Guild Wars 2

I try to never do anything in the game for the rewards. If it is not fun by itself, I prefer to do something else. That said I stoped doing the AB meta when the multiloot became the standard, because people behavior became too toxic. Now I may go back to it again.

Get some eaters:

Empyreal Fragments – eaten by Star of Gratitude, Sentient Aberration
Bloodstone Dust – eaten by Mawdrey, Herta, Sentient Anomoly
Dragonite Ore – eaten by Princess, Sentient Anomoly, Sentient Aberration

And I rushed for nothing. Silly me :P

Because of the broken stealth of thieves and mesmers I would even go further to say that stealth traps should be instant cast much the same way that siege disablers work.

Mokk.2397:

In PvP the armor you buy is not usable in any other environment other than PvP. Also its limited in that infusions , can’t be added to any armor,weapon or accessorys.Allowing ascended gear and weapons to be openly purchased in WvW would make the specialized system of crafting and the collection of materials completely pointless game wide, destroying an important aspect of the game. By presetting armor and weapon limits exclusive to WvW like that in PvP would destroy the vibrancy and variety currently available in WvW.The game would become stagnant .Even if they did have separate WvW armor and weapons would be a programmers nightmare based on the current mechanics of the game.
If your expectations are instant gratification in a complex game such as Guild wars 2 then maybe Tic-Tac-Toe is more your speed.

Everything you said is basically false?…

Mokk.2397:

In PvP the armor you buy is not usable in any other environment other than PvP. Also its limited in that infusions , can’t be added to any armor,weapon or accessorys.Allowing ascended gear and weapons to be openly purchased in WvW would make the specialized system of crafting and the collection of materials completely pointless game wide, destroying an important aspect of the game. By presetting armor and weapon limits exclusive to WvW like that in PvP would destroy the vibrancy and variety currently available in WvW.The game would become stagnant .Even if they did have separate WvW armor and weapons would be a programmers nightmare based on the current mechanics of the game.
If your expectations are instant gratification in a complex game such as Guild wars 2 then maybe Tic-Tac-Toe is more your speed.

There is so much wrong with this post……

Playing side points is actually just a tactic for opening up mid point for capture. If you don’t play for mid after taking one or both sides then you risk leaving your team stranded on islands they can’t support each other from. All it takes is a quick head count from your opponent to know which point to overwhelm with a simple majority and break your two cap hold.

It also concedes the middle of the map which is arguably the most beneficial of the three capture points on any map since it provides site lines to most of the map and the option to choose a side point of your choosing with short rotations for teammates to rotate support back and forth.

When to use it: When the other team has stacked slow moving bunkers on mid and stalled the cap, that’s when you try for sides to drag them off mid, separating the tanks which reduces their effectiveness making them easier to kill, and thereby opening up mid for easier capture.

If you’re not using it to play for mid though then you’re just dividing your forces wrecklessly.

Right now, the OP’s stated behavior is actually fairly common. Suicide to speed up the match if they feel they are out classed early on. I hate getting stuck with team mates like that, when a little coordination and changing of strategy to adapt to the other team can give you a chance to turn the game around.

Tiefsee.3647:

wardspratlin.9107:

Tiefsee.3647:

Ty, that means i can do it “quick” when i see i am on the losing side

i had 280 to 450 came back with a 3 cap and won 500 to 493

down votes your comment

Sure it happens, but how often is the question?

Very often. Many times a team gets off to a bad start due to poor strategy or communication but I’ve frequently seen matches flip. You can snowball both ways. Maybe you don’t see that happen much because you quit the minute you get down?

I don’t want to sound like a guru or anything but If I had such a hard losing streak like this then I’d take a break for a few hours and do something else to clear my mind. Then try again.

Tiefsee.3647:

Huskyboy.1053:

insanemaniac.2456:

comebacks are a thing. if i could downvote you i would.

Just report him for afk if he does it in one of your matches. If you’re in silver or above you probably won’t see him though XD

Nah, i do it without beeing afk, after all suuicide gives 5 points and therefore speeds it up and i still look like i am fighting.

And silver, no idea how far i will make it this season but i stuck all the time as common ruby soilder, let’s see how good/bad i really am

Actively playing to ruin the game for other players… It is not always becouse of players in your team that are very bad, it can be that the other team manage to get the upper hand at start at gets your team in a bad rotation. Many time I and other teammates has been able to communicate and listen/read get the rotations on a good way again this leading to a victory. There are many other reasons so giving up is a bad way and with so many players like you giving up we will never know what action is the best, but by continue to play the matches even if I am losing or winning grants me experience, that’s my best reward.

Tiefsee.3647:

sephiroth.4217:

Tiefsee.3647:

Ty, that means i can do it “quick” when i see i am on the losing side

No….

I had 3 placement games with people who quit after the first initial midfight, I also lost gold ranking because of AFKers and people who wanted to end it “quick” just because they fell 50 points behind in score.

Please don’t queue if you don’t intend to give your best throughout the whole game.

It’s a system flaw in motivation design, it’s a binary system, it doesn’t matter if i lose 1:500 or 499:500 – but time makes up for that difference and in a competetive envirorment is every smal edge what could make the difference….

No, it is the player not the system. Just stop playing ranked or any competetiv game mode with that attitude. You are ruining the game for at least 4 other players every round you do that.

Tiefsee.3647:

Ty, that means i can do it “quick” when i see i am on the losing side

No….

I had 3 placement games with people who quit after the first initial midfight, I also lost gold ranking because of AFKers and people who wanted to end it “quick” just because they fell 50 points behind in score.

Please don’t queue if you don’t intend to give your best throughout the whole game.

Ioras Dagnir.3927:

Yet casuals cry at the mere prospect of a challenge like a premade team. People insist on playing solo and complain when they lost and then ruined it for teams who want to play competitively against other teams. If you want battles of individual skill ask for a duel system or make a 1 vs 1 match. Competitive league was meant for teams and guilds from the start. Unranked was meant for casuals.

You’re deluded if you think mixing premade teams and matching them up against casual pug solo teams was providing a “competitive” environment.

Why do you think “serious” teams organized their own scrims and tournaments? It wasn’t fun for them to stomp pug solo teams. Only people with low self esteem needed the help of premades to make them feel like they were good because they destroyed a pug team while on voice comms and optimal class composition.

suck it up and git gud.

So you don’t really know who got carried into the top 250 and who carried? nty

If you can’t win with a duo queue, you don’t deserve it, period.

Allowing 5 man exploit squads, err I mean “organized teams,” would make things that much worse.

Learn to play on your own. This season is a test of individual skills.

Compared to pre June 2015, gw2 PvP has both a lot more damage and defense measures now. But the defensive raw stats got shaved quite hard due to S1 bunker meta. The end result is that the game pace becomes even faster and tolerance for error is smaller.

So it gets much more important to know how to manage your cool downs and how to do specific counters to certain skills and even some passive procs. Spend some time learning current meta builds should help you get back to it

you just need to work on your own personal skills because clearly you are lacking of it

Please don’t make posts about your poor gaming skills and disguise it as a class balance issue. It’s not nice

For the love of god, no. Unless you want even less people playing WvW?

The reason WvW tournaments didn’t work is they encouraged overtime play burning people out and emphasized the insurmountable imbalance in coverage between servers.

What if they did it differently? Something like a skirmish by skirmish basis? Maybe extend skirmishes to 3 hours, reset and remake matches to fit the tournament based on the timezone. So we have a timezone tournament not an entire server vs server week long tournament? In that situation it could be just a week long tournament where every evening you log in to your timezone and fight it out until at the end of the week one server proves they’ve come out on top for that timezone. Granted there are issues, if you say 6pm -9pm is primetime then there is no way to have it perfect for even every timezone in the US let alone the world, but it’s something right?

Anyways, just a thought, but even without that just bonus weeks would be cool, something to push people to play when they might otherwise take off. The old system of tournaments though would be a bad idea, I think Anet is right with the choice to avoid that.

Commanding, have tried it and dislike doing it.

I found that hard to find like minded players share the same time zone. Finally i found a guild that share similar time zone after world linking and i transferred server just to be with them.

its not brilliant, if everything is trivial to get then everyone gets everything, therefore everything becomes meaningless. As an extreme example, see WOW where everyone runs about with the same legendary, so ‘legendary’ becomes meaningless

I voted for dbl. I play WvW everyday. Does my opinion count? Or only the ones that align with yours…

It’s not a big problem for me, but i think that they should at least cut the AP needed for the skins rewards by a good half.