Guild Wars 2

Pimsley.3681:

hotcarl.8621:

Pimsley.3681:

Replacing the old trait system that used points and distributed stats with the communist version we have now destroyed diversity.

Back then you could run unique yet effective builds on ele, engie, ranger…..

I disagree with that statement; prior to HoT, there were a number of effective builds out there for each profession. I think the June 2015 patch that streamlined traits was a good thing, but I think that the elite specs destroyed all the hard work that went into the previous major update.

The June update brought destruction and killed diversity, especially in pvp.

1. They removed stats from trailts and merged it all with amulet

2. Anything that restricts and limits your choices from what they used to be is anti-diversity.

3. June Update Was Murder. The worst update for me. Aside from trait limitation, certain builds and entire professions were messed up completely. One hasnt recovered yet.

Victims of June update:

• Shout warriors – was the nerf to shout necessary? Even if they didn’t nerf it, shout warriors would still be underwhelming in this meta. Nerfing it was overkill

• Warriors in general – the synergy between skills/traits/elites/grandmasters were poorly done

• Elixir Infused Bomb engie – build annihilated

• Engie trait/skill synergy between incendiary powder and nades – divorced/separated

- Engie traits were done as poorly as the warrior. But they made little improvements since June update. The biggest improvement from came from HoT, not June update

• Thieves were a mess. After June update, every class countered them and they had survival issues. Like the engie, they were made a little better by the expac.

• Fresh air ele did not feel nor play like it used to before the June update.

• Poison master ranger was nerfed by half….50%…. It was viable then but not worth running the build anymore. The hard nerf made it ineffective.

• Ranger traps no longer ground targeted. Bark skin no longer grandmaster but effectiveness nerfed. Old bark skin way more potent.

These were the ones on top of my head but there were more.

Only necro and mesmer got healthy buffs from June update. Buff to eles doesn’t count as it was taken away in Sept.

Someone just got an A on their PvP history exam. What a nerd

Pimsley.3681:

Ele pro tip. Just because your health bar is full does not mean that you should ignore water attunement. Use it to heal your teammates. Similarly using magnetic aura to protect your team. Ele is the least selfish class in the game that is often played the most selfishly.

I can t believe there are soloQ eles running cleansing water instead of powerful aura. More victories are experienced by those who are unselfish. I know it’s hard in soloQ coz you’re put with a bunch of strangers. But those same 4 strangers are needed to win so might as well be useful and help your teammates succeed.

TheGrimm.5624:

I think the OP needs to change the title of this thread. I have seen more than enough premades do the same things as listed above. What’s worse is when you get a bad premade since they should be in communication and still run around not knowing what to do next. Same rules apply. Key is to pay attention and don’t blame others for your own mis-plays, understand them and try and do better next time.

Really would love to see statistics on queues to see how many matches are premades of what sizes.

What would you think is a more fitting title?
“Communicate, dumb plebs”
“Dont bring crappy builds to rank, stupid pleb”
“Please uninstall”

All jokes aside, the OP of this thread has a very good understanding of conquest but if his teammates are worthless, it’s not right for him to blame himself. Because in SoloQ, it’s common to get worthless teammates. You just need one to ruin the match for everyone else.

Pimsley.3681:

Unless it’s a high mobility build, going far at the start will always fail.

Most people that run far don’t even know why they are going there in the first place. Many many many many many times I’ve seen teammates engage in a far fight after the opponents have capped it.

It gives me the urge to want to yell till their ears bleed.

omfg so much THIS

Hello

That’s correct. The only time personal score would matter is when both teams end in a tie when clock expires. It’s an extremely rare outcome, the last time it happened to me was over a year ago. Other than that, personal score is a useless stat. I didnt get a screenie on the final result of this match coz it was the most stressful thing I’ve experienced in gw2 and glad it was over.

hackks.3687:

How about just use statistics and the match score, and throw out the “hey I did good they gave me random arbitrary points!” nonsense.

It’s comical at this point how people have been playing conquest backwards due to that arbitrary number. The same set of random numbers that fooled many into believing it represented contribution and skill.

Pimsley.3681:

Vapour.7348:

For me, the game lost its greatness on the June 23 update.

It took away from me 6 builds that I have spent lots of time trying to master. It destroyed warrior, thief and engie traits. Engie only slightly recovered from it due to Scrapper elite giving it some sustain.

But it destroyed thieves and warriors traits to where they would need a complete overhaul.

And on top of that, they downgraded and made less useful, the trait system . I prefer putting allotted points in various trait lines. Builds became less unique and diverse when they forced us to choose 3 traitlines instead.

I quit playing for 2 months.

Healing bomb engie with incendiary powder used to get me lots of PMs. I miss that build. Now engie bombs have the most awkward looking animation. Im seriously embarrassed to use it.

Elixir Infused Bombs!!!

Yeah, mechanical skill cap took a nosedive when expac was realesed. Now people are getting carried by their pets and passives.

For me, the game lost its greatness on the June 23 update.

It took away from me 6 builds that I have spent lots of time trying to master. It destroyed warrior, thief and engie traits. Engie only slightly recovered from it due to Scrapper elite giving it some sustain.

But it destroyed thieves and warriors traits to where they would need a complete overhaul.

And on top of that, they downgraded and made less useful, the trait system . I prefer putting allotted points in various trait lines. Builds became less unique and diverse when they forced us to choose 3 traitlines instead.

I quit playing for 2 months.

Agemnon.4608:

cakeonroof.7385:

Aeryn.9813:

Most Common Mistakes Made by SoloQers

Queuing on weekends :/

You make it sound like weekends are a bad time to queue. The increase in player population is a very positive thing. Queuing on weekends should be promoted not avoided.

I had much better games earlier today than lately. This is the time when premades are out in full force. Oh well, may as well do bell choir until the farmers go to bed.

Same. Weekends dont turn out too well for me. I do far better on weeknights during primetime.

There used to be a more prominent hotjoin scene in-game. Depressing to see a lot of these servers empty now. There used to be multiple matches going on simultaneously but when I checked recently, there was only one map with a full roster. The rest either had a couple or completely empty.

Thanks guys. 4v5 are winnable if everyone in the team work together while being paranoid about rotations (holding and defending nodes are top priority – intruders are forced to evacuate). If one person in your team values and are focused on inflating their personal score, it’s pretty much over

Long queues usually mean matchmaking is having a hard time finding a roster of 10 people within their division/mmr so it’s forced to search lower the original bracket.

I get nervous when queue would pop above the 15min mark.

DS auramancers are your worst nightmare if you 1v1 them as a condi necro. But even ele mains are not entirely in favor of DS. They are only effective during a tiny window and become completely worthless afterwards.

Chronobunker and tempest are not even close to being in the same league.

On your necro, don’t engage them alone if they are sitting on a capped node. If you are really hot for decapping, help your team by wiping mid first and then have someone accompany you fast to assault the bunker

Can’t believe there are people in the forum that believe personal score is an indication of skill or a measurement of contributions made for the team.

I’ve said many many many times, especially in-game that it was amateurish for the devs to even post personal score. You’d expect developers to spot that error and eliminate or at least alter the stats presented. It just confuses noobs to over inflate their score by zerging/double capping and what not. It just confuses noobs to do what they’re NOT supposed to.

Only one event must take place for personal score to matter. And it’s something that hardly ever occurs and hasn’t happened to me in over a year – a tied score when timer expires.

Doesn’t matter what class as long as it belongs to that all female race o.O

Your suggestion sounds better than what it is right now. My favorite trait in earth line is elemental shielding.

Problem with ds is that it’s really only effective against pure condi classes. If your opponents aren’t completely brainless, they would assist the necro/condi class to break the ds threshold.

In team fights, people still target the necro but I think the scepter/focus shout auramancer is a little easier to take down after breaking ds. Their mobility sucks and wont waste your CDs like chronobunkers did.

Sorel.4870:

Vapour.7348:

What was the incentive for NOT resetting MMR?

Having balanced games. MMR is the number that indicates how skilled you are relatively to the other players, determined by your capacity of winning against lower MMR players, and your tendency to lose against higher MMR players. Resetting it would mean a few weeks of completely random games.

I hear what your’re saying, I’m aware that the first week will be a rough patch but it will prevent a lot of the match manipulation that’s been going on for a while now.

I think the amount of time soloQers have wasted because manipulators farmed them for pips will exceed the amount of time it will take for MMR to settle. And, while MMR is at 0, they could implement other metrics to sort team rosters so it’s not 100% random. Metrics such as # of conquest games played, rank etc. They’re not as good as MMR but a lot better than 100% randomness.

I’m atheist

Drennon.7190:

I understand that we were completely out played, but what I do not understand is how 1 bad player on a team of Top tier players, made the system think that we had a 60-99% chance of winning.

Coz Anet logic is amazing. Im not surprised High tier/ESL players carry Amber teammates like a fashion accessory

What was the incentive for NOT resetting MMR?

Pimsley.3681:

No Walking.6349:

Score DOES matter.

Since when?

Remember matches where you help clear out the enemies at mid, then hustle back home to prevent a decap and then suddenly get +1’d by the enemies. As you conserve your vigor for making the one last evade before you are downed, all 4 members of your team are breathing through their mouths as they wait to cap mid.

You end up dying even if the enemy team is outnumbered because you helped win the team fight and 2-3 are at spawn. They now have both sides capped.

How could this happen? Because people like the OP ended up in your team.

There are 2 rules I follow when soloQing:

1. Only play during NA prime
2. Don’t queue on weekends

The quality of your matches improve dramatically

Gaile Gray.6029:

If the guild team plays one game of conquest in ranked arena the decay timer will reset.

Agemnon.4608:

Vapour.7348:

The faster way to get out of Emerald is to not get into a losing streak when you are 1-2 pips away from next tier or division.

Time your losing streaks when you’re at the bottom of a tier w/ no pips to lose.

It’s junk, this league. There are people in Ruby who honestly belong in Emerald, maybe even Amber.

Implying we’ll have a choice otherwise if we SoloQ or won’t be subject to horrible matchups. I had a team with two thieves earlier the matchmaking should really take class into account.

I hate having 2 thieves. I started a thread about that a long time ago. If you sense you’re in a losing streak, play in unranked for a bit. That’s what I do based on how bad the teammates are or if we are against a premade our solo team has little chance of beating.

My favorite trait in the entire earth line is elemental shielding.

There are skills and traits that cleanse or reduce the duration of movement impending skills – making chill, a hell of a lot easier to tolerate when you encounter a chill necro.

Aside from DS, Ele’s have geomancer’s training = duration reduction of movement impending cc and lucid singularity 100% duration reduction of movement impending cc when overloading.

The faster way to get out of Emerald is to not get into a losing streak when you are 1-2 pips away from next tier or division.

Time your losing streaks when you’re at the bottom of a tier w/ no pips to lose.

It’s junk, this league. There are people in Ruby who honestly belong in Emerald, maybe even Amber.

I do, I’m also left handed which sucks sometimes because when I travel and have an itch to do a short 3-par, there’s no guarantee that a lefty set is available for rent.

Guess Im one of the minorities that enjoyed Courtyard

Hmm, where you in a premade?

I queue solo exclusively and were in matches where I was awarded a pip despite us losing. Since we have no idea what the award thresholds are, I think we were given a pip because the final scores were close and we went against a full premade.

Pimsley.3681:

I thought upgrading to a faster PC would get me better teammates. What the hell is really going on here?

Always had fun though when Vapour ended up in my pug team and carried.

Fun times indeed. At times I get nervous when we end up in the same team because you/your mmr/marked bad RNG account somehow attracts the worst teammates imaginable.

The gates to the water park was opened during the Halloween 2014 event. I honestly thought Capricorn would be returned back to us…

Thanks for this resource.

I thought what he said here just hit the nail:

ArenaColin

In regards to balance – balance is NOT driven by our PvP Pro League, the pro league is a marketing effort that has almost zero impact on our dev team.

Drawing parallels between the two is at best disingenuous.

Basically he’s saying the dev team could care less about what occurs in the pro league since it’s only marketing effort.

Let’s repeat that again:

In regards to balance – balance is NOT driven by our PvP Pro League, the pro league is a marketing effort that has almost zero impact on our dev team.

With matchmaking going for a 50% win/lose, sometimes RNG would reward the “new” player meanwhile place the more experienced player in a losing streak to balance progression. It’s quite random if the deserving player gets to move on up or not.

Im aware of people in the wolf/tiger rank that zerg, double cap yet sport a Ruby tag

Game lost its magic.

I usually have a positive outlook but HoT to me is the beginning of the end. People came back to give the company another shot only to feel ripped off.

There is nothing fun about pvp anymore. Be it the meta, long queue time, bad matchmaking. And if you decide to pve or wvw, they ruined those too. There is nothing fun about this game anymore.

Please refer to this thread if scrubs in your soloQ go for treb instead of cap.

Makes sense. Thieves do really well in Khylo.

I’m surprised people use this for Pvp.

Ugh the people should really think twice before queueing rank.

The requirement for the LFG pug team is “Heavy Armor”

The weekend warriors should read this thread before queueing for ranked matches.

Your team should have swapped to 4 revenants and have the last laugh

darres.8203:

tears T^T

is there away for me to show you guys all the screen shots lol?

i have 20+ pictures of proleague premades farming pugs

I hope you didn’t lose a pip from that match. It’s the least this broken system could do

Not sure how I got here but it hurts my brain trying to understand OP’s thought process.

Aeryn.9813:

They do quite well against chronobunker.

I think a 2 rev, scrapper, chronobunker and tempest/druid or reaper would do well against the 2rev, 2chrono tempest/druid comp. Reapers could also destroy rev once theyre in shiro

That actually sounds like an intelligent comp

If a SoloQ decides to bunk for a pug team, thank them because they will probably contribute the most on the team scoreboard.

Unfortunately, what occurs is the contrary, bunkers are underappreciated.

When the bunker calls out bad rotations, scrubs often use the bunker’s low points against them. Stop that. If you bunk and scrubs use your points against you, refer them to this thread.

A few months ago, I inadvertently deleted the Authenticator app on my phone when I was freeing up storage space.

I finally got a new phone and would like to use another authenticator but there is no way to unlink it to the current one because the app is gone.

January, I will be relocated and there is no way I can generate codes for the new IP address because I don’t have the authenticator anymore. This is supposed to help secure my account, not lock me out.

How to unlink when authenticator app is gone?

Some classes don’t stack well

is anet the only company that allows team vs solo?

the fail in their logic is – if they removed soloQ and obviously don’t favor it, why would they even allow you to soloQ in the first place?

I think it makes more sense if they either have a separate Q for it or just disallow it completely

having a wishy washy middle ground just alienates soloQers

This thread was on the pvp forum.

It’s unthinkable that a company would allow something as powerful as the herald and chronobunker (2fave builds in pvp atm) and absolutely neglected warrior class to rot.

Warriors face a 2 fold sustainability problem.
1. many classes can sustain warrior damage
2. warriors cannot sustain other class’ damage

Aeryn.9813:

Yeti, the way you put Chaith on the spotlight has led me to believe that you have the hots for him. Why don’t you give Noscoc some attention too. He’s very exotic looking.

That has got to be the funniest thing I’ve read on here.

Harvey.7820:

Maybe that’s where your skill level really is. That’s nothing to be ashamed of.

The OP? I’d say he’s better than 95% of the pvpers atm. In fact, there were rubies in my team that were bear ranked and had no idea how to rotate, didn’t understand the importance of rezzing in team fights etc etc.

But I expect people like you to make the kind of statement you just made. Problem I have with that is you potentially just get in the way of devs fixing the problems with your ignorance.