The sad things they are not gonna punish exploiting. Inb4 omg i am just qing with friends: yeah sssure. Chat logs, names like pip farmer for amber account are way too obvious.
There simply aren’t enough groups in the ranked queue at a given time to make teamq divisions and matchmaking work.
So lets crap on majority of players for the sake of couple teams? GREAT IDEA!
The majority of players is indifferent. And of the ones that do have a opinion only a handful of them will actually quit over it.
However the number of players that will be angered by not being able to get pops as a group………
I mean seriously league of legends got rid of the soloq / teamq split. That alone should tell you something.
Orly? Says who? I have yet to meet a single soloq player in game that didn’t mind facing premades over and over and over again.
I wanted to know if other people had the issue of big lags when playing against revenant’s chaotic release.
The closer the character is from the Rev, the worst it is. It’s especially annoying fighting on nodes. I don’t have any other lag issue from other classes skills except this one
I would say the lag occurs at less than 300 range.
I don’t see anything about punishment for the people who clearly exploited and already got everything they needed in the first season. So should i understand nothing will happen to them? If yes be sure any exploit that will ever appear in pvp i will take advantage of it….because i consider it a reward at this point.
pretty much this^^
exploiting is excused and rewarded in gw2 apprently /clap
Because one of the day anet decided that it is great idea to crap on majority of pvp players and remove soloq in hope to force players in teamq for the sake of esports.
I like how eles try to defend diamond skin saying it doesn#t affect power builds: well it is actually even more obnoxious to power builds since you can’t blind, nor immob, nor put poison, chill or weakness on ele. Yeah, getting them to 90% HP is possible but keeping them under 90 is actually everything but easy due to perma protection, additional dmg reduction, miriad of heals and CC. I had backstab hitting for 50 dmg, yes 50.
Thank you for the updates! I think this addresses most of the problems, and I’m looking forward to season 2. With the combination of “team upscaling” and win streaks getting higher skilled players up the ladder faster, I think it will be a much better experience than season 1 has been.
(also, as there are already complaints in this thread, I disagree with much of the community about solo-queue. I do not think it is needed, so long as teams are correctly rated skill-wise, which I think you’ve covered with the upscaling to highest league division member.)
you must be new to pvp or farm with premade
premades have at least 2 huge advantages over pug teams:
- voice client (if you ever played thief vs full premade you would know how huge the difference is because good premade will call your movement all over the map and decapping becomes quite hard; then we have organized lord rushes etc.)
- matchmaking can’t force terrible class composition on premade
This is all good and well, but what’s stopping a diamond tier group of friends from having one dude make an amber account? I’ll assume that you’re also changing the pip rewards then, making it so that it doesn’t matter if there’s a tier 1 amber with a clean MMR on the winning team.
Someone please clarify.
This is exactly the same thing that I was thinking while reading that paragraph.
If the pips loss/win depends on the higher div player of a team, than this change is good. If not, it will still not prevent some kind of abuse.
Match prediction is also based on the highest division player in the party.
I have a lot of friends that aren’t as high tier as I am. A lot of them have already shied away from playing with me due to my higher league and MMR. Now, I’m certain they will not be encouraged to play with me since they will be brought up to my league and MMR if we que together.
I’m usually happier when I get a thief on my team than when I get double DHs or double necros.
I dunno. Its harder to find a good thief. Its easy to find a DH that can spam traps on a node.
Exactly, there are professions that can do it’s job better with less effort, more user friendly, same goes for warrior.
The wisest move right now is to adapt to the meta if you’re going for pips, use what is working the best competitively. People can argue/defend their gs warrior, but it will get outplayed against a competent team.
So solution isto ban them from game? What a stupid idea. How about proper class balance instead?
Do you guys play Thief in PvP sometimes ? Do you think choices of builds should be removed from the game as everyone always plays the exact same thing, going from the same trait to the same runes and sigils ? Why are some traits really bad and some are really good, in the same tree ? Is ArenaNet forcing us to play one kind of thing, like in League Of Legends ? Do you think it is possible to get to a high rank by playing Thief ? Is it even worth to report someone who’s insulting you ?
Thanks for reading me.
- I main vanilla dp thief.
- Choices are great thing, they make fun stuff happen in matches (and tourneys), the old trait system was what allowed build varierity, you can blame Anet for limiting build diversity with new trait system, not players.
- Well, i would say that it depends on game mode weither one trait is good or not but there are indeed some traits that are just plain bad. Answer to that: bad design, lack of knowledge, lack of time etc.
- i would say so, it is easier to balance limited amount of builds, less work duhh
- yeah i think you can get high rank if you play a lot and are good at thief (i farmed games to ruby relative fast after i took long break from pvp since HoT release); i think diamond is doable, not sure about legend tho due to abusers and premades
- once in ages, when mods are not busy banning ppl on forums for most harmless things, they actually do bann people for verbal abuse (if it is excessive) in game
As isaid in other thread, BnS is not GW2 killer. Anet killed GW2 themself. People are not leaving because of new shiney but because gw2 simply sucks atm and there is no hope due to Anet history.
I bet OP is the same guy that was moaning all match that i was playing thief, threated to afk, spent more time actually talking crap than playing and asked everyone to report me for botting because i was playing a thief. At the end we won and that guy got reported by our team for verbal abuse. Moral of the story? Shut up and play.
Moral of the story; he called you “he” :>
shhhhhhh
lol I mean that’s fine if that’s what you want to think, I can’t do anything about that. If you’re happy with thief and warrior’s current state I guess they don’t need any buffs, they’re both good against druids, tempest, scrappers and heralds right?
The people that want to defend thief and warrior as being “good” and a superior choice are lying to themselves. I love warrior, it’s one of my mains, but don’t lie to yourself, they’re both bad.
As i stated before: thieves and wars are fine, everything else is just brokenly OP and need massive nerfs. Buffing thieves and wars to tempest/scrapper and co. level would just increase power creep and make meta we all so hate even worse. NO TY.
I bet OP is the same guy that was moaning all match that i was playing thief, threated to afk, spent more time actually talking crap than playing and asked everyone to report me for botting because i was playing a thief. At the end we won and that guy got reported by our team for verbal abuse. Moral of the story? Shut up and play.
Here is the problem: BnS and co. are not GW2 killer. GW2 killed itself in this case (or Anet rather). I am sure if GW2 was still fun people would stick to it no matter what other games came out, but gven state of pvp/wvw and pve atm, i am sure a lot of people would rather play ANYTHING that resembles fun than gw2 atm. People are not switching because omg game XY is better but because gw2 just sucks.
Also playing other classes will help you a lot in long run if you want to play thief after all since thief is all about knowing when to interrupt, when to attack and when to run from enemy (and rotations ofc).
Fish Stick
A herring that has been skewered by a stick. Grows a shrubbery on your arm when drawn. Footfalls are little knight heads that pop out of the ground and say “Ni!” Alternatively, footfalls are shrubberies, and your arm is covered in tiny knight heads that constantly say “Ni!”
Flavor text: A legendary preserved fish. It is said that it can fell the mightiest of trees.
I bet OP is the same guy that was moaning all match that i was playing thief, threated to afk, spent more time actually talking crap than playing and asked everyone to report me for botting because i was playing a thief. At the end we won and that guy got reported by our team for verbal abuse. Moral of the story? Shut up and play.
I bet OP is the same guy that was moaning all match that i was playing thief, threated to afk, spent more time actually talking crap than playing and asked everyone to report me for botting because i was playing a thief. At the end we won and that guy got reported by our team for verbal abuse. Moral of the story? Shut up and play.
I don’t want to be and shouldn’t be on team with scumbags like this legendary guy that cheesed his way up the division but has experience/skill of a pve hero that never touched pvp. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. Prevent people from queueing ranked with players > 1 divisions below them, reset MMR at BEGIN of the season and ACTUALLY BANN PLAYERS FOR MMR TANKING. Thanks.
They used to have separate q’s. And people kittened.
Now they don’t have separate q’s. And people continue to kitten.
Honestly, wtf do you expect them to do? Either route they go someone is going to be unhappy. There is only so much they can do to compensate.
This is plain lie. I Played this game for years, people did complain about balance, maybe long q times for teams but nobody ever complained about soloq or EVER asked to merge teamq and soloq. EVER.
Well pretty simple actually: for 4 pips you actually need to win games, meaning your win ratio is probably above 50% so matchmaking will make sure you will lose next games (unless unexpected happens).
For winning a 1v1, which scrappers are designed to excel at, that’s pretty much it, yes. You won’t die instantly as you say but you’ll likely die before slick shoes dissipates. If they catch you with the latter part of the skill, they stand right on top of you, and you have steal up, it’s possible to daze them without knocking yourself down and escape as it fades. I’m not trying to suggest anything is perfect and balanced. I’m attempting to suggest what can be done with how things currently are.
as far as i am aware thieves were supposed to be good at 1v1, engis were supposed to be jack of all trades master of none and be WEAK against condis (which they are not, my guess is because of Grouch)
I hate Foefire due to:
- if you don’t have mid you will probably lose
- in current meta Lord is way too squishy and gets instantly blown up by DHs and co.
- this map favors bunkers
Leagues are a joke anyway~
