Guild Wars 2

I’ve put you on the ground multiple times nexed, I am still in bronze.
So does that make you as bad as me?

Before you start sprouting off nonsense about bronze, perhaps you should fall to 500 MMR and see how it really is. Sure you can 1v3 1v2, but you obviously lack pvp skills if you think 1 person can counter 5. You can’t for the simple reason that your team/ enemy team doesn’t even realize that standing on a point is how you win the game.

Can you get “stuck” at that low MMR (500 -600) No. the matches are completly random which means eventally you will win. And the higher you climb the easier things get. silver, gold , plat and even legendary will be easier then bronze.

Merry Christmas everyone!

My team is blue…. As you can clearly see.

so before you try blaming someone for something they didn’t even do, perhaps take the time to look at the SS next time. Then it won’t appear that you have never played a game of pvp in your life…
Congratulations on proving that the people thinking ranking means something are completly clueless, and by default showing this league does not test skill.

Hilarious that you think that’s it’s possible for them to come back from a 400 point defect…
keep dreaming

Sticker i once rez’d someone on that same build and had 100% of the games total rez’s. It’s pretty hilarious down here. Which is my main gripe with this season. someone who can’t even Read the Mini map (or a screen shot) is a higher rank then me, which would be fine. if it wouldn’t take me 1000’s of games to climb out of this hole.

It’s not there designers. It’s not there system.
It’s there reward Vs Risk between the professions,
Having professions that will allow player’s to be in an MMR there not suppose to be in, is throwing there whole system out of wack. while it will stabilize eventually. i think it’s going to take longer then there 2 mnt pvp season.

They where foolish not to do a full reset.

There “balance” from their previous season where completely screwed. which is artificially putting people where they don’t belong. ( they have a higher/Lower MMR then there suppose to)

As for 70%+ higher rating, your forgetting alot of poeople quit this game, there really isn’t much competition involved anymore. and even if there where people equaly skilled to fight against them they would still lose. The one with 70%+ have been playing with each other for years. that’s a big advantage in musical chairs.

Personally i would think fighting people Duo qing wouldn’t be that much of an issue. the only problem with full premades was the god awful rez mechanic. which made it impossible for a solo qer to bring them to the “Defeated” state. (downing them wasn’t a big problem)

No hot boy, the majority of us don’t even care about that.
All i want is an even matchup, where both sides have an equal shot at winning.
I’m not like you guy’s who want to win every single match and claim kitten, i could care less.

you guy’s are not even using fact’s, just basic bullkitten slander “git good” ect ect.
How do you think the new player’s that are stuck facing me (or any other player’s with 1000’s of games) feel? They sure as hell ain’t having a good old time being spawn camped now are they?

It’s amusing how desperate you guy’s are to cling on to the falsehood that this season is “skillful” it’s sad really.

There is so much miss information from people who want to claim skill.

Going 50/50 Is not where you suppose to be (See Screen shot), the ones that are saying they can single handly carry a game are completly full of it. I’m a thief, i can keep one point caped and one point neutral. It does not matter most games, since your teammates are constantly charging home point and dieing 4on3.

Supreme you should just ignore Locuz, He’s just a troll trying to boost his ego.

Eventally i will get motivated enough to post a video, Until then, let’s observe some “Quality match making”

I don’t think you realize how bad it is down here suffish. There MMR rating is just downright wonky. For instances, it will take my 40 games just to get out of bronze. (60 wins 20 loses) 140 to get to silver (200 wins 20 loses) and maybe MAybe if i’m lucky i might find a good match in gold…(300 wins 20 loses)

So far i’ve seen: Me a zerker vanilla thief win the healing stat multiple times.. (i am not traited for healing, it was all from withdraw)
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4 people charge home at start (pretty common)
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10 games where i was a pure boring kitten backcapper, and though i created a 150 point lead all 10 games ive seen it vanish in min’s since everyone else is fighting off point.
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I have SB 1 (to death) all 5 player’s from an enemy team.

-I’ve been followed around like a lost puppy (this is impressive since i am a thief, it would of took alot of work on there part)
-3 of the enemy team once seen me by myself, they all turned around and fled (no i’m not kidding)
-double capping HA! try triple or quad caps boy’s.
-I would be happy to run into keyboard turners at this point in time. Where i’m at at the moment i’m pretty sure most people haven’t even located there auto attack key yet.

If i cut off one hand, and smash my other one with a hammer, we might just be “equally skilled” no… on second though i could probably keep up with these guy’s by using my feet.

There system is garbage, unless you started with a High rating. (honestly no matter what they do it will always be garbage, since they are not factoring in balance or more specially Reward VS RISK on diffrent professions)

It’s not for me, it’s for the random people that never visit the forums, In my case it really doesn’t matter as i rarely play this game anymore.

It’s a simple fix, just allow more volatility for point gain in bronze. Silver and gold and platinum{?} should be progressivly slower. but you don’t want stagnant growth at the start of a season. it’s better to have faster growth for the majority of player’s. Though they will eventally stagnant anyway at least they would get some progession (progression = shelf life)

but there is the rub gentlemen, your only getting 20-40 points to increase your MMR per win, you lose 50 per loss. and the average MMR to start is 1200.

i will forever be doomed to play with starting player’s.

So i can expect no decent matches this whole year.. (if i was going to keep playing)

I haven’t played in awhile, i lost horribly until i scrapped the rust off. after 10 games I was 1-9 with an MMR of 500ish With the leaderboard reading 1200ish. I proceeded to win the next 7 games (8-9) (least the teammates half knew to stand on the points this set) which left my MMR at 600ish, with the leaderboard reading now being at 1900. You see the problem?

I am now running around in a pure vanilla zerker thief spec (CS/DA/TR) being completly bored out of my mind. winning 1vs2 and 1vs3 at far, but it doesn’t matter, since your teammates can’t win the 4vs3 or 4vs2 anyway… with an increase of 20-40 points per win there is absoultly no point in contining to play. There is no escape..

When does this season end? at least during the off season i got to fight esl player’s once out of 1000 games, they also drop like flies but at least they understood why…

Noone’s going to argue that point device, when it comes to balance there biased, it’s a sad truth, disgusting really, how some profession can have everything while others are expected to suffer without basics like stability/mobility ect.

There bright idea to power creep everything just made it worst.

Ask arena net for more passives/ AUTO PROCS, get carried like every other profession

sephiroth.4217:

1v1 depends on your own skill level with builds on classes….. SO probably best to stick to what you like most.

I can 1v1, sometimes 1v2 on staff Ele, most people will tell you that’s stupid. It probably is but doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

Take this Fireworks thief for example, spams fire works which means he is weaponless but he still kicks peoples kitten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-d9vGO52E

Fireworks were removed from WvW shortly after this video. The guy Bandito has some wicked videos, not sure if he still plays though.\

When people tell you strait up certain classes, they are just reflecting on their own skills. The point is you can duel on any class.

He doesn’t, it’s been a year + since he logged on, Pretty much everyone from RH quit long ago.

It’s not rocket science… figure it out

Bandits defense, cnd backstab and it’s over.

Are you serious?

Why don’t you look at my utilities and put 1 and 1 togeather…

Or do you really need a video to show how s. trap works.. that’s just sad

mrauls.6519:

I want to see you make a video doing what he does against the level of opponents he fights x_X

If i where to post a video, it would be to explain the proper use of shadow trap, those “pro thieves” running that on temple the last proleague completly threw the game, cause they are to dense to realize you can do this:

EDIT I got the spelling of a 5 year old….

Yup this proves how low the skill floor has gotten.

Nothing against you OP, we can tell by your portals/ blinks that you know what your doing. but this video proves arena net’s kittenation.

Fire and forget due to a poorly thought out super speed mechanic on phats.
When you screw up use your over abundance of Blocks, Evades, invulnerables.
High damage Aoes, AOE CC’s.

You don’t play a mesmer, the mesmer plays you.

And they wonder why everyone quit..

And again: nothing against you OP, but this game is kitten.

That won’t matter Ori,
He’s talking about when the enemy breaks in and starts attacking you while your standing in the spawn zone. it put’s you into combat, which prevents your from changing your build.

the money for there 50k tourney comes directly from there marketing budget. Gem value is tied directly to the market. which is how arena net is paying there investors (sadly most games cash shop profit’s go right to the investors instead of being recycled into the game)

The question you should be asking yourself is this:
Would you rather them buy a billboard in some populated area for 50k, Or hold a monetary tournament? i would think the latter would grow the population more.

Qol..

Making ST Unusable when not in range is a nerf.

Cs/Da/TR Or DA/Tr/DD
Zerker ammy.

those are your two highest dps thieve specs.

Now you can either do the old school full signet build Or
Shadow trap (traited) + 1 signet, which will give you 20 stacks of might for 10 seconds.
vulnerability does not seem to work on ST

There is also a hyrbid power/condtion build that can be entertaing. but due to how thiefs traits are set up, your are pretty much just trading some power damage for psn dmg. It’s good for a laugh though.

On another note: Dagger auto attack damage was increased
Swords IAS was increased
Pistol damage was increased
P/d is still completly unused in pvp, S/p is uncommon, but they do have an interupt build. s/d is one of the few balanced bruiser specs. There damage is still pre hot, and they have more then enough sustain. The problem with s/d is other professions Bruiser specs where powercreed to hell, meaning there doing 2x the damage you are with better sustain. They can not buff s/d and they will not nerf the powercreep. which is why noone is running s/d. d/p and staff are meta builds.

that should catch you up a bit.

I couldn’t find a pic that suitably showed the patting of the back, so this will have to do.

High level play… in gw2 LOL

And do you understand why every theif is using UH. It’s simple, there is far to much CC floating around that it is suicide without it.

The CC clear effects on unhindered where originally on an acro trait that was removed from the game. As for the swiftness that was also in acro (ED).

UH is the only reason to run Daredevil, If it wasn’t for the massive amount of CC around you wouldn’ t even need to trait hot.

i just 1vs1 on my thief, if i was trying to win the match i would roll any other profession.
to +1 is much easier on other professions
as for decaps your only losing seconds. 3-4 seconds does not equal losing the ability to team fight… no matter what the anti thieves say.

Thief is entirely pointless, but i would of quit long ago without it,

(Go burst if your looking to 1vs1, DA/Tr/DD or DA/TR/CS)

now that there ending premades, you guy’s will have the honor of watching 4 team members charge headlong into traps constantly. after you see this 100-200 times you will hate traps just as much as the rest of us..

You shouldn’t be able to swap characters unless you also allow people to swap traits.
It’s not strategic at all to swap into a profession that hard counters your spec, and if you could change your traits you would negate there advantage.

As much as i want to see class stacking removed, the player base can not handle it the q times would be extreme.

Vicariuz.1605:

are there any vods for these matches?

I could do a forum recap if you wish.
In bullet points:

-In an effort to clean up the forums, suffish posts a “happy go lucky” message.
-The thread dies a horrible death
-Attracted by the impending smell of dis pare, the forum trolls breath new life into a dead thread
-Olrun breaks out his Esl thief dodge skills
-The greatest moment was uncovered: People fleeing from a fight to grind some loot from the AI lord.
-The second greatest moment was uncovered: people spamming the same skills.
-Salt was flung
-Olrun proclaims himself the master of Na being ranked 6th overall,
-Oxford dictionary to rewrite the defination of “winning” 6th out of 10 will now be known as “skillful”
-In an effort to reclaim the thread, Suffish pulls of a stunning backcap and pleads for positive vibes, not realizing this thread is positive, positively hilarious.

Hm think that about catches you up.

Rose tinted glasses.

well you said you where new?

To make a successful thief you need to know the mechanics of other professions.
take a day and just roll other professions, this will tell you what to dodge and when.

Hendrix.9763:

If a thief is smart, they’ll completely avoid any other profession DH. and play a riveting game of hopscotch It’s sad that it’s got to be this way.

Teef Op

Courtyard was the only reason i started to pvp.
One day they will put it in ranked and it will be glorious.
(after they tweak it ofc)

But clueless BS is how they got there professions power creeped while thief’s where nerfed almost every single patch for 3 year’s straight.

I once purposely threw a Finals tourney match because of raging teammates. the TS rage was pure gold.

Not at all, It’s not even close to being balanced while it is giving that appearance. you are only seeing that due to the fact that arena net removed 75% of player interaction.
If they ever cut down on passives you would see just how bad the balance really is.

Reward Vs Risk is a part of balance, your honestly claiming every profession is on equal grounds. which is mind boggling. every single elite profession needs a nerf for when you boil it right down, they reward bad play.

Obviously this isn’t going to happen, and if you realize this game is braindead just wait for the next expansion, it can only get worst. not better.

Special delivery.

This 0-jerk of tear’s deserves a meme. .

I rather enjoy my 5 min queues.

perhaps a little forsight next season?

Hm i’ve been pretty vocal about the downstate so i guess I should post in this topic…
unfortunately at this point in the day i’m not to coherent so bare with me.

From your list i would pick:
-Rally distance (having someone rally from across the map is not a pleasant experience.
- 1 kill one rally
-Pet’s Rez speed, maybe cut by 1/4 then give them a rez buff which will add one quarter life the pet’s life (while rezing) This should slow down there rez while not making there utilities a complete waste to slot (1/4 and quarter are just random numbers)

Most of your problems with the rez mechanic vanished when you removed bunker ammy’s ,(good work on that btw.)

It’s cute you think the player base can support this idea

hm, well i know a handful of Legendary/diamond player’s where helping itchwen progress, i’m not sure if half of them even play anymore but maybe you will get lucky and they will offer to help you.

You might also ask for some help in the mist. though it’s a long shot.

Either case you shouldn’t take this league thing seriously, Due to Class balance mixed with there match making, It’s pretty much out of the player’s hands who wins. They are releasing another way to get the back piece so you might be better of taken a break from pvp for a bit. though we can’t say for sure at this point.

You got an friends that pvp?
Get them in your group, It makes the MM much easier.

Aeolus.3615:

Kuya.6495:

afrocrusade.4253:

have their invulns cut back .

lol

to what, from 3 seconds to 1 second?

lol

And conditoins still ticking while they use RF.

Guys nerf blocks on guard, that would kill the class, It would be the same as take away all stealth and desingage skills from thiefs.

But traps can be nerfed, make CD only after trap being hitted.

The only stealth ive run in Pvp in all 4 seasons was from CND, stealth is useless as a defensive mechanic, so technically they already removed that from thieves. As for disengaging i point you to the random Activation time’s they added, where not quite there yet but soon™

Spartacus.3192:

Generally personal score has very little meaning unless you have a thief in your team that ends the game with ZERO points like i had this weekend.

You should be thankful, If that thief was playing any other profession he would of knocked you off your high horse

“Where you belong?” Are you insane?

The only difference between a Amber player and a ‘legendary’ player is simple.
the legendary player’s are using the builds that arena net designed around new player’s, while the amber players (yes new players,) havn’t figured it out yet.

no matter how good your MMR system is you will never measure skill when your professions are on auto pilot.

Your statement is almost as fictional as saying “The original LB was a fine tuned piece of MMR”.
(you seem to forget all the 10-0 players the littered the top 100.) Or saying “Points are the be all in a pvp match”. If this was truly the case i wouldn’t be spending all off season killing those zergers you call legendary players.

good luck……..

Larc strike only works if you hit with flanking strike? whats your point
You are in stealth meaning it doesn’t have to be unblockable.

As for “Chase potential” Roll Inf signet (Assuming your playing Pvp) Or use one of the cooldown reductions on steal (Wvw) It is much cheaper.

sorry been playing other things latetly.

It’s pointless because you can do everything that set does cheaper, and with more overall damage on other weapon sets.

What is the point of it? (i’ve mained s/d since launch btw)

death blossom is a cheaper evade with the same duration
you can trait for the boon strip from larc strike now (you still do more damage with d/d over s/d with CS)
Inf strike is slow and clunky, Shadow shot is a much better option.

It’s not about the bug.

Dear Arena net. you seem to be confused so I figured I would take the time to clear up the confusion you have with the term “PvP”

It does not Stand for Passive vs Passive, it never has and never will. Now that you have been educated perhaps you will start to conform to the planet’s view that it stand for “Player Vs Player” and balance accordingly.

Have a nice day.