Guild Wars 2

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

glenndevis.8327:

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

If someone on your team is disconnected for 2 minutes or more, you will not incur a MMR penalty should you lose. Unless you queued as a duo with the person who disconnected, then you do lose MMR.

Has anything been changed regarding the duration a player has to be disconnected?

I thought that it had to be over 5 min in the past and if the player came back towards the end that you still lost rating.
I had a player literally being offline for the majority of the match, just to come back at the end of the match literally 1 min before we lost and somehow still lost rating (1 or 2 seasons ago)

I’ve been told that it was always 2 minutes. We may have had a bug 1 or 2 seasons ago that could have accounted for what you experienced, but from my understanding, that bug was resolved.

Yes, but placements are still being count as lost even with disconnected players.

NA does not have any competitive scene, the casual pvp mood is usually “just get there to kill someone” and they don’t care about wins or teamplay much, that’s why “clownfiesta” – “fun” builds, 0 map awareness etc etc.

That goes to almost any competitive game btw, not only gw2.

Also totally in not offensive way, said things are about majority of the players, but still some do good; and playing brainlessly and relaxed is not a bad thing, everyone enjoy their way of playing, that’s the whole point of gaming after all.

jihm.2315:

so if you are defuffed or out of energy and cooldowns its a matter of skill?
then ill tell anyone to not used cooldowns or dodges because of possible dragon hunter traps

If you cannot manage your cooldowns then yes, it is a matter of skill.

If you lack awareness and cannot dodge – any class with any build will be able to “1 shot” you.

If they didn’t see a DH or him putting traps or cannot dodge it is not DH problem, it is a people lack of skill problem. Traps have a very distinct and obvious animations and you have to be a total newbie to not recognize and react to that. In that case, obviously, it should hurt you so you could learn and improve

Engi rekts condi war pretty good (not very fast tho but still relatively easy).
Power warrior is really, really strong, totally agree.

There is a selector on the top side, where “top skills” is written, switch it to the timeline and also look at your combat log and you will see clearly what killed you and why. “Top skills” tend to show lots of skills irrelevant to your death.

I don’t see anything problematic here. 2 DHs in the opposite team is nothing to worry about, 2 revenants in yours could be hard but one of them should reroll.

All that “class stacking” is not a matchmaking problem, it is just low skill of the players that cannot play/don’t want to switch.

You can tank it to sub-700 and then just use decay system to do the work for you.

Why didn’t you defend the lord? should be easily possible even 4v5 to gain some time at least.

I absolutely despise The Dreamer sound effects – that constant horse emulator is irritating to no end.

Quip is ok as is IMHO, the sounds are short aand not that obnoxious and not loud.

Itz Jay.8941:

I personally think that the game needs to be made for casual gamer friendly.

It is already indescribably casual, mate. No gear race, no subscription, no pressure whatsoever. Compared to WoW, for example, GW2 is like majhong solitaire vs Riichi Mahjong.

More than 2 minutes of absense is dishonor and it is how it should be. Or do you expect the game should understand when you ragequit and when your wifi breaks?

Everything is beautiful on that screenshot.

Bottom of the bronze division.

Signet p/p thief.

“I’m rich, you know” title.

~40% winratio with 100+ games.

Almost 14K AP lul.

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Haleydawn.3764:

Konakona.4130:

Haleydawn.3764:

The Exotic ‘gear’ you buy for Ascended shards of glory are only skins you apply, not pieces of armor…

No, you can buy real ascended armor for ascended shards of glory + crafted marks; or you can buy that skins for “pure” ascended shards.

I’m well aware you can buy eithe ascended armor and Exotic apply-able skins.
The OPs original post (which was handily deleted…) stated he wanted to buy the exotic gear for PvE, which doesn’t exist, since they’re just skins.
Do people not read anymore

Yep my bad, mateV

Elementalist Owner.7802:

At skill cap, thief beats out rev easily, so your argument is nonsensical.

Except that this guy is nowhere near skill cap if they stayed as 2 revs and anyway couldn’t handle team with 2 thieves.

So you stayed as a rev in a team with another rev (that’s a mistake for sure) and then managed to lose to team with 2 thieves? I’d say it is not about composition or class counter issue, it is just lack of skill from your side and that’s it.

Haleydawn.3764:

The Exotic ‘gear’ you buy for Ascended shards of glory are only skins you apply, not pieces of armor…

No, you can buy real ascended armor for ascended shards of glory + crafted marks; or you can buy that skins for “pure” ascended shards.

At the worst you have shield 5 – you can pop it and enter point to trigger and consume all the traps

After that just pop your unblockable signet and destroy them easily, most of DHs don’t know about dodging and stuff =)

Why cannot you win? You’re playing for quite some time as far as I can see, probably improved a lot after all that forum whin… err, posting and whatnot.

If you want to be on winstreak – maybe try to play better then and win? Doubt it is hard on that level Maybe duoq with someone will help you also if you want it that badly.

If you want that car analogy (again) then you can actually get a ticket for driving too slow in a lot of places.

If you consider yourself better than you teammates and enemies, I say – play as if you were 1v5. If you win, then it is because you rock. If you lose, that’s because you not good enough. It is all about overall mentality.

But if you don’t have fun I’d advise quitting too, because the whole point of videogames is to enterntain the player.

Cynz.9437:

Tell that fairy tales someone else. Maybe it would apply in perfect world, but GW2 reality is something different.

If you read my post carefully and used your brain even a little you could see that OP doesn’t even have 500 ranked games, I don’t think you can blame MM or whatever on that level.

At some point we all hit some ceiling that is a lot of work to overcome, much more than was invested before that point.

Mechanical skill consists of ability to read enemy skill animations and react accordingly, it is something that comes from lots of duels and/or lots of played matches.

Map vision and strategy comes from real (ranked) practice I’d say too, lots of nuances that cannot be grasped from written manuals – just, like, the feeling of the flow of the game or smth.

That being said I don’t think it is the time for you to blame teammates or think that you hit your absolute ceiling because sub500 games in ranked is totally not that many, or even “not many at all”.

Yeah better take the rule “10 of the same class” – that will give us some build diversity =)

Rod.6581:

there are pro groups that use 2 of a same professions in team composition.

Nope, class stacking is prohibited by ESL rules and others.

I waited 20 seconds today for textures to load and only then realized that there are no walls anymore too. Clocktower now looks really pathetic and “bugged”, like something broke inside of the game itself.

The system just gave you a chance to prove yourself versus ESL player! you should be totally happy! (half-irony, I’d be happy, eu-gold-tier myself).

Parts are just named “years”, they obviously don’t take as much time lol.

> top players in both regions use exploits, pay gold for wins, and ONLY DuoQ in ranked, never solo
I call bs on all statements.

azyume.6321:

Check the leaderboard then perhaps explain what exactly is the joke. The top 4 EU only have 300+ games played each.

First of all it is about 400+ if you can count at all.

Second – you can see most of people in that list streaming or queueing with someone who streams every time they play, and that happens almost every day. Helseth, Drazeh, Zan, Misha, Sind, Obindo – they are all active players just like most of the top 250. The whole point of PvP is to play it and if you’re not doing it (on eu) you will be quickly pushed down by active players.

There is a saying here that goes “fish rots from its head”; you can see the NA top rank list with all the meme alts and thrown games and exploiting and it becomes obvious that if there is no quality in the “top brass” games why there would be even a resemblance of it in lower divisions?

Also Grouch already stated that NA has lower average MMR than EU, that’s a fact, nothing you can do about it.

I made myself a NA account to see how my games would go and have to agree with OP just because of that. Then again, I met some really cool players and had some fun games there, so it is not like all of NA pvp scene is bad <3

It doesn’t matter what is your w/l ratio in placements, all that matters is enemies you’re facing. 3 wins over legends will give you more rating points than 30 wins over silver people.

> Heldrineer

=))) or Sindseth?

Thanks for sharing (this forum became AA support group it seems).

Just whispers. Analyzing user’s blocklist would increase q time minimum tenfold.

Talindra.4958:

My partner and me still hv to finish the ap.. just want to check when will the ap for this going to be locked?

they said achievements will stay. and capricorn achievements will return too. lame “everyone should be winners” policy tho, maybe they can just give everyone all the achievements already unlocked and done and that’s it.

about main topic – tyvm.

But but ofcorse he climbed, he is a ESL pro-player after all.

Average best players that belong to plat-legend that landed in silver cannot do that!

(kappa intensifies)

Yeah happened to me couple of times too, pretty useful – I always knew when he approached =)

Maybe you win against much weaker opponents and lose to stronger? then it is obvious you sink and that should be like that by design.

You can see the class once you targeted the enemy; also turning on the standard enemy models in options helps a lot.
Minimap would be useless without class icons, it is extremely important to see who did go far and who fights on mid etc.
Voices in GW2 are utterly useless, apart from “your lord is under attack” and “trebuchet!” there is literally 0 useful ones.
150 games is basically a start and at that point every groupfight looks like a huge clustercat – once you used to this game you will distinguish enemy skill animations better and will be able to counter/react to them efficiently.

Wolfric.9380:

It feels like at least half the team doesn´t care about winning.

Because they don’t. Pips are being given even if you lose so there is no point to try hard because you will get your ascended armor and 65535 dyes anyway, just a little bit more time/grind. Low tiers are being extremely damaged by that kind of “players”.

LouWolfskin.3492:

Oi, i never bothered with guides either yet at the moment i feel very powerful against most DH’s in point fights.

Guides aren’t the be all end all for everything in every game.

Who cares about your ability or inability to kill DH? I don’t even care if temmates cannot kill them or kill them fast enough; guides and some basic sanity is needed for understanting the situation in the game and on the map; like rotation and stuff like that. It is much more important imho.

ziggystardust.3721:

The biggest mistakes Anet did is by allowing under lvl 80 in pvp to join ranked and adding ascended set as reward for new currency. now those newbies are bringing others down.

Oi guildie, I’m not 80 too by the way =)))

About them PvE players tho – they are usually easily recognizable. Pve-titles, pve-pets on rangers, pve builds overall (like staff ele and some crazy poop like axe-axe warrior). The main problem is that so-called “players” don’t even want to learn – they never bothered with guides, builds and at least basic training; I bet 99.99% of them are terrible in PvE too and cannot do raids because golem dps check is too complicated and bothersome.

So it is not even “hate”, I just simply despise that low-effort, brain-dead joke of a players.

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

After an internal review, we’ve decided that awarding points for achievements that are this exclusive goes against the intent and spirit of our achievement system. We’ll be removing the points on these in a future release.

That is really lame tbh. Ofcourse no one from top250 couldn’t care less about that 6 points or smth, but the fact that you listen to 5 AP-addicted whiners is really sad. Next thing you will probably remove the exclusive titles, because “it is not fair”, like you did with capricorn/coliseum.

Yes! I totally agree. Landed kinda low too, after 2 days figured it out – if you give precise directions to your teammates your chances to win raise significantly! And when I’m not using foul language :P they really start to listen lol.

> Favorite profession: mesmer

:3

First ppl complained about full premades and how it is “unfair”, anet removed it.

Now ppl complaining about duo queue and how “unfair” it is. Maybe anet will remove it too.

Then ppl will complain that they cannot win against stronger opponents so anet replaces them with bots.

Everyone will be legendary and top-1, yay \o/

Crying of achievement hunters… I say – pls stay away with your hobbies, don’t dictate the game with your fetishes. No one cares if you want 100% achievements, some of them should stay exclusive or they are not achievements at all.

Yeah would be fun if someone transferred to US near the season end and got that “God of PvP” title there ezpz… and then transferred back lol %)

Evan Lesh.3295:

Everyone got a rating reset, at least wait until you place.

So how come queued right at the start ESL players got matched with each other, and me, for instance, not? Past MMR was still used I guess, I cannot see the random event that put ton of progamers together instantly despite hundreds of other ppl queueing simultaneously.