Guild Wars 2

While doing solo joins yesterday, I did 11, and won 9. 2 of those wins were against a team that only had 4. Usually I volunteer to sit out if that is the case.

Today, I’ve done 8 solo joins, all but one of them were 4v5 — my team being the one short. I’ve lost every single match today with the exception of the one 5v5 match. It was getting pretty ridiculous. I’ve never seen so many 4v5 matches in a row and was beginning to think things were bugged. I wish there was something in place to prevent one team from getting screwed over so easily.

I think some people may not realize that if they log out while queued, it will cause a team to be 1 short, rather than put someone else in their slot. Perhaps a prompt before they log out if they are queued explaining to them the consequences if they do?

Rhydian.5412:

IT does get sort of old when you look at the ways that you die and most of the time it is one of 3 things, Backstab spam, HS spam, or Hundred blades spam. I mean I have a thief alt, its not hard, just keep pushing one when in doubt push two then push 3, when you run out push one for a few more seconds steal instagib push 5, instagib. A blind person could do it. You could probably get 200+ scores with a thief without even selecting your traits. Pick your weapon combo, dagger dagger, sword dagger, pistol with anything, doesnt matter, same rule applies.

I’ve played a thief since release. Mainly a dagger/dagger/shortbow condition/backstab build. I’ve never dropped someone flat out in one backstab. But that’s probably because I’m not specced as a glass cannon. I actually avoid using heartseeker because the “Just Spam 2” tells get annoying — even when I’m not using it. They’d probably do better if they’d stop taking the time to type that up and just fight. The only time I do use HS is when my target insists on running away from me and I have to catch up. But that’s usually only once in a row. Giving it a cooldown really wouldn’t effect my play style at all.

This weekend I decided to give the ranger a shot and I have to say that with a long bow, it’s pretty much just hitting 3 followed by 2, then 5 and win — wash, rinse, repeat. Helps that your range is so long that you’re able to shoot them while they are still in the Heart of the Mists queuing up. I tear through glass cannon thieves like they’re wet tissue paper. I’ve also played a mesmer, necro, elementalist and guardian. I can honestly say that I’ve not had a real problem with any thief. Maybe because I’ve played one quite a bit and know a lot of their weaknesses. I have more problems with a warrior that stuns me and Haste/Hundred Blades me to death while my Roll for Initiative is on cooldown. I mean sure, thieves can really screw you up when all of their abilities are off cooldown and they jump you in a dark ally while you’ve got your pants down. But the same can be said for just about any other stealth-based class in other MMOs.

This happens very rarely now, but it’s happened at very critical moments on both occasions. While in combat my keybinds will suddenly stop working and if I try to mouse click an ability, it will link the ability I click into the chatbox.

For instance, my F1 key is bound to my mouse wheel button (Mouse 3). While in combat, I will be doing fine when suddenly all of my abilities will stop working via keyboard/mouse button press and when I try to click them via left click with the mouse, it automatically links the ability into my chat window. If I was whispering someone prior to this, it will send the ability to them immediately.

The only solution I have found to fix this is to terminate the client and restart it. But this makes participating in things like spvp very frustrating.

Fixed a recently introduced issue that could cause some players to getting stuck in loading screens primarily during PVP matches

That was from the October 11th update notes. However, I literally just had to kill GW2 after the game got hung up on a loading screen during spvp yet again. Was finally in a decent team for a change and this happens again. Even when they say it’s fixed.