Rev is fine honestly, any condi build played well except Mallyx Rev for some reasons can counter it, if you have a problem with it, it might just be because of you or your build, not the class.
If you don’t raid or PvP now as a veteran, you should quit GW2 pretty much, because between this and E-Sports focus (I don’t care about it, the balance and MM system are awful), I can tell it’s tearing across the community/game.
In my personal opinion, this should have been in dungeons, challenging dungeons and not raids, but too bad they got rid of these eh? I’m a raider btw, and the thing is that the exclusion came from other players, you just need ascended trinkets and weapons to raid, the armor is terrible and only necessary for fractals…
Well Salvation Pass tells us about the return of Mursaat, maybe that’s what the sacrifices are for, to ascend into one or resurrect one.
I don’t know how I should take it, but right now it’s the case, I still think dungeons could have done it aswell, but oh well, at least Mursaat are back.
To those who don’t know what I’m talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIW_oH49P1M
Just got out of Saphire T2 after being stuck for few days, thanks to a decent Mesmer, people should seriously reconsider it in the meta because it’s really broken in team fights.
“you are exactly where you should be pleb/scrb/nob/rallybot”
- Said every RNG lucker across this forum making themselves believe they are actually good. Which is not the case. Most of them fought people with ~100 matches or less anyway.
My advice … leave it at that. Wait for season 3. No reason to support the ego of few wannabe espurt kids. The game was rigged from the start™
I can feel the frustration of a ruby struggling, am I right ?
Actually 1 pip shy of ruby. Was stuck at sapphire T1 for 2-3 days (weekends). Lately I’m getting over 50% winrate and crawling out of sapphire. But that’s only because I decided to change my thief main with a mesmer that carries surprisingly well. Even though I’m mediocre mesmer at best I am rekting most meta builds with relative ease.
Whoever says mesmer is bad in the current meta is full of kitten xD
I can agree with you on the thief side. Even though I takedown targets relatively fast. With all the aoe spam I can’t help the teamfights to allow my team to snowball from there and I effectively leave them in 4v5.
That’s not how i run things on mesmer. I can actually stomp now! Which is cool. Because usually my teammates don’t know what stomp or cleave is. It’s really cool. Might make a reaper next and #1 #2 my way into diamond. We’ll see.
+1 Shatter Mes is worse than Necro.
He says he can carry a team of 5 people all by himself which is not always true even with stuff like Shatter Mes, Bunker Tempest or Scrapper, because some people will always find a way to screw it up, or the matchmaking by throwing 4 guys +1 at you with TS by having DuoQers of lower rank in your team.
He should just admit that he got lucky with a good MMR at start, because otherwise he wouldn’t have reached Diamond until late March (he’s good but there’s a limit to nonsense).
I hit diamond in soloqueue with 2 different accounts. I had some issues with my main account in tier4 where i got a dangerous loss streak but I regot a very good win streak after that. With my second account was easier, really fast ruby and super fast from amber to t1 ruby (all in win streak with only 1 loss).
Sometimes organized premade can interrupt your win streak or be the cause of a loss streak, in this case is better to take a little break If They continue to go in queue.
Play meta builds and reroll If you see your comp lack in something (I play a good level 3 meta classes). It helps a lot.
Honestly i prefer this season, we don’t forget how fast are queues now (in s1 with the old system i had many times 10 min, now is like the half)
The premade system sucks, just because 2 guys in my team decided to team up shouldn’t mean I should fight 5 guys with TS. And the worst is that those who were together in my team were Emerald and Amber, this proves how bad matchmaking is.
Rev gets destroyed by Condi Thief unless the guy runs Mallyx/Shiro.
Here’s what I had to live with over the last few days:
-Thieves not decapping but rather rallybotting in mid fight like 10+ times in a match
-Warrior running straight to gates in legacy at beginning and opening them…. both of course… then starts rageing because he gets killed doing it… and runs back to do it again, pronouncing proudly that he carries because he keeps 2+ “busy” (for about 30 seconds until EP runs out and he bleeds out)
-Druid standing on hill to the sides of mid legacy, using staff1, staff2… all the time (probably thought he did good dmg there)
-Mesmers without portals
-Necro dieing to cleric tempest in under 2 minutes (I didnt even try killing him…. he just died)
-Bad builds like FT scrapper (scrapper! not old school non-hot account)
-Mindless mid running and insta dieing – too often to actually count professions… but necros seem to be those with most problems with tunnelvision
-AFKThats only the worst. I got those players at one point or another on my team. Sometimes only one… sometimes three. Only one every three games they are on enemy team.
Now tell me how to carry such bad decisions… and no 1v4 is actually not a solution, do the math please.
Add Rev stacking boons with more than one necro in the other team, ending in getting us killed with boon corruption.
TC is right, I got out of Emerald after being stuck a week by taking breaks, do it as soon as you lose once or twice in a row.
this may or may not be relevant, but leeto’s almost at legend with an f2p core necro (a new account) since his main got 2-week-banned
Some core specs still works like Shadow Arts Thief (or P/P, it works fine against Reapers and DH), Shatter Mes, Bunker Guard and Condi Necro.
This is another problem why GRINDING divisions is a bad implementation.
If Division should represent skill, they should not been GRIND.
Let me tell you, I win most of my matches in Season 2, but it’s boring and not competitive at all.
Please join me in the SKILL versus GRIND petition here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Skill-based-or-Grind-based-rank-system/first#post6020606So Anet, can fix their RANKED based on SKILL and give REWARDS based on GRINDS.
I don’t get your point. S1 was grind, anyone could get to at least diamond as long as they played enough, since we were always matched with people of our level. S2 is actually skill based, and this is why we have so much complaints, like the OP: he cannot go pass his current division because he has reached his level. Regardless how many more games he will do, he is pretty much stuck there.
It doesn’t match your skill, but the whole team “skill” or what the system thinks, people are complaining about that.
Guy, last season, players were able to reach diamond/legend without ever seeing a good player. It’s like there was multiple versions of each division for all levels of MMR. Just becasue people got to a higher division last season doesn’t mean they belong there.
Yeah, but that’s not the point, the MMR system is crap, balance is crap, so Season 2 IS crap. I’m not trying to be offensive, I’m just kittened for being at the same spot after trying so hard to move on, I get the worst matchups possible when i’m in the decisive match to go to the upper division…
To those losing it’s not. And it’s not simply because we are not good enough. Last season I made it to Diamond. This season I am sitting in Emerald with no pips. I have waited days between playing and no change. The high mmr are not moving on. If they are, then new players must have a higher mmr than those being beat down daily. Its a death spiral and Anet knows it. Where the kitten are they?
Same stuff, I personally am not enjoying it anymore, at this point I think it’s better to either go back to other game modes or another game until everything get’s fixed, because not climbing after a week is very frustrating for all of us in this situation…
Can you guys explain me why I’m getting matched up with premades every time I’m about to get out of Emerald? It’s really kittening me off so much, and the worst is that it’s always builds that can counter my team.
I’ve told you that after ruby there is no way you solo queue and progress, this will become a pre-made ANET game, you team up 4-5 players, or you remain in ruby forever..Every “professional-very good” player says that this is good match making, I’ve told them several times try it out in solo queue, with photos… nobody from them answered, they are all pre-mades…
Helseth & Leeto has been streaming and mostly soloqing and I believe they are in diamond division now. Definitely the exception to the rule though and expect you would need to be very good/patient to do this.
They play a lot and at the right times for the best chances, and the fact they’re good makes it even easier to progress.
I don’t know about that, my situation is different from the others, I keep progressing but slowly, I get past 2 tiers and get stuck the next one for a moment until it happens again…
But one thing for sure: Stronghold and Matchmaking sucks, if someone get’s stuck in a MMR hell or want progress, don’t pick Stronghold, it’s very frustrating with bad teammates, long and you can’t carry…
Everyone runs scrapper now but condi druid and condi engi can shred a power rev in Seconds
Yeah but that’s because of the immobilize/bleed and burn stacks, I always wondered if changing Shiro for Mallyx is a good choice in this situation.
2 eles and necros can’t do anything to your team.
Scrappers and Reapers are OP, Rev isn’t because it has no condi removal and little stability…
Idk for me its not that good.. Stuck in sapphire
get 2 wins and then lose 2 games… Thats how its going for me last 2 days, cant move at all
Blue hell got me
Same stuff on Emerald, I win 2 times and then kitten happens, I get paired with bad players and people stacking Scrapper/Reapers on the other side…
A 50/50 system isn’t fair. Once you make it to your mmr level then you will almost always win one then lose one. This makes it impossible to advance your pip count. This is the problem with decent to medicare players. They reach their mmr level faster then the higher tiers. Removing pip loss will probably make it too easy, but making it so you can lose one match before a pip loss.
There needs to be some cushioning so that people don’t have to win 4 or 5 matches in row to progress. My experience has been that I can usually win 2 in a row, very rarely 3. Then I lose 3 or more in a row putting me back where I started.
Your train of logic assumes that EVERY player is SUPPOSED to make it to legendary, they arnt, if you reach the point where you are consistently at a 50/50 win/lose ratio, then you have reached the division your SUPPOSED to be at currently.
This IS NOT a reward track, its a seperation of players into different divisions based on their skill. You arnt entitled to legendary division just because you work hard at it, you have to both work hard at it AND be successful
Yeah “skill”, sure, because Reaper requires tons of skill in order to make progress…
Thief can 100-0 anyone 1v1 less than over 2 seconds.
Yes, destroying anyone in a blink of the eyes is not viable in pro league.What else would you want? More damage, more mobility, more sustain?
That’s not true, DH, Herald, Scrapper, Druid and Reaper are tanky enough to survive that even with power builds…
I can add to that. While I was playing solo or duo with very good player I had winstreaks for 10 games, but when I started to play with not as good players (cause I want to enjoy this game with friends) matchmaking went mad. Lost few games in a row and now when i play solo/duo i can get players like marauder DH with a STAFF, who can do empower while 20% of hp vs marauder rev, or warrior with rifle who puts whole skills in reflect. My friend gets ppl who rushes lord without points, leaving everything unsecured, or ppl who go mindlessly 1vs2 and die. All that in RUBY (idk, they got carried and left wintrain?). Meanwhile we as trio got to fight full esl team.
Now without my friend and tytanic map awerness, I can’t win the game (Or if I’m really lucky I get simmilar players like me, who stuck in elohell matchmaking).
This is exactly what I met today, I know that some players are new, but getting carried is a terrible thing, because they are both losing and making others lose, the fact that someone didn’t know what capping points meant in my team was painful…
On my warrior i got all the way up to t4 shappire with only losing 2 games.
You were just lucky, I had a good win streak up to Emerald tier 3 where I lost once which dropped my MMR and got me stuck in it for a few days.
Can’t get past emerald now, I win and then lose like a never ending circle, we just had the longest bastion ever because people were tanking and protecting their lords until the other team managed to summon 2 heroes…
Lmao content only for pros? Nice joke, it wouldn’t have been possible to PUG raids if these were that way, and we all know it’s not…
Power Rev biggest weakness are conditions, they have litterally no removal and die very fast from these, but they tend to escape easily because condi classes have terrible mobility.
Tells me that I need to learn how to play, posts pic of him playing at the cheesiest class right now.
Like really dude? lol
Well, 2 wins on warrior……
Plus, he has a pretty high overall win %.
Warrior is average, and who knows maybe he was carried by his team these matches.
Can’t play with DD now, all I see are Necro stacks and Revs with faceroll Druid/Ele, the power creep on Herald and Reaper is kittening stupid…
actualy chill necro spam is the most Op stuff… to the point that with my warrior if i even get hit ONCE by any chill from the necro, i usualy write gg in say chat, cuz i know its only the start of the chain and there’s nothing i can do about it, even while running all the cleanse warrior can have.
You should chill up a bit.
Revenant/Elementalist, good everywhere.
Dungeons were abandonned, there’s no way they’ll fix some stuff back, even exploits breaking these.
E-Sports is a waste, there’s not so much skill involved in the matches, they had the same team composition and there wasn’t any Thief or Warriors, but tons of Necros and Revs with the easiest rotations. I mean sure, new people will be amazed, but when they’ll play I don’t think so, sooner or later people are gonna leave…
Says the amber… why would anyone take or thief or warriir if they don’t like them?? It doesn’t matter how u cut there are 9 profession and at least 4 always be left out.
It is downgrade because it dictates what I should play, not what I want to play, for a thing that %95 of the population does not care.
And that is Anet fault. I used to play GW1, MTG, LOL, and so on competitively, i would not say i was a pro, but i cared. What did those games have in common? there was a real strive to balance the game and they where not blatantly broken. GW2 has been broken beyond belief from day 1, i just dont care any more.
And lol is not broken?? They even have tier for that matters. Strng tier god tier ect… or are just being selectively biased against GW2??
I’m Emerald btw but who cares since you grinded your poor legend rank by abusing MMR and bunker meta, am I right? Also why would people don’t take what they like? Yup, that’s one issue in PvP.
The finals were lame and boring. 10 players playing a game that has been customized to there personal preferences. Not only that, the pretentiousness of the trappings was just painful to watch.
GW2 would be a better game without the pro league, imo.
Pro league is what keep high end spvp player in the game. So it’s needed, without it spvp would die because there would be nothing for pro players to look after or that would keep them interested in the game.
Please, some stramers are way better than these guys, like Leeto or Helseth…
E-Sports is a waste, there’s not so much skill involved in the matches, they had the same team composition and there wasn’t any Thief or Warriors, but tons of Necros and Revs with the easiest rotations. I mean sure, new people will be amazed, but when they’ll play I don’t think so, sooner or later people are gonna leave…
I think this is your best bet, sword wise:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mordrem_Saber
This isn’t a precursor, yet the price is absurd, over 700g…
Holy kitten! I actually saw this years ago in a dream! So it’s true, I can see the future!
Never seen that before, may be on the very old days thives get away with the ‘signet’ yolo build. In fact I pretty much 1 shot 2 thieves on my bersker warrior the other day.
Thieves are still just as weak as before. P’s can’t tell if trolling.
I think I met you this day, you were mad at me for Vaulting x)
On Difficulty
….We definitely don’t want to make the encounters so challenging that things like that are never possible since all it does is make raids less accessible to others. …..this was my fav part. very funny, a wink afterwards would have sealed it. 7/10
It already is less accessible to others, ascended armor is overpriced and people have stupid requirements to enter a group, like legendary insights or eternal title (which in my oppinion should change, the name is far too edgy and “final” for something like that).
I think killing dungeons just to promote raids and fractals was a terrible idea, because both exclude 80% of the playerbase (might be even more) as these require ascended stuff which everyone knows how frustrating it is to get, but also the poor content in fractals. There’s only one raid atm but it’s not appealing for various reasons:
1. Pushing the Zerk meta again, which was the main complaint a while ago
2. Pushing the trinity by forcing players to have a tank and a healer
3. Timers everywhere
4. Ascended stuff is not required, you said it was recommended and an hour later for the playerbase → Ascended required
5. The bosses aren’t challenging (except Sabetha), I’m sorry but it’s the truth, if players fail it’s because they don’t know how to play their class: VG is cake, Gorseval is a poor DPS meter.
One more thing: People still abuse bugs in fractals and stack, so the argument to abandon dungeons is not justified.
Even then, 15 minutes to explore the sections full of the worst ennemies in the expansion is the dumbest idea I’ve ever seen, this needs to be changed aswell.
Just get on a dead map and explore first. You only need a few things at the end then.
Not if I wanna farm the Ore, and you forget the stupid rolling devils…
Even then, 15 minutes to explore the sections full of the worst ennemies in the expansion is the dumbest idea I’ve ever seen, this needs to be changed aswell.
They actually switched Longbow damage to P/P I think, True Shot being Unload even though it’s not the same stuff. I hope next Elite Spec will give us Rifle, not only because Thief needs better ranged weapon but also the fact that it makes more sense than anything else and is easier to do.
To be honest, raids are a waste of time now, I suggest people to do fractals instead until they add a LFG section, because now 90% of raid experience is forming a group, which can take hours for only one or several tries if people do not ragequit…
There was already a few threads about this a while back
TL;DR
Devs aren’t going to spend time on a temporary fix which is what they refer to revamping LFG with new tabs for Raids. They are not wanting to make LFG squad compatible. They are not wanting Raids to be LFG friendly since their end goal is players signing up on dedicated teams rather than going through the content with pugs.Not that I agree with any of that, but that’s what I remember being the final stances.
They should just say that there’re too lazy to do it and instead make cheap stuff for gem store…
There’s a glitch that makes her not resetting properly at last phase, when the group dies except one guy going for the cannons, he will be out of combat allowing people to come back and kill Sabetha which will be reverted to the first phase with the current life she has (timer cannot be seen but is still on).
This is how I would do the dragons/expansions
next would be Kalk
Then Jormag AND Bubbles
Then open up Cantha with a non dragon big bad. Some sort of Terracotta themed army Emperor thing maybe
Then Big Bad Primordus
Then you do Elona with the Lich Fellow
After that if the game is still going strong you go back to the beginning and maybe do a restoration of Arah with the return of the Gods.
Assuming they do Xpac, living story, Xpac, living story, release pattern that gives you just over another decade of Guild Wars 2
You forget that if all dragons are dead, then the world is boned because of all the abominations created and feeding on the energy left by them, do you want a million of Gorseval against you?