Guild Wars 2

Drennon.7190:

Although he has fallen from grace, Sizer plays with about 250 ping. For a while he was top thief in my opinion. So with 300 ping you should be able to be competitive with enough patience.

I don’t know if these numbers are accurate for sizer but yeah, ofcourse it can be done.

I was usually in the top 150 back when the leaderboards were slightly better and I was mostly playing thief with 250ms ping, and while ping screwed me over sometimes it wasnt the main thing holding me back.

The majority of thief skill (at least in solo Q) isn’t how well/quickly you press your buttons, it’s brains, outrotating people, counting/watching dodges, getting the jump on key targets etc.

It really hurts when fighting against other thieves but honestly a ‘fair’ 1v1 where both thieves see the other coming and both have all cds doesn’t happen much.

It only counts story modes done after they added reward tracks (early last year??), the bs explanation was ‘we didn’t want to give pve’rs an advantage in pvp’ or something silly.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Sylanna.1947:

we used to be able to be anywhere in the world while in the queue. Why do we have to be in hotm?

Because of load screens and match countdown timers. Some people load slow.

This is a bullkitten excuse but I know it is the ‘official’ one.
They could have made the queue pop during loadscreens, even if they didn’t, people would avoid loadscreens as much as they could to not miss queue, what would most people do? hotjoin, duels or wvw roaming? very rarely changing maps in the latter two, they could even make queue accept times 30s to decrease the odds of being in loading for the whole time. I think this official excuse is just because they are too lazy to code queue pops into loadscreens.

Also why do they put so much emphasis on people accepting queue and not there actually being a 5v5 when the game starts?
I know sometimes it would be annoying waits to find a replacement but better than wasting a whole game and it would allow us to go back to the old objectively superior for the player queue anywhere system.

Also bringback solo q, yesterday I had 3 games in a row with bigger parties/more turret engineers on the other team and then the 4th game was a 4v5 from the start, I just closed the game, these ‘features’ are terrible. But ofcourse it’s ‘working as intended’, Not really, I know heaps of good players who stopped playing anywhere near as much, there does seem to be a lot more noobs in there but maybe that’s just the matchmaking.

One game was 5 solo players vs a 4 man party and 2 turret engineers, that was a waste of 10 minutes of gameplay and 10 minutes of queue waiting. This isn’t a cry about turret engineers though, I accept it as a sad fact of life that we will always have some braindead builds but having to wait 10 minutes while not being able to play the game really ruins this. It took anet one year to catch onto turret engineers, wonder how long it will take them to realise people aren’t just delusional and they actually don’t have fun sitting in queue. Or maybe even realise http://strawpoll.me/3638200/r or the middair immob bug. /salt