Guild Wars 2

Supreme.7352:

Something either mandatory or at the very least very heavily rewarded to at least run once. Rotations, when to cleave vs when to stomp, what “home” and “Far” are, map timings, etc.

People tend to zerg rush a point and don’t seem to understand that there’s more to pvp then deathmatch, even in Ranked.

I agree need to revamp the one that they have and add important issues like those mentioned above in. Either that or revamp the maps and make them death match.

Of course the devs don’t do kitten all with reporting. They probably get 1000s of reports a week and will only address issues with players if it frequently is happening. So that odd player who afks and gets reported will have nothing done to them. It’s more of a peace of mind for players wanting to be hall monitors.

Mikhael.2391:

My opinion is that i placed gold3 and ever since its going downhill. i win one match i loose 2 or 3. Almost always top damage and in a team of 5 my percentages are always between 25 and35% of the whole team damage even healling.. i dont like this system, im being punished and cannot drag the whole team.

Just remember from all the know it all’s is IT IS YOUR FAULT.

Should be like this:

Bronze = no decay
Silver = 3 day decay
Gold = 2 day decay
Platinum = 1 day decay
Legendary = 12 hour day

Want to be legendary? Gotta be on this game almost daily if you care to be in the top spots. Bronze would allow the casuals to move up in ratings, and actually feel like they are getting somewhere.

Wildfang.3271:

To be honest, some of you guys seem to come off as having an overinflated ego about your own abilities. If you are really that good enough, you shouldn’t have any issues with climbing up the ladder and hanging with the big boys there. From what I had seen, most people who are on top of the leaderboard are well known pvpers other than a few that may have gotten lucky with placements and didn’t play any more games for the time being (I think ANET should have a minimum number of games played for each season for the player to have their ranking counted). And the fact that they are placing so high up in the leaderboard early on means that they aren’t down at the bottom stomping bronze/silver/gold/platinum players too often and instead competing with one another to get higher which is a good thing.

And wow, I didn’t thought that was possible to still get matched up with legendary players at your current ranking, fishball. That’s really unlucky and painful to lose that much MMR. Hopefully ANET will reduce the MMR loss when you lose against a team with way higher MMR.

Can think I have an ego all you want. Guess I just expect a higher standard of players in GOLD rank because you know it’s called GOLD. So when you go to mid only to be 1v3 or 4 and wonder where your team is only to see them fighting one random Druid or Thief off point, or 2 going far right off the bat, or 3 battling an NPC is that your ego coming into play? Sorry I just call that common sense. Heck I will say a lot of folks maybe don’t know the ins and outs of the pvp system and that’s fine. It’s still on Anet though, they should have better training and tool tips to tell players the rules and the importance of things like decapping, fighting on points, rotating etc… They also need to remove the god kitten daily profession wins, at least for ranked play. Getting folks that don’t even know the class just doing it for a little AP is dumb, but again it’s not their fault it’s Anet’s.

I never wanted easy wins but you’re going to tell me a 500 – 0 game in gold is OK because it’s not…(I was on the winning team and it still kittenes me off to see that). I can always “play with friends” in other games which is exactly what I’m going to do (as I’m sure a lot of others will as well).

It’ll be funny when you start to complain about really long queue times when the pool dries up quicker then you can imagine.

Being told your class is the reason why you lost, told to kill yourself, get GUD, salty, u mad bro while not being able to queue with 4 other friends is OK? It’s not..

3 million active users you say…REALLY? I’d say the pvp community in this game is 250k or less and that is being generous. If the game HAD 3 million maybe these match making systems would actually do their job better?

Sorry I disagree, when I’m constantly getting matched with people who don’t coordinate at all, don’t use mini map, don’t rotate, don’t cleave etc… I expect that in bronze and silver, not gold. So ya I do think these players where misplaced during qualifying matches just as much as some of those legendary players who don’t belong up there either.

I definitely like the concept, and the UI of the changes, just implementation of them is pretty weak. I hear some guy climbed over 200 points in just 3 matches after qualifying round?? Yet the most I ever got after a win was 30 (once)….Most are 11-15…

xKratos.4758:

ibkillin.9610:

xKratos.4758:

As a top MMR player myself I agreed completely with what katsumi said especially about the placement matches, I placed mid gold but get out of it within 3 games and got into top 10 (for like 20 mins then I logged off and 20 mins later I’m #12 FeelsBadMan )

The system is working definitely in my opinion. It is flaw in some aspects however with time it will work out. The complains atm are mostly from people who delude themselves into thinking theyre better than they truly are and they just need to accept that if you’re truly good. Then you’ll get Top 50 and Legendary.

You placed Gold Tier 2 (mid gold) then you got to Plat in 3 games? Either your full of kitten or this system is (I think both). I don’t think the complaints are mostly from deluded players gimme a break. Sorry but I would think playing in Gold rank you would have teammates that didn’t play like they just got off the short bus from school.

I know I’m not legendary and I don’t give a crap. I do care to see some time of progression and not just back and forth etc. Even if you win and lose, you still end up losing more since it takes you longer to gain rating back.

I’d say it’s probably around 50/50 for the complaints. Some people have very valid arguments and then come on these forums only to be trolled to get good or told you are garbage when they haven’t even seen you play. The placement system is broken, if it’s 80% luck why bother calling this competitive PvP because it is not.

Another thing is a healthy enough community. Yes PvP tends to be toxic at times, but still all you get is trolled in game or on these forums. TBH this game’s “pvp and eSports” deserves to fail. I honestly pretty much can’t stand a majority of the player base.

Devs have the power to shape the meta yet they are happy with where it stands, and it’s crap. All these cool classes and abilities yet you see the same cookie cutter builds through out ranked. When you get bored of these and decide to do something else you get harassed and called out for being a noob, kitten wasting everyone’s time etc. I swear this community is getting near the level of LoL toxicity in ranked.

Uhm, you can check the leaderboard to fact checks me. I am a well known player at “high tier”. Don’t need to type a thesis on the issue dude. I placed ~1500ish and I indeed get out of it within 3 games because I do not belong there. I belong at High Plat/Legendary where I will fluctuate depending on how well I contribute/carry my team.

Also, you only need 200 pts to get out of gold to plat. And I get 87 +79 and +64 on my 3 games out of plats then it sharply drop to +30-3 and +7 now so Yes the system is working. It’s not flawless but it is working. Also, I have to 1v2 and 1v3 on those 3 games while my duoQ partner support the bads in team fight. Just because you cant climb to top 20 doesn’t mean the system is not working.

I don’t give a kitten if I’m in the top 20 buddy, I don’t even care if I hit legendary. I also didn’t type a "thesis’. It’s exactly this type of crap above which is why I’m done with this game till the next expansion if I even bother to get that. If the system is working so great why are their so many threads about how bad it is? Ya of course some of it is QQ, but c’mon seriously? Just like past seasons where “everything is working fine” says the ppl who didn’t get the short end of the stick.

Whatever, I’m done with this game.

Doesn’t that mess with registry though which is why we have the Add/Remove programs in the first place?

Every time I try and uninstall GW2 client from my SSD I get a prompt that tells me a serious error has occurred and it closes the program….

I want my 25 gigs+ of space back on my SSD. This game is more of a hassle and a waste of time for me. All I do is Spvp now and it’s completely unbalanced, broken and full of toxicity.

Please help me uninstall the game!

I agree with the OP. All you really see is those 4 classes first. Hell I had a match with me (Engineer) with 4 Dragon Hunters. One of them switched to Druid then told me “There, happy now?” Ya I kittening was, but we still lost.

Sorry but you are wrong. In theory I do agree with your statements. However, explain why you have kitten kitten s fighting off point, always going for far even if you have 2 points already, multiple players fighting an NPC when they should be capping, zerging and no back capping, not cleaving downed players etc. These people who I am teamed with belong in Bronze and Silver yet they are Gold….explain that one? Actually I will, it’s the broken placement system…. THAT’S IT, THAT IS WHAT DETERMINES YOUR FATE IN THIS SEASON.

xKratos.4758:

As a top MMR player myself I agreed completely with what katsumi said especially about the placement matches, I placed mid gold but get out of it within 3 games and got into top 10 (for like 20 mins then I logged off and 20 mins later I’m #12 FeelsBadMan )

The system is working definitely in my opinion. It is flaw in some aspects however with time it will work out. The complains atm are mostly from people who delude themselves into thinking theyre better than they truly are and they just need to accept that if you’re truly good. Then you’ll get Top 50 and Legendary.

You placed Gold Tier 2 (mid gold) then you got to Plat in 3 games? Either your full of kitten or this system is (I think both). I don’t think the complaints are mostly from deluded players gimme a break. Sorry but I would think playing in Gold rank you would have teammates that didn’t play like they just got off the short bus from school.

I know I’m not legendary and I don’t give a crap. I do care to see some time of progression and not just back and forth etc. Even if you win and lose, you still end up losing more since it takes you longer to gain rating back.

I’d say it’s probably around 50/50 for the complaints. Some people have very valid arguments and then come on these forums only to be trolled to get good or told you are garbage when they haven’t even seen you play. The placement system is broken, if it’s 80% luck why bother calling this competitive PvP because it is not.

Another thing is a healthy enough community. Yes PvP tends to be toxic at times, but still all you get is trolled in game or on these forums. TBH this game’s “pvp and eSports” deserves to fail. I honestly pretty much can’t stand a majority of the player base.

Devs have the power to shape the meta yet they are happy with where it stands, and it’s crap. All these cool classes and abilities yet you see the same cookie cutter builds through out ranked. When you get bored of these and decide to do something else you get harassed and called out for being a noob, kitten wasting everyone’s time etc. I swear this community is getting near the level of LoL toxicity in ranked.

Zodi.8932:

There is no denying that Anet had the right intentions with this season redesign however it is fact that your ranking is based 80% on luck. I’m going to jump right in and say what I think should be changed in order to make a more successful pvp season.

1) Make top stats give you more points – Top stats show that you played well in the game. Having these be more rewarding highlights skill more than luck. It also would encourage people to not give up and stay in the game. You should perhaps get 5 extra points per top stat when you win a game and you should lose 5 less points per top stat when you lose a game. Sure, this may encourage people to chase things like kills but it would also give way to a more skill based system.

2) No placement matches! – These 10 matches make or break your entire season. You can be a fantastic player and get unlucky in a few matches and get confined to gold. Make everyone start in bronze and give everyone equal ground to climb the divisions so there can be no complaints.

3) Less points lost for close games – Also encourages people to keep fighting and its also heartbreaking in Gold to lose a game by 20 points and end up losing 35 SR points.

4) Destroy bunker/condi meta once and for all – This is more just wishful thinking. Maybe one day.

I certainly believe the first 2 are vital to making a good season. Would be interested to hear what people think.

They don’t need to destroy condi meta they just need to make condition removal specs better to counter it. I can run full condition cleanse and it is meaningless. They also should up the support roles in certain classes to be on par with others.

It’s obvious how OP conditions are, all you see is Necros and Warriors running around. I also hate these classes that can burst DPS, bunker and heal all in one. No idea why the developers think the meta doesn’t need to change at all. You’ve had the same few specs leading the meta for the last year or more. Change the god kitten kitten up!!!!

Played 62 games, I started Gold Tier 2, I’m almost Silver Tier 3 now. Looked at leaderboards and see the top guys got lucky enough with their matches to be placed where they did. Just like the old systems, if you were luckily enough not to be placed in MMR hell then you were fine. If not, all it is an exercise in patience and how much BS are you willing to deal with.

Probably doesn’t help the game is 4+ years old now and doesn’t exactly have the biggest player pool to select match making with. It was fun but I’m already bald I’m not about to start ripping my scalp apart in frustration.

Do what I did, quit. I’d uninstall the game from my SSD but every time I try the game crashes….lol whatever…

Maybe the next expansion will have something worth fighting for. I doubt it….

If they were going to do this solo / duo queue thing they should have separated them even if it meant higher queue times. When everyone except a handful are left in this season because they just quit in disgust, the faster queue times won’t mean squat. Should have just been solo and 5 man that’s it. Solo for more casual type of players and then the elitists and more hardcore would be 5 man. Instead we get this Frankenstein monster of a pvp ladder.

They also should bump up the non elite specs which they wont’ of course because they want people to buy HOT to access them. The grind in this system is pathetic, I"m not living in front of the computer for the next 8 weeks or so.

Yep it’s dumb and a complete waste of time. PvP is the only thing I have left in this game as I got my legendary rifle and I’m not grinding masteries or bothering with the living story. I’ve been in enough matches with a full team of PUGS only to lose to 2 duos in the other group. The amount of points you get on a win is nothing when you lose way more.

Started Gold Tier 2 around 1460, got up to 1510, then nose dived to 1400. I would be OK with this if it weren’t for getting matched with players who clearly don’t belong in this division AT ALL. I’m talking about things like 4 ppl on an NPC, going far ALL the TIME, 1 vs 3 or 4 at mid all by yourself type of crap.

I’m not “pro” but I also don’t need to “get GUD”. When you spend 3 days and you get NO WHERE, what the kitten is the point?

There is no point, hense why I’m done with this game period (there are way better PvP based games out there).

Happened to me the other day too with this stupid lag that’s been going on in game the last while. Lost 20 or so points….I can’t even uninstall this game I keep getting error messages when I try.

this game was actually good? Ya a long time ago.

It’s not horrible but it isn’t great either. When you lose in diamond 540 to 0 in legecy of the foefire there is an issue with the MMR. It’ s not a l2p issue.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

I like how everyone immediately jumps on the #blameanet wagon without even bothering to look at the links.

Considering Anet are the developers responsible for implementing a NOW CONFIRMED broken system…..I think players have a right to voice their frustration with them. The devs for a long time have been either hush hush or just basically say it’s pretty much working as intended (which it is not).

We were told the meta would be “shaken up” at the start of a season. So why are the meta classes basically the exact same as last season? We still got the OP Reapers, OP Druid Bunker, OP Scrapper builds….ya the only thing they shook was their butts in our faces.

Jekkt.6045:

ibkillin.9610:

Oh sorry I need to “L2P” get the kitten outta here with that comment it gets old.

you do if you think the enemy will win with 2 dragon hunters.

Where I am in the league right now that seems to be the case. I do fine against them, but whatever.

Oh sorry I need to “L2P” get the kitten outta here with that comment it gets old.

Do yourself a favour and just stop playing. The MMR and class balance are screwed this season. Unless you want to play for hours and not even progress, but then that’s on you.

Cyn.4901:

Please delete.
Thank you.

I just lost a match in diamond due to one scrapper’s ability to actually, literally, not die. Despite being a mara strength rune rev running devastation and invocation, I could not for the life of me kill a scrapper soloing our lord (Lord needs a buff to make up for years of power creep, but that’s another post.)

It would seem pretty simple to me that, if I were on the balance team, a profession capable of sitting 2 vs 1 all game and benefiting from it is not acceptable. That would apply to ele as well, but I’m sure anet is already looking into ele’s next nerf, and if they don’t, I’m sure BDO has pvp that is not similar to banging your head against concrete.

Have you seen the Reaper? Thing can tank like a beast, throw mad condijtions on you and just melt you down without missing a beat.

Well a majority are not having a “fantastic” time and have either given up on pvp or this game all together for at least this season. Say L2P all you want trolls…

NeXeD.3042:

ibkillin.9610:

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is a really great analysis. I appreciate all the work you put into this. We recognize the problems that the season 2 matchmaking is causing and are looking into solutions that will provide a good experience and satisfy our goals for the league system.

It would have been nice to make an official post to tell the player base that hey we still screwed up a bit and the MMR system is still not up to par with where we want it. Pretty much you’ve destroyed PvP interest for a lot of players because of this. Class balancing a bit better might help as well. How can you justifiy having a Reaper who has 2 health bars, that can tank, put down so many conditions that you can never even cleanse them properly if you even spec into it? That’s just stupid. Same goes for other classes like Scrapper (which I do play), just too much substain and stuff. Druid? Takes 2-3 ppl to take out a bunker spec, so how is all this even fair?

It is not…

reaper has 2 health bars……. /fail

enough said.

Ya they do pretty much. I don’t care about Shroud form if Reaper wasn’t a kittening bursting tanking BS OP spec? Got it?

Deniara Devious.3948:

The match making system is clearly inferior to Season 1. Mixing MMR + division pip range was an epic mistake and I am still waiting for an apology from Arenanet. The current system leads to countless of pointless matches of either huge losses (and no chances of winning) and huge wins (and no chances of losing) as the “better” players are placed in team A and “worse” players in team B.

One guy did a math simulation to prove the MMR hell is true. See:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/The-nature-of-MMR-hell/

It is also obvious that the removal of amulets of was just a lazy band aid “fix”, which didn’t fix the core issue of the power creep since trait rework and most importantly the overpowered elite specs. Now we have more burst and less bunkers, but amount of builds seen is not significantly better or worse.

I agree 100% with what you say. I also saw that theorycrafting post and agree with that too. Elite specs are way too OP, basically forcing anyone who wants to play in PvP to “buy the expansion”. I thought the devs said that wouldn’t be necessary? They could always up some of the non elite skill trees to make them more viable. However, Anet chooses to just be greedy it seems and make these stupid meta OP all around.

I agree with the band aid fix too. They didn’t need to remove those amulets and runes (some of which I used to use). They should have just tweaked or added more to counter them better. They tried to remove the bunker aspect but now the condition / burst crap is way out of control.

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is a really great analysis. I appreciate all the work you put into this. We recognize the problems that the season 2 matchmaking is causing and are looking into solutions that will provide a good experience and satisfy our goals for the league system.

It would have been nice to make an official post to tell the player base that hey we still screwed up a bit and the MMR system is still not up to par with where we want it. Pretty much you’ve destroyed PvP interest for a lot of players because of this. Class balancing a bit better might help as well. How can you justifiy having a Reaper who has 2 health bars, that can tank, put down so many conditions that you can never even cleanse them properly if you even spec into it? That’s just stupid. Same goes for other classes like Scrapper (which I do play), just too much substain and stuff. Druid? Takes 2-3 ppl to take out a bunker spec, so how is all this even fair?

It is not…

So you say the ladder system is better then season 1? It may be but unfortunately the class balance in this game is a huge kitten stinking up the room.

I find it funny how I can pretty much predict the outcome of a game based on the OP nature of some classes. 3 reapers and 2 scrappers? Ya that’s a win. 2 DH, 2 reapers and 1 ranger? More then likely a win as well.

What a joke, you’re ladder system might be better but it’s too hard to tell with this broken class balance.

I know of a lot of players that are pretty skillful in this game that can’t even seem to get out of the 3rd tier and just lose interest. They are definitely better then 3rd tier but I guess they just need to “L2P” right?

Ya nope, garbage….

Devs: Working as intended.

Spvp

Removed Spvp as an option until we as developers can actually figure out how to make it work properly cause we clearly have been sipping on the drink too much to understand how to.

Nerf the BS that is Reaper and Guardian then you can come nerf Scrapper.

well considering the devs probably want close to 50/50 a lot of ppl are not experiencing that AT ALL.

I don’t care about the trolling, I’ve been a player since this game launch trolls don’t bother me, just shows how lame the community can be at times.

I get to division 2. I’ve lost 11 matches in a row I haven’t even gained a pip. Really bad matches up for 75% of the time just slaughtered. You think players are going to want to waste hours and not even progress? Seriously your MM system is completely broken. You’re class balance is completely broken (necros with 6 second cold seriously). The meta is dumb.

Thanks for wasting my time Anet season 2 is a bust. I’m out

Still bugged after update….

I’m stuck on the first tier of crafting my precursor to the Predator. They seem to be from collections you receive clicking in the open world. The two I’m having problems with are Scarlett’s Experimental Prototype and Asuran Experimental Weapon. I’ve been to both places and you can’t click on the item when clearly its there. For instance Scarlett’s Prototype is sitting on a table when you enter here lair, can’t click on it. The weapon rack in Quandry Scratch is also not clickable.

So i’m stuck at 15/17 because of these two items. Any ETA on when this will be fixed?

I’ll definitely try that and let you know how it is.

My apologies for the video this was my first one and I wanted to showcase a match from start to finish. Next time i’ll edit a good 3-4 different match fights into it. I do not find Fortified Turrets that useful because it’s only 4 seconds of shields at the start. I mainly pick RTB because of the range and not so much the added DPS. Now that turrets actually fire on your targets, its useful for keeping targets off cap points.

SD is hit or miss TBH. I’m probably going to respec again into the explosive turret trait, giving me some extra power for the turrets and my rifle. The knockbacks are great if used correctly. The SD was just a variation I tried while filming to see how the increased crit dmg and the SD bounce effect would do on my targets.

Hello,

I’ve noticed a lot of Engineers don’t like Turrets, and have said that they are not useful. I’m here to tell you otherwise.

Check out my video I made showcasing it, a very fun build.

My Build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpqq1WxmKseNigBNqiE6HEgJI64tiDD-TJBBABV8AAA4CAUz+DhXGAA

Turret Video Gameplay

As the title states, I’m currently in a WvW focused group on Jade Quarry, and am looking for a guild that mainly does PvE content and guild missions. My main is an Engineer, usually running support spec when I do dungeons. I also have 80 Guardian, and working on a Warrior.

When I do WvW I represent AoS on the battlefield. Any other time I will represent your guild. If you have no problems with post a reply.

So what happened to Fort Aspenwood? Were you guys losing too much again you do what Pain Train does best, abandon ship? Let’s see it’s Sea of Sorrows now, Fort Aspenwood before, Devona’s Rest before that and Northern Shiverpeaks. I guess you want to act like you guys rock by transferring to the number one server.

Join PTX today!! Transfer with us when we lose and start over and over and over.

I don’t envy Anet at all, no matter what they do, haters will hate.

For those that are bored and say “there’s nothing to do” which is in itself a bunch of BS, Anet listened to your complaints and added some item progression that isn’t going to effect areas such as WvW (for now). Now they get flak for this, well I’m sorry but not everyone was happy with the skinning type of end game, now they have something to work towards.

Of the Halloween event that ppl are referencing, the best Halloween MMO event I’ve ever experienced hands down. The BLT fiasco was definitely a money grab, but nobody put a gun to your head to buy anything. Now I’m sure they learned their lesson and come Christmas, I’m sure they have a way to buy the skins with a resource (candy cane), instead of the RNG element through the BLT.

Finally, for those saying Anet doesn’t care and only wants to make money off it’s players, I disagree on some and agree on others. Anet is a business, out to make a profit since that’s what businesses do. The game has no monthly fee, so how do you expect them to keep creating content / updates?? Granted a majority of it comes through box sales of the game and eventually expansion packs, but more money into Anet = more resources to create content for the player base. Their marketplace isn’t set up to be a pay to win like most F2P games, instead they’ve done a pretty kitten good job of keeping it cosmetic.

I just LOL at some of you, no matter what Anet does, you’ll never be happy. I ask you this, why do you play games if all you ever do is complain about the experience from start to finish?

Gamers = biggest bunch of whiny babies.

I love games, I hate gamers. That’s all.

No offense, but Arenanet isn’t forcing any of you to buy the keys, if you do, then there’s a random chance to get the skin. If they gave everything out for nothing what would be the point?

Don’t like what you’re getting, why don’t you stop buying keys then?

jamasont.4653:

Phearce.3072:

@ Lite- Not real sure i either just knock them back sometimes I eat the 100 blades but I have been hit with one that did any significant damage in a long time. If you don’t like it and think that the “mobility” is lacking then thats all well and good. Thieves and Warriors don’t scare me at all. Map mobility is great with the perma-swiftness.

@Coglin For some reason it is happening to me only on Khylo but the kit trait that casts the healing circle(cant think of the names as im not on my gaming comp) isn’t casting the healing circle when I equip the elixir gun. It isn’t casting it at all.

Been working more with pistol/shield and its pretty fun and the aoe knockback is really nice for node clearing.

How’re you getting perma swiftness?

The 2nd skill on the Elixar Gun is an AOE snare debuff / AOE swiftness buff that you can pretty much keep up.

Blackfire.8793:

“Alchemy:- I also put 30 points into this tree. This puts me up to 24.5k health and makes me a lot tougher to kill due to the trait choices.”

Oh look ANOTHER build that’s an unorigonal stupid kittening Elixier build.
Yea no.. I think not. There are better out there. And almost 0 different styles og builds. This is one of the major things wrong with the engineer.

Oh look, ANOTHER closed minded, ignorant Engineer. I’ve seen quite a lot of versatility with this class, especially with different types of elixar builds. Of course you probably look at yourself in the mirror, flex and call yourself an “elitist” because you surfed the internet and used the “best” Engineer build out there (that someone other then yourself came up with, cause you can’t).

People like you are one of the major things wrong with MMOs, not Engineers.