The matchmaking crapped the bed really hard recently and no one but Anet knows why. As you’ve experienced it leads to well balanced and very fun matches.
Watching my pugs get 1v3’d by a turret engi after waiting 8 minutes for the game to start is a good and fun time. Why would you not be ecstatic with this great matchmaking?
A bunker guard does no damage and medi don’t tank that well
A d/d ele is very killable 1v1, they debatably do too much damage for how strong they can bunker though
A cleric staff ele does no damage
A turret engi is annoying but still beatable 1v1, better to just leave em to die of old age though
A cele engi is a meh bunker
If people are 3/4v1’ing someone unsuccessfully they are outplayed as heck.
There isn’t MMR. The match making system is to wait 2 mins and then throw literally everyone into the same pile and go from there.
MMR doesn’t exist because nobody pvp’s for it to match people. People don’t pvp because there is no MMR.
Look at the game browser on literally any day at any time, there isn’t a single full map. There is literally like a few hundred people pvping. Thats it. The games pvp is so kitten that nobody does it.
IMO, get rid of this 5v5 arena kitten and move to 8v8 by default. Things become more interesting now that it’s no so individual based.
Lol yer lookin at the hotjoin servers, but I agree bring back 8v8 hotjoin. Leave ranked/unranked 5v5, but dear god fix the matchmaking.
So low MMR players are put on the 4 side of 4v5? So you are saying your high MMR puts you constantly on the 5 side of 4v5, see what i mean, fix this broken MMR, As far as check boxes are concerned you are saying there are 10 but the tenth never gets filled and is there for what reason?
He’s saying 4v5 only exists if people leave and less people leave at higher mmr.
Then it’s a flawed system and probably needs to be reworked from the ground up to start with. Remember stealth in Halo? it was more like a camo, not like this pseudo invisibility hack. The entire style of it (complete vanishing, no tells, no signs) feels like a 4th wall trick.
And you say if i could keep target through stealth, then what is the point of stealth? well, for one, they completely avoid damage. That’s a pretty powerful thing to have and it’s abused already to no end. The untargeting is just adding more insult to injury..
Really, REALLY hoping they make some kind of change to this system to restore some fairness to these encounters.
Seriously, though, Sic ‘Em is a pretty good skill and it absolutely SHREDS stealth users if you wait a bit to make sure they’re low on dodges / poorly positioned.
Also the pet buff is pretty significant so it’s not a total waste even if your don’t face people you want Revealed.
wasting a skill slot simply to stop invisibility for 6 seconds? seems like a waste, when you ask me to build my character based on a broken, unfair class i occasionally encounter. My main problem doesn’t lie with invisibility itself but the untargeting it does. The big advantage THEY have, is they have the luxury of keeping me targeted throughout an entire fight. Meanwhile im spending half the fight retargetting them over and over again, before i can even do a shred of damage…. it’s a complete waste of my time and skills and they are only winning those fights because im wasting half my skills on air (thanks 400 ping and 1 second delay on skills). it’s got to the point where as soon as I see “mesmer” above their heads i turn around and go the other direction.. hope to find a more interesting fight on another cap.
Here’s my solution Anet; When I target my enemy at the beginning of a fight, please KEEP them targeted. I should be focusing my attention on my skills and the combat, not the UI.. seriously, these fights feel more like im fighting the game rather than the player. That to me screams BROKEN. Shame on you if you’re playing it.
Rapid fire already tracks them through stealth duder. Also if you could always keep target through stealth that would kinda defeat the whole point.
I’m assuming there will be updates to the base classes. With the new tech for fields and aoes surely some of that will be brought to the old classes and not just specs. Elsewise lol.
Some pro tips 4 u op:
if there’s a purple bubble over you don’t rapid fire
target the one with boons (and maybe signets)
if all the clones run at you dodge
use entangle with krait runes on a condi build, the mesmer will have a bad time
bring stability and/or sig of stone
read my earlier post in this thread.
edit: I forgot condi mesmers, if its a condi mesmer lol
You can daggerstorm then cancel for stability or go into the blue shield bubble Braham spawns for stability and protection (these are normally near the channel locations). To kill the shadows you need to have the divine fire buff on yourself before you hit them to kill them.
