Guild Wars 2

leman.7682:

I really like where engies are at the moment.

I’ve recently palyed with 2 friends who never touched PvP and one of them came to the game after months of inactivity. We were able to cheese win our way through pretty much everything with all the CC, turrets, crates, etc. It was disgusting to say the least.

By disgusting I mean people who suck against this condi, cc and damage overload. I mean it’s not like others can’t outplay that if they’re good since the game’s balanced and engie=any other class. Yes, that’s right. Obviously.

If anything I can confirm that the healing turret has too high of a cooldown which should be lowered with a possible addition of initial condi removal, because Consume Conditions removes all condis so it’s clearly unfair for engies.

i remember that kitten…got 3 crates on my head on mid fml..

Chukree.1756:

ps. The only thing that keeps Mr smith and his buddy, the newly found mr jones from gandara wvw scene, hidden in the lairs of Vabbi, is the low cd on the engi heal skills that actually prevents him from 4 v 1’ing. Maybe it’s just rumours. I’ve talked to asdf member Henry recently, and he can confirm this is true. Buff slick shoes buff cd on heal. These are just mr smiths and jones’ cry for help for proper balance. Also double Moa skill will help them 2 v 5 the whole team, as jones often runs mesmer with air/fire procs, which i refrace “Is the best kitten thing happening to this game since crate elite was on the drawing board”

Healing turret definately needs to be on 10 secs cd, and knockback from exploding turrets increased ofc…just make it 800 range kb… should be pretty balanced imo

And don’t forget to buff crate…it’s so useless almost noone is running it

Rome.3192:

Archaon.9524:

Rome.3192:

Archaon.9524:

Yeah you definately not qualified since i’m pretty sure phd is already running at least one stunbreaker

Actually, he isn’t. :p

Wtf, even shout war has stunbreak on shake it off…pretty much all war specs usually have at least one stunbreak u.u

I might be wrong, but last I queued against him, he ran a Distraction Strike warrior with Fear Me, Berserker Stance and Signet of Stamina/Endure Pain (which doesn’t help get out of Slick Shoes either way).

signet of stamina and zerk stance is pretty extreme stuff ._.

…did you have like 2 condi necs or something like that?

and yeas breakstun without stability is useless anyway vs dat broken crap, also i have to say there’s a great increase of engis running dat kitten atm, guess they found out they can actually be even more reterded with that

ez mode wars 2

Rome.3192:

Archaon.9524:

Yeah you definately not qualified since i’m pretty sure phd is already running at least one stunbreaker

Actually, he isn’t. :p

Wtf, even shout war has stunbreak on shake it off…pretty much all war specs usually have at least one stunbreak u.u

Elegy.2159:

Chukree.1756:

100-0 ppl with no stun breaker.

You should really slot a stunbreaker. At least one. There are so many knockdowns and stuns in the game from all professions. Stunlock warriors, mesmers, thieves – it’s not just engineer. Slick shoes can be countered. You need positional awareness, and yes, a stunbreaker.

Chukree.1756:

Don’t need comments from people who don’t have atleast 10 000 pvp games. Thx.

Aw crap, I guess I’m not qualified. Disregard, I guess.

Yeah you definately not qualified since i’m pretty sure phd is already running at least one stunbreaker (Probably 2 like pretty much any other war around) but you know, since engis can spam knockbacks and kitten 24/7 you can’t just save them for slick shoes only. And ofc doesn’t take that much brain to just wait for you to use your stuff before permakd you to death….with a cc spamming bs class like engi is not that hard to do, since your stunbreakers are on longer cd that his cc crap it’s just a matter of time..

Have to say the 10k pvp matches thing has a point, they should make a forum’s filter out of it

Chukree.1756:

The skill knockdowns, even if you don’t move. U can’t stand still, can’t use any skill. It’s knock down on repeat. The description is wrong and the skill is one of the highest cc’s in game it’s aoe and easiest to land. Low CD. 100-0 ppl with no stun breaker.

Would like a programmer to look at it. Don’t need comments from people who don’t have atleast 10 000 pvp games. Thx.

Totally agree…in 1v1 you can usually get out before the engi manages to complete the circle of permakd around you but in tf there’s no way to spot it until you’re totally screwed. It’s basically a 3 sec permastun, if you have no stability or stunbreak off cd it’s done….and on top of that there’s usually a crate coming on your head too right after.

They should make it going in a straight line like burning speed, just stunbreak and go forward leaving the kd stuff behind you…but being able to trap and permakd ppl inside that crap is totally broken

Supreme.3164:

What are the general points, a build must cover before being considered viable, being part of the working meta, 5.0 score ( great ) on gw2 metabattle ?
What are your personal points?

Sustain (Condi cleanse, healing, regen, protection, vigor, blocks, invuln and so on…basically everything that can keep you alive)

Not being too glassy, if not thief or mes, for not getting rekt by thieves

Able to hold points for some time even if you’re not really meant for it

Having some team support (Ele healings and condi cleanses, engi healing turret and crate, war’s banner, mesmer’s portal and so on..and also cc for bursting ppl and rez/stomp control)

Decent mobility

If not a thief or shatter mesmer you should be decent in any 1v1 you could get in (Aka mainly not getting rekt by engis, eles and wars…no need to be able to win 1v1 vs everything ofc, but able to keep up at least)

And first of all:

Having as much passive crap as you can possibly stack in one spec, incendiary powder, cleansing water, evasive arcana and so on…

Basket of Boxes.1976:

I would hope for at least 10v10 otherwise what really makes this map any different from a glorified Legacy of the Foefire?

still sounds way better that zerg vs zerg

Tricare.2946:

There is no major gear advantage, you don’t have to “grind” for much. Any adverage player can get fully geared if your level 80 pretty quick. Only thing people grind for are skins.

And -% duration will always be better. Give that 2 second fear +100% duration. It’s now a 4 second fear. With just the -40 food it brings it down to a 2.4 second fear. Pretty much the base duration anyways.

That food just made that trait unless

Food Wars 2

roflmao…

i mean…come on…really?

zaced.7948:

Guild name [TAG]: Bad and Angry [fail]
Servers: EU
Description: as the name already says we’re looking for players with horrible skills as well as personalities. the guild’s communication, if there is any, is to take place through flame and insults only. friendlyness and comradeship is strictly forbidden.
Requirements: being a major buttcrack, r80, 99% or less on lb
Recruitment thread: -
Voice communication: nothing specific, i guess there’s always a ts3 server to be used somewhere
Website: as if i would go through that kind of hassle
Private Arena: nobody needs that
Contacts : me, your eternal master

edit: removed all the kittens as requested by eyia.

you’re late there’s already Toxic Community [AFK] fot that

brannigan.9831:

I have to lol at the idea that WvWvW people like the gear available there for min/maxingonly. They like the gear the way it is in WvWvW because if they grind the top gear it gives them a huge advantage over people that don’t have it. Don’t peddle that nonsense here we aren’t stupid. You can always min/max regardless of equipment with trait lines and runes in spvp. Don’t be afraid of even competition. If you like pvp for the sake of pvp it doesn’t matter. If you want your battles decided by equipment and numbers WvWvW is that way —-—————>.

^

Mrbig.8019:

Doomdesire.9365:

Didn’t really notice a difference with the might stacking in sPvP today. I was still able to maintain 25/near 25 stacks of might on cele ele and the damage difference was not substantial. Seems like non meta classes that rely on might stacking(certain guardians, warrior, thief) get hit pretty hard but the meta classes (cele ele) don’t notice a difference. Changes don’t really make sense but whatever.

If it were me I wouldn’t nerf the amount of might you can get, or the damage, but rather the duration. 30 seconds of might shouldn’t exist. Might should be there to assist someone in delivering a heavy burst, not kept the entire fight.

Might stacks capped at 15 in PvP

Voilà might problem solved

But nooooo let’s nerf everything in the wrong way.

It’s called anet’s way to fix stuff….trying to balance the game by breaking it even more with every patch since 2012

Tricare.2946:

Archaon.9524:

Tricare.2946:

Having spvp gear and stats is another reason a lot of people don’t play that game mode. Most of the wvw pop likes to min max their gear which can’t be done in spvp.

Is called balance, or you’re just another pve guy who likes to get carried by his hurr durr legendary junk instead of his skills? Your candies and shiny dungeon crap are not gonna help you there m8

get over it

Lul all these comments about my player skill and wanting to get carried. There’s a link to my youtube channel, pick some videos and make fun of me that way. and sadly I have 0 legendaries

Here’s a good one for you I’m the guardian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm--IZqqEs8

Edit: Also, everyone has the same gear…… I’m in all exotics except my trinkets and such which are all easy to achieve.

To be onest all i see is random spamming with ppl not even going for stability stomps and all standing in plague aoe like reterds, there’s kilometer of space to get out and they still sit on plague condispam 24/7…looks like a hotjoin midfight to me. If you want to make a video to prove something just go pvp, no need to get/buy gear, cakes and kitten…just go in, record it, upload on youtube and post on forum. Your gameplay will be way easier to see then once u got rid of nonsense pve stats and buffs and all dat kitten randomly flying around

Aylpse.6280:

Im playing unranked as a mesmer and I’ve lost twenty one games back to back. There are some games I was straight up shut down, but excluding those I have been getting top score/kills/caps, I rotate I do everything I know I should do, I’ve been winning 1v1s and ganking, I’ve read guides on the forums and I STILL cant win.

I cant tell if its matchmaking or me, for the record I use the portal really well, but no one ever seems to take it even if I drop it on them and ask for them to use it in /team. If Im doing something wrong can someone please direct me to to a page where I can understand what it is?

pro tip: if you’re playing shatter mesmer (If you’re playing condi you already wrong anyway) vs a team with thief and you haven’t one just reroll….trust me if their thief is not totally braindead he’s gonna wipe the floor with you

Lordrosicky.5813:

I heard in the latest patch that they did a balance patch but listened to all the NA crowd who say “itz mite stacking bro not celestial giving 30% more stats!!”.

Is that true? Surely it can’t be. Surely they didn’t do a balance patch and not nerf the amulet used by 60%+ of players?

nah they just nerfed might stacking a bit..but not enough to change this meta, they just toned everyone down so tiers are still the same while leaving bs like incendiary powder (Now comes with random torment proc too yeah) and ele’s permaregen/vigor/protection untouched…while keeping in mind that ele’s mightspam is so reterded that they can still keep 20+ might up with ease after patch

so…at the end of the day…eles and engis still out of hand

Tricare.2946:

Having spvp gear and stats is another reason a lot of people don’t play that game mode. Most of the wvw pop likes to min max their gear which can’t be done in spvp.

Is called balance, or you’re just another pve guy who likes to get carried by his hurr durr legendary junk instead of his skills? Your candies and shiny dungeon crap are not gonna help you there m8

get over it

is called templates…like it was in gw1

but you know…it was too good to make it happen in gw2 too

insanemaniac.2456:

Archaon.9524:

insanemaniac.2456:

Solstice.1097:

rotten.9753:

glock.6590:

The talk is big but nothing happens. Still fighting full premades while im yolo Q’ing.

Rome wasn’t build in one day.

Building Rome was also IRL… not in a digital landscape that you can play God with.

they say god didnt do his thang in a day either

more than 2 years looks like enough to me for god to fix kittening matchmaking tho

are you calling justin a god? pretty nice compliment

well in gw2 world he’s some sort of god i guess…you type and ppl die, stuff like that

insanemaniac.2456:

Solstice.1097:

rotten.9753:

glock.6590:

The talk is big but nothing happens. Still fighting full premades while im yolo Q’ing.

Rome wasn’t build in one day.

Building Rome was also IRL… not in a digital landscape that you can play God with.

they say god didnt do his thang in a day either

more than 2 years looks like enough to me for god to fix kittening matchmaking tho

Lordrosicky.5813:

Leaderboards not mattering has killed this game.

Currently this is what happens:
You form a premade but it is never serious, never tactics, no serious comp

Why is this? Because most games are a total joke and easy.

Then you come up against someone taking it serious (once every so often) and you lose. Which is no fun.

Basically this games competitive scene as far as in-game has been destroyed. You can’t get any fun out of this game….at all. It just sucks because nobody forms teams or cares about winning because the leaderboards are a total joke.

Leaderboards must show who the best players are. Originally I liked the new leaderboards because they were a grind and that was good. But the effect on the game has been awful.

Dont expect any new players to get into the esports world because it is impossible with team queue in this state.

Not even worthless lamas this time…i’m disappointed, but looks like there’s some crazy pve guy still farming it even if it’s totally pointless…ranked que it’s more like some sort of dungeon atm (Also considering average team’s level there, i bet many mobs are harder to kill than those condi mesmers and thieves spamming hs), except with way less rewards….unranked it’s like…well…mining ores? If someone bothers bout ranked you don’t even need a premade…3que is usually more than enough, you may loose vs the occasional good team but 8 times out of 10 you’re just gonna get ppl with no clue at all

Justin ODell.9517:

Just dropping off some data.

Maps in order of mean difference between team scores in the last week of unranked arena.

1. Forest of Niflhel
2. Battle of Kyhlo +36
3. Spirit Watch +40
4. Temple of the Silent Storm +42
5. Skyhammer +44
6. Legacy of the Foefire +72
7. Courtyard +124

well all know courtyard it’s just a reterded spam friendly snowball “map”…no need to look at numbers anyway, but since it’s only unranked like bshammer and lamewatch it’s fine i guess…it may be, not for me but i dunno, fun to play there once in a while in unranked, in ranked legacy is easily the one with higher score difference for the reasons stated above (Forest has bosses too for bonus points but it’s not even nearly as unbalanced as foefire when it comes to premades on ts vs pugs) And i’m usually the one on the 3q to premade side.

SobeSoul.6910:

AsmallChicken.9634:

I find it funny how when the top EU and NA GvG teams fought in an unofficial and unsponsored gvg, it had a comparable number of viewers to the official Esports tournament Anet had to bribe people with precursors to watch.

When has Chemsorly had 1k viewers at one time?

Lets not compare the active spvpers vs. active gvgers figures either. The gvg scene is so small and irrelevant to anybody but the people involved with it. Not to mention gvg is such a mess to watch.

Not to mention i got a match vs that chemsomething wvsw guy premading with other wvsw “pros” in tpvp…no need to tell it ended 500-0 back to stonemist gg… (Someone told me he was him cause i didn’t even know who the kitten he was anyway)

we also went watching his stream right after…that was pretty funny, they stacked might before entering graveyard lel…and got rped in like 10 seconds…our thief was so glad of having 25 might stacks for free on opening

Chaith.8256:

Copestetic.5174:

I don’t want to see the Trinity return which is why I’m concerned. The framework’s there ( in theory ) given the new specialization system and content that’s supposedly difficult. Anything to add to the conversation?

This is the PvP forums. When Arenanet said there will be challenging content, I’m pretty sure that’s not cause for concern that there will be a traditional trinity in PvP comps.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot

^Go here

I remember anet talking about challenging content more than 2 years and half ago too…on realease…

and here we are…still

Bugabuga.9721:

Hello!

Is there any matchmaking in practice arena or does it just throw you into random one?
I keep getting into 100:500 type of matches over and over (with my team getting 100) which is rather boring.

the only good thing bout practice aka hotjoin is to go there with 2 3 mates to make guild tryhard premades ragequit…it’s fun when you’re just chilling but there’s nothing else to do there anyway. Learn maps and go unranked…practice is gonna teach you nothing bout pvp

witcher.3197:

rotten.9753:

People on this forum are already complaining that forming 5-man parties is too problematic and yet some posters here wants to play 10v10 or even higher.

Because there are many casual players on this forum who refuse to learn the game and it’s easier to get carried in a group of 10 than in a group of 5.

^

witcher.3197:

Vamp Rook.7835:

I don’t understand this discussion:

Stronghold == GW1 GvG

So, GvG/Stronghold is not Zerg vs Zerg.

Teams of the discussion:

• WvW players who call their 20v20 zergfests ‘GvG’ and demand a gamemode for it and are disappointed that they won’t be able to zerg in the official GvG gamemode of gw2.
• GW1 players who remember what GvG actually means and welcome the gamemode.
• GW2 PvP players who understand that 5v5 is a good size for PvP.

8v8 max and it’s probably already too much for preventing random spamming (aka zerg vs zerg)…still depends on map size too anyway

i REALLY hope gw1’s style gvg is coming tho

Laraley.7695:

Archaon.9524:

Laraley.7695:

Yeah, remove the map that usually gets most votes. That would make so much sense.

That’s not the point…foefire is a really snowball friendly map and bunker comps (Like usual celestial bs) have a big advantage there since it has the most easy to hold mid point of all maps paired with a really good map control potential (Aka you can see them from miles and rotate properly even before they engage) and premade on ts can easily do this vs uncoordinated pugs. If you face a premade there as a pug it’s almost a 100% loss…unless they’re total scrubs…but they have to be really REALLY bad to lose vs pugs on legacy. They just need to fix the matchmaking but looks like they can’t.

Btw if you had just a little pvp experience you would have known what he was talking about…but clearly you haven’t

Lol. I’m sorry if someone is going to ask for removing a map just because matchmaking is broken, that doesn’t make a sense to me. It still doesn’t change the fact the map is liked and it’s not only because of what people play. I do agree it favours comps with bunkers but really? Removing a map because it’s difficult to face premades as a pug? Do you really not see the problem there? How about we remove all the maps because as a pug team it’s too hard to fight a really good premade?

One map makes it harder for a pug vs premade and people want to remove it. Instead of actually thinking and figuring out…hey, maybe it’s not a good idea to put pugs vs premade.

we actually waited forever to fix matchmaking when it comes to pugs vs premades…and it’s kinda clear they just can’t

Laraley.7695:

Yeah, remove the map that usually gets most votes. That would make so much sense.

That’s not the point…foefire is a really snowball friendly map and bunker comps (Like usual celestial bs) have a big advantage there since it has the most easy to hold mid point of all maps paired with a really good map control potential (Aka you can see them from miles and rotate properly even before they engage) and premade on ts can easily do this vs uncoordinated pugs. If you face a premade there as a pug it’s almost a 100% loss…unless they’re total scrubs…but they have to be really REALLY bad to lose vs pugs on legacy. They just need to fix the matchmaking but looks like they can’t.

Btw if you had just a little pvp experience you would have known what he was talking about…but clearly you haven’t

get a reflect and watch them killing themselves…since most of them are not smart enough to interrupt rapid fire, they probably gonna call you hacker too…whatever..

/thread

FrozenFlame.5163:

Barret.4095:

what makes the best guild then, how much better they zerg another guild? at least in these types of game modes you can see how well each member of a team contributes to the game instead of a mess of 20 players in which half of them probably just get carried.

You obviously never even watched a GvG, or are being sarcastic.

What you’re saying is absolute rubish. You talk about people being carried yet in this gamemode only 5 people are playing… how does that make a WHOLE GUILD the best?
You need at least a large portion of the guild to participate in the gamemode to mark it as the best guild.

To be the best you don’t need more ppl, candies, legendaries, retrds spamming blasts and stuff…you just need the best players (And i mean pvp skill, not combo blasting or shouting on ts)…and sadly i know noone from wvsw falling in this category…20 vs 20 shows nothing about single players and everyone knows it

Keep it max 8v8 with pvp stats (No gear, level, buff advantages and so on)…more the 8v8 is just gonna be spam fest while basic differences between player’s stats it’s just gonna make it totally unskilled and irrelevant for competitive playing…that’s what anet is aiming to…i hope…

Pvp guilds don’t have that many players just because you actually need only 5….you can easily grab all players from top esl teams and make a guild that will totally destroy every single other guild in any possible mode (Even if they make it pve based with different stats and kitten) maybe with this new game mode is gonna happen…we’ll see, maybe pve guys are finally going to understand what actual gvg is (Like gw1 gvg)…since atm wvsw gvg is just useful for linking youtube videos like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHbT68HaaU on ts while waiting for qpop to have a good laugh…

just don’t do it with pve buffs, gear levels and so on and it’s gonna be fine, keep it in pvp environment…otherwise it’s just another noskill wvsw bs with reterded guys shouting blast blast blast on ts while zerging like headless chickens, and noone is gonna give a single kitten to it

Vapour.7348:

Someone from my team was complaining how the game is super bugged because he couldn’t get our treb to work. It was immediately pointed out that he was in our enemy’s treb. It was too much for me to get upset over. Despite losing, I found that encounter quite endearing.

and they still wonder why ppl go afk…

Veritas.3952:

Booms.2594:

Veritas.3952:

I have often wished that the first round of r 80’s ( those that became r 80 when the april 15th patch went live ) would get a separate finisher ( maybe a reskin of the dragon finisher ) as the grind to 55 or above was alot more than what the newer dragons have had to go through. It is of course a non-necessary notion, but It would be kinda nice and appreciated none the less.

getting to 55 then and 80 now were the exact same?

Well i believe it was if you were rank 55 the old way you got bumped up to 80…im not sure if they are the same number of points respectively.

exactly…that’s why r80 means nothing since 15 april 2014

it’s so easy that pretty much anyone can get r80 in few months

Pvp just needs ranked based finishers…1 rank point for every ranked game you win, at least pve heroes can’t farm it

Everyone knows that krait + entangle is reterded since entangle is already unblockable on it’s own

So this is gonna be like…

Darnis.4056:

Old school Shatter mesmer is getting hit really hard by the blanket Might nerf.
We’ve been picking up 3-5% damage buffs for like a year and now you drop 14% Damage off might?

But WAIT your useless weapons are still useless because the buffs don’t go far enough.

They are buffing condi mesmer…again…instead of working around mesmer’s only viable build that is shatter…condi mesmer is not viable and won’t be after this patch, get over it anet

insanemaniac.2456:

Archaon.9524:

insanemaniac.2456:

Archaon.9524:

Morwath.9817:

Archaon.9524:

Justin…please…

I see ‘balanced’ team on your side and 3 stacked warriors on OP side… so… please…

So you don’t know who those guys are right? If you don’t just don’t reply plz…balanced lol, golden…dungeon master and reaper vs asdf……next time what? full wvsw heroes party vs CM? (And thanks god they don’t actually go ranked otherwise is probably gonna happen…)

How is your “rating system” working if i may ask? Is gonna be interesting to know who the “top” players are according to your ratings…the #1 guy on this ladder? The hambow guy who was #3 or something in the last ladder popping all stances at once? I’m curious…i bet prince vingador is higher then prototype on your rating thing…

there is something really wrong in this matchmaking…and i mean totally wrong

it isnt safe to assume anyone knows the esl teams, the stream barely breaks 2k viewers

pretty sure on pvp forum 90% of ppl doesn’t even know what esl is…but looks like this is not gonna stop them from posting

no need to be a jerk about it

when you see things like sensotix writing about mesmer’s issues (Happened some time ago) and random ppl with no clue kiking in with “mesmer op, i can’t spot the real one plz nerf” it becomes a challenge not to be a jerk

insanemaniac.2456:

Archaon.9524:

Morwath.9817:

Archaon.9524:

Justin…please…

I see ‘balanced’ team on your side and 3 stacked warriors on OP side… so… please…

So you don’t know who those guys are right? If you don’t just don’t reply plz…balanced lol, golden…dungeon master and reaper vs asdf……next time what? full wvsw heroes party vs CM? (And thanks god they don’t actually go ranked otherwise is probably gonna happen…)

How is your “rating system” working if i may ask? Is gonna be interesting to know who the “top” players are according to your ratings…the #1 guy on this ladder? The hambow guy who was #3 or something in the last ladder popping all stances at once? I’m curious…i bet prince vingador is higher then prototype on your rating thing…

there is something really wrong in this matchmaking…and i mean totally wrong

it isnt safe to assume anyone knows the esl teams, the stream barely breaks 2k viewers

pretty sure on pvp forum 90% of ppl doesn’t even know what esl is…but looks like this is not gonna stop them from posting

BLUna.7928:

Game ended at approximately 9:18 PM Eastern, and was played on this account.

I will admit before going on that matchmaking has been better since the patch (been keeping a spreadsheet of match data) but I just queued into something that confuses me on how it was even able to pop. Details below:

• Full premade vs full solo players.
• Premade has decent comp.
• Solos (my team) have 2 mesmers and 2 thieves.
• 4v5, our team’s fifth never even loaded into the map.

Putting the 4v5 aside for the time being, why was a comp with 2 thieves and 2 mesmers even allowed to be put against a full premade? Ill provide a screenshot of the aftergame screen as soon as my stream catches up to it on the vod. Was just a bit upsetting. The worst part was everyone in the match unanimously agreed there was no point in even attempting the match. I ended up AFKing to grab a drink. :/

Blu can’t you spot how esports it is? Don’t worry i just went solo+random guys vs asdf full rooster

Working as intended i guess…got my 20 pnts and went afk telling them to go lord and end that nonsense asap

Morwath.9817:

Archaon.9524:

Justin…please…

I see ‘balanced’ team on your side and 3 stacked warriors on OP side… so… please…

So you don’t know who those guys are right? If you don’t just don’t reply plz…balanced lol, golden…dungeon master and reaper vs asdf……next time what? full wvsw heroes party vs CM? (And thanks god they don’t actually go ranked otherwise is probably gonna happen…)

How is your “rating system” working if i may ask? Is gonna be interesting to know who the “top” players are according to your ratings…the #1 guy on this ladder? The hambow guy who was #3 or something in the last ladder popping all stances at once? I’m curious…i bet prince vingador is higher then prototype on your rating thing…

there is something really wrong in this matchmaking…and i mean totally wrong

Justin ODell.9517:

Archaon.9524:

Justin…please…

Archaon…please…explain. I’m busy, it helps if you point me in the right direction.

Let’s say i was just wondering if i got into esl match while pugging solo….come on look at teams…

Justin…please…

SobeSoul.6910:

Chukree.1756:

Tired of listening to NA players complain about nothing relevant to the PvP scene. I’d actually rather google translate a french or a german forum, where the debate is on a higher level.

I’d rethink your first sentence. A lot of the current EU meta came from NA. While EU hasn’t influenced NA all that much in recent times.

Higher level debate? Whenever EU ESL’s are on it is just “omgersh Celemonkeys everywhere. So boring.” in the chat. From seeing both EU and NA members discuss stuff in this forum, I think there’s equal input by both communities. I think EU has a little edge in the maturity department.

If latency could be worked out where it was possible for EU and NA people to play together, instead of regional servers, I actually think it would be better for the game.

Are you talking about reterded no guardian double ele double engi celestial comps?

Thank you very much then…lel

Justin ODell.9517:

Archaon.9524:

U freaking serious anet? 5 pugs vs 4que gg

You got rekt. :o

I’m looking to figuring out exactly how that happened. Not only did it put you against a 4-player premade, you team also had a much lower rating. The rating of the other team isn’t even so high that it couldn’t find better matches.

Since it was 4 ppl premade of esl players i don’t think their rating is really that low, or it shouldn’t be at least….i don’t even want to know about my team, they pretty much died everywhere even 3v2…

to be fair i wasn’t even expecting to actually get over 100 pnts when i looked at team’s tab…as you can notice in teamchat..

U freaking serious anet? 5 pugs vs 4que gg

NeXeD.3042:

Archaon.9524:

top players usually don’t have any problem finding a team to play with….

Not everyone is a “top” player…. not sure what you are trying to say here.

Guild name [TAG]: Top Players [LFG]
Description: A collection of people that play at a high level. The guild is to help top players find a pug group or a team to play with.

did you even read op?

Acrisor.8097:

Kharr.5746:

Anyone else find it funny that finishers have become such a joke that they’re mostly used to troll, rather than to show status as they were initially intended?

Newsflash for you: Status no longer matters. It is easy to get from rank1 to rank80.
And related to topic: I love Cow Finisher.

^

No longbow, terrible condi removal, low direct damage and no condi damage, noone is gonna get hit by killshot and if you save your shield stun to escape (That is gonna happen in seconds vs any decent build) you won’t land final thrust to…

i could go on…but think you got the point…

top players usually don’t have any problem finding a team to play with….

leman.7682:

Joshua Grouch Davis,

We like the game and aren’t unthankful, but the pace at which the balance team releases changes is abysmal and their impact on the metagame in PvP and PvE is none.

I really hope it’s because HoT brings new weapons and skills and whatnot and that the balance looks different there, that the team was working hard to make the meta and playing all professions fun in the expansion (with the new game mode that is coming) which was the reason for close to no balance changes over the last year. Otherwise you’re never getting even close to making a competitive game and your e-sports dreams will remain just that – unfullfilled dreams. You’re moving farther away from it with every player lost to months of stale, uninspired and, sorry to say, plain dumb management of the game balance.

PvP can be a great community-building device, but it needs to be nurtured and taken care of. What’s been done during last year is just a spit in the face of your loyal players who’d been there even longer than some of the Devs and who supported the game and promoted it through viva voce. You’d be nowhere without these people. They deserve at least some honesty on what the hell is going on and why it’s taking the team 5 months to change 36 skills. Makes me sad thinking of it.

It’s been too long.

Sincerely,
a gw2 pvp fan since beta

+100 for leman