Guild Wars 2

50% win rate, the dream anet always wanted, makes it impossible to advance in ranked

To quote Wil Wheaton. This. Is bullkitten

Here’s the stuff, but everything was running fine until my screen went black, and something about my gpu crashing but recovering, and then the poor frame rate. This might be a gw only problem but it’s on my end :/

Nothing has changed in my hardware but after the pvp league patch my fps dropped from a solid 50+ (depending on population) to 5 or 24 if i was staring at a wall.

Reinstalled drivers, checked both 64 bit and 32 bit clients, and benchmarked other games. Only gw has this problem.

i7-2600
8 GB ram
GTX 780 ti
win 10 64 bit

the bleak future of my pvp games

but i have over 400 games played, that was just today

Today I’v played just over 10 games and have only won about 3 or 4. I was frustrated thinking how this isn’t fair as it should 50/50 for win rate purposes (not including my rage for premade groups, as there were many). But to my dismay after checking my current win rate, I was sitting on a 57% win rate. 60% on my pvp guardian. Then I realised…it was only going to get worse.

TL:DR my win rate was better than i thought which would explain the beatings i received.

I was standing on the vista in the Lion’s Court and then switched toons to play some pvp. Came back to this.

Due to location reasons I’ve come to accept that my online experience will always be a bit behind. Ping being the main reason. But something that I’m not quite sure of is if pvp matchmaking is also affected.

I’m going to assume that the majority of players are in the Americas and would have a wildly different sleeping pattern. So when I log in and try to find a match am I doing so with a much smaller pool of players increasing my chance of being in an uneven game?

I played a couple of games today and none could be considered close games, with one side completely dominating the other. Is this the fault of the matchmaking system or is it the system doing its best with the resources it has available?

i always know we’re going to lose the match when i have the most points on my team, it’s kinda depressing

Is the hybrid RNG similar to pseudo-random distribution? Where instead of having a constant, lets say 25% for a rare drop, you have ~8.5% chance increasing every time you don’t get that result
P(N) = C x N, C is the constant (~8.5%) and N is the test number

It might not be a popular system as it does take away some of the luck involved with drops but statistically speaking there is a possibility that no matter how times you roll the dice you may never roll a 6.

not game breaking but my toons have slight different shades of colour to their hair, not sure why this has happened

She hasn’t logged on for a couple of days and when she does she found that there was a mobile authenticator attached. I checked her emails and no unauthorised ip address accessed her account. not sure how this happened. she’s submitted a ticket but i was wondering if there’s a possible eta for this kind of issue and what might she have to do to prove her legitmacy

edit: her password for the game and her email are different so the hacker wouldnt have known her email to authenticate it

Hey ive been running this build for a while and with the feature pack i didn’t see any major nerfs to it so i kept it, i havent completed the build myself but its what im aiming for.
Ive seen plenty of ppl posting different builds but this one hasn’t come up once and it makes me think that its a little dated

Its for pve, dungeons and fractals (not a fan of WvW), with a focus on constant dps rather than burst, it might not have the highest dps output but ive survived many times where others have died
Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJAoYhcMacW5wuBd0APAGpfg4HQAYDWuKkEeCA-TxBHABA8gAUZ/BnU+FneC7UCOwJEgR1fCAcA8bfD++bWe5lXe5lb5l/d5lXOA-e

Thaddeus.4891:

If the player that joined is the 5th of the group and then quit he didn’t cancel the LFG. THe LFG cancel itself when a 5th person join. So it that case he didn’t do anything intentionally (probably). I did exactly that yesterday. Me and my friend tried to join a Fractal group that had already 3 ppl in it, I got in be he wasn’t fast enough and a 5th person took the place. So i end up having to leave to play with my friend, which cancel the party LFG.

But if the person enter you party and the party is not full, then cancel the LFG and quit. Ya this is trolling and you LFG abuse. But personnally, i’m pretty sure its only the LFG that cancel itself because you where 5 person in the party at some point before the guy quit. In this case, its hard if not impossible to figure out if he had a good reason, or if he was trolling.

i would consider this if the chat log didnt already state “player B has cancelled the search”

they need to add into the game that only the host can cancel the search, and that adding a description doesn’t count towards the chat so u can’t get flagged for spamming

this literally just happened to me, and now i cant add another description to the new search cos im apparently spamming and ive been suppressed WTF

im being punished by the game for trying to look for a group to play with and some douchbags r griefing me for no reason

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

If I understand correctly, this isn’t what is happening.

What is happening is:

Player A starts a group advertisement
Player B Joins group
Player B cancels group advertisement
Player B quits group
Player A cries

Am I correct in this assessment?

yep thats basically what happens, its happened a couple of times actually

I’ve been the victim of a new trend where a player joins an LFG group, cancels the search, and then leaves. I didn’t initially report anyone for this because it was just annoying and not technically game-breaking. This changed the other day after I had been searching for a while and then someone did this exact thing, so I decided to report them.

My question does this actually count as “LFG system abuse”? No one is getting hurt but it is a type of griefing and should be punishable if found guilty.

I personally stopped playing the classic 0/10/0/30/30 d/d ele after the previous trait redesign when they added in the air trait “fresh air”. Its changed so much about how I play the ele and the recent trait redesign hasn’t affected the build that much. The only change was the moving of cleansing wave to the master tier. It is frustrating but I started the fresh air build without and didn’t find a problem so only a minor speed bump.

The trait setup I have now is 0/30/0/10/30
Air – I, VI, XII
Water – V
Arcana – II, VIII, XI

Signet of healing, cleansing fire, mist form, signet of air and glyph of elementals

never had a problem with conditions with this build so cleansing wave was kinda a meh change
hope this helps