Guild Wars 2

ellesee.8297:

Rym.1469:

Great job Celestial’s!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Both teams had the same amount of celestial amulets! Get good son!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Grats to the Abjured!
As for this guy… I wouldn’t brag you were first rank 80…..The first people to 80 got there by boosting and not playing when the game came out. Yes, we veterans remember you people. Illegitimate.

Disagree. Maybe small rewards for position on LB’s at the end of each month that will encourage you to go higher and be better. Instant rewards? NO. This would make it really easy to get “loot” and attract “loot kitten” that have never played and don’t care about helping the team; only about their instant rewards. I understand the need of getting more players into PvP to broaden the spectrum, but you don’t want to do it for the wrong reasons and attract “here 4 loot only” players. More frequent LB rewards would attract more players and for all the right reasons.

Laserbolt.6731:

Axe and well of suffering = huge damage from a power necro. No? And at 600 distance at that.

Agreed. Not sure why people say Axe is the weakest weapon. Axe is dominant and I take it 100% of the time over staff. Staff is for condies…I believe you are a power necro (Don’t use a condi weapon). I chuckle inside when someone tells me they are a powermancer and they are holding a staff. Brb while I go hit someone for 10k+ with Axe 2. 15k Axe2 against glass cannons and some of you tell him to use staff because you have a little more ranged reach. Lol please. Use the axe ….you won’t be disappointed.

You loose valuable traits by using Axe mastery?? LOL? You are a powermancer…you want damage…. Axe mastery also carries into DS and Lich if you had your Axe equipped before going in. That is a TON of extra damage in both those modes.

Roc.6143:

I have a question too.

leaderboards Team Arena = Ranked Arena?
Solo Arena = Unranked Arena?

The leader-boards are currently still the same ones as before patch. They will be wiped once the Season starts.

This is an issue in another way too. ALL PvP match system messages need to be able to decipher whether a player is in a match or not and not be allowed to pop up. I had 3 people in my party and somehow 1 missed the Q into the match. So then he repeatedly kept trying to join his own match while still in party. This made a giant window repeatedly pop up on our 2 screens saying “You have been removed from Q”. We didn’t realize why it was happening for a couple minutes. Finally got the 3rd member to leave party and Q by himself. Pop-ups should somehow be disabled.

Justin ODell.9517:

Evan and I got together and took another look at the data and have decided on some matchmaking changes.

We’re upping the minimum potentials filter setting from ‘1’ to ‘20’. This means the queue will have you wait when customizing a match for you until we have 20 or more potential player matches. We had this previously set to 1 to have matches start as quickly as possible.

We’re increasing the penalty for roster (read: party) size distance from ‘-100’ to ‘-500’. This means parties of different sizes are less likely to be matched.

We’re decreasing the penalty for ratings distance from ‘-25’ to ‘-5’. We found matches were already really close together and felt this penalty was too strict.

We’re increasing the penalty for duplicate professions from ‘-200’ to ‘-500’, and increasing the bonus for playing a unique (read: only one on team) from ‘100’ to ‘500’. Hopefully this will reduce the number of duplicate professions seen.

As always, let me know how this plays and if you can feel a difference.

Thanks.

As for the original post, I still see flaws. Maybe they are not always flaws though but I have definitely caught some for sure. 2 Thieves Q’ed up together (Already bad) and then the system threw in a Yolo Q’er Thief with them as well. This also happened with 3 rangers on my team in the exact same situation. This was last night. I do understand that the system does, in the end, have to fill the spots. Due to this it will not be 100% perfect all the time, but right now there is a ton of people Q’ing and it shouldn’t be happening. Maybe the numbers need to be better adjusted a little more.

manveruppd.7601:

I have played with people who, due to their experience with other competitive games, were absolute beasts in pvp only 2 weeks after buying the game. I’ve also played with people who’ve been pvping since launch and they’re still dead weight. You never know. That rank 1 noob could be a future champion, but if you rage at them in chat, throw your toys out of the pram, and go afk, you’ll just drive them away from the game (or they’ll put you on their blocklist and never want to team up with you).

Absolutely. Each player is different. I didn’t say I wanted newbs to bend over for me. They just need a little direction and not be yelled at. Have I yelled at players? Absolutely….and so has everyone else. When tying to help the unhelpable and they continue to free lance the roads…Get’s your blood pressure up. Most of the time they apologize for their lack of knowledge and thank you for the help and pointers. It will be a frustrating start to all this but a surrender option should never be there. You don’t get better at PvP by steam rolling newbs…you get better by getting steam rolled. You learn what went wrong, how you can counter it and move forward working at it until you get better. Yes, some players will never get better but that’s just life.

They are combining your Team Q and Solo Q wins/ losses to figure out the MMR (Not yet perfected) and then they will wipe the boards for a fresh start.

Darnis.4056:

GhOst.4019:

. This will prevent so called “twinks”. If someone just creates a theif, they should be with the newer players since they don’t really know how to play the class yet. Yes they know the game mechanics a bit better but that’s it. If someone wants to go out of their way to delete and make new character every couple of weeks to avoid this…who cares…let them be a low life and have no fun. Non stop steam rolling is NO fun.

Pretty sure you don’t delete your MMR when you delete your character.
Your MMR is profession based.. and doesn’t change based on character.

Ah you are correct. Mah bad. So then this eliminates every problem then. Put new characters where they belong based on the amount of games played (Aka MMR for each proffesion). I have a character or 2 that I have never PvPed with and I can tell you I would not be up to par if I jumped on those and ran with the same crowd I do now. I would be hurting my team.

vana.5467:

Luna.9640:

(i’ve clearly stated that its the time spend playing the game as representation of their level not the level itself).

You have not. Using the term “level” to describe this issue was an exceedingly poor choice, and I too thought that you had some silly aversion to low level characters (actual in-game level) in your PvP teams after reading your OP.

Yes, and I am a low life twink that just wants to stomp newbies?
Apparently you didn’t read my post AT ALL. I said the matchmaking system (Which has been reset) should also consider amount of games played BY THAT CHARACTER and NOT their ACCOUNT. Maybe now you can read it since it is in caps. This will prevent so called “twinks”. If someone just creates a theif, they should be with the newer players since they don’t really know how to play the class yet. Yes they know the game mechanics a bit better but that’s it. If someone wants to go out of their way to delete and make new character every couple of weeks to avoid this…who cares…let them be a low life and have no fun. Non stop steam rolling is NO fun.

Swagginator.3246:

it shouldn’t be wrong to ragequit with a 200 or 300 score difference. please make dishonor not affect those.

or can we have a “surrender” option for the team to vote for? it will really save our time.

just think about it. how many are complaining about courtyard being boring kitten? due to when knowing that it’s impossible to win you still have to play till 500.

Surrender…lol

Sorry but that is just bad sportsmanship and maybe you should go to PvE where you can leave the dungeon at anytime you getting rekt.

Or maybe give your team a quick pep talk and new strategy and make a comeback of the sentry like real players?

I was in courtyard and we were 200-475. I was in Q with only 1 friend, random who usually just WvW but came to check it out and 2 players with less than 2 week experience (they admited it and were under lvl 55). Quick pep talk and some strategies to the new players and we came out 475-500. I was mid air stomp on someone too when they got it first.

As crappy as the matchmaking system is right now. If you don’t go in with a full team you are going to have to work with the new players. Sux but why just throw the game away when you could still have a shot. That new player could actually be a real smart person and follow orders well and do a complete 180 in game with just a little direction s to what he is suppose to do.

It is frustrating but at the same time, never give up! (Or just Q with a PvP team).

Your entire post is invalid. I would rather play with a lvl 2 of a class than a lvl 80 decked out in legendaries and Fractal gear. More likely the lvl 2 has a ton more pvp experience. It should go according to player matches played (NOT account total matches) and nothing more. I could care less if you played the game for over 2 years. Playing for over 2 years means nothing in the aspect of you knowing how to PvP. When I see a lvl 2 I actually get hyped; because that is almost a sure sign they have experience. I see a lvl 80 with a lot of PVE crap on and my heart sinks.

Also, thanks for letting the entire world know that you are 1 of those AFK kittens. Now we can avoid you.

Firebird.8324:

I’m Over Powered Necro and play for Team Radioactive. Today, as well as the previous days, we not only won every single game, but 500-0’d 90% of the games we play, even 0 pointing all of the players themselves.

You may be thinking, “OMG, I Wish I could do that” but it is incredibly boring, it may sound weird but winning uncontestly is not actually fun at all. What makes this game fun is a good fight, which with this new matchmaking system seems to be impossible, I haven’t fought a single team yet with someone we recognize and it is making me start to consider other games as viable options to play.

G’day to you! I completely agree. Everyone is kind of “the same rank” right now, so the match ups are all over the place. I have won a few 500-0 myself and while the first match may be a bit funny, the rest are completely boring. I prefer the nail biters myself and screaming into the mic for player positions.

Is this surprising to anyone? This happens to every single game that gets leader boards reset. Everyone starting “fresh” and you will have to wait for everything to iron out.

Vapour.7348:

I wonder if the outcome would be different if TCG made room for a necromancer or two

Mhhmm. I wouldn’t say 2 but definitely 1. More NA teams are starting to have Necro’s and the world is pulling back the wool from their eyes. Time for people to start seeing how awesome Necro’s are. The problem and reason why people think (the ones who do) that Necro is trash and shouldn’t be played; is because they suck at it. Necro is a higher skill cap and 90% of players just get rekt in the class because they are no good at playing it. It is one of the more superior classes hands down. Just needs to be played correctly (Aka, not MM trash).

There should be SoloQ… Not everyone has a team or is good enough to play on a team and still wants to have fun. What we need is more diversity. I am not sure why it is called “Structured”, because it really isn’t. It used to be….When we had tournaments. Why can’t we have tournaments again? All the veterans want it back. Just keep everything now and give us tourneys. Put a point system on it to go towards rank and reward tracks and call it good. Even TeamQ has become a joke because if you go in as a good team you just roll over everyone. TeamQ is no different from SoloQ besides you can Q up with some friends. People still leave as it is pugs and so on. Bring us back the ACTUAL competitive play and you will see it soar from the ashes.

Justine.6351:

Guardian, Wall of reflect
Warrior, reflect misiles
Thief, dagger storm, smoke screen
Else & mes, lol too many to list
Engi, some weird options
Necro, no idea

LOL…As Necro being my main sPvP character this made me laugh….You really don’t have anything. With the cool-downs you have and they have…near impossible.

I will give OP props for the guide. It was good and informative. I will only post this reply here just because it has been scratching at my rage to come out. This guide and all other posts from rangers on how to mitigate them are really near invalid. This suggests that you are rolling up in a 1v1 situation (15% of Spvp).

The problem is since the update and changes, everyone and their sister re-rolled Ranger. I can’t tell you how many people I see in SPvP with newb gear on just to go rock sox. Anyone that has been in Spvp can tell you there is a minimum 2 rangers on the opposing team and 50% of matches has at least 3. How do you mitigate now? You don’t. You just die. Stuns, fear, evade, block etc are all fine in theory until you have 2 rangers near the same point and your done….never mind 3. They always stick together.

So when Anet said “There are too many people using LB”, that is exactly true. It’s NOT the fact that a ranger is OP; it’s the fact that either by random or by team que there is 3 on each team almost always and quite ridiculous. Just spend the match on my back…

Let me write a how to now:
1: Get into Arena and see 3 rangers
2: 3 people log out
3: Log back in as team Ranger Wreckers (Theives)
4: Profit

IGN: Gostie
Class: Guardian (Retaliation DPS (If you got questions about this ask me)
Also just hit 80 on my Thief and went glass cannon D/D Backstab. Still need a little training the pvp but getting good.
Rank: 14
Region: US Crystal Desert

Hi! I am currenty in a tPvP guild but can never seem to get enough on. I would like to run a lot more tournaments and am in need of another team. Most people are a bit squirmy about my build and think I need to go support as a Guardian. That is until they see it in action. Give me time to explain and see me in action and you’ll wonder why more Guardians don’t run this spec. 95% of sPvP I will be top player including top kills and point defends. I could always use a little work like anyone but I feel I am pretty good. Hope to at least prove myself or tryout for a group. I hope to not disapoint. I have tons of MMO PvP experience. Thanks for your consideration!!