Haven’t you said you were quitting this game like 5 times now? What are you still doing here?
http://esports-marketing-blog.com/esports-in-2015-attendance-figures-investments-prize-money/
Gonna take a lot of work to be part of the Esports community, Anet, but good luck.
+1, totally agree that HoT has ripped the game of any skill. That is why it will never go esports, because there is no reward for being skillful since any pleb can be just as good by facerolling. This game could really have been incredible if higher risk gameplay had higher reward. Remove the tanky amulets, make everything balanced stat wise and encourage higher zerker gameplay which is more fun to play and more fun to watch.
Anet has 3 years of evidence showing that it has no idea what it’s doing most of the time, so don’t expect the future to change.
Just remove all amulets except sinister and berserker and the ESL games will be awesome to watch.
There is nothing fun about this game anymore.
GG
It’s not 10 days, it’s been 1 year of bullkitten balance and matchmaking since solo q was removed.
Definitely not enjoying it since HoT was released. Leagues are kitten, matchmaking is kitten, meta is kitten, balance is kitten. I’ve started playing LoL again and forgot how much fun it was and the matchmaking actually works there.
Daredevil vault spam best carry class at low mmr, bunker mesmer is still best at high mmr.
Maybe stop farming pugs up to diamond tier and you’ll be able to let some of them catch up.
They do it so that they can inspire you to create a team and join their esports league. That’s why.
Chaithh, maybe you can explain how you used the stealth gyro bug on stronghold minions to win games? Is this not an exploit? Clearly Grouch and Anet knew about this and yet nobody was punished. All of these ESL players defending their shameful actions is pitiful.
Basically nobody wins with the way Anet designed leagues. Solo players get farmed all day and ESL top players need to exploit to improve their queue times. Is anyone actually happy with this system?
Actually, what needs to be done is the removal of every amulet except berserker and sinister. Then the game will be exciting to play and watch.
Balance and fun makes an e-sport, not how many times you throw around the buzzword ‘e-sport’ and promote the hell out of it in and out of game. Right now we don’t have balance or fun.
Because League of Legends is such a shining example of a balanced game right?
LoL is light years ahead of gw2 in terms of balance and fun. Josre said it perfectly.
They should just disallow people to queue solo then.
I honestly don’t see any recovery that is possible from the HoT power creep. You nerf condi rev and bunker mesmer and then some other super aids bunker will dominate the meta. I’m pretty sure Anet killed their own game with this expansion.
See you in overwatch.
1k, 4k, 10k, 40k… People will keep kittening about it. Don’t focus on the numbers too much.
The whole point of being esports is to bring in the numbers so more people are interested in the game.
Who would want to watch this skillless meta of bunker mesmers, condi revs and limitless passive procs.
The Anet devs are in the same guilds and queue with all of these top players all the time so don’t expect anything to be done. These guys have the Anet devs in their pocket.
Heart of thorns ruined this game.
So that ESL teams can reap it’s rewards on your behalf.
They traded the experience of every solo player in this game to improve team queue times.
ESL players get a special pass in this game. Just like how abjured and team pz were exploiting gyro stealth in stronghold to farm wins. Instead of banning these guys, Anet just removed stronghold from the game.
I’m definitely gone from this game as long as leagues stay as is. Back to LoL where matchmaking doesn’t alienate all of the solo players.
I see Anet’s marketing strategy now.
100% agree with OP.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/A-Message-from-the-PvP-Team/first
Next time search before you make a thread.
Those aren’t answers to any of the real problems in PvP leagues. They are just ignoring most of them.
You are not wrong. They kept MMR so that the PvE noobs could also progress. Problem is that they are in higher tiers than substantially better players because the better ones are being farmed by the ESL teams every game.
Yeah I think I’m done with this game. Constantly being farmed as a solo player is miserable. This game used to be a tonne of fun, now it’s terrible. You either queue ranked to get farmed or queue unranked where all of the clueless players live now.
Just as you win a game or 2, you’re immediately matched up against a 5 man premade, usually an ESL team, to keep your win ratio at 50%. To top things off, you will probably lose 2 pips because somehow you’re favored to win. Thanks Anet, you’ve made gw2 PvP the most unenjoyable experience in any game I’ve played.
you can’t play a profession based on how strong it is.
if you like it, play it. balance will happenYes you can, that’s how you win games by countering the enemy comp or playing OP professions. Revenant counters everything right now, easily the strongest profession in the game. By your logic, balance should have happened for Warriors but where is it?
Wanna bet rev doesnt counter everything as you say?
Please name something that mallyx/shiro or glint/shiro doesn’t beat.
Mallyx/Shiro? DD, Druid, Scrapper and tempest will take too long to even bother, Chrono
Glint/Shiro? Condi stuff (reaper, chrono, druid, even burn guard). DD is tough matchup as well
Sorry dude, but as a mallyx rev I’ve never had a problem with any of those builds. Scrapper and chrono goes down to condi quickly, same with tempest after diamond skin is broken which is easy to do with viper amulet. Druid will eventually die to condis unless they are bunker at which point it’s a stalemate. Daredevil is easy to kill by simply double swapping all 4 of your sigils in melee range along with the mallyx elite.
As for power rev, yes they are weak to condis, but with their crazy access to evades, blocks, and full heals, any good revenant will avoid most of it while outputting an insane amount of damage.
you can’t play a profession based on how strong it is.
if you like it, play it. balance will happenYes you can, that’s how you win games by countering the enemy comp or playing OP professions. Revenant counters everything right now, easily the strongest profession in the game. By your logic, balance should have happened for Warriors but where is it?
Wanna bet rev doesnt counter everything as you say?
Please name something that mallyx/shiro or glint/shiro doesn’t beat.
you can’t play a profession based on how strong it is.
if you like it, play it. balance will happen
Yes you can, that’s how you win games by countering the enemy comp or playing OP professions. Revenant counters everything right now, easily the strongest profession in the game. By your logic, balance should have happened for Warriors but where is it?
Really? Is that speculation or are they for reals a part of Mist Initiative? Coz if it’s the latter, then this behavior is unprofessional AF.
Definitely not speculation, I’ve seen them both in actual games representing the guild tag. Also, most of the time they are queueing with half of abjured or some other ESL team anyways.
The level of unsportmanship from these teams is unreal right now and it’s even worse that Anet’s #1 and #2 PvP developers, Josh and Hugh, are both part of the mist initiative themselves so it’s impossible to discuss anything with them unless you’re in the ESL scene. For the rest of us, we’ll just have to continue getting farmed 24/7 by these teams until everyone gets sick of it and quits gw2.
After just advancing into the emerald division after 20-something long games of getting through Amber division, I lost a game because we had a teammate refuse to play. He stayed at home and did nothing. He did not d/c or leave, but he sometimes left home and died while autoattacking the enemy player taking the point. I wouldn’t be too annoyed at this loss if I didn’t lose a pip.
The game is rewarding players who deliberately toss games by making future games easier. When a player comes in with the intent to lose what are the rest of us supposed to do. His loss becomes all of our losses.
Deliberately throwing games is not something that we are OK with, and we should have something in-place in the near future to discourage this activity. I would look for enforcement against this negative behavior to start sometime early next week and may be retroactive since the start of the season.
I can’t really comment on system changes, as that is outside of my realm, however I do know that it’s actively being worked.
There’s the ruthless Anet I remember liking. Happy to see confirmation you aren’t going to tolerate this crap.
Don’t speak so soon, it will probably be as much as a failure as matchmaking and this whole ESL favoured league system.
Honestly, facing premades is not that big of a problem. The problem is how often your teammates are total idiots when facing them that is frustrating.
I’ve been in so many games recently with people that are intentionally throwing them to lower their MMR. It’s so great that we have no way to prevent this or report it and we still lose pips for all of them. Does Anet even think about consequences of anything they do?
They have already had 2 test seasons, a wealth of feedback from reddit and the forums and a crap load of data from unranked and ranked queues. It’s time to face the reality… Anet is clueless about how to do this properly.
Why do you even care? Anet has had 3 years to make an improvement and they just continue to deliver failure after failure. Time to move onto a game that actually can do pvp well.
It’s embarassing that after 2 test seasons and 3 years of experience that this terrible system is the best that Anet can come up with. Every game I play in it as a solo player makes me want to play less and less.
Is this available anywhere online?
Just more lies from anet about the future.
Anything revenant.
I’m not even surprised anymore.
Considering that the go4 cups only brought in about 1k max, 5k is a pretty good step up after only 2 weeks.