like trunks said, many solo q people open with
140
1 home 4 mid 0 far
however, like Agemnon said, some team compositions are much more better suited for team battles, and we will very likely to lose the initial mid battle.
in one of my season 3 battles (i only had real 3 battles in season 3 so far though, the first one is a laggy desertion so it does not really count) we got the temple map.
i discussed with my team mates,
in the end, we decided to open with 1 home (mesmer portal) while 4 mid,
even though we all know the other team got both druid and tempest (well, we see a ranger and elementalist on their rooster, most people own should hot anyway and be using elite specs) anyway, 2 support.
so the initial mid fight kinda went south, we got killed off one by one, but the other team took a bit too long in taking us out, our mesmer got home, and then went to decap and cap far as well.
so we got both sides while they got mid, the points were kinda tied but we were leading by a few points.
after that, the other team kinda dunno how to divide up their forces. they left 2 at mid, only to be slaughtered by us.
seeing that we got mid, i figured that they would wanna try to take home since we dun have anyone at home, so i ran the best i could (imma testing a vanilla hambow phalax str warrior) up the stairs to check home, saw a scrapper slowing making his way towards our home.
i went to engage the scrapper, the scrapper threw a few attacks at me while keep on going to our home. another team mate of mine came along, the 2 of us murdered the lone scrapper who was assaulting our home, we never lost the home cap.
we kept on murdering them since.
yeah they may have won the initial mid fight, but we got sides during the early phase of the battle too.
we proceed to cap every stillness and tranQ, the game ended 500 – 19x i think we rekt them good.
anyway, going far is fine as long as you dun die there and feed points to the other team.
Is no one else going to mention how absurdly bloated this skill is?
Its Base damage is decent with power.
It inflicts 4 Condis: blind(5), cripple(8s), 4 bleed (8s), 4 confusion(4s).
Dazes for 1s.
Is a blast finisher.
5s cool down.
and has some extra range, mobility and tracking on it.
High spamability with cool down reduction(3 1/4s) and burst mastery and of course 3 condis cleanse with ire.Warrior finally coming back into meta is a great thing but this skill is a bit too insane.
Daze duration should be reduced for sure and either a removal of the multiple condi stacks, durations or an entire condi altogether.
its not overkill since it is very easily negated by evade spam, block spam, blind spam, etc.
^ Cynz hahah yeah the heroes in living stories have pretty ridiculous abilities XD
btw, Zietlogik, maybe we can call this new game mode
“Heroes of the Mist”
XD
or would that make blizzard angry ?
yes !!!
i support
this would eventually become like DOTA 2 / smite / overwatch etc but with guild wars 2 heroes.
errr no, if you lose a lot, you will be very much more likely to be partied together with other team mates who also happened to have lost a lot.
good luck trying to get wins with those team mates.
Does this work? If I lose a bunch in a row can I get a win streak? I’ve played almost 30 matches now and gained a total of 3 pips even though i’ve won 16 of those matches.
you do realize that your new team mates will have lower MMR as well.
can you carry 4 others ?
super casual pvp player here.
played 4 games so far
1st game, tried druid, bad start, some lag, gw2 client disconnects me, i didn’t go back
2nd, 3rd, 4th games, tried a vanilla warrior, testing out phalanx strength, 3 wins, 4 pips
well i am taking it very slow and so far the experience has been good to me.
i like them esl thingie.
with that comes the call of the mist buff which gives extra 100% pvp magic find , etc.
nice boons for casual pvp.
108 games in season 3 ?
that’s way too many games.
we are like, what? 3rd or 4th day into season 3 ?
if 4 day, that’s 108 / 4 = 27 games per day
3 games per hour
9 hours per day ??? ?$ #$^#$^@
so far i only played 3 games in season 3, well, 4, but the 1st game was a desertion since gw2 client refused to cooperate with my internet service provider. my 2nd, 3rd, 4th games were wins so i’m at 4/20 emerald now. i got to ruby in both season 1 and season 2.
i think you played too much.
quality over quantity perhaps ?
ooo thanks for sharing !!!
ooo 618 dmg
whats your base power ?
2050 via marauder ?
or the damage is not based off power and bypass their armor (toughness + defense) completely ?
ooo how much dmg
whats it called in the damage log
not really,
if ur MMR is real low, u get real low MMR team mates as well.
unlike in season 1, if u r lucky, you could get a high MMR team mate to carry you.
are you serious ?
dragon hunter is lowest tier profession at the moment, or so i heard.
there is already a leaderboard.
its called legendary leaderboard.
I am happy that its harder to win. Maybe people in the higher tiers deserve it.
actually higher MMR people will have harder fights since they are most likely fighting against other higher MMR people.
Played 6 matches -
-win
-loss
-loss
-win
-loss (kittening DC’d before match -DC’d 2nd time while trying to log in- got back in when we were down 200 points – still got 8min dishonor for “deserting”)
-winAt least i ended with a pip this time. I’m thinking of only playing 1 match a day and seeing how that goes…
i only played 1 match per day.
total
3 games
2 wins (2nd and 3rd)
1 loss (1st game desertion, because guild wars 2 client refused to cooperate with my internet service provider)
imma gonna take it real slow.
i should reach ruby before season 3 ends after 8 weeks.
people complain about solo queue often but can come up with even more reasons for not wanting to party up.
If you have resistance up you still have the condition applied to you correct? What i’m saying is when you are attacked with a condition the word Immune would pop up like block does and the condition would fail completely.
This would allow condi builds to continue without nerf but you would have a better defense
that will not happen.
that is how berserker stance used to behave.
then came resistance boon.
are you kidding me?
season 1 was good, season 2 was kitten, season 3. I think I’ll just throw in the towel now. also the games feeling more and more clunky. I click skills that don’t happen, or I stop moving after using one, or get stick for no reason. It all just adds up to torture. never mind the MMR. Screen shot of my last game. it was a close game, that is not my problem, it’s the 2 emerald in my game……. it’s just a sick tormented joke.
Man your match ended 500-494 thats evidence of fair matchmaking… You just validated my point.
If u lost that match was prob because of a mistake from someone on your team or a better call from enemy team. But your match was definitely fair. Look at that score.
many people on the forums like to blame their close games loses on the match making however they fail to realize close games means the match making is working well.
personally i hate close games especially when my team loses.
i prefer easy blow out games when my team rekts the other team.
500 – 400 ++ means close games, means the match making is working.
but i hate close games, especially if my team loses.
all those effort, in the end, still minus one pip.
i prefer blow out games where my team steam rolls and rekt the other.
easy plus one pip.
yeah i got my division crossing achievement plus one.
was at part 4 , 1/4
now its 2/4
nice no bugs.
So we’re back to pushing that 50% win ratio and getting unwinnable matches as soon as we get a short streak.
yep, i got perfect 50/50 lol
sure as hell those 500-100 matches were very very balanced~
kitten then how the kitten are we even gonna progress our divisions out of emerald / sapphire then ?
s1 matches were too frustrating, fighting against the odds you were given to win… hopefully its closer to s2 than s1
This a misrepresentation of S1, what you are describing is S2.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/finding-the-perfect-match/
odds of winning chart.
if they are using this scoring again, and i have to regularly be in the 20-39% of winning group again, frustrating is an understatement
o they are not changing that.
they killed match prediction in season 2 because it is too kittened.
we are talking about match making.
Well i wish they would have explained it a bit more
aaah i think they like to see more forum activity around here XD
Crossing divisions as a result of the new season placement system will properly progress the division Ascension achievements in addition to automatically distributing all rewards that you would get for crossing those divisions normally. Sorry for any confusion, folks. Again, you will get proper division crossing progress on your Ascension meta achievement if you begin in either Emerald or Sapphire at the start of this season.
thanks !
hopefully this works out well for everyone and no bugs occur.
everyone loves getting their rewards ! XD
kinda in between i think…..from what they said. Not so uneven matches but still favoring one team it would seem.
i think its a combination of season 1 and season 2
season 1 is raw 50/50
we can get both higher mmr and lower mmr players in both teams.
i.e.
red – blue
10 – 10
8 – 8
5 – 5
1 – 1
2 – 1
season 2 is similar MMR for one team, versus other team not so.
an extreme case:
red – blue
10 – 1
10 – 1
10 – 1
10 – 1
10 – 1
season 3 we get both
i.e.
red – blue
8 – 8
8 – 9
9 – 8
8 – 9
9 – 8
something like that maybe.
otherwise, one team gonna have slightly higher overall MMR.
Please fully read the notes:
“Rewards from skipped divisions will be awarded after players play one match in the new season.”
yeah i just saw that.
i expect the rewards for skipping amber:
- 5 gold
- silvers and dyes for all 5 tiers of amber
- league tickets
- one division crossed achievement
they kitten one up imma rage here
hmmm wait. whats this
“Rewards from skipped divisions will be awarded after players play one match in the new season.”
so as a ruby player in season 2,
do i get all the golds, silvers, dyes in amber season 3 that i will skip ?
what about the one (skipped amber to emerald) division crossing achievement ?
they better not mess that one up.
$#^%$#^%@#% kittens
from patch notes:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-May-17-2016/first#post6158252
We’ve created a new matchmaker for Season 3 that will strike a balance between the two previous seasons, accomplishing the same goals of accuracy from Season 2 but doing so with the evenness of matches that players experienced in Season 1.
(edited by Deimos Tel Arin.7391)
they just kittened up the divisioon crossing achievements for casual players.
We’ve added an automatic division-placement system to PvP Leagues for Season 3. A player’s starting division for each new season will be determined by their performance from the previous season.
WHAT THE KITTEN ? #$^#^#$^#%^
“Reports of banditry have increased in Kryta.”
hmmm whats this pve note about?
living story soon ?
i thought they dont change much but what they already stated, cuz why should they not post balance pvp patchnotes earlier??
doesn’t make sense..
doesn’t matter.
i still enjoy going through them patch notes.
noooooooooooooooooooteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss
yesssssssss wheres my patch notesssssssssss
why no patch notes yet?
gold and silvers for advancing tiers and divisions.
dyes.
no.
berserkers are fine.
how is it a “bug” if its simply named something different than what you want?
an error in a computer program or system.
synonyms: fault, error, defect, flaw; More
it is an error so it is a bug
currently, carrion has
PvP Carrion Amulet
1200 condition damage
900 power
900 vitality
what if we want a toughness variant ?
say,
PvP Vulture Amulet
1200 condition damage
900 power
900 toughness
or
PvP Meat Amulet
1200 toughness
900 power
900 condition damage
well for the proposed pvp meat amulet, paranoids may think it is similar to dire or mercenary but high toughness without extra vitality means the user will quickly melt under heavy condition pressure while having both 900 power and condition damage means lower than average damage output when compared against other pvp amulets.
discuss !
so when are they gonna fix pvp wanderer’s amulet name ?
the stats are very different from pve wanderers stats.
it is the same situation during the first beta weekends back in year 2012, pvp knights (vitality power precision) and pve knights (toughness power precision) have different stats.
after a very, very long time, pvp knights was finally renamed into pvp barbarian.
it has been a very confusing ordeal for me, for many months, before the name change.
everyday i struggle because of the same name but different stats.
to fix this, and to help other people who suffer similarly as myself,
i propose to rename pvp wanderers amulet into pvp pestilence amulet.
discuss !
there is great build diversity in hotjoins.
especially those players that you kill over and over again.
they are using very diverse builds.
won’t happen.
they removed jewels, simplified traits system because they want us to play the game their way, not ours.
A message from the PvP Team:
Hi all,
PvP League Season 3 is just around the corner, and with that we’d like to let you know about a few upcoming PvP amulet changes.
The following changes will take effect on May 17:
- Mercenary Amulet will no longer be available for use.
- The cost for Viper’s Amulet will be eliminated. Anyone who had purchased this amulet prior to May 17 will be refunded the full purchase price via in-game mail.
On a related note, the balance team has been keeping an eye on how things have settled after the April 19 release, and you can expect some adjustments to some outlier skills with the launch of PvP League Season 3. More news on that front next week.
i demand a replacement amulet for the short demise of mercenary amulet.
no, making viper free will not cut it.
all four stats are fine.
all four stats with both 560 vitality and toughness are fine.
the problem lies with the abundance of defensive abilities, not the stats from the amulets.
on crit blood won’t even heal yourself.
on swap leeching will heal i think just no damage.
also they didn’t even bother to state in patch notes that they fixed the signet bug.
How about bringing back Soldier? Paladin, precision isn’t worth much without ferocity. Soldier was a good power, vitality, toughness amulet. Or getting rid of Cleric, that amulet gives Elementalists a far more annoying healing ability than the defence Soldier gives to classes.
extra 50% damage is not much ?
mercenary amulet is fine.
do not remove.