Guild Wars 2

I agree. I just hope some dev can see. competition can only be had when players of similar skill levels play each other. you don’t have a minor league team play the Yankees. that won’t be fun for either team, or the fans.

Title explains alot.

I don’t want to kitten. I expected me and the guild I am in to have played this game much more and much longer. Tournament games are always so lopsided it isn’t even fun. Victories are stomps, or losses are us getting stomped. There is the rare close well played game, but it’s too rare to matter.

Probably my last forum post until things change. I just enjoy the game enough to express my idea. Without legitimate matchmaking there are noobs, normals, and pros playing together and not enjoying the challenge/lack of challenge.

This game has the potential to be an actual e-sport or serious PvP type game. This will never happen without matchmaking systems

And to be honest. Whatever SPvP content/feature has priority over this is wrong. This should have been there at release, and needs to be there ASAP

I’m also rank 27 right now. It would be much higher too if my guild/team didn’t quit playing

I should say I am a NA player. I didn’t think to mention server because it doesn’t matter for SPvP and I can transfer, but NA vs EU probably does.

I am still looking for TPvP focused guild

My best is probably mesmer. Though I can do mesmer, warrior, thief, guardian well. And I am willing to learn others if needed

Title says it. I’m into Tournaments more than anything. I have guild wars 1 arena experience, high rated WoW arena experience, and experience in a many other “PvP” mmos over the years.

Just looking for a guild with solid base of players actively PvPing.

well you can assassins signet, and mug and backstab get it. not saying it’s overpowered just stating facts

“Don’t worry guys measure your skill in paid tournaments” -ANet paraphrase

you mean see who grinded that the most too?

EDIT: Kylo map PvP treb to be clear

As a portal mesmer I am constantly on treb. What I don’t get is what I’m supposed to do against the tanky eles that just aoe on the treb. Occasionally I can kill them but then my team never gets treb shots, because by the time i kill him our treb is down.

I can cc him and try and get a shot off, but if my treb isn’t already lined up that isn’t gonna happen.

what I end up doing is fighting him, he kills treb, i portal down and go get repair kit and repair up. for a never ending process

I get it. This build was definitely made for attacking Trebs. What do you guys do against them?

GankSinatra.2653:

Farm tournament tickets in tournaments to get in tournaments.

Then farm qualifying points in those tournaments to get in other tournaments again?

Why is arena net so scared about matchmaking and ELO?

This.

I like the idea of monthly/yearly tournaments. But if that is all paid is… a stepping stone to those, it has negatives, Can you get all 5 people on at the time the tournament is held, can they all stay of for X hours?

So instead of an ELO system where a team can rise and fall in the ranks at their time and pace, it becomes a scheduled ANet tourny option only? And paid has become another grind fest?

Why not QP and ELO?

The patch notes for those who have not seen them:

“Qualifying points (QPs) are gained in paid tournaments – each person on a winning team in an 8-team paid tournament gets 1 qualifying point. QPs lead to rankings for larger tournaments, and allow you to measure yourself against other players.

Because you must have a full team in order to join a paid tournament and it takes tickets to enter, we know that the best teams will be playing paid tournaments. So while you do compete for better prizes than in free tournaments, the thing you’re really competing for are QPs. Think you’re actually good at competitive GW2? Hit the paid tournaments and prove it. We’ll be adding more features that build off QPs, so once that’s ready, I’ll give everyone another update!"

What does this mean? That sounds to me like paid isn’t even actually ranked at all like they said. So ratings are based on QP and those are only won and never lost? So you will constantly go up? If this is true this takes away any rating system and makes it yet another grind. Win loss ratio is never mentioned, only farming wins.

I hope this isn’t the case as this eliminates any idea of e-sports rated PvP