Guild Wars 2

My personal favorites are:

1) Well of corruption because it can drop entire teams in pvp if placed and timed well.
2) Plague signet for it’s utility and I personally just love the ability to turn your enemy’s cancer into a weapon.

Bonus: When playing the procmancer build, just simply entering shroud is awesome. AOE boon corrupt, lots of damage and the whole explosion of black magic looks cool as kitten.

You have plague signet, putrid mark, and even consume conditions. The roots apply in short intervals and don’t last long if you dont let them stack. So what I normally do is look at my healthbar and see if I can just outlast the immobs and survive the damage (don’t think it happens often in 1v1s though). Or if I have to cleanse, I’ll plague signet or putrid mark the ranger (or pet if he’s stealthed and don’t have any other choice) and then dodge so the next root wont hit.

Tiefsee.3647:

Ithilwen.1529:

I will say that it’s bright points, S5 is the best yet with the fairest matchmaking.

Sadly, population in low. This is largely because it’s self defeating to play more than the minimum of matches. The leader board considers only win ratio. The most effective strategy is to play a minimum of matches to minimize risk.

Low population means decreasing match quality After 4 straight dh stacked matches with heavy losses, I’ve decided not to risk my silver status and stay out of ranked as much as possible until the season ends.

several things would improve s6. I recognize that some of this will not happen.

• Leader board needs to consider games played AND win ratio. This will improve match quality by encouraging people to play the whole season and keeping population high.

that is true for higher divicions, for bronce – i gain/lose around 10 points, that feels like nothing. Soon after the first placement matches i gained/lost 20-30 points a match.

I rather lose/win more points, because it feels like i could move (i’d still need a 60% win ratio for real movement, but if it feels like movement, i play more)

Right now i play just for the gear (now on the computer of a friend with his PvE char) because everything else doesn’t feel like it would matter at all. Specially when i calculate how much wins i would need for real movement (~10-15 per win, even with a straight winstreak, i would need way to nuch matches for movement)

@Tiefsee

Agree, bad player’s wouldn’t hang around on higher ranks than they belong to and good players would climb faster…

This is my current roaming build: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmWD7kjGozGs8GwdTgeTsEMYRJtAQDIeIuEjiUXhpwvC-TlyCQBI7KAIt9HKoKFXSdlKqchBHEA9obAAPAAUqEELKpIEwi1A-w

For bigger fights I’d use the epidemic build on metabattle.

Against guaranteed good duelists (organized 1v1,etc…) I’d swap runes to undead and just remove the whole terror aspect since you’d probably be playing against optimized builds.

Terror is maybe not the best choice always but I personally find the playstyle fun and rewarding. Plus now you have the choice to either use your fears as CC or as a combo to do big damage.

Azukas.1426:

I feel there are certain things that happen in ranked play that deserve all the toxicity in the world.

If you are 1 of 3 thieves in a match and you refuse to switch….You deserve everything you get. Especially if you are running dual pistols…..

If you are running a core power ranger……be prepared for w/e comes your way you deserve it

If you are on a hard counter to a class and die 1v1 to that class you counter…..get ready it’s deserved.

If you dble cap points….guess what? Yup you are entitled to verbal lashing.

If you go for svanir on opening or worse 2 of you go for it……What do you think should happen? Yup a verbal kitten kicking

The problem is this is RANKED SEASON play. You only queue up if you are competing. Everything I named happens in spades during the season, and it’s not fair for the players who have to put up with this on their teams. So if you are a target of verbal toxicity maybe you should think about what you are doing to deserve that, because most of the time the player saying stuff is well within their rights due to you affecting THEIR game.

So queue up for Unranked or jump into HoT join until you learn.

Agree!

If people actually understood even half of the things you listed, we wouldn’t have that much chat rage…

Insult wars are awesome!

But seriously, some trash talk is OK but the whole “get cancer and I hope your mom gets it too” stuff is a little over the top…

Instead of confronting Biklen like this, you guys could be a bit nicer to people that regularly create GW2 content on youtube. Plus he isn’t promoting himself as a proleague ESL player…

For open world play how you like… Otherwise play how others like (viper’s).

I feel sorry for your hand Ithilwen but you should maybe accept the fact that you’re at an immense disadvantage. After all you are already sometimes winning games and scoring kills playing with basically one hand…

Only thing you can really do at this point is think about changing class to something that has less skills. Try to learn reaper for example, you need a lot less keybinds to play reaper since you only have F1 on top of your normal 1-10 buttons. Plus isn’t mesmer one of the hardest classes to really master? I’ve always seen it as one of the classes with the most carry potential but only when played well (similar to a master thief/daredevil).

Secondly, buy a MMO mouse with a lot of buttons if you still don’t have one. Work hard on finding your optimal keybind setup. Test it in unranked until you think you’ve hit the mark. I watched your gameplay video and you’re really slow in everything (which is expected with only one hand that works properly). When I found my personal best keybind setup, my results got a lot better. And honestly, take a break from PvP and play the content that makes you happy.

I have to say that I respect the fact you’re still trying and not giving up but these posts on the forums won’t change anything.

I’d say craft the zerker gear any way, you get to use it on 2 characters and if you’re OK to not raid on reaper you can use it on your ele for raids

I think A is for you current MMR I don’t see another way that it would work…..

Cynz.9437:

I am in diamond and play relatively casual due to work and all. It is possible just takes a lot of games OR/and high MMR. The higher MMR you have the less games you need to get to legend. Oh and btw there are quite few people in legend already.

Thing is, with time the better players will move up the divisions, lower divisions (sapphire/ruby) will be filled with ex-ambers so you can farm your way to diamond eventually even if you are not really good.

Yup, I’ve reached my goal in the two previous seasons thanks to this. First season I wanted to get to ruby, I thought I was going to fail and was stuck in last tier sapphire. Went to a two week vacation, came back and climbed easily.

Next season I wanted to improve so I set Diamond as my goal. This time, I was stuck in the last tier of ruby for a few weeks, even sometimes dropping to the first tier. Again I took a break, which was this time only 3 days. What happened? Well you can guess, I succeeded in my goal. I got to diamond with relative ease.

So are you crybabies seeing a pattern here? It’s EXACTLY as Cynz described. If you can wait for even two days, you’ll notice that most of the same guys who previously kicked your butt will have moved on to the next division….

Caedmon.6798:

Pointless thread to try and shame someone for not playing how you wanted him to play and not knowing why he did what he did,then calling him a scrub and a noob and showing off how you blocked him..

Such an interesting story.

Yep, agree with you. Players like OP should take a break from guild wars and grow up for a few years and come back.

YES! This has been an eye opening experience, I’ve become a lot more humble as a person after day 1 No but seriously, you’re right PvP should be played for the sake of PvP, not rewards.

PLUS winning a clutch game is sooooo much sweeter than riding the winstreak waves.

Don’t worry everyone has to start somewhere, I’m sorry I thought at first you were whining about not getting the legendary backpack easily enough (since there’s already enough people like that on this sub)

It’s only normal that PvP is difficult if you’re not very experienced, you’ll certainly get better if you keep playing. And in my experience, the whole game mode gets more enjoyable once you start to get a grip on it

It’s a rank system for god’s sake… It’s not a bad thing if ranks would begin to mean something. Starting in saph this season opened my eyes, I am a bad player and should have never gotten as high as diamond in soloQ…

We need to start accepting the fact that most of us aren’t probably as good as we think and the previously achieved ranks have been lies. For god’s sake usually reaching Diamond rank in a competitive game means something already and legend is reserved for the true cream of the crop (1% or something similar).

The previous seasons have been too easy to climb and this is disrespectful for actually good/talented players.

Oh the elite one is certainly achievable! Keep playing and it’ll come, that one is relatively easy to get. If you feel like you’re getting overwhelmed at the moment, return to ranked next week and the players overwhelming you will be in the higher divisions probably

Why are you playing PvP if you don’t enjoy it? Do you really think the backpack should be easily obtainable? It’s after all a LEGENDARY item and the greatest final reward for success in PvP.

I’m sorry if you like the skin and this is the only way to get it. I’d like to try raiding on my necromancer, but guess what, I don’t have the viper’s gear that’s considered optimal for my class. Does this bother me? Yes, a little but I have accepted the fact that I will never probably raid since I’m not ready to put in the work to get the Viper’s set.

You should see the legendary backpack as the ultimate reward for good PvP. If you truly want that backpack, take your time with it. There’s not THAT many people yet who even have it and you will still have season 4 to try and complete your achievements. It’s just a game, you shouldn’t be doing something you don’t enjoy in GW2.

What Pyriall said, I doubt Anet has the resources to change things like this, and on top of that people tend to forget how small the GW2 PvP population is compared to more popular PvP game titles (DOTA, LoL, CS GO for example). The small population alone makes it challenging to make a matchmaker that’s quick (short queue times) and also able to provide high quality matchups. This is also atleast part of the reason why there’s no separate queue for solo and teams I think.

A dream league for me would be one where you can even lose your division so your rank actually means something, since now it’s hard to know if you’re good or bad when even in ruby, you’ll have kitten players and someone like me (average I’d say) can get to diamond in soloQ. On top of that this dream matchmaker would provide quality matchups in which you’d only be at a slight disadvantage when rising to a better division.

What GW2 PvP really needs is more players, more players would enable more strict matchmaking conditions while still keeping queue times reasonable. More players would also accumulate more profit for Anet, which in return can be reinvested to improve different areas of the game.

It only starts counting once you’ve completed Year of ascension part 3. Hope this explains.

It’s supposed to be a rank system, it’s not a reward track… Why does this need to be explained? What do you expect the ranks to represent? I am not able to understand why the RANKED LEAGUE should be just some legendary wing reward track for you guys…

IF they would change the league, they should make it possible to lose divisions and pips even in amber. Atleast that way the ranks would actually stand for something.

I feel sorry for you OP but did you really expect people to be nice when you play an outdated build in ranked seasons? I don’t want to sound mean but you’re handicapping your entire team by playing something subpar. If you want to climb the ladder, you have to adapt and evolve your playstyle just like in any other game. I’m not here to defend the toxic idiots either though, if someone plays bad on your team, IMO tell them what they’re doing wrong or shut up and move on (not easy though, I get my salty moments too, I’m sorry for them)…

The game already gives you two choices in PvP: Unranked for a more casual and less serious experience and ranked for testing your skills in a more serious and competitive setting.

I just spoke with BoetVaardig.9425 in game and he suggested I’d message you! So yeah, playing sPvP in organized teams sounds a lot cooler than solo queueing

I’m most comfortable playing necro/reaper in pvp and I’m trying to learn how to play the shiro/mallyx condi herald at the moment.

I’d say I’m a pretty solid reaper but on herald I still make a lot of stupid mistakes. I’m not the most serious PvPer but I like to do my best anyway. PM me if you’re interested

Ohoni is my new number 1 source of GW2 related comedy! Thank you, this is almost like trailer park boys-level idiocy but only a real person (hopefully)!

Please don’t stop making these posts, your BS plus the fact that people actually take the time to respond to you is hilarious!