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You can’t possibly be that introverted if you’ve made a family of your own. Try sitting in a little room all day feeling like kitten, being unable to bring yourself to do anything, hating interacting with people so much that you avoid the neighbour who says ‘good morning’.
CSGO has leavers, ragers and even worse: rampant cheaters. LoL doesn’t have the cheater problem, but it has ragequiters/afkers and salty kids in almost every single match. WoW can be worse than both or far better depending on who you play with. This sort of stuff is not exclusive to GW2 and speaking from experience; its impossible to get rid of completely. The best thing they can do to combat these issues specifically are queue penalties. I’ve seen tons of other things tried all over the place and none of it ever does anything.
They can act like Riot and ban you for calling someone an ‘idiot’. No one reasonable would put up with that though.
This week has been the best matchup I’ve played in since joining TC. We’re having even groups duking it out for 10+ mins/smaller groups coordinating to take down much larger groupd and its just amazing. Great fights every evening this whole week.
GW2 is a hell of a lot more skill-oriented than WoW and the myriad of other kittenty over-rated mmorpgs out there.
Sause: twice glad frost mage.
Yet you forget about all of the other PvP games on the market. Yet cry when players refuse to be subjected to lose ratings over known afkers and match throwers, here in GW2. I thought to try out to new changes to the match maker system.
Well, what are the other pvp games on the market have better pvp than gw2? That still very roughly have resembling gameplay?
GW2 is a hell of a lot more skill-oriented than WoW and the myriad of other kittenty over-rated mmorpgs out there.
Sause: twice glad frost mage.
You’re missing the point entirely most of us me included have seen and played the 2 first world 3 and 4 are yet to come, and because of empty promises we get 1 and 2 over and over and over again and every year it comes out on April fools day and the joke is on you the player who takes the bait!!!
Have fun out there and don’t forget your fishing rod.
“empty promises”?
I don’t ever remember SAB being promised at all, especially in the game manifesto at launch or before launch. In fact the whole thing was a total surprise (a nice one indeed) when it was released and if I recall was the work of one individual in his spare time while his main game projects were finished.
If you mean because there are 2 extra doorways that COULD eventually at some time be added on to. If this is what you are taking as “empty promises” I guess you and I have two very different views as to what “empty promises” are.
Really I just don’t get some people. SAB was given to us FREE as a fun BONUS yearly event and people still are not happy. Sure you may have played it up to your eyeballs and may want MORE MORE MORE right now. But lets be realistic here. Sometimes things just never come or they take time.
I mean sure when a new oh I don’t know say Final Fantasy game comes out and I beat it right away sure I may want the next one right now but I just know that’s not gonna happen lol…
Don’t even make me mention the FF7 remake, just knowing that it is going to be broken up into parts…..now that example right there, I COULD be justified in moaning but, no, just no and this is off topic anyway lol.
Its strange that there are buildings marked world 3 and 4 when neither are planned to be released any time soon and they’ve been there for how long? In particular to new players. I wasn’t playing GW2 until the middle of last year so this is my first SAB and I was all excited to hop into world 3 after finishing w2 but both buildings are just aesthetic. It wouldn’t take more than just a moment to remove these two buildings and save them for later when the dev releases those worlds.
I think the real problem with PvP is much more severe: the game is old and people are bored. This game released in 2012-ish and the adrenaline is gone. PvE is expected to age gracefully because it attracts long time fans and casuals, but PvP appeals to short term players who have by now discovered other, newer, better competitive games.
WoW released in 2004 and still has tons and tons of players. Many many more players than GW2 does.
that q poped in 30 seconds
What time do you play? I haven’t had a ranked match pop in less than 2:30 since this kitten began.
Right click a name in pvp, click “report” and notice there’s a reason “match manipulation”. That is exactly what you described.
I honestly believe the Report function was written as an April Fool’s Joke by ANET devs to troll players and then was never removed. Each time someone reports a player a bell rings in ANET’s offices and the DEVs giggle like school girls.
Seriously has anyone found out if Reporting actually does anything?
It only works when the person in question is being reported for political opinions that differ from the kitten Anet believes. Funny how that works.
This season and the way Anet is handling the game overall is such utter trash I’ve gone back to LoL after dropping it in 2014 and swearing I’d never touch it again. I need my pvp fix and Anet isn’t interested in giving it here.
I’ve done 60 matches and maybe gotten 7 decent/good ones out of that entire pool.
Star Trek Online, a sister game to GW2 allows gear differences in pvp. It’s almost strictly p2w and PvP is nearly non existent as a result.
GW2 made a smart choice equalizing gear.
Don’t forget about WoW where the pvp gear matches players up with people who have 3x their health and 15x their damage output. It was especially bad in wotlk and mop, since in wotlk you could instakill anyone without a bunch of resil on their gear and in mop the gear made a difference of 300k-400k health and kittenloads of damage.
If OP wants to get carried by gear instead of skill, WoW or any of its hundreds of clones would be a better choice for him.
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One thing that’s easy to underestimate is how much server pride and/or established relationships keep people playing long after when they would have otherwise stopped.
I know I would have dropped a certain MMO months and months before I actually did if it weren’t for my guild.
I also see a lot of elitism, I get insulted because I don’t have glowing skins or because my achievements are extremely low due to the fact
I’m 300 hours in and I’ve never had anyone say anything about how I don’t cover myself with over-exaggerated kittened glowing kitten like this is WoW (I found a way around that there too though). Its nice.
Even with how kittened up things have been, I still haven’t found anything to replace the pvp and wvw here. All the other MMOs I used to frequent are stone dead or badly kittened by their devs much worse than what we see here.
I don’t mind pvx, but I’m mostly just a pvper and I need a guild of like-minded folks. I main necro but have a chrono, rev, engi and druid as well.
Well gold vs legends does happen more frequent than it should. You wait longer than 5 min, such match is basically guaranteed.
So players in legend should sit in queue for hours, maybe indefinitely?
For the top end of the population, it’s not a question of finding a quick match – it becomes a question of finding any match at all.
That is always how it is and how it always will be for the top end players in any MMO that doesn’t have an insanely massive population. There simply aren’t enough players playing at that skill level in the game at one point; of course your queues are going to be either extremely long (which is frustrating) or you’ll be playing easy games against players far below your skill level (which is boring as kitten)
I play Rainbow 6 Siege, and in that game, you can only pick a class that isn’t already taken. Anet should do same. If someone pick Thief, then that class is gray out and unselectable. If you only have Thief, and it taken, you can opt out of match.
Team game means you play as team. Be nice to others and swap so you can win! Otherwise, people will yell in map chat at each other, and make game not fun.
When I play on my necro I win 1v3s and get easy wins most of the kitten time. When I’m on mesmer I get 15 loss streaks but oddly sometimes win 1v3s anyway. Forcing someone to play a specific class they don’t want to/don’t know how to play will start giving you the same problems that LoL used to be plagued with: people having an absolute meltdown and leaving the match/throwing the game because they didn’t get the role they wanted.
Class specific builds would turn this game into something I absolutely don’t want to play. I signed up for Guild Wars 2, not a video game like OW.
Disagree 100%. Overwatch is considered a “successful game” with a Twitch daily viewership between 20,000 to 25,000. That said, it’s not a Genre to compete against Overwatch. Regardless, I read up on it’s Matchmaking and I want GW2 to be on that level of algorithms.
Its a sad godkitten day when we start calling a game successful because there are a certain number of people who aren’t even PLAYING it but rather watching someone else play it on a kitten website.
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If you don’t want to play with other people, why the kitten are you playing an MMO? If you want to clear all of the content in the game by yourself, play something different. Not everything can please everyone and clearly you don’t actually want an MMO.
If the ‘raids’ could be cleared by one person, how are they then any different from single-player story instances? What’s the kitten point then? So idiots who don’t belong in this genre can feel proud about themselves for having accomplished something so godkitten easy that they could do it by themselves?
Arguing that everything in an MMO should be soloable is like arguing that you should be able to use your hands in Soccer. This is seriously some of the main stuff that completely RUINED WoW.
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Possibly low player pool. I was set up with the same warrior that was on the verge of dc’ing every match 4 times in a row. That set me on a bunch of blowouts / losing streak. It took a while for my mmr to stabilize after that and been having even matches so far. (around 100 point or less difference in wins/losses)
When I get people like that, I just wait 15-20 mins to queue again.
I always hoped, that dps meters wouldn’t find a way into gw2.
When anet allowed them, I haven’t been too happy about it.I rarely pug, but when BotP was released I joined some groups for training.
3 of them were talking about dps meters, but instead of being toxic, they joked about dps numbers or just were curious about the results.I got curious as well especially as I often play tempest.
Another tempest in my guild group also uses BGDM and so we found out that we are equally good or bad.Other guildies started to use it too:
-we don’t use it to flame
-one found out, that seaweed salad is not the best food for him (as he moves to less)
-our chronos know if they are doing well
-our tempests (me included) are sad to beeing beaten by a rangerSo the “toxic dps tool” just helps us to improve.
I don’t deny that a dps meter also bears some risks (focusing too much on dps instead of the mechanics or using it as an excuse to be toxic), but wisely used it can help a lot to improve the group as a whole.
I bet its used way more for improvement than toxicity.
The people that blame toxic behavior on DPS Meter would probably still getting shout/kicked without dps meter for many other reasons.
Like: Dont pinging gear, or when pinging having a bad set.
Missing mechanics.
Dont having LI or Kill proff.
Obvious doing the wrong rotation.
I never saw someone being toxic because of DPS meter. But i have for all those reasons so DPS meter actually decrease toxic not increase as people wouldnt having tools to see whats wrong but still would blame something and many times the wrong thing as they cant see whats actually wrong.
I’m with this guy, you are right. The DPS meters aren’t there because people want to be kittens and ruin everyone’s day; they’re there because people don’t want to waste their time wiping on the boss because some people: don’t know how to play their class, don’t know the mechanics, have garbage gear (like the rabid set that’s given to free 80’s with toughness on every piece) or just don’t care at all. Not everyone has the time to pull a problem member aside and work with them to fix it, and what is wrong with that? If the raid leader is using a DPS meter to monitor the squad member’s dps then they’re doing it because they want to clear this boss and get their rewards, not because they their an kitten who wants to ruin someone’s night. Its their raid, they have the right to decide who’s in and who isn’t.
I know from years of experience how FRUSTRATING it is to run a raid and have your time wasted by players who don’t care or have no clue how to play; not everyone wants to just jump on these people and fix their mistakes for them. Its great that there are folks who do training runs and help new members but there’s another side too just like with everything else and there’s nothing wrong with that.
You can always start your own raid and not use DPS meters. No one else can do anything about it aside from leaving, which you can choose to do too when you join a raid that’s using DPS meters.
I will pretend that you were being objective and had time to think about your response first. I do not have a broken computer, just an old one. It is the internet connection that conks out, not my computer. A better analogy would be another car causing the accident while I try to maintain control of my own car, but end up flipping and crashing. When I come to, I’ve discovered that I have a bill to pay, for both the car and my medical bills. I understand why there is a penalty for afk or match manipulation, but for internet disconnect? That’s like punching someone in the face for losing or disabling a limb. I’m glad that you assume that I do not have a job and that I can build a PC, because all gamers have no jobs and can build PCs, right? And yup, I have a random $500 lying around the house to buy or build myself a new computer, I’m just using it for other things in my life like tuition and stuff. But, nah, the new computer is more important right now. My computer can run GW2, no problem, which is why I can play it. But, it does lose internet connection on occasion, at least once a day and sometimes, it is while I am in a PVP match. The penalty caught me off guard, yes, but it is still for something that myself (and many others) cannot control. Not all GW2 players have the luxury of smooth internet connection and fancy hardware. They probably share similar, if not the same, sentiments as I do in regards to the penalty. Since you were so charitable, I will take your suggestions and see what happens. Thank you so much for your kind response.
Call up your ISP and tell them you are not getting the speed you paid for. If your connection is still kitten, switch ISPs like I did (made the very very poor decision of going with cricket for a little, got 30 kbp/s downloads before switching to cox and getting 6mb/s and a stable connection that doesn’t kitten up constantly)
By the way, if this issue is important enough for you to come on here and complain about it; its important enough for you to stick some of your hard earned money into fixing it. I bought this old thing for $400 in 2014 and I play gw2 on medium settings with a smooth framerate and never have issues such as yours.
The solutions have been laid out for you. Don’t expect sympathy if you refuse to take any of them.
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I honestly felt most of my matches where pretty competitive.
Thread sounds like bronze problems.
Actually I started in silver 3, like last season, almost in gold. So?
Seconded on silver myself.
Seems to have gone down hill to me. I’ve only played 15 matches, but 5 of them so far have had someone quit early either on my team or the opponents. I define early as before 250 pts. Seems to be a large skill gap on the teams. Some people are very strong and others are just garbage in comparison which is probably contributing to it.
I’ve played 40~ matches so far and gotten only a few even matches out of the bunch. Had three in a row with a duo queue who 2-capped home and then sat there for the rest of the match and 95% of the matches has 1-2 people who love fighting on roads or 3-man chasing a single enemy away from a base. The placement matches were actually good and almost all of them were even (except the 3 with that aforementioned duo-q), even had a few 500-490~s, but since then its just one-sided trash almost every single match.
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Yeah, so far this has been absolutely kittening horrendous. When I hop on necro, I get easy wins. Mesmer gets 15 loss streaks. I really liked the pvp in this game but this season is such utter trash I’ve pretty much stopped playing the game altogether. Clearly, anet does not give a kitten about this aspect of the game. The rewards aren’t even worth the time when 90% of the matches are such utter trash.
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Also if everyone is fighting off point you might want to join them. If you are playing a class like warrior, DH, necro and ignore people attacking you then they will proc your passives or take your health down greatly and you are just trying to run to a point. You have to engage them.
In the long run it is true and I approve. However if you have any form of CC, use it if you can. Sometimes you will fight that enemy, but its better to make them chase you to the point and fight over there becuase if you engage in a fight it might end up in a teamfight and if the enemy team is at least slightly better, they will definitely take advantage of it to steal nodes, it happens very frequently.
But in the end of the day every rule has an exception and it just depends on the situation.Yes every situation is different but forcing yourself to a point is never a good idea.
It doesnt matter what class it is, the best players in the game set you up. For instance the DH who set up traps on the stairs and is tapping you forcing out boons like stability or any skills. Is gonna force you to fail.
So much of the game is understanding placement. The OP said something like bunking down the point and im sorry but there is literally 0 bunkers in the game right now. If your a warrior you can sustain for 8 sec, 10 if traited. DH can passive it for 4 sec etc etc etc (other classes)
If hes sitting on the point and his team is dying off point. He is then going to die on the point which isnt any better.
0 bunkering? What do you call it when my necro gets on a point and holds it from 3 or 4 people until teammates arrive and we wipe them?
I think they did something to placement. It seems like quite few people that were in plat/legend last season placed in silver/gold this season. If you are in those rating, you going to have fun time in first week.
Placed in silver and had a few amazing matches until the rage-quiters and non-english speaking idiots come in droves and fight on roads and chase 1v3 off of points, or run one by one into the enemy team.
Just a few pointers here to troubleshoot your game, bearing in mind you’ve been with the game for a whopping 2 months.
• Consider how your teamchat rage affects your teammates. Most players will shut-off and AFK when they feel they’ve been disrespected.
• Consider how your individual gameplay (I’m willing to bet you’re the SoloQ bruiser / roamer / hero type) works with the professions you’ve chosen. You might want to solo-push far into outnumbered fights with something besides Necromancer.
• 200 games played with only 2-3 days of the season so far? Probably take a break. Maybe get a job.
• A lot of these losses are probably directly your fault, maybe own up to that
I haven’t played 200 games of ranked in two days. That’s impossible.
I don’t say anything in chat except ’don’t fight on roads, don’t run one by one into the enemy team if we lose mid"
And yet that’s exactly what I see in every single match.
None of these losses are my fault when I bunker down on a point, get top stats every match and can 1v3-1v4 the enemy team until my team arrives. That’s just kittening silly.
Everyone is different in skill so some might be able to do it sooner but many who PvP and very little if any PvE are forced to craft for these tokens. So their reward was stolen.
This site will get your professions up to where they need with nothing but gold, time and the trader.
D.) Look for decent PvP in a actual PvP game that has a healthy competitive PvP environment.
What game is that? WoW is a complete disaster, League of Cancer was utterly ruined years ago, Dota 2 is cancer, CSGO is kindergarten kitten, every other mmo (and I’ve played every single major one and tons of obscure ones) have garbage pvp compared to gw2 and the ones that were better are dead and abandoned.
I just bought GW2 on Christmas and am looking to join a guild. I main a necromancer, currently a fresh 80. I like the pvp a lot, but haven’t done nearly as much pve. I’m interested in trying out everything, though. I’m brand new to GW2 but I’ve been playing other MMOs for years.
So I bought the game recently, used my free 80 on my necromancer. I had played her normally up to like level 49 or so, so I’m not completely fresh but I’m not sure what to do at 80 starting out. I don’t have enough points to go into my elite spec, not even close, so am I supposed to grind out exp to earn that?
This is what happens when a new season starts. Give it time and things will go back to normal.