No, no, my friend. I’m never doing this ever again. I don’t even know what psychological disease made me desire Ascension in the first place. Heck, when the first season came up, I didn’t even want it. Then, I try harded for one single week before the end of Season 2, managed to wipe out so many cheevos at once I thought, “might as well finish it”.
But no. As of right now, it is finally over. My torture has ended. It is done. I can now return to Overwatch, Dead by Daylight and Evolve without a care in the world. I’ve finished what I started. I am free.
This season is garbage. Nothing except massive 500-100 blowouts. Fighting almost full premades with randoms. I just need 4 more kittening wins to never play this worthless garbage ever again.
There’s no fixing this game because Anet just doesn’t know how.
Look at the state of Tempest. Ele is my main class and at this point I sincerely wish they’d just delete the class.
Doesn’t matter how many amulets they remove, they refuse to address the game’s core problems.
Too much sustain, too much bunker combined with too much damage on single builds.
Every elite spec is designed so even a monkey could play it. I’m playing with vanilla specs and I cannot fathom how anybody with elite specs dies, ever. I’ve had players literally facetank all of my dps combos and still last forever on point.
There is no hope for this game.
All I want is to finish up Ascension and then I’ll just YOLO in unranked whenever I’m bored, but this game is beyond redemption and is honestly pretty bad in its current state.
And Anet doesn’t want to hear it either. Too scathing in your critique and your posts are removed.
Meh. I’m ever thankful I didn’t buy the expansion.
Conquest has always been terrible for precisely this reason, it does nothing but encourage brainless builds that are nearly immortal – the fact that the game allows builds this bad to exist in the first place is telling in and of itself, though. HoT just made everything even worse thanks to the introduction of both tons of sustain and the damage to make use of it.
Amulet removal has done nothing because the problem aren’t the amulets.
But Anet is Anet. How many years will it take for them to figure it out?
It isn’t ok but this game is so bad that the community has had no choice but to adapt itself to poor gameplay and accept it as the norm.
The game has become garbage. That’s about it. The only reason I even play 3 matches a day is because of the sunk cost fallacy I’ve fallen victim to. I’m so close to the Ascension it would be like a waste to quit now, but by and large the game is horrible. It is agony to play it and every time I log in I want give that stupid backpack the middle finger and forget it.
It looks like during my last 10 or so matches I was hit with the luck fairy, something changed with how matchmaking works, or the people that were too good for Sapphire moved on. It might be that those first days the kittenercluck of people of massive skill differences being in the same league could have been what made matchmaking seem completely random to me.
My last matches have been huge blowouts where I could tell me and maybe one of my teammates significantly outskilled the opponents and they, in turn, were of similar skill level to the rest of my teammates. This was what I saw last Season towards its end.
Then again, it could just be purely luck. Either way, like I thought, playing the first days of a Season looks to be a really bad idea.
I’m about to give up on getting the legendary backpack. I’m in Sapphire and getting people who are queued with legit Ambers. I’ve had players I’ve watched just running around the map aimlessly. I’ve seen people capping empty points together.
My match quality is beyond horrendous. I’ve played less than 20 games and this feels just as bad as unranked.
In general the gameplay has taken a massive nosedive since HoT, which as far as I’m concerned made PvP significantly worse. The only reason I’m playing now is to finish up the backpack, since I achieved alot more than I thought I would in the 6 days I played Ranked last season. I’m sort of on the fence, though. Only playing the 3 games per day for the achievement. It’s really dumb. It’s like every class is an old Cele Ele. Ridiculous, brainless spam everywhere while being nearly immortal. And I have to fight without Elite specs.
This feels like playing unranked, to me. Getting people on my team that cap points with other players while holding hands and can’t fight battles they outnumber.
This is a titanic pile of chet. Was it this way every Season start? Because I’m seeing the same thing. Crap tier matches.
The business practice is fair. If you want to complain about PvP, there’s a whole laundry list of problems with it, but “pay to win” isn’t one of them.
As the consumer, I get to decide which business practice I think is fair and which isn’t. You don’t get to tell me how to evaluate anything Anet does.
Yes, because the $50 entry fee to gain access to the Elite skills is so demanding.
Right, the old “it’s not expensive” defense. I’m immune to these white knight red herrings. I don’t think the expansion is worth 50 dollars, much less since I only PvP, but I don’t care about the money. Maybe they should just done what they said they were going to do?
That people defend Elite specs being stupidly easier to play and stronger than base specs when they explicitly stated they wouldn’t be tells me everything I need to know about why the GW2 PvP scene deserves its permanent fate in the realms of mediocrity.
I don’t think they’ll ever do what the game needs. A few number changes is what I expect, but the fundamental problems will always remain.
They need to make the game less Build Wars. I want personal skill to matter as much as your build. Right now, it matters less. I know this simply by virtue of the fact that certain classes or builds will destroy most other builds regardless of the skill of their opponent. Especially with Elite specs vs vanilla class.
There are people in high divisions with poor rotations, poor dueling skills and bad cooldown management but managed to get there because they copied a build from metabattle. That shouldn’t happen.
I didn’t really play last season, but from what I’ve read they’ve made improvements, but it still could be better, especially in the balance front. They need to inject genuine skill into how classes are played. I don’t even know I managed to get into legendary without the expac since several elite specs can carry low skilled people into high divisions alone.
Late in the season my experience was that at least the divisions do somewhat represent a degree of skill. In every division except high diamond and legendary most of the people I played against and with seemed to deserve their bracket. There were always exceptions, though. I pity the poor players who were stuck with a team that could not be carried.
That being said, most of my matches were blowouts. I had 30+ winstreaks with 1 or 2 losses in sapphire, 2 or 3 losses in ruby and about 5-6 losses in all of diamond. So I wish there’d be a way to get good players where they need to be quickly, but then again it can be done in a week. It probably isn’t this easy to rank up at the start of a season when anybody can be anywhere.
Just realized I played 1 or 2 matches with you along the way. I remember hoping I’d get more teammates like you. Might have even been earlier today.
Interesting. Part of the reason I was even motivated to try and play ranked was because I was reading so many different reactions to the process. Your experience seems to have been like mine and I agree with your advice, although I was playing with a base Engi build but the things you’re saying I put into practice with it and I applied no matter what class I was playing.
I don’t know if this reflects how ranking up was during the early days of the season, since this late in it seems that the divisions do usually reflect the type of skill level you will meet within.
I agree with your assessment of Meta mesmer too.
The game is the same garbage it’s always been.
Did not play at all during this season until the last week where I decided to give it a whirl. Been climbing up with massive winstreaks and am currently in high Diamond. But honestly, this game is cancer once people know how to play.
Brainless, stupid, face rolling builds dominate everything. I don’t have the expansion so my builds can’t destroy people with just once combo or one condition. Endless chains of CC. It’s so stupid, I don’t even. Druids spamming buttons while their pet forces you to waste dodges. It’s unreal. Ppl warping to kittening get rezzed. So kittened.
I’m getting horrendous matches. Like, I feel like ragequitting all the time because the people I’m playing with are idiots. I can be 1v3, down one, and escape with my life, and my team will still not take a single point.
Anet doesn’t plan. It’s a crapshoot. Make changes and add crap until something sticks by fluke. I suppose that’s sort of a plan…
You are supposed to bend over and take it. He picked Reaper, so he is more skilled than you. Git gud.
They really don’t seem to care as everything is always getting worse, and they obviously don’t seem to care about the point of view that skillful play should win, not builds/gear/elite.
This is what really gets me. It’s like when turret engi was a thing for so long. Why are there builds in the game that can carry idiots to victory? I just don’t get it. People are rewarded more for copy pasting a build from metabattle than from legitimately getting good.
My friend who got the expac has told me that druid is ez mode compared to base ranger. You just facetank stuff while your pet drills holes in your enemy. Immortal Scrappers that deal loads of damage. Dragonhunters that press 2, press the teleport and plant nuclear bombs at your feet and if you dodge they pull you in while the onus is on you to outskill them. It’s unreal.
Even right now, without the expac, the builds I’ve found to be the most useful compared to the elite specs are builds that I almost fall asleep playing. Builds that win fights for me. I get bored, try a build that requires a brain, and then it switches from falling asleep to complete frustration at how much more effort I have to put in.
I’ve never seen anything like this done seemingly intentionally. How on Earth do they expect people to take this game seriously when the best builds are the ones you can play rolling your face on the keyboard?
It’s a good thing most thieves are terrible.
I wouldn’t exactly call it P2W but it’s pretty shady after the crap we were fed that elite specs were just different playstyles instead of flat out upgrades.
It’s a joke, but so is the quality of PvP in this game, so it fits. As long as they don’t charge me a sub I guess GW2 still has the edge.
My last match I actually had to fight and flat out won a 1v2 battle and my team still could barely hold it together. I don’t know what’s going on but my matches today have been some of the worst experiences I’ve ever had. Never seen so many helpless players.
Had to change my build to a relatively “strong” one in order to carry my last match to victory.
My last 15 matches have been pure cancer. The worst matchmaking I think I’ve ever had. Brainless teammates in each one. Crap patch, crap matchmaking, what a game. Thank god I didn’t waste money on the expac.
Meh. Buffing thieves/warriors when they are taking a patch to nerf all the stupid bunkers while also removing bunker amulets might not be a good idea… but whatever. Wait and see.
Eh… I’ll go out on a limb and say they are doing this for the sake of the game modes, which currently overly favor bunker/support builds really heavily. They just decided that instead of reevaluating how the game modes work that it’d be easier to just remove the possibility of quasi invincibility altogether.
You aren’t looking at this through the eyes of a cold, emotionless, money loving producer.
When you make players suffer through playing a new profession to grind out these wins, they spend more time playing the game, more time looking at gem store items, and it helps “class variety” because in your data more people are playing different classes. Game has variety and balance because people are playing a multitude of classes! The game is beloved because people are spending time on it!
This isn’t about “fun” or “trying to master your class”, or any of that crap. That’s not what game development is about, guys.
It’s easy to stay bad when broken builds and stupid classes carry you to victory.
How many months ago were people (accurately) saying that DS was a stupid, lame trait?
Oh man, there’s no way Anet could have seen this coming, it is a mystery.
This is why you don’t play it. I don’t.
Anybody with even basic observational skills could have guessed that the game would become a fustercluck as soon as the expac launched. This is because history has shown that Anet is not very good at PvP balance. The game took 3 whole years to even reach a decent state. They take months and months to fix problems even while Leagues are out (lol).
It’s a joke. If the devs don’t care, I don’t see why the players should, either.
Like always, I can’t wait for them to take forever to do anything and then do plenty of wrong things with only 1 or 2 good ones. The power creep is real and is unlikely to ever end. People have been telling them to stop with this idiocy for years.
January. Releasing leagues before then. Pfft. Hilarious.
Yet they have been going hardcore for 2+ years about how they want to make Spvp a Esport, they put tons of $$$ into marketing and setting up the Abjured nicely on twitch ect.
All that and they can’t be kitten d to let me queue out of HotM, allow me to solo queue without being fed to premades, keep cancer maps in rotation without the old “go to ranked to avoid them” routine, and can’t balance the game more often than every six months.
Sure. They care. It’s easy to say you care. Much harder to actually act like you do.
Why is anybody surprised by this? This is Anet. This game is for casual lolz only. They don’t take it seriously, so why should you?
I’ll just keep being fodder for the guys who payed to be better than my base class.
Not really. The more matches I play the more I hate the elite specs. Only even played today because a friend who wasted his money on the expac was on. Glad I saved my cash, to be honest.
Saw this coming forever ago. Will probably continue to play casually, as I do now, though.
I’m more kitten about no Ranked (to avoid cancer maps) and the new WvW maps. I fully expected balance to be kitten, though. These guys really don’t know what the hell they’re doing and they never have. They need to keep at it until they get a fluke.
Haven’t bought the expac and probably won’t until I have confirmation that PvE isn’t crap and it goes on sale.
I agree, Chrono is just a flat out upgrade to Mesmer.
What really bothers me is that the new Time Lapse (Weaver’s ability) is something else that appears in a few other elite specs, that they just add something to the class mechanic, instead of the class mechanic feeling brand new, like they did with Reaper.
Chronomancer
Scrapper
Reaper (more accurate to remove the “e”, really)
Reaper is the “least” top for me, but definitely strong. Chrono is just flat out stupid.
Of course rev is going to be a balance fail out of the gate.
Just another day in GW2. I’ll be extremely surprised if the game isn’t completely broken when the expac hits. I have absolutely no faith in the balance team – I’m fully expecting Rev and a bunch of specs to be completely broken, with a few dancing in the “useless” category.
They’ve always been super slow. They “shave” then only shave once a year.
How else are they gonna justify spending all that time and money designing garbage? “Guys, it was worth it, like 1 guy out of 10 always votes for it!”
A brand new expac and they can’t be kitten d to fix these maps to make them worthy. Instead they design a whole brand new one that sucks more or less just as much.
The only thing I have to say about the mode is that it’s super boring. Feels more like PvE or WvW than PvP. Don’t have any interest in playing it again.
I wouldn’t exactly say this was a balance “update”… More like a balance reset. This usually happens near expansion releases and the like just because they change so many things all at once. For all intents and purposes we are back at release – the last two years of balancing are basically flushed down the mystic toilet to pave way for the new systems.
The only problem is that it will probably take two more years for the game to be at a state somewhat comparable to how it was before, taking into consideration the glacial pacing of the balance team combined with all the changes that don’t do anything.
I’m probably one of the few people that always dreads patches like this. I just know in my heart they are gonna mess everything up and it’ll take ages for them to do anything about it. It’d just be great to have PvP be in a really good state before my children make me a grandparent, is all.
I’d start being happier if the auto-attack projectiles would actually hit their targets at reasonable ranges like the tooltip says they do.
It feels that way because it is. They expect e-sports to magically materialize because it sounded cool.
Nobody cares about this game and nobody will care because all these years they could barely be kitten d to make 1 balance pass per six months. As long as builds are just as if not more important than player skill nobody will care. I will never tune in to watch any tournament as long as I hear “well this person has this build so this guy has to just abandon point because he can’t win”. I got over Rock Paper Scissors when I was in elementary school.
This game had a queue removed. They actually removed SoloQ. They actually intentionally made it so you have nothing to do while you wait in queue except sit and look at your watch like at the doctor’s office. That’s how badly planned this is. When the expac hits, everything will go to hell as balance will be completely broken by all the new stuff and god knows how bad Stronghold will be. And it will take them months to do or fix anything. Just like always.
This game is great… as a casual, for the lulz kind of game. If I start taking anything seriously that’s my queue to play Dota, or even Evolve, which despite the mass leavings over stupid bugs still manages to balance patch once every 2 weeks.
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Staff is just kittekittenngle target damage and combined with being unable to keep Thieves from kitten you you’ve got yourself an unused weapon for small scale combat. It only shines when you can hit 5 targets at once. I guess if you are allowed to shell a small point unomolested it isn’t too bad but a pew pew Ranger can do the job for Conquest much better.
Every single time I try staff in PvP I regret it almost instantly, like right now. What a garbage weapon. I don’t even know how this made it to release.
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Thought all this was a predictable nerf but what kinda surprises me is that things like Illusionary Persona can become baseline but nothing, not even Elemental contigency can become baseline? All they got was Blasting Staff becoming baseline? Who cares?