Guild Wars 2

i’m a thief player. but i basically predicted this was going to happen. if you’ve been around long enough you’ll know that anet has a history and habit of overbuffing whatever is weakest to the point of ridiculous OPness, and then nerfing whatever was perceived to be OP to the point of being borderline unplayable. as much as thieves needed a boost, this is not what should have happened.

so this is new.

i played a couple of ranked matches last night, absolutely no d/cs and games went on as normal. after the update today, i just tried to queue ranked arena and was shown a message to the effect of “you have been removed from matchmaking queue” etc, and i never even saw an “accept match” screen and was just…i guess “removed” from queue.

as i tried to rejoin queue, it told me that i couldn’t join because me or someone in my party recently incurred dishonor. ok? i only queue solo, never in teams or even parties so what is going on anet? do we get punished now for just pressing the ranked match button? lol?

not sure if it’s bots or just people afking a few seconds to do something but i have had the same experience with people literally standing in one spot doing nothing when i stealth, only to reengage me when i come out of stealth. i thought that was kind of odd.

like someone mentioned above in passing…pretty sure for this to be true OP is on a premade to tank his MMR and is posting this here as a preemptive strike so if he gets banned he can say “but i even complained about this unbelievable lose streak on the forums!”

i’m sincerely hoping someone from anet answers this question.

for league recruit, it states that you’re required to cross 1 division during a pvp season.
for league elite (ascension part 4), you need to cross 4 divisions during a pvp season.

does that mean you have to cross the divisions only during the current season, or throughout the year?

because for ascension part 4, if you need to cross 4 divisions within ONE pvp season, that means we’ll need to cross into diamond league to complete the achievement. is this true?

thanks in advance for any clarification

ha…have you seen mesmers before? the class with the purple butterfly particles?

my teef’s OG…that or asian popstar which i’ve been told…lol.

mine was soulbound before the feature patch, and is now accountbound. not sure what happened to yours. are you at least able to use the skin on other characters?

to op:

it happens sometimes, and by now i find much hilarity in it. i literally went psycho trying to “game” the system because i couldn’t believe just how badly a hand i was dealt on 2 particular nights. i persisted and got matched up with 4v5s FOUR GAMES IN A ROW. no joke. this isn’t some 80% games either, this was hovering around top 350~ soloQ. needless to say, i plunged from 300~ all the way down and off the leaderboard in 2 nights of straight losses. i believe i racked up over 20 losses straight.

i eventually went back up to 400~ and then the same thing happened 2-3 days before the big patch hit, except it was like 1-2 losses a night. then the patch hit and boom, dropped all the way down. i literally laughed out loud when i see people keyboard turning in top 1000 play.

playing teamQ with people you know does make life a lot easier…and you also don’t have nublets that tell you how badly you all suck because your team lost the game and he had the highest personal score from zerging.

top 1000…

made it to top 300 after roughly 1.5k matches, means nothing. struggling between 400-900, i still got streams of losses and people who drop out in the middle of a match. i thought the LB meant something at one point in time, not anymore. just play it to enjoy it, or the LB will make you hate this game.

the feels bro…i feel them too.
dropped so far down idgaf anymore. i had something like a 13 lose streak followed by 1 win, then 6 more followed by one, etc. this never happened before patch.

gg anet, gg.

Chilli.2976:

We can be as toxic as we like, don’t get all upset about it.

this x123456789.
especially because a large portion of the recent PvEr influx is just as toxic and refuse to listen to reason.

telling someone to stop doublecapping once or twice a match might be acceptable. having to repeat simple instructions 15 times a match to the same person is soul crushing.

stop crushing our souls and maybe you won’t see as much toxin.

we should be constructive…lol. please.

you don’t think we try to be? just last night i encountered a group who literally -and i kid you not- zerg’d, as in ALL 4 OF THEM went to home at the start to defend against 2 players from the enemy team. then after home was capped they all zerg’d to mid and left home. pretty much this went on throughout the entire game. as i scrambled to cap back home or decap far, i called out and asked them to please stop zerging and split up to cap mid and home, or do anything but what they’re currently doing.

no one said anything.

i pleaded the same thing again 100 points later, still no response.

near the end when the inevitability of our loss became apparent, one of those zergy noobs started bashing our ranger who apparently went afk on home node. granted, i also hate people who afk…but our loss definitely isn’t from that ranger afking when the enemy was 20 points away from victory and we were down by over 150. it’s because they zerg’d the ENTIRE f’n game. i called out that we lost precisely because no one listened to my plead to stop zerging.

he responded with the notion that i typed too much during the game, which invariably meant that i was a useless female sex organ. he then proceeded to inform me that by looking at the scoreboard, i obviously wasn’t doing anything constructive, and that because he had such a high score tagging along 3 other people for those thrilling 4v2 kills, he was obviously more experienced at pvp than i am and i should shut the eff up.

this is what we get from trying to be constructive. over and over again. they don’t listen. almost none of them do. they’re like that annoying, unloved preteen you were paid very unwell to babysit for 2 hours while her parents are out dishwashing for peanuts. she thinks she’s “all growned up” and knows everything cuz her daddy let her take a drag from his cigarette that one time, and she won’t let you stop her from sneaking out to sleep with her junior high teacher. 

happened to me last night, but instead i was randomly kicked from a soloq match similar to a dc, but i checked internet, gw2.com and these forums while i was trying to get back in the game…everything was fine EXCEPT the game client wouldn’t let me log in, the client timer gets stuck at 0secs left and “Play Now” or whatever it says was grayed out. I tried reloading game client about 8 times and I was finally let in, except we were down 350~ points and of course people thought I dc’d.

It was the first time ever I thought a dc hack could’ve been real.

funny that, being the most op decap build is getting hit by the bat as well. i won’t cry if staff ele goes the route of hambow, at this point it’ll just be interesting to see

with the ally healing buffs, get ready for teams of 4-5 eles standing on 2 nodes the entire game sustaining the shiz out of each other. it’s gonna be fun on a bun. (not)

Dojo.1867:

Seiishizo.7162:

What is best to do with the like 400 left over match win reward chests?

The devs will tell you to “use them” even though there is nothing to use them for. They will ignore this second fact though.

so, i had slightly over 2 stacks of chests that i decided to purge last night since salvage kits no longer cost glory…and deposited any leftover armor i could while salvaging the rest

converted mats to dyes TEDIOUSLY and sold them via TP SOUL-CRUSHINGLY SLOWLY and made a whopping 120g or so. lmao, that’s what, 2-3 hour farm work for a pve vet? one very lucky bl chest opened?

needless to say, i was taken aghast.

just out of curiosity…what actions would you have taken had your trade complete successfully, and you paid (what I’ll assume is 150g, though you mentioned 65g in another post above) and received storm in return?

would you have kept it? if you had any intention of doing so, you can try and report him for scamming but please don’t veil your shattered false glimmer of hope under an act for the greater good of this game or community.

I see that under “historical” tab for achievements, I can still see Memories in Your Hand and actually toggle the achievement for tracking…but it no longer logs any piles of rubble I find past 2.

Is it not possible to finish an achievement once it’s moved into the Historical tab?

Thanks for any help.

i’m not really upset about builds in general because what the hand giveth, it can randomly take away more…and in the hands of anet, much much more.

but i am upset that i can drop 300+ ranks down the leaderboard in the span of an hour due to 3 back-to-back 4v5s on the same map in soloq. i know its yoloq and all, but seriously? this still happens?

agree with all OP’s suggestions.

in particular the templates…as they were in the first game and greatly simplified pvp build swapping. can’t fathom why the feature was excluded from this game’s “polished” pvp design. hmm…one might wonder whether there’s any possible connection to be drawn to their constant proffers of sales on character slots.

Clownmug.8357:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Mesmers are getting some nice stuff.

Stay tuned.

I’m looking forward to these new and flavorful tool-tips for underwater skills you guys are planning.

lmao

Romek.4201:

Sari.9836:

I agree that it is bad design choice but without it, Engineers would just drop dead.
There are inter-connected issues over all the classes so necromancers have to be revisited too.

only the bad ones and they deserve to “just drop dead”

engineer worked fine before, without AR, and people talked bout engineer as the class with most skill

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Automated_Response&oldid=192985

i’m confused. what do you mean engis worked fine before, without AR? is that before february of 2012?

i wouldn’t mind if gw2 had some skillshots, would make ranged fighting less of a joke.

garethh.3518:

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i’ll just refer back to your post about the absence of a “ready” button.

that button would do nothing.

it would not prevent dc’s from happening right after that button’s pressed.

it’s really as simple as this: if you’ve dc’d more than twice within 2 days, stop for a day and try again. don’t be stupid and keep trying when you’re one disconnect away from the punishment. you know the rules. common sense would have solved this problem.

garethh.3518:

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none of us would have said anything to him if he hadn’t decided to waltz in here complaining about the game while flaunting his enormous sense of entitlement.

the general consensus is this: get over yourself.

i never said that people who disconnect due to connection issues are the sole, or even major cause of 4v5s. the point is that they contribute to this imbalance, and there’s no reason they should be excused from the consequences that come with this if they insist on pushing their luck while ruining matches for others.

corin.1298:

Working well? So it’s supposed to punish people who can’t help the problem even when the disconnects are so seperated apart it doesn’t affect to much of the gameplay as a whole? I could understand if I dced 3 matches in one day.

this is why your reasoning is entirely egocentric and ridiculous.

you think your disconnects are so separated that it doesn’t affect much of the gameplay as a whole, and you might be right – but only about YOUR personal gameplay. what about those people you left hanging 4v5? you essentially screwed them over from the start each and every time you disconnected, no matter how “so separated apart” they seem to you. you think that doesn’t affect their gameplay? you think you’re the only dc’er who thinks this way?

please.

many of your ex-teammates would walk out of those matches losers, and head straight into (quite possibly consecutive) more 4v5s because people like you insist on queuing in spite of suboptimal connections.

just a thought…

if they won’t retroactively grant points to long-time tpvpers…

what about mail-gifting us with boosters, like 3x rank point boosters for use in tpvp matches ONLY – based on how many matches we’ve participated in? even easier to implement…yeah?

this would make me pretty happy.

it’s depressing seeing people hop into soloQ with obviously farmed ranks that have zero map awareness talk down to people who are legitimately trying to talk strategy, hold/defend points etc. i can’t tell you how many matches a random rank 50+ gave away because all they cared about was walking out of the match with the most kills.

as someone who ranked up from basically 90% solo/teamQ only…i’m not saying people who farm spvp don’t deserve their rank points…but i am saying that it’s soul-crushing to know how fast and easy it is for them to gather ranks vs. queuing up for 15 potentially wasted minutes time after time.

just wanted to toss in the fact that i’m now heading towards level 65…unlike most people here i explore a lot more than i story so i didn’t even attempt it till level 55 or so but still…does this mean i can’t get my order armor when i hit 80 before the patch comes out?