dont care much about pve. Also, i want a team where i fit into the team comp. I play support or bunk. I like to 1v1 and 2v1 for practice, i like taking critque, and im pretty easy going. I joke around alot but am serious in a match. TS is req. I can play most nights. Ok i think thats about it lol. Anyways, if u think your team might be a good match lemme know in game. Whisper me “bennykay.6139”. Also, if you have a team that also needs a guild home, my guild is empty and has lvl 13 guild hall / TS / and arena.

Anteater Academy [AA] — Hi guys. OK, here’s the deal. We are a small-ish guild (under 50 players) that currently focuses on sPvP but wouldn’t mind getting more involved in PvE, WvW, Raids, and Fractals. The current group of people are pretty close knit. We joke around a lot and generally just like to have a good time. The time has come to expand a bit. We are looking for members, especially those who are interested in being officers/recruiters. We have a guild hall (Level 12), TS3 server, and a custom arena. 100% rep is not required BUT is much appreciated. Any ages welcome. USA Time Zones. We have hosted 1v1 Tourneys and even fashion contests!! So if you want to be a part of a friendly and fun guild and help us grow please message us in-game for more info. “BennyKay.6139” or “Stryder.9027”.

cost me about 1700-1800g to get twilight through crafting dusk. beats the heck out of the 3800g price on TP.

lol ^^ I dunno. My guild is small and a bunch of PVP’ers that rarely stepped foot outside of HOTM. Took our core spvp team to get the guild hall. We got it second try. Moderate CC and one good support. I think the thing that helps is a lot of DPS. CC does help, but its not absolutely necessary. 5 people worked just fine. But yea, it all depends on the spawn places. The only reason we failed the first time was we couldn’t run to the other side of the map in time… Remember, don’t start the mission until your team is in the center of the map. One person needs to stay behind to begin the mission by talking to the NPC. If you have time to spare after each kill, regroup center immediately. Now please shake hands and stop fighting <3!!!!

The GW1 system was a bit better. A GW1 dragon rank was extremely rare, and you could not obtain it by losing. In GW2 someone can reach dragon rank by losing every match. So rank means nothing. As far as title. Play long enough, win or lose, and you can get every title. A bit lame. Just put the yakslapper title up, its the only true title of greatness.

I did the dusk collection. Someone told me to stand hear teqatls feet when he is BELOW 75% health. That worked for me. Did take me 2 tries though.