Guild Wars 2

I got a lot of time on my hands atm so i can spam a lot of games for #1 again so start it up please.

Anet wants this game to become an Esport. So they make a leaderboard system that clearly caters to bad players by basically not being able to go down in ranking unless you stop playing. And now I’m realizing the matchmaking itself doesn’t really give a kitten.

Reikou, Justin told me my MMR is above average and I am still getting the exact same thing. It’s as if the system balances things by giving better players bad teammates cause it can’t find people at your MMR for the other team.

Me and some others are going through the exact same thing right now. And as Justin himself told me it may be because of all the new/returning players since the expansion announcement.

Justin, why are we being paired with these players? The game has become a complete joke. Not that it wasn’t once you changed the leaderboards from MMR to “spam as many games as you can for highest rankings” <<this is coming from the current #1 player, I’ve literally just played more than everyone.

I think I can help answer Cyanon’s question. Like Justin said there is a whole new influx of players coming in this week so you may be feeling that, but at the same time… why are we playing with new players? As for the versing premades issue, are you sure they are actually premades? There is a way to tell if they are premade or not, and it’s not by “oh they beat my team”. Just hit “b” and right click the enemies names to see if they say “Join Party” or “Invite to party” and that will give you your answer. Also I have personally stopped caring about whether I’m facing a premade or not as I’ve been finding that most are just not very good and communication only helps so much…the players actually have to know what they’re doing in the first place.

I do understand this sense of "a week ago the games felt “winnable” and now it’s one or the other" you definitely have a point there and it’s frustrating and probably what caused me to make this topic in the first place. I’m just rolling with it though and hoping it will pass.

Oh really. I’m not on forums much as it’s always so negative xD

Thanks it’s just confirmation bias on my part then. So what about my idea? I’m not sure people could ever pass me at this point… There must be a way to negate grind a bit, or am I actually the best player xD

This past week my games are not like they used to be. I feel like my teams are constantly outmatched every game with a win here and there. I know everyone thinks this is happening to them but I would really love some insight to prove me right or wrong, as I could see this as being a way to stop me from continuing the climb the boards and basically being impossible for others to catch up. If that is true, it’s really making the game no longer fun for me.

As for my idea, how about making the top 3 players NOT be able to gain a point for a win (if its a game the player should clearly win) and maybe even lose a point if the player lost to a team that they really should have stomped. It would make holding the top spots a whole lot more competitive and fun and get rid of the feel of the boards being just a grind. The whole gaining guaranteed gain a point for a win and sometimes gaining for a loss (also not often do you even lose points for a loss) is a recipe for grind.

PS: Sentinels amulet…? Why. Toughness falls off where as vitality does not which is why I assumed it didn’t exist in the first place. Now tanks have become just…ugh.

Doughy

As it stands sPvP is just a fun mode for me with no real ranking system which I find is weird because this Anet wants this game to be an E-sport. Adding a ranked queue would change sPvP from fun mode to probably my main mode of this game.

Beware of these forums. There’s a lot of hate but it is actually the same group of 5-10 people that constantly complain saying they are/will quit because a new tier of gear was introduced LOL.

A problem that will be solved over time.

You do realize that you only need to do level 10 once a day?
The rings drop from the daily chest at the end of killing the Jade Maw.
The drop chance is around 10-20% as you’ll notice 1 party member will get a ring almost every time.
Either you’re doing random levels hoping for a drop from a random mob or something, you’re trolling, or you’re the unluckiest mothercat in the world.

Don’t listen to the guy above my first post there. He’s just one of the people that constantly spam hate yet won’t move on from the game. We don’t need you sir, and no, there actually is no grind in the game if you don’t want there to be.

It is the best MMO!
Like to achieve prestigious gear? Fractals! And the gear is not even hard to get, just do level 10 everyday. But you can also go as high level as you can for more of that prestigious feel!

World bosses, dungeons, map completion for your PvE needs!

s/tPvP for your competetive needs!

WvW for your casual yet still competetive needs!

MORE AND MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE!

Kromica.2831:

Dr is stupid. Oh you need bloods for crafting well you have spent to much time killing the mobs that drop them why don’t you go and grind for something you don’t want for an hour or so then you can cone back and try foe the bloods again.

They created a system to artificially extend a grind in a game with “no grinding” (lol) worst idea ever.

If you are killing skelks or whatever for bloods, you will never hit that DR. People hit DR when they farm the waves and waves of mobs from events in cursed shore.

LordByron.8369:

Galen Grey.4709:

how can you tell that more people dislike ascended gear then people like it?
!

with numeric evidence on the forums (too much for the vocal minority excuse).
numeric eveidence from internet
Just analyzing wich target audience they advertised the game to
Thinking what made GW1 successful
with the poll they did

Now those are tools not fault proof for sure but taking all of them becomes quite a proof.

On the other side, is there any evidence most people wanted vertical progression?
I didn t see any.

Imho we shouldn t even discuss this

They just will try to keep most of their old playerbase and attract some more……quite greedy and unfair imho but its only my opinion.

“with numeric evidence on the forums (too much for the vocal minority excuse).”
The entire forums are the minority.

“numeric eveidence from internet”
Same people on the forums. Read above response.

“Just analyzing wich target audience they advertised the game to”
They were NEVER only targeting the GW1 fanbase, but all types of players.

“Thinking what made GW1 successful”
Oh this is the only way for a game to be successful then. You guys are just pulling random evidence out of your kitties.

“with the poll they did”
Read above. Just more random evidence. Also same people that use the forums.

Can anyone on these forums come up with anything legit?

Amen.2630:

JumblyJebus.5903:

I love how you believe you are speaking for the whole community.

I’m guessing roughly 1-5% of players even go on the forums which is where you are seeing all the complaining.

People only go onto the forums to complain.

Understand what I am saying?

i speak for me and my friends, which 90% of them left the game and dont even went to forums couse they know it better … it wont change anything at all
and 10% which still log into the game (dont play it really anymore) and have the same opion as me,
as well for my guild of 300 members, who share my thoughts couse i talked actually to someone

you dont know me and just declare that i take everything out from the blue,.. noob

I’m sure you friends share similar thoughts as you, that’s why they are your friends.

You’ve probably spoken to 5-10 of your guild members and are now trying to tell me it was all 300 to try and support your story.

I’m not going to insult you like you tried to insult me by calling me a noob because you are right, I don’t know you.

I love how you believe you are speaking for the whole community.

I’m guessing roughly 1-5% of players even go on the forums which is where you are seeing all the complaining.

People only go onto the forums to complain.

Understand what I am saying?

Raise the price I don’t want to see anymore people than I already do wearing my T3.

NemesisT.4809:

@JumblyJebus:

I don’t know which server you playing JumblyJebus, but it must be the best server

Situation on my server:
1. Orr: dead – I know it was before, but I mean nearly no players
2. Other dungeons: Best you have a long friends list, if you wanna go somewhere else!
3. WvW: don’t know but actually you can directly join at the primetime. We had one hour or more queue before!

And I play on a high/full server.

1. I’ve done Grenth twice today with full zergs and other Orr events.
2. I can go to LA and say LFG (insert dungeon) and find a group with ease.
3. Every battleground has commanders and zergs, for all 3 servers.

Maybe you need a server transfer? You know some servers tend to go one way or the other depending on the players in that server. Sounds like you are out of place.

illgot.1056:

JumblyJebus.5903:

illgot.1056:

Fractals has pretty much killed the game for me. I hate repeating dungeons or dynamic events constantly… which probably means GW2 is just not for me.

Any MMO for that matter.

which is the reason I got excited about GW2.

I didn’t need to worry about grinding out gear set after gear set. Max gear was easy to obtain and the grind for was appearances.

Now it’s completely different.

Is it? When you log in and play does it actually feel different besides people looking for group for Fractals? Because what I see is people doing the exact same things as they did before but with the option of some additional content.

Orr zergs in full force. WvW exciting as hell (never have I heard people complaining about Ascended gear LOL). All other dungeons still being run.

Tell me exactly what is different? Possibly you are on a low populated server? For some reason even then I doubt anything is different.

Keldrath.4735:

JumblyJebus.5903:

illgot.1056:

Fractals has pretty much killed the game for me. I hate repeating dungeons or dynamic events constantly… which probably means GW2 is just not for me.

Any MMO for that matter.

That’s the point though. This game was said to be different than other MMO’s that was the big thing Anet had going for it, that they were going to do things different. And now, with things like Fractals, and vertical gear progression, it seems like they really are doing a 180 on their design philosophy and turning into any other mmo.

Yeah but this game actually is different. There are actual things to do besides getting gear and then… waiting for a new tier? THAT is a real gear treadmill. I never really understood that about other MMO’s.

Thankfully this MMO is different

illgot.1056:

Fractals has pretty much killed the game for me. I hate repeating dungeons or dynamic events constantly… which probably means GW2 is just not for me.

Any MMO for that matter.

I love it. From Fractals to WvW to sPvP to World Events to PvE.

Best MMO anyone can imagine and hardly anyone on these forums can recognize that.

I don’t know about other servers, but on Crystal Desert eeeeeeeeeeeeverything high level event is broken. The only decent event still working is Plinx which they nerfed the spawn rate on. WHYY!? Why can’t you just reset the servers when everything is broken?!
Everything has been broken for over a week now I am going to cry. Is this how you treat PvE players??

you know, all the posts on the forums about the new gear totally digust me. but i actually like this one.

These are all problems you guys create in your own heads. I know you won’t understand that.

Adam Baum, sounds like a problem with your own computer.

ill repeat? theyll add more. relax nerd.

theyll add more. relax nerd.

/‘’’(O_O)/‘’’)

People are complaining about the new Ascended armor making them obselete in WvW(lol). But don’t the Infusions just give Agony resistance? Why would you use Agony resistant gear in WvW? Wouldn’t you use your exotic gear equipped with proper PvP runes?

I have never seen so much hatred over things that don’t matter.

Afraid you can’t find groups for the dungeon becuase you dont have the right gear? I have run dungeons NAKED. It’s all about dodging. Real elitists of this game understand that, and will want GOOD players, not geared.
Oh you’re not good? Well go find equally scrubby people to group with to take hours and hours to do a dungeon because the good players don’t feel like wasting their time on you so you can be carried. Which should be easy since all the players on these forums are the same way right? Why don’t you all form your own little guild and do the new dungeon together?

Afraid the new dungeon will make you obselete in WvW? Most of the freaking players aren’t even level 80 in WvW. Everyones running in zergs, shut the kitties up about that arguement.

Maybe some people who don’t like WvW are tired of running around killing dragons and Orr bosses over and over so guess what, Anet is giving them something pretty freaking cool to do. What the catkittens are your problems?

it’s just because you’re not very good

That doesn’t solve the problem at all

A moderator moved my thread into tech support so I am just bumping this, since they buried it? I don’t know.

Hello,

Kind of an odd bug that is probably uncommon because it requires dual monitors but it is really annoying sometimes. The bug is my mouse will slip onto my other monitor, and then if I click on that monitor it will minimize my game, which is very annoying in heated situations.

The bug occurs by clicking at the edge of your main monitor, and then moving your mouse over to the other. Sounds easy to avoid but this happens a lot because it is hard to keep track of your mouse sometimes.

I understand that this is a bug that happens to few people and will be very low on the priority list but I’m hoping it is a super easy fix or something. If it isn’t, well maybe sometime in the future.

Thank you for reading.