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I’ve been playing PvP actively since Season 5. I’m not a top player, but I consider myself decent, or at least a bit above average. I’ve been watching as well streaming of famous people like “Helseth” “Phantaram” and Sindrener, just to improve my basic knowledge of GW2 PvP, as where and how to rotate, when dueling people, who to focus in the beginning of teamfight, how to prioritise things, etc etc…
Usually I main elementalist my beloved class since I purchased the game back in 2012. I used to play Auramancer since S5 started, I did find it really easy to pick up and kinda bunkery, so I could stay in teamfight without getting oneshotted by the time I was picking up with the mechanics, despite getting a decent amount of heals and improoving my playstyle, (I managed to get 1Mill of Healing when there was still the sigil that was increasing the healing of 10%,) people were keeping making mistakes like jumping straight away into DH traps and instant die before you can actually press a button to heal them or “protect” them (with Aftershock or using your body with Magnetic Wave to shield them). So my effort to carry were completely nullyfied, in fact Auramancer is not a great roamer, lacking of mobility, so I was sticking to teamfights by the book.
Anyway, I kept playing Auramancer until S7. In Season 5 and 6 I ended Silver II, which was fine for me, I thought I wasn’t enough skilled, so Silver 2 was quite a good place where to end.
In Season 7, although, I managed to get gold 2 after 2 months of pain, at the very last 2 weeks before the Season was ending. You can’t imagine my joy, I started feeling so confident in my skills, but the dream lasted only 1 week, since I dropped till Silver 3, and I made up with myself, since I though that reaching Gold 2 was just a coincidence, and the System punished me to be lucky, and put me back in place. Well I said, Silver III, better than the last season, right?
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Season 8 started quite well for me surprisingly, still maining Elementalist but this time I decided to change role, stop healing people who were constantly dying. We’re switching to DPS, after playing 2 days in sPvP to practice it, Fresh Air I decided, that’s the way to go.
I’ve been playing elementalist since season started swapping with DH sometimes, Engi or Warrior, classes on which I’m decent at them since they don’t require particular skills to be good, although I’m far from mastering them. (I can’t play Thief, I can’t play Mesmer, I tried, I find a lot of difficulties to main the classes, I’m trying to address this issue for the future, practice makes perfect, they say).
Anyway, by Roaming as Fresh Air, I ended in Gold 2, Winning 6 Games and losing 4. Not bad at all right? I thought I was a Silver Player considering the last season results, so I got a bit of confidence in me.
After one week of floating between gold 1 and gold 2 I got a massive loosing streak, 7 games in a row and I ended in Silver 3, around 1140 rating more or less.
Never Mind I said, that’s where I belong, I got really lucky in the placement games, all the past season I’ve been floating between Silver 2 and Gold 1, so Silver 3 it’s a kinda accurate and that is where I belong, right?
Well, I kept playing and I managed to climb again back to Gold 1, not without difficulties I have to say. I thought then I’m finally a Gold player, all the hard work of the past season and the practicing in unranked finally gave the results.
This time, although, I wanted to keep my gold rank as long as possible till the end of the season and I’ve read on the forums that Unfortunately Saturday and Sunday are the worst days when to play, since it’s the time when all the casuals decide to try Ranked.
Fair enough, right? They deserve to play as well. So I dealt with myself, and I decided to not play last week end and start playing again on last monday.
Bare in mind I was gold 1 till last Sunday, I was 1248 rating. This time, my ambition punished me, I went greedy, I wanted to get back my gold 2, but nothing goes according to the plans… I started loosing… 1 game, 2 games, 3 games… I was keeping telling to myself.. "I managed to climb back from Silver to gold, so It’s possible, I just need to keep confidence in myself and in my skills.
Well, I’m Silver 2 now. 1060 of Rating.
I almost ended crying for the frustration, all the time invested in a game and it didn’t pay off. Am I really bad? It’s quite possible, PvP is not for everybody, although I really enjoy it, but sometimes we need to be men, admit our limits and move on…
I just wanted to share my 2 cents about the start of the season. There is still one month and 2 weeks and new XPAC will be introduced… So anything can change, although at the moment I loose more than winning, I know that I’m not the only one and reading that happened to many other people tears me a smile, although what if we all suck and only 100 people can really play pvp in this game?
No idea.
My Season 8 start : [img]https://s26.postimg.org/yt3pigktj/gw060.jpg[/img]
My Season 8 Right now : [img]https://s26.postimg.org/kb6iagtif/gw063.jpg[/img]
