Guild Wars 2

MadVisions.4529:

1. why are you not watching pvp on twitch?

In Gw2 there is no real competition.
In the whole season, there were three (barely) interesting matches (tcg vs 55 vs vm).
I don’t care about the rest of the matches. If I would want to watch noobs playing, I would just join the spectator mode in hot-join.

1. how could ANet improve viewer experience?

1. Reduce visual noise.
2. let the top teams fight each other more often. A single bo3 should not decide the whole season.

1. What is the most important thing you look for in a pvp stream?

Being able to passionately cheer for a certain player or team. In other words, I have to be interested in the outcome of the match. It does not mean, that I am going to cheer for a certain player or team, just it has to be ‘exciting’.

1. Do you think that the MM and leaderboard is gating the growth of GW on twitch?

I don’t know, maybe, but not directly. If the pvp system were any good, then there would be more players and therefore more potential twitch viewers.
The system is bad – but most players here are QQ because they are awful noobs and are therefore not getting their wings. Guess what… if the system would work as it should, they would still NOT get the wings.

Not sure why, but forfeits are also displayed as Defeat.
That means, someone on your team left the match for longer than 1 minute, therefore you did not lose pips for that.

DH is fine. Enough players have reached legendary already just playing DH and purely solo-queuing.

Unranked? Ranked? Doable, but not very ideal: both still pit your possible PUG
team against an organized TEAM. Why? How is that fair in the spirit of competition?

There are enough players who have made it to Legendary only SoloQueuing. This is just one of those excused that people use. Just improve your own skill and you are fine. Ofc it would be nice, if only the same teamsizes would face each other, but just be real here, then the long queuing times would increase even more.

Furthermore, think of how over-whelming that must be to a newer player still getting their feet “wet.”

I don’t think that’s such a big problem. It is really the same like in every other game. Also, with a working (I know, it is not working right now) rating system in mind, you are not getting overwhelmed by your opponents, since they are playing as bad as you are. Currently, ever meta (aka the stronges) build is very easy to play. E.g. as a shatter mesmer a year ago, you would have been dead after a warrior hit you with ‘Pin down’. So you had to know the skill and look out for it. Now, every profession is a bit more tanky and a little error is not the end.

No changing your class after being qued up.

I agree, but unfortunately, it seems they haven’t gotten a technical solution for the problem. IRC the decision was between grating players a minute to get into the game after a dc or not allowing profession changes.

Personally I think there are two large areas that need improvement:
*) The current rank game
This includes: No professsion changes in a match; better match making: teams should have the same average MMR like in S1 (Change the league system instead, not the match making!)
*) More incentives to play pvp
This includes: More interesting and viable specs; a pure mmr based challenger tier at the top of the league

holychampion.7386:

MY mmr is about 72% and am currently in diamond.

Why are people still not understanding what ‘mmr’ means?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm

I have met enough soloqueuing legendary DH. They are fine to reach legendary.

BuungBuung.2168:

btw That’s Anet called Balance.

BuungBuung.2168:

see you in Overwatch

I have never seen a company with worse balance than Blizzard.
I hope for you, they have improved since.

Otherwise, see you again in a month

Fivedawgs.4267:

So obviously, even though the system try it’s best to do 5 vs 5, some people will progress faster then others due mostly to their skills than their MMR rating.

Here, I disagree with you.
As long as the MMR system works, it is the same as skill.
The problem remains, that due to the match making process (favoring one team), I can end up in a team, where it does not matter what I am doing, I will still win or lose, because the difference between my teammates and the opponents is too huge, that I can’t make up for it (e.g. I had a few games, where my team won 3v4 fights while I opened the gate).
Ofc in the end, the average skill of my teammates was higher than those of my opponents.

Last season (at least for me), the match making on legendary was NOT better. There were three options:

• ESL (or otherwise recognized) players on the opponent team: Their team has the higher MMR (and are therefore better) and will win.
• ESL (or otherwise recognized) players on your team: Your team has the higher MMR (and therefore the better player) and will therefore win.
• ESL (or otherwise recognized) players on both teams: Could be an interesting match.

I still favor the pre-HoT and Season 1 match making. The average MMR of both teams were almost equal and therefore you could really feel, that you are making a difference (or you are the reason you lost).

The current problems started in S1 when ArenaNet realized that with the league design, good and bad players are progressing in an almost equal paste. But instead of adjusted the pips gained for higher rated individuals we got the cheap solution to let us fight it out.

Fivedawgs.4267:

Teutos.8620:

Feedback from my journey through Sapphire:

Facts: I started playing this weekend on EU. I played 16-2; only 1 close game (one of my teammates confessed that this was his first game on a druid).

Personal Opinion: Only 1 of those 18 games felt good, rest of my opponents felt like going through the random mobs in a dungeon (not going to use the common slang-term generally used for them).
There were definitely some guys on the opponent side, which I definitely should not face MMR-wise, but the other games might just come down to the ‘snowbally’ nature of the game design.
Definitely not an expirience I want in a pvp game.

This is probably a consequence of S2, high vs Low. The S2 MMR overrated you, so instead of starting where you belong ( based on your skills), the system exaggerated your rating.

Uhm what? I think you misunderstood me. I had a ~89% win rate, so no, they did not ‘exaggerate’ my rating. Due to my high rating, I have to farm through ‘trash’ opponents to reach the position where I belong. Until I reach legendary, that won’t be the case tho.

Due to my rating, I am again in the higher rated teams and fighting lower rated teams (they did not change that!).

Feedback from my journey through Sapphire:

Facts: I started playing this weekend on EU. I played 16 wins : 2 losses; only 1 close game (one of my teammates confessed that this was his first game on a druid).

Personal Opinion: Only 1 of those 18 games felt good, rest of my opponents felt like going through the random mobs in a dungeon (not going to use the common slang-term generally used for them).
There were definitely some guys on the opponent side, which I definitely should not face MMR-wise, but the other games might just come down to the ‘snowbally’ nature of the game design.
Definitely not an expirience I want in a pvp game.

apharma.3741:

They just put up the money for ESL to run the event.

So you are saying, ELS would not listen if ArenaNet asked them polite to make a rematch? There are enough precedents where a stakeholder intervened…

The already ‘broke’ the rules at the start of the season when they moved two of the matches to another day. If I remember correctly, there was already a rule about how many players are allowed to switch between teams, which also got ignored. Everything is possible if it is in the best interest of the game itself.

On EU, during the whole season, there were only three interesting matchups.

• TCG vs 55
• TCG vs Vermillion
• 55 vs Vermillion.

Those are the matches deciding the outcome of the season and they should not be decided by a technicality. (Sidenote: If it were up to me, I would let those three teams fight every two weeks against each other. And every other week the weakest of those three teams against the number four and five team to keep the other teams a chance to claim a spot in the top three.)

Secondly, no, if you turn up to a professional job while under the influence of alcohol, drugs or anything else that may impede your ability then you would be investigated. In the case of being drunk which serves no other purpose than to inhibit your performance you would most likely have your career ended.

You are implying that it ‘inhibit’ your performance. Ofc if anything inhibits your performance, your career would end, regardless of the cause.
The shoutcasters didn’t even notice it prior the interview, so no, it did not inhibit Argis performance. And that’s true for every job, if you are functioning alcoholic and still performing, nobody cares.

apharma.3741:

He’s a forum specialist, last I checked Pro league is an ESL run event and a DDoS attack is an ISP related problem so why would he contact ANet about either of them?

Yes, the ProLeague is run by ESL BUT that is no excuse that ArenaNet did not intervene and request a rematch.
He is the one saying that there are still enough, more ‘professional’ options left and therefore – if directly asked – nobody should mention the incident. It is his job to inform them about the hot-topics in the forum, that ArenaNet can react accordingly. The DDos-incident is one of those hot-topics.
As long as there would be any other options left, you could answer Jebros question in a different way like ‘they are actively working on a solution’. But there isn’t any option left – so why should Argi not answer truthfully to the questions? He even stayed completely objective and did not insult ArenaNet in any way. I am personally even going further than Argi when saying that ArenaNet handled the situation poorly.

Are you a professional at something in life? How do you think people would react if you were drunk when being paid to work?

As long as you are doing what you are paid to do, nobody would care.

Ravenmoon.5318:

That thing that many people seem to forget these days, and older people like to blame the millenials for the lack of it – professionalism

You didn’t hear Michael Jordan trashtalking basketball on ESPN now did you? If you are old enough to know about the legend…

It wasn’t trashtalking. Where did he insult ArenaNet? He just said they made a mistake and therefore he doesn’t care about the upcoming matches.
This is absolutely something you are seeing in the ‘normal’ sports. If the stadium has problems and they are not fixed until the play-day, everybody is talking about it.
If a team is losing their top leaderboard position because of a bad decision from a judge, they are taling about it.

Wolfey.3407:

Aren’t you a lovely kid.

It is always great to start with an insult. Really shows how much you respect a good discussion!

I can send emails every week, I can’t force them to do anything.

And did you sent a email including the ddos problem? Or did you only include the normal league / balance qq?
If you did, then please tell me if there are still more ‘professional’ ways to talk about the incident?

Wolfey.3407:

Moving on to Argi, if he is that upset over the way Guild Wars 2 is heading PvP wise, there are more beneficial ways of making your voice heard then being a drunken slob on stream.

Then please enlighten us all which more beneficial way is still left untouched.

The whole tournament was just between the top 3 teams and who will gain a spot at the wts. If there occurs a problem in one of the matches between those three teams, then you have to do a replay. There is – from a completely objective pov – no other option to handle this properly.

The problem was voiced in every possible way AND still ArenaNet did not react.

Personally, I say suspend Argi from tournament play for next season and move on. There’s no need for drunks to be on stream… there’s no need to advertise non-partner merchandise on stream, there’s no need to bash a game on stream.

I suggest you do your job properly too and tell ArenaNet that the pvp forum community calls ArenaNet out for doing a bad job at handling those ddos problems AND not intervene with Argis freedom of speech.

He, in fact, did not ‘bash’ the game. He did not call it any names what so over, he just said the plain and obvious truth. Just because you personally would like that the truth is different, you are definitely not allowed to behave like a dictator -.- come on, think it truth what you are demanding.

Vicky.4563:

Wasn’t Frostball the one who got DDOSed against TCG? Hmm….

We still need a ruling on the DDOs-case if I’m not mistaken. I personally suggest a rematch.

Personally, I think it is horrible, that we don’t have titles showing how often you have reached legend. Why do we have an individual title for every season?
Currently, I can display S1 title + show the S2 badge, but what do I do in season 3? How can I show, that I reached legendary in the previous two seasons?

E.g. Reached Legendary in one season: Exalted Legend
Reached Legendary in two different season: (The way cooler) Primoridal Legend.
and so on…

In gw2, there is a lot of stuff that needs to be done. The people who worked on the league infrastructure are now probably working on the WvW infrastructure.

So, for the pvp team, there is probably only a single bot left who is watching over the matchmaking metrics, reporting failure after failure but nobody can see it^^

Nah, they are probably trying to fix the MMR system internally, that it will be ready to be shipped for the next season.

Ghede.9145:

I don’t find anything better than GW2

That’s the biggest advantage ArenaNet has. There are just no other good PvP-Third-Person-RPGs.

Ghede.9145:

- blade and soul

If it wouldn’t be for the kiddy graphics and the entry barrier (level grind), I think, it would have the potential to be become really big.

Jekkt.6045:

mmo is a dying market and usually not catered towards pvp players

Well, currently it looks like that, but it absolutely doesn’t have to.
A pvp based game does not need more than a moba-like client but having the ability to customize your character and run around in the world does not hurt.
There are a lot of stuff, ArenaNet needs to do better for GW2 to actually become relevant in the esports scene. It has the potential but the necessary improvements just do not seem to come fast enough.

Currently: If you want better pvp, you have to leave the mmo scene.

Mike O Brien.4613:

We have a team of six developers working on that, who could work on it for years to come.[..]
So, after shipping Chuka and Champawat, I’ve asked that we indefinitely suspend work on new legendary weapons. This team of developers will instead shift their efforts back to Living World style content, building new journeys and events for everyone to participate in.

Personally, I think that’s a great decision and I fully support it. I am sure it was a really hard decision due to its controversy, kudos for that.

Just out of curiosity, what is the work intense part on the legendaries? The art design, the journey itself, the economic impact of the individual crafting components?

matthor.6178:

If there isnt a mmr hell why in the previous season i reached easy and fast Ruby and now in season 2 i found hell from Amber and i am not able to overcome Emerald?

I sure, you will not like my answer: because you are not a good player.

In season 1 you fought opponents who had about your MMR. That means, you would only have faced bad players on your way up to legendary.
With the new system, bad players have a harder time to progress but don’t worry, even if you don’t improve, the more days go by, the easier it will be for you to progress anyway, because the slightly better players progress faster and therefore you will only play against even worse players (if there are any).

SneakyTouchy.6043:

Teutos.8620:

MMR is THE unit of measurement for skill.

It was in season 1 and when they used it in unranked. In season 2, it no longer matches you against players of similar skill. Because of this, it’s no longer a measurement of skill. It’s just a measurement of how well you kicked off- which even that can be biased with bad luck.

MMR is still the unit to measure your own skill. It is just not the only variable used in the whole match making process.
There was no ‘luck’ at the start, again, there have been multiple proofs already, that you are the deciding factor if you progress or not.
In the lower divisions are (almost) only bad players left. Therefore, if you are good, you will fight with and against bad players but since you are good, you are the deciding factor to win the game.

godsie.2864:

absolute nonsense! not when you are stuck in MMRHell with awful teams time after time after time no its NOT an accurate indicator of MY individual skill that’s the whole point!

Nice troll attempt.

For everyone else following this posts: There is no MMR Hell. There have already been enough proofs. People have shared their ‘hell’-account with better players, who then ended up with a huge win streak. There have been players who videotaped their gameplay and then, with some feedback and training, managed to improve their league position.

Just get better, than you will be able to improve you division position!

If you are on EU and need some help improving your gameplay, feel free to contact me ingame.

Fivedawgs.4267:

I am pretty sure you know what he meant, the facts are, and organized t3am has a 90% chance of winning against full pugs. And also, although individual performance does count; your team has more weight on the outcome of a game. So, you could be the best player ever however if your team keeps on messing up( not holding caps, list goes on) you d end up losing.

Again, you are throwing a lot of stuff together and not providing any sustainable information to discuss here anything in detail. I can just speculate which situation you mean.

An organized team has an advantage, yes, in the old system, the therefore got their MMR adjusted. In the old system I won against full premades (including CC) and lost against them.
In the new system, forming a premade can have advantages but also disadvantages. E.g. If you are a top player and invite other top players, at the start of the season, you will basically win every match, because most of the time, you are facing less skilled opponents, but then again, if you would not have had a premade, you would just have gotten at random other good players and still farmed less skilled players…

How big is the influence of a single player for this team? Without knowing how good his own teammates are, how big the skill difference is to the opponent team, we don’t know. You can’t “carry” every team. There are games, which are sooo close, that you could have won, if just a single mistake would not have been made (ofc the mistake is not the reason, it got so close, nor might this situation have been the only thing that went wrong).
BUT, you can say, that after a few dozen of games, if instead of you, another player would have participated, a lot of those game would have ended up differently.

Aarna.5178:

But experience is more. Experience is how to play the map, how to read the map.

No, skill is, where it all comes together.
In other words: MMR measures how you perform in your matches. This includes every button press you do in the game.

No, it’s not. Because you play in a team. You win as a team, or you lose as a team. And that will higher or lower your personal MMR.

The result of a single game shows how your team played.
MMR measures your individual skill, which includes your capability inside the team.

You might not like that, but after several MMR resets in the past, it has already been proven, that it actually is working. Ofc it is not working as good as purely 1v1 based game like chess, but well, that still the best unit of measurement we have.

godsie.2864:

the last I heard pvp is a TEAM game not played solo!!
I agree talented new pvp players can probably beat a lot of “experienced players” one on one as you suggest but that does not determine victory

Not sure what you are meaning. Since you are not playing with the same team over and over again, MMR can actually measure your individual skill.

Fivedawgs.4267:

Funny thing is when you ask these people if a diamond player with a 500 MMR is as skilled as an amber player with same MMR. Noone answer; and yet they still claim that (the MMR is intelligent enough to measure a player skill) and to extent it’s true. What we needed this season was an MMR reset. I guess Anet thought otherwise.

What? MMR is the ONLY indicator how good you are, regardless of division you end up in.
The problem is, we don’t have access to our MMR BUT,we know, that only the better players will end up in the higher division.

To your example:
If a 500 MMR player is able to end in diamond, every 500 MMR player will be able to do this. If player A with MMR of 500 is still in amber, than that’s only, because he hasn’t played ANY matches yet.

I think it really depends on what type of player you are.

If you are a good player but don’t play enough to be already in legendary, you’ll now have a way better time progressing than in last season.

My personal problem in legendary:
In legendary, there is no pip cut-off, therefore you are playing with and against everyone who has already progressed to legendary BUT the teams are still matched in regards of their MMR.
Every single time, a team is favored. It might be my team or the opponents team. (Ofc they also might be rather close, and the difference might not be relevant.) And sadly, you can feel the difference way too often, or in other words, there are again way too many one-sided matches.

Uhm no. You are new to everything concerning matchmaking, right?

There are a lot of things wrong with the league system, but it has absolutely nothing to do with ‘experience’ of the players fighting each other.

Experience is only an indicator how good a player is, but it certain not a requirement for being good or the only criteria. A talented new player can easily beat 80%-95% of our the players who have played for over a year, since almost no one bothered to actually get better in this game.

MMR is THE unit of measurement for skill.

A new player in PvP can have the same count in matches, the same position in the league and the same MMR like a pro player, who’s playing on an alt account.

Well, the MMR system needs some time to measure your skill. If you are changing accounts, it takes some time to do so. But, the system is intelligent enough to measure how accurate it is at measuring your skill and therefore, it adjusts the impact every single game has on your MMR.

Not every team was using a mesmer (and they still won)
Don’t forget that, they are only allowed to have 1 profession per team. That means, that they can’t have a power rev and a condi rev in their team.

So, which five out of seven professions(warrior not viable, and guard hard countered by the tempest) are you using?

Gratz to reach legendary (again)!

Didn’t thought you would make it before falling asleep

Mogar.9216:

mmr is not reflective of skill . Take a break to reset your mmr and get out of the hell. I was stuck in sapphire t2 for over a week . Took a break and win streaked to t6 ruby in no time.

Uhm no. There are sooo many thing wrong in this post.

1.) MMR represents your skill as good as the devs get it to do (not good enough tho).
2.) There is no mmr hell.
3.) Your MMR only resets when the devs choose to do so (last time was over a year ago).
4.) There is a variable measuring how accurate your MMR is. When you don’t play for a few weeks, it gets bigger and bigger. This does not change your MMR but every game you play after the break has a bigger impact on your MMR.
5.) The more time goes by, the more people climb up the divisions. Therefore, it gets easier and easier to climb up the division with every day that passes.
That means before you took your break, you played against opponents who – after your break – have already left sapphire. After you came back, you basically played against the same opponents you play in amber before.

vezon.8901:

So after 100 games winning less than 20% there has to be some problems with me,

We really need more information to help you out.

1.) Are you playing on EU or US? With that information, you can maybe get a ‘personal trainer’ to take a look at your play ingame.

2.) Which profession & build are you using?

3.) Can you maybe video tape a match? That would give us an even more detailed insight and therefore, the option to provide an even better feedback.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

So, what would you change?

I would start with increasing the size of the map, not sure if you can ‘just scale’ it or that would me completely redesigning it.

The individual points with their close walls are just a mess for the camera and a burden for every range profession. I would love the side points to be as open as the side points on kyhlo.

Seems it took you to long to get back into the game.
If you are not back within 1 minute, your leaving is considered a deseration and oyu get dishonor + loose a pip.

And that’s how it should be!

Because of your DC, your teammate had to play 4v5 for at least 1 minute which is often enough to decide who will snowball and win.

Riku.1093:

I also want to add that if you look at the end of the video you can see that I earned a lot of top player achievements for that match.

They are NOT proving anything.

Ofc you are getting Top ‘Healing to Allies’ when you are playing ele.

They are only interesting on rare occasions like when you have a multiple condition damage professions on your team and you get the Top ‘condition damage’ dealt or when you are as an ele get top ‘damage dealt’ then you know, that something is wrong with your teammates.

Riku.1093:

1. The meta-game is always changing, and this build does a decent job as a support build. Whether or not a build is good is purely opinion based and all about the numbers. I’m pretty sure you haven’t tried this build yourself to know what it is capable of.

I know exactly what it is capable of: being in the downstate.
There is one really great tempest build, which is actually working, why would you not use it, if you want to improve?

You are running away after 1 ability hit you in the mid fight and you let two of your teammates die. Please use the standard build, try it out, and you’ll see, that you can survive longer and therefore better support your teammates.

4. I did not waste mist form, it gave me the boons I wanted to help keep myself alive.

Watch your own video. @3:01 If you consider that good use of your utilities we really have a problem mate :/ Edit: @5:56 again.

Furthermore, if you would look at the screenshots I posted, you would see that elementalist isn’t the only class I played that earned many losses.

And you probably make as many mistakes there as you did here.

Riku.1093:

Before the expansion, I used to consider myself a pro player

And now, you are realizing, you are not. That’s ok, you don’t have to be.

People realizing they are not good players and having to improve their playstyle is the only good thing season 2 has brought us.

Maybe this will improve the quality of the balance feedbacks.

So, I started to watch your video, yes, it is your playstyle that causes the loss streak.

First off: You don’t have to mouse-over every skill, we know the icons.

1. You are not running the standard aura-tempest, you are trying your own build and well, it is not working.

2. No boon stacking at the start (air or fire overload)

3. You are leaving your teammates to die on mid just because you got hit by 1 ability.

4. Waste Mist form.

5. You are jumping in on close, at this point, you should know, how little health your teammate has and that he is about to die. But no, you misplace the lighting field; throw Gust into stability; attacking the druid while you teammate is dying; stability from the druid runs out, now would be a good time to use Gust; you took way too long to get to your dying teammate to start rezzing; clicking on the healing skill (OMG); not switching attunements; now would be time for your mist form utility but instead, you are trying to misplace the lighting field again (CC should be on the mesmer)

Do I really have to watch it any further?^^

My personal top list:

• Improve visibility from PvP matches for spectators. This includes a better overlay (e.g. access to all the skill bars of players currently fighting on the point in question), a reduction of visual noise. The amount of visual noise the currently playing player and the view have to see, are quite different. For the player it is quite important to see every damaging ability and trying to avoid it. For the viewer, only the really game-changing are important. A viewer should never overlook a thrown battle standard (or the interrupted attempt). (For the start, we probably also need better shoutcaster, who can point out this important game-changers when they happen.)
  The is probably the #1 reason why gw2 pvp matches get so few twitch viewers.

• Let players in ranked fight opponents with (about) the same MMR. Reward pips based on MMR-difference (e.g. like lol or sc2 is doing it).

• Yesterday, I lost two games because of a troll who has already reached legendary. (I am sure he will not get punished for trolling.) Therefore, add suitable report options and/or the possibility to add a small info to the report. Why did I report him for botting? Why is his name inappropriate? Maybe it is something in my first language, then I could include the info and reduce the time, the staff has to invest to investigate why I reported.

• Balance is a really hard job, how about we make it easier? Split every profession into multiple sub-professions. E.g. a mesmer into 5 subprofessions: condi-shatter, burst-shatter, phantasmal pve dps, support-bunker and chronomancer.
  Since the sub-professions are far-less complex (with basically only 1 trait line) and don’t share utilities and skills, it should be far easier to make them all viable. (I know, it won’t happen. This was basically what I imaged after the first announcement of the elite-specs.)

• Constant balance shavings in every little patch and hotfix.

Edit:

• Forum badges showing your division.

Problem still exists.

Match on Nifhel, ended @23:20 CET. With this account.

Exarbur.6732:

yeah but i was in tier 4 not tier 5 of div 3, so i dotn get why there are div4 in my match, i had 0 pips in tier, so i was 10 pips away from anyone in div4..

as i said i get why there will be some in my matches if i am in tier 5 but not in tier 4!

If I remember correctly, the pip-span between the lowest league position and the highest league position can be max 15 pips.

Please make a screenshot of the winning screen showing that you didn’t receive a pip for winning (to see the text what it is saying regarding the pips) and a second screen outside the game from your current league position (to make sure, that it was not just a display error ingame.

Exarbur.6732:

i mean why the heck are div4 guys in my match? i am in tier 4, in 5 i could understand it when i had to wait otherwise 10 mins or more, but not on a sunday….

The division is not a hard cut-off. You are matched with players inside your pip range.
E.g. If you are last tier in ruby, you are likely to play with players in the first tier of diamond and you will never play with players in the first tier of ruby.

Fivedawgs.4267:

Idk, I though they said the lopsided games were supposed to stop in amber or emerald..

I’m currently in Diamond and there are still one-sided games.

The individual match quality got far better than it was in Amber or Emerald but by far it is still not even close to the match quality from last season.

Nope, you are not missing anything.
Just make every 10 games a screen of your last 10 games played. The rest is up to you and your calculator^^

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

you earn 1 pip for a win
you lose 1 pip for a loss

you earn 1 extra pip on your 3rd consecutive wins and onwards

that’s all.

And you earn 1 extra pip for your first win after at least three consecutive losses (aka comeback bonus).

TheBravery.9615:

all while not considering the full picture- taking into account 9 professions, over 600 traits, 1,000 skills, Stat combinations, sigils, and runes.

You are exaggerating.

I can give you some examples:

• ‘Spike Barrage’ from the Bristleback dealt too much damage regardless of traits or abilities involved. Therefore, you only have 1 choice → lower the damage.

• If you DPS for a Reaper is too strong, you have multiple options. E.g. Reduce the damage from ‘Deathly Chill’. The impact of this change differs, depending on the number of chill sources the Reaper picked, but does this really matter that much from a blance POV? In the end, we are only talking about ‘shaving’ (e.g. 5%).

• ‘Search and Rescue!’: Two options: Adjust the cooldown or lower the rez power from your pet. Only two traits to keep in mind: ‘Allies’ Aid’ and ‘Resounding Timbre’. Balance for the case, that the players picks ‘resounding Timbre’, because that’s the most optimal way, that should not be OP.

Espidow.1729:

I can’t even see what has killed me.

If you have problems understanding what killed you, I would suggest to first start and play every other profession, at least, a bit.

Learn what they can do and how it look like.

While playing every profession, start with the builds featured on metabattle, but don’t limit yourself to it.

Learn the icons in your and your opponents boon and condition bar (including the profession specific icons like Glint’s Heal from the Revenant).

You have to be able to identify the spec the mesmer is probably using just by looking at him (e.g. will he confusion-burst me?).

I posted this thread in the new reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48v1x4/announcing_the_known_issue_tracker

Unfortunately the “Known Issue List” does not include a single mesmer bug.

If there are other known mesmer bugs, please post it on the reddit post too or let me know and I’ll update my post there.

Edit: We have a forum thread too: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Announcing-the-Known-Issue-Tracker

Come on… when you post the screenshot from your lose-streaks, can please first edit out your skill bar? You are making it way too easy for the haters to call you a noob and reduce the whole match making process to that -.-

Today I played 16 games (SoloQ) 13-3 (81.25% win rate), just reached Diamond

1) Yes (but I have not played every day)
2) Just reached Diamond
3) No, today 81.25%
4) Advancing
5) No; no, but huge win streaks
6) Yes (Still have a lot of Daily-Participants to complete)

Salamander.2504:

You got me. I shouldn’t post in these forums since I’m “happy”. Teutos are you copying this?

Personally, I am also trying to post in different threads where people are just complaining only to add a bit from the ‘other side of a coin’ (not sure how a native speaker would phrase that, sorry)

Salamander.2504:

Azukas.1426:

I feel that threads like this are a direct indication of how well a company is doing.

There is a vocal minority of displeased people (happy folks don’t feel the need to post), so I don’t think these threads are representative at all.

Well, only a minority is vocal but it is a logical fallacy if you think that mean, that the minority is pleased.

We can only take into consideration, how many threads are created over which period and use the past as a comparison. Without access to more numbers (e.g. How many players stopped playing after a losing spread? Are the number of losing spreads actually getting lower by now?) we can’t tell anything for sure.

For me personally, it feels like the current outcry was the biggest I have very experienced on this PvP forums. The outcry at the start of the last season was pretty big, but I think the current one (which is still going on) left it already behind. Even the outcries regarding balancing (e.g. when ArenaNet tried to introduce Rune of Perplexity) were way smaller.

I also wanna add: I’m glad that there are still so many players caring about the game and sharing constructive feedback.