Guild Wars 2

I found the statements Tiff and Teutos gave in this thread to be very constructive regardless of OP’s tendency to deny criticism but stick to the statement how effective builds and bad vs. good strategic decisions are a matter of opinion.

You may disagree, but then you have to reason why. Starting with why you spec so badly against conditions in condition meta (soldiers rune & shouts?) while you prefer random fury every 10s. Close-combat dodge-roll for condition remove into cleaving necros – sounds bad.

Also, at the startup you don’t even bother a second to look at what you are up against in the matchup window, let alone considering respecs. You do this first at 1:48 where you see conditions will be an issue.

Moreover, not stacking boons at start up resembles deliberately not playing a profession to its full strengths – and not a matter of split sec decisions.

If OP does not think there is anything to do better (while others disagree), this is the end of any individual improvement, and this is where league is actually meant to let you hit a wall.

Since in a statistical significant amount of soloQ games you will be the only static variable that influences the outcome of all your games, if you improve and if you make a difference, you will climb.

Before anyone thinks i am talking down from easy MMR heaven, I came back to GW2 one week before season 2 started and i now have a similar amount of games as OP. And i encountered heavy loss streaks the first day i played ranked as well.

Although i invested quite some time reading and queuing meta builds for each profession unranked, i feel this amount if games is not even close enough to the amount you need to fully understand the pro/cons for all 9 professions and their build variations, let alone to figure out what good/mediocre/bad matchups are. And then how to rotate according to them.

TL;DR I do not know how you can be pro after 500-600 games and decline the hints you are given. Took me an amount of games worth 30k fame, several glad and champs in GW1 and there still was stuff to improve on. Perhaps nowadays people just prefer easy mode.

@previous post: if it wasn’t for the gameplay, this thread would be as pointless as many others. So, in that respect, nevertheless thank you OP for posting and to bother to upload to YouTube, and good luck further.