Guild Wars 2

The attunement cooldown is higher than in base ele and you only change 3 skill instead of 5, which makes it 2x worse. It´s just a crippled version of vanilla ele.

Is there any matchmaking in off season or are 500-0 matches actually wanted?

Also I realized you cannot swap class pre game. Thats why we ended up without any support. Or another time we might end up without damage. This really has to be changed for match quality reasons!

Hello, I heard about the new expansion and got curious if I could enjoy the game again, but in order to return and have fun I need more than carrying randoms in pvp or playing ranked with braindead monkeys.
Therefore I would like to play on any team that is capable of competing at the top level and willing to scrim in the evening to get some quality matches. ( I do not want to play when I know that some players do not have the required potential to beat all teams!!! It is super demotivating when you know your invested time will never reward you. Won´t do that again! )

I don´t think I have to introduce myself, as the targeted audience knows about me.
So if your upcoming team fits my descriptions and you are interested in me aswell just send me an ingame mail.

Now that you don´t let me change class in ranked anymore, what am I supposed to do as a main ele if my team doesn´t kill anything? As a high elo player I usually get paired with noobs only so it is quite common that I am just healing bots which is useless.
It is now impossible to go in as elementalist.

can anyone explain me why you think dh is op ? they are too slow to have any impact on rotations, they arent the best duelist either, so only teamfighting left. In teamfights you usually encounter the enemy support, an elementalist, who will permanently block all your projectiles and reduce your damage by 40% through high protection uptime on his team.

As you see dh doesn´t even fill into any role to really shine. Now tell me what exactly the problem with dh´s strength is ?

good for you pretty broken system tho but what can you expect from a game in beta

I´m tired of playing with bad team comps and kittenty teammates.

-37 now , its getting better, good game Kappa

only 3 mesmers and 4 thieves in top 10, seems balanced

this system is just stupid. Get an ele on my team on legend rank who tries to kill chieftain, takes him 2 minutes to get it stolen and for that i lose that much rating?

Not even those people who are 300 rating higher than me ever lose that much rating.

there will never be any fair solo or duo system cause different classes have different carry potential

atm thief is strictly better than revenant, some tweaking is needed indeed as they kinda share the role of moving between points to outnumber duels, just that thief has probably better duel potential, stealth and mobility for decaps.

Sure revenant is abit better in teamfights, but that doesn´t make up for it at the moment.

Just look at the top10 of Eu , all mesmer/thief duos of the top teams in there, easy to tell what the strongest carry classes are.

The more defensive your class is, the less you can carry. Support will only be as useful as the teammates they support. So in general its better to carry on a DPS class and best on a DPS class that controls rotation aswell.

S tier: DPS with rotation (Mesmer/Thief)
A tier: DPS without rotation and duelists trolling 1v2s (Warrior DH Necro / Eng Druid)
B tier: support, no rotation, no 1v1 potential (Ele) and overnerfed Revenant between A and B

ofc in A tier warrior is closer towards S while necro heavily relies on support and drops to B without support.

Most accurate list you will find here. It´s not a balance list, it´s a list of the carrying potential of the classes.

Emdrix.6124:

Ele is still necessary in every team comp. Sure u cant carry alone but u can carry with a DPS player duo. Ele+ rev, war, necro or even thief

problem is that some classes, especially those that control the rotations have higher potential to carry. If you play the team oriented card, then let me choose my team and stop duo q system.

Gwaihir.1745:

I stand by that. You don’t understand not only dps can carry. You wont carry with a yoloq build you user to break pub tiers, high level play if team based so the ele keeping everyone alive means you win.

ele is just as good as the people you support, if your team is losing both sides you have no influence on that, or if your team fails to focus a target.

means you will end up on the average rating you get matched with kinda as you have too little impact

ele is terrible in the current duo q system because it cant carry at all. In order to carry as support it would need to survive 1v2 forever when palyed well because other classes can just kill very effiently and you had to make up for this .

the called out classes for sure are much much stronger in the duo q system. If a thief can kill people fast 2v1 then i must be able to live long 1v2 as ele in order to carry as hard as thief can, but anet removed all bunker amulets.

everything is better than the current system

could a dev look into my rating changes? lately it bugged out and the numbers are extremely high

it used to be +9 -15 but changed to +15 -39 etc somehow all my numbers are doubled

seems to affect matchmaking aswell, games of las 1,5 hours have all been complete stomps

the q time wasnt longer than 2 minutes so rating difference to opponents is not a matter here

The matchmaking makes little sense. Just duo qeued and faced the #2 player. Thanks to matchmaking he got 2x duo q on his side while i got only my own duo q.

Idk why the system supports highly unbalanced matches.

Yasi.9065:

, but well… software that detects stuff like that usually costs a lot of money.

and you cant ban software like mouse drivers

Power rev is still viable, ele is still trash for solo cause you are just as good as the people you support. Means ele can only be played at prime time.

Best class to carry is probably mesmer followed by war/engi/thief all highly mobile, strong duelist and can disengage/engage where they want.

Commiting to teamfights usually wont carry the game as you lose side points to the classes i just named and you cant finish the teamfight in this amount of time.

also dont stay in q for too long, the matchmaker will pair you with people far away from your skillrating

on some classes you can actually kill enemies faster than they can kill your noobs while having enough mobility to engage / disengage fights very quick like mesmer thief for example.

Other classes cant carry a game that much tho and as support especially you are just as strong as the people you can heal.

FrownyClown.8402:

Ele is broken now even though the support build wasn’t touched? okay. Sounds like a meta issue not an ele one

having an ele helps, but being the ele just limits you cause you cant carry. An ele is just as good as the people he supports. To make ele enjoyable they must remove duo q restriction and allow to pick the people you want to play with.

Ele does carry teamfights to some extend, but if you truely want to carry you must play a solo class that can win nodes on its own like engi or warrior through duel power or thief from decapping and outnumber.

Ele is just as useful as its mates, if you are healing noobs it wont help at all. Defintely not a class to climb ladder.

Lordrosicky.5813:

You have to accept you will lose sometimes. I know you are probably the biggest rager i have seen in any game, but you just have to accept it.

It is just pathetic how you can duo q with pro league ele/necro at 4am and you cant even win a game cause your teammates literally block any chance of winning.

I want to be rewarded for playing better than my opponents. The matchmaking is not reliable at all. The balancing is not made for duo q either.

cant even play for fun anymore cause you are forced to get 3 noobs on your team every time

So most games are either a 2v4 or a 4v2 in terms of known players per team and the outcome is determined even before game start already.

I am qing from top 10 and get matched with killshot warriors who run into 1v1s and die etc. making it completely impossible to win the game literally 4v5.

Balance wise classes who rely on their team cant carry as hard as engi or thief who can just carry alone by either winning all duels and surviving like a god on engi or outnumbering and decapping constantly as usually there is no real defense or control on side points in uncoordinated groups.

Whats the point of this whole system?

My experiencee with the new matchmaking till now is that every games consists of 3 2man groups of pro players and those who get stacked get a freewin basicly every 2nd game is like this

Syrius Gorn.5384:

need motivation to form a team.

Even if you have the motivation to form a team like me, the low pvp population of this game completely blocks any attempt to do so. It is literally impossible to find players on a competitive level. There is no ingame incentive to compete so people won´t learn to compete cause talented players never get in touch with pvp.

With this in mind feel free to recommend your friends or yourself to me if you think they are top players who are capable of competing at the highest level to aim for #1 of pro league equivalent tournaments. Especially looking for revenant and mesmer.

The current matchmaking promotes bad team compositions with too many roamers and too little sustain for proper gameplay. The playerbase matched into my games also lacks understanding of strategy. Please stop matching me with noobs. I am willing to wait longer to get normal matches, even tho the queue time is already stupidly long.

Add incentives that promote skillful gameplay outside of elitist tournaments held for 20 people.

not just competitive content, it´s been 4 years and q time aswell as matchmakin still suck

yes it does punish you for playing well. Even with 3 pro league players on you cant guarentee wins on diamand cause the game will put you against just fine opponents while putting the worst possible mates into you group who afk on points and lose every duel in seconds and jump into 1v2 situations just to suicide.

Speaking from experience

just trio qing with 2 other pro league players, getting 20 kills and not dieing yet we lose the game. It really manages to find the two worst possible teammates for us lol . It´s kittening crazy how the game puts the lowest possible mmr people into your group. Why would i even play well when i can just play like trash and the game will match me against worst opponents or puts better players into my group.

I´m not stuck, just annoyed. Feeling forced to duo q and make enemies quit the game is what i have to do, but not good for the game either.

So I´m on my climb to legend and the game still tries to equalize win chances for both teams, that system is just strictly wrong.

If a pro player is in a low division he should easily win every single game and progress out of it fast. If you don´t like the fact other people have to “suffer” for playing worse, then don’t match pros with noobs.

Just let me play against legend players through direct mmr from the beginning and let me skip all the trash. It´s not fun for anyone having me in saphire games 1v3ing people who dont even use correct build and it’s not fun for me either to win 1v2s and still lose 500-100 cause i get snowballed due to the inability of my teammates just because the game must equalize win chances and finds me the worst players of the division

thank you guys, quite unfortunate tho

Hey,

does anyone know the fastest way to get the striders armor weapon set?

It is currently not available on the gem store, but I dislike all the other medium armor.

How often do the gemstore items rotate? When can I expect to be able to purchase it?

In this case blindly following the rule distorts the competition. It is a good guideline, but Admins should still be able to make smart decisions based on common sense.

The timing of the attacks clearly shows, that the attacker knew what he was doing and might even be part of the competitive pvp scene himself to either get an unfair advantage or to seek revenge against Frostball.

Vermillion had the lead in both games and could be considered the stronger team. In fact we can only have a fair competition if this game is played under fair circumstances.

As the current distorted league placements does not necessarily reflect the strength of the teams, it is in the interest of all teams to get a rematch in this case.

Keep the competitive spirit up.

whoever is responsible for this matchmaking doesn´t understand his job.

I was in queue for over ONE HOUR and then the map closed after 1 hour and ports me to another overflow canceling my queue time.

are you kittening serious?

currently waiting 20 minutes, probably have to wait another 30 minutes to get a 500-50 game again.

To those who tell me i shouldn´t run an ele build with 13k hp, I have to inform you that clerics amulet is the best option for eles. And eles don´t have viable reliable stunbreaks.

To those who question how i can ask for mesmer nerf, I am not asking for a nerf, I am asking for a change/rework.

Can you please inform yourself before posting nonsense please and stop arguing that class x/y are op therefore moa is fine? It´s not related to other classes.

just got completely stomped after 30 min of queue, next game the enemies got farmed to almost 500-0, it´s very rare to get good games. The system randomly groups all ranks together cause it cant find people on equal level and it cant take into account that some classes are more valuable than others.

We farmed the leaderboard last season and got #1 in the end. The reward was so bad it is not worth to q as a team at all, therefore no pro league team cares for that.

It´s all about incentive.

suffish.4150:

because it is an elite skill with a long cool down.

It´s a 50sec cd on your f5 with alacrity

Ithilwen.1529:

Moa is blockable, dodgeable and has a ridiculously long cast that can be interrupted. This is a learn to play issue.

Not all classes have blocks or stunbreaks. It is not dodgeable from sword3/shield 5 cc combo.

you cant dodge moa when the mesmer uses shield 5 and sword 3 to lock you down. It´s not a l2dodge issue. Also the animation is really questionable for such a skill.
Same with the condi bursts, there is no visible animation that kills you such as mirror blade/berserker on traditional power mesmer.

seems completely random to me, sometimes I got a team of all proleague players multiple times in a row and another time i get a loss streak by facing such teams (all soloqs) It seems like its too hard to measure actual player skill.

Even when there are players on the same level, they don´t get equally split over both teams.

The current ele meta build (the only viable build) is completely boring to play.

You can barely contribute anything to kill other players. Many times ele vs ele teamfights just take forever and you just wait on node for your team to win the game.

It would be really nice if we could get a more interactive ele build again, like the fire/water/arcana.

It is really frustrating being unable to win any fight/duel on your own cause you cant kill anyone.

Also the low health and armor value completely ruin any attempt for an offensive build.

Dragonhunter is not even playable on a high level. You don´t get what this topic is about? It is not a comparison between what skills / classes are the most broken.

It is to raise awareness of how stupid moa is and that it needs a change, either better defensive abilities like cleanse stunbreak , proper armor value or less duration etc.