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Imagine the devs changed the way raids in GW2 worked.
Imagine they made it so that when you went to do this high end group content, you were forced to enter into a random queue solo or with a single partner. Then you get placed into a group with people you don’t know, playing random classes that may or may not have the support you need, no idea what build they are using. Ideally, everyone would have around the same level of gear or some qualifier to try and make sure everyone is at a similar skill level, but hey, it’s an auto system, so ya know, mistakes are gonna happen.
Then you get dropped into the instance and the Boss fight starts in 60 seconds. Now keep in mind, there in no in-game voice comm to coordinate the team. You just got to figure it out. Hopefully your teammates play with a similar strategy as you, but realistically we know that’s not going to happen consistently.
So the fight starts, you’re getting smashed. After a couple minutes people just start to afk so the timer runs out and they can queue up for another group. After all, they didn’t choose this group dynamic, it’s not ideal in their opinion, why waste more time?
What kind of a response do you think this suggestion would get over in the Raid Forum? Because that is essentially exactly what happened in PvP. High end Ranked PvP is GROUP content. Exactly like raids are high end GROUP content for PvE. Removing team queue and forcing people to random the content is ridiculous.
Complaining that you are losing matches against premades while soloq’ing is insanity. Of course youre losing. That’s the same as entering a raid solo and expecting to win content designed for multiple players.
No one is stopping you from creating a premade team, just the same as no one is stopping you from joining a Raid guild if you choose to play that content.
Every single forum post about matchmaking bad teammates can be solved with the simple solution – pick your own teammates.
I can believe people thought that turning high end group content into a random team generated mode was a good idea.
No wonder it died.
For what it’s worth, I stopped playing GW2 around September 2016.
I got Ascension at the beginning of S3, then really only played a handful of matches after that. I don’t think I played any at all in S4, and I was gone by S5.
I’m not a pro player at all. I was only Ruby in the old system and that seemed about right to me. I’m not good enough to try and get Legendary. Without any progression for me to work towards, it got kinda boring.
I still read the forums regularly because I really enjoyed GW2 and I’m still interested in what going on, I played in all the content – PvP, WvW, Raids, PvE metaevents. All the characters with multiple full Ascended sets in each. 8 Legendaries. Bought gems a few times here and there for the cool QoL stuff like Airship pass and Shared Inventory slots.
The game is just old. It gets boring. For a casual player, there has to be something to play towards other than eSports.
Also, I understand the ranked seasons no longer have team queue, which means now i can’t even play with my friends. That seems like a silly decision.
One more point – whenever I come back to read the forums – literally every post is the same as it was in September. People crying about matchmaking, balance, afk players, balance. Overall, I really liked the game when I played, but it seems it’s in the exact same state it was when I left, so no real reason for me to come back.
The development seems to be stuck in a rut, but so is the player base.
I hate broccoli and I hate working out. I only like Big Macs and watching TV reruns…..But I really like the look of nice ab muscles.
So I want the reward or nice abs, but I only want to earn them my way. That’s totally fair. I only want to spend my time doing things I like and get all the rewards in life without ever having to change anything or try anything new or ever step out if my bubble.
I always take the time to read your constant PvP and Raid reward threads because I do find them very entertaining.
Your “participation medal for everyone regardless” mentality is a real generational problem.
Remove please.
Agreed.
The “No” button needs to be activated, and clicking it should quit you right out of the match. Waiting 10s or whatever it is before exiting is annoying
The PvE ppl who missed out in buying their GoB are actually quite right… There really wasn’t much notice about the removal. Yes, I’m sure there was some notice, but not a lot. I, for example, bought my GoB in Tuesday morning. U was even a few badges short because I spend a bunch crafting guild siege and forgot about GoB for my legendary. So I earned some badges and bought it.. then went to bed.
When I woke up and went to craft my final pieces and the legendary, GoB vendor had been removed. I literally LOL’d. That was lucky. I honestly had no idea.
With that being said, I selected the GoB track so I can bank one for next legendary, and that has already be completed, and another track, and that’s without using the potions.
tl;dr – yes, ppl have a right to be upset about the lack of vendor removal notice. No, it’s not a big deal to earn GoB, so just go do it.
I agree with what was posted earlier as a solution.
On a day where Mai Trin is the daily, just post lfg’s and run that over and over until you can see the T4 LFG.
You wint have much trouble finding a group for T3 Mai and will level you up each run.
I simply cannot wrap my head around this concept that raids (and therefore the rewards that go with them) is restrictive or unavailable to portions of the player base.
Until 3 weeks ago, I had never done a raid. Not even in any other MMO. My guild has only about 7 active members – we couldn’t even fill a squad if we wanted. However, thus content that I hadn’t experienced and I wanted to do it.
So I joined another guild. I didn’t leave my current one, Anet doesn’t make me. Anet allows me to join 5. I still maintain most of my time playing with my original 6 friends.
I practiced. I learned. I joined pug squads. I watched videos. I got better. I currently have 4 of 9 bosses killed.
This is exactly the intended experience, right? I’m enjoying it very much. I’m working towards the envoy armor exactly as intended.
What part of the experience/lore/reward is being denied to any player? How can you possibly debate that Anet is restricting anyone from exactly what I did?
If you want the rewards, go get them. If you want to see the lore, go see it. Nothing is stopping you from doing it. No one is discriminating against you. You’re just upset that the rewards come from content that you don’t enjoy. So dont play it if you don’t enjoy it. There is literally no content in this game that is “locked” behind anything. It’s all available to anyone that wants to do it.
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Hi.
I would call myself a vet player for GW2 and I play mostly with a small guild. Because we’re small, we have not done anything within the raids. It’s really the last part of the game for me and I would like to try it out.
I have all the classes with elite specs fully unlocked – except elementalist. They are all geared in full ascended, but I’m not sure if they would be considered “raid ready” because I gear them to suit my playstyle. I could change stats or make another ascended set, but I would want to talk with a guild first to find out what would be needed for the team.
I work a rotating schedule so I would not be able to commit to something that was “every Sunday” or a raid time set in stone every week since my shifts change. I do put in quite a few hours in the week, just a different times.
I’m looking for a guild that’s willing to teach as my experience with raids is pretty much zero, aside from watching some videos on mechanics. I’m not a noob player, but noob to this aspect of the game, for sure.
Send me a message in game and we can see if I would fit in with your current guild / team.
Thanks,
Threat
I mean does it have the infusion slot PLUS the extra slot to add the extra agony infusion?
That would be really bad if it doesn’t. Because I could not use it over my currently infused ascended backpieces and I wouldn’t want to spend the globs/gold to infuse it.
The real problem with MM is the same as it has always been – people are simply not as good as they think they are.
No one wants to admit that they are a Ruby level player. Within the 80% of average players that the OP mentions, about half think they are pro. They freak out and get furious when they lose matches and blame teammates.
Newsflash: if you are on a 20 game losing streak – it’s your fault. 100% your fault. Stop doing what you did for the last 20 matches and do something different. Play a different class, attack a different point, employ a different strategy… but please do something different.
Newsflash: if you are on a 20 game losing streak – you are not “legendary”. Stop assuming you belong there. I know for a fact that I do not, nor would I whine about a MM system as being the reason I lose matches.
I wish Anet would use some tough love and let the whiners know that not everyone is elite.
You know, you know nothing.
I am not a bad player. I resent you calling me a bad player. I made it to dia last season. I was stuck in emerald w/ a 100+ losing streak. It was not my fault. I may have made mistakes, I could have been a better player (at times or always), I am not pro and don’t want to be, I tried to carry others, and I tried to never be carried.
I have played gw pvp almost daily for since gw 1 beta and gw 2 beta. When I had my losing streak in emerald, everyone told me to get good and it was all my fault, and to stop blaming others. THey told me I was an emerald player and I belonged there.
When I made it to dia – what then? Was I still an emerald player w/ a 100 game losing streak then? Or was I a dia player and my div reflected my personal skill.
Give me a break. Get over yourself. MMR hell is real, and w/o a mmr reset ea season (which I cannot believe anet did not do), ur bad mmr will follow u in spvp Forever and you will be pitted w/. poor or new/clueless players against “good” seasoned players Forever. Its not fun. Its not entertaining or relaxing. Its demoralizing and stupid and totally unnecessary and done for the sole purpose of blowing smoke up the pros noses (which stinks).
This is a team based pvp. Ur teammates dc. They suck. They manipulate. They kill but don’t know strat. Then, on top of it, when ur mmr holds you back deliberately and pits u w/ other players w/ low mmr/losses against players w/ higher mmr/wins, who do u think will win 90% of the time – and hence the perpetual downward spiral into mmr hell (last seas) or the stay-stuck/never progress forevermore (seas 3 and beyond) which ppl are experiencing now.
My 100+ game losing streak was not my fault. It was certainly not 100% my fault and u r rude and clueless to say it and u owe me personally an apology because I have experienced mmr hell and I am not a bad player and it was not my fault that I lost more than 100 games in a row. Stop misleading players with ur random misrepresentations.
And btw, I got out of my losing streak and I didn’t do a friggin thing different. I just played the same way I always did. And I didn’t grind any more than anyone else in this game did either (not to mention last seas was specifically designed to not reward the grinders). So yah, w/e man.
Yes, Eater of Peeps, a 100 game losing streak is your fault.
You will get no apology from me. I could let my dog lick the keyboard and he could manage to get a win somewhere within 100 games.
Anet is not blame for your complete refusal to change your play strategy and style – and neither is their matchmaking system.
You deserved every single one of those losses.
Tough Love here, so sorry for the hurt, but..
Yes. It’s your fault.
I know that hurts to read, but it’s true. I am well aware that good players are being put on teams with bad players. I know that is happening and that part if it is not your fault. Buy when you find yourself in that situation, have have to play differently than you would with a good team.
When you’re in forest and 2 go home and 2 go beast, don’t charge into mid alone. Push to far and 1v1 and hopefully that gets you an early 2-cap. Even if you never feel like pushing far at start is a good strategy, in this case you have no choice. At least you should hold home all match.
That’s just a really really simplified example, but the point is, if you keep playing the same way you normally would with your “bad” team then you will keep winning 17/48 games. You gotta change something.
It’s hard to win 5 pugs vs a 5-man premade… no doubt. That’s a different problem altogether. But do you really think that the other team is all pros? Maybe they got just 1 player who is adapting better to his current team than you are, and that is the difference.
Soloq is a hard road. Every match will present you with a different set of handicaps, and “curry more” isnt just winning your 1v1’s…its adapting in the fly to what’s going on.
Do that better than the other team and win more matches.
If you spent as much time playing the game as you did writing that post, you would have a better win rate.
The real problem with MM is the same as it has always been – people are simply not as good as they think they are.
No one wants to admit that they are a Ruby level player. Within the 80% of average players that the OP mentions, about half think they are pro. They freak out and get furious when they lose matches and blame teammates.
Newsflash: if you are on a 20 game losing streak – it’s your fault. 100% your fault. Stop doing what you did for the last 20 matches and do something different. Play a different class, attack a different point, employ a different strategy… but please do something different.
Newsflash: if you are on a 20 game losing streak – you are not “legendary”. Stop assuming you belong there. I know for a fact that I do not, nor would I whine about a MM system as being the reason I lose matches.
I wish Anet would use some tough love and let the whiners know that not everyone is elite.
This idea would set a record for “Fastest AFK”.
As soon as some guy presses B and sees an amulet or utility that he doesn’t approve, that’ll be it. " I’m AFK if you’re gonna use that * amulet!"
It’s a good idea in theory, but the environment is too toxic. It’s best to just team queue with people that you already know their builds.
I spent about 4 hours on Tuesday night roaming Alpine BLs with 3 other guild mates. We had many fun fights against groups of 2-8, ran into a couple blobs but nothing too crazy that couldn’t be avoided if we didn’t want to fight that many.
Basically, I haven’t had this much fun since the HoT release.
Long Live Alpine!
FOLLOW UP
a Game Admin showed up at the event and help me out about 2 minutes after i put in a support ticket.
I really appreciate the fast support, that was awesome,
thanks
the “Hawke Liberator” event for Sunrise I bugs out and the captive prisoners wont move.
needs fix pls
QoL and Scoring are not the reasons i stopped playing WvW.
I know the Alpine maps are on the way, but everything at Anet should be dropped until they get put back into live servers. The Desert Borderlands destroyed WvW for virtually the entire population. These maps are simply not fun for me.
1. Alpine
2. Make WvW as rewarding as the other game modes and you will have a healthy player base of people who prefer fighting other players with a slight taste for completing events.
Thats why I played so much WvW before… and I miss it.
Hi all!
I’m a terrible PvP player.
I routinely get on teams with good players and i completely hold them back. I ruin all chances of them winning the match because i am so noob and i have been carried up into their division. This causes them to spin out of control in “MMR Hell”.
Sometimes, when I play a lot, i see people complaining about 40, 50, even 100 loss streaks. I know I am mostly responsible for this and I feel shame.
I just thought i should bring this to everyone’s attention because 99% of what i read in the forums and see in map chat is all elite players complaining that people like me are bringing them down. I only see players getting screwed over by people like me – never anything about a player that maybe needs some skill improvement. I’m pretty sure I am the only bad player in GW2.
The fact that I can single-handedly destroy Season 2 for so many people is alarming. There must be a system problem with the matches that somehow causes all my losses to ripple through the PvP community and affect everyone in the forums and map chat.
I’m sorry.
It would be real nice to be able to change the fractal lvl while inside Dessa’s lab without having to exit out to LA.
Please fix the Fractal Master achievement….
FIST BUMP!
what’s the deal?
Bump Bump Bump.
C’mon Anet… this is a big deal for people that do fractals… can we get this fixed please.
Perhaps add a 2nd weapon slot in the preview window? Like the multiple dye preview slots?
I like the idea of it being a mystic forge recipe. Currently trans stones are a useless item. For real useless, not just outgrown.
Even a lvl 10 dagger can be salvaged and is never really useless. There is no use whatsoever for a trans stone to a lvl 80 character.
Please change the Aegis animation. It totally ruins the appearance of any equipped shield. I think it can be removed entirely or simply a “flash appearance” (like when my allies’ hands pulse when I apply might). That pink atrocity doesn’t have to always be there wrecking my shield appearance.
I just have an Ascended. I don’t even have FSP. Ouch for those people.
Thanks
Totally agree.
I don’t have FSP, but aegis completely butchers even my Ascended shield. I think the aegis animations needs to be changed.
In the new matchup system, the servers rotate colours. When you’re server is “Red” you should be able to get all the “Red” poi’s, keep vistas, etc during that week. Next week you’ll be “Blue” and repeat. Especially right after a reset when you own all your stuff. You won’t spend a year as “Red” because your server doesn’t participate much in WvW.
Personally, I got all my WvW maps first before PvE, but I think this recent change was made to make things more reasonable for non-WvW players and seems like a good fix to me.
I have no idea why ALL armors and weapons are not salvageable???
You can buy dungeon armor with tokens and salvage it or put it in the mystic forge. Badges are essentially the “token” earned in WvW. It is the exact same concept. Why are people who run dungeons allowed to upgrade their weapons and recover their sigils but people who spend their time in WvW cannot?
Now that I have crafted ascended weapons, my current exotics are useless and the sigils are lost to me. I can’t even throw them in the mystic forge. What a waste.
The same thing for the weapon I bought with Guild Commendations. Both of these items have been transmuted, but I think I would be in the same boat even if they were original skins.
If I’m wrong, please correct me. If I’m right, please change WvW gear to the same restrictions as dungeon gear.
Its brutal – not just disappointing. After you get the 2 rings you want, there is no more motivation for me to do FotM anymore. If I’m focused primarily on other aspects of the game (WvW, PvP, Guild missions, etc) I won’t waste an hour + in FotM for a “chance” at a 3 silver reward.
The rings have to be salvageable or mystic for gable for me to go back in.