Guild Wars 2

Some very good ideas in this thread! And glad it is being worked on! Go ANet, it’s not too late.

A good change, but hope they have thought about some things. What about bots observing all game and joining a team at the end. What about server hopping to games that are nearly finished. What about AFKing, or even bots who autorun, push random skills and collect rewards? What about going to spectate, wait for autobalance and join winning team?

Great videos Sensotix! Hope to play with/against you sometime again.

It’s just doing all the calculations so you can get the best matchup possible to achieve the greatest gaming experience!

Shame on you, shame on all of you in this picture. But most of all, shame on you ArenaNet for letting this happen. This has been going on for so long, and it’s still going on today and it has destroyed the last thing PvP had. People have played legitimately for their rank the last year, but now, this doesn’t mean anything anymore, all these guys have zero skill. I expect a rollback of glory or fix of any sort by october 15 or I’m out of here, and I know you don’t care, you’ve showed that to us the last year. As soon as the first skyhammer farm server had been introduced, skyhammer should have been dropped from rotation that day instantly and left out untill a fix had been found. You guys really skrewed up.

EDIT: I blurred out the names on this picture, because I know that there are people on it who deserve their rank and who only do this because there is nothing else to do in PvP right now

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Played 3 games today, two of them were 4v5….

I’m wondering since everybody is saying they get 10k/hour and since nobody brought this up but did you know that in a single game you can only get a maximum of 300 RANK POINTS. Once you have 300 points, every glory you earn will count towards glory, but will not add up on your rank bar at the bottom. That’s why it will always say Max Rank Bonus 300 at the end of the match at the right of your screen. Something else that really annoys me, and also not much people know is, when you are going for Ransacker/Marauder/… tournament win chest rank points do NOT count towards this title, you really get punished for playing tournaments.

Rednik.3809:

My rank is not farmed, and Skyhammer is one of my favorite maps in hotjoin, with ton of games played here. Soo… how about no?

Fair enough, then remove rank points obtained in Skyhammer in any custom arena. And I also like Skyhammer, and I would also lose a lot of rank points, but I wouldn’t mind it.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Like I said, we’re looking into other options to prevent the exploiting.

Dear Allie,

please think about retroactive deleting all rank points obtained in Skyhammer since its launch. I don’t know if it’s possible and if you have any logs of who obtained how much glory when/where. But if it is possible, please consider it.

Thank you for your time.

The first one was actually a person, after dying alone at far (while we called in chat to play close/mid), who said, f*k this, i’m afk. The second one started 4v5.

ArenaNet please retroactive remove all the glory obtained in skyhammer since the map has been introduced. Only the farmers will disagree with this, the real players will love you. Please do it.

Come to think of it. These people farm 10k glory per hour? I only play tourneys right now, and I play bunker guardian. This means I don’t get much glory. 10k glory takes me about a week. Why is there such a huge difference? Why am I getting punished for playing PvP. Why am I getting punished for playing tournaments. Why am I getting punished for playing a bunker guardian. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. And then for the final kick in the balls, I constantly get matched 4v5 soloQ. What have I done to deserve this?

Blackjack.5621:

Actually the top 10 (eu) are playing multiple times per week, only symbolic is afk since team paradigm has a break or something.

I think he is talking about soloQ. Xerrex has 150 games, Shad has 300. For the rest, the top 10 has 20 games at max. How is this even fair. SyncQ 20 games with some good players and you are top10 for ever and ever. Meanwhile I am losing rank due to 4v5s.

After a year of playing casual PvP I got my Ransacker title a while ago. Only problem is, I am ashamed to put it on, so I just put on champion paragon, it has more value in my opinion. Everyone right now is 40+ and these guys are often the biggest noobs, trashtalking, not all traits equipped, abuse me of cheating and speedhacking when I stomp with quickness, … the list goes on. Rank is the only thing we PvP-only people had, but yeah now that is gone also. I know a lot of r50+ people who have never played a single tournament game, like are you kidding me?

Yesterday I had again two times 4v5. I am losing a lot of ranks due to this, went from 65 to 140 due to these two losses. Please fix

inb4 also locked!

No they don’t play.

Played 6 games today. Lost one of them 499-500 with one person afk half the match. Also won one match where the other team had only 4. Please fix this

Scar.1793:

And yet another pathetic crying thread about how OP Beserker Stance is. These forums are full of people not willing to find ways to counter, that’s why whatever Anet will do, they will always be unhappy and spamming the forums over the same things.

What is the counter against passive heal? Actively react to it?

As a bunker, I think the stunlock really is OP. If there is a necro around, and I get stunlocked by a warr, it’s almost certain death. And then you have their immune… And I agree, why do we have to wait weeks/months for this, we need a HOTfix.

Divinity.8041:

I love how people say when you get “higher” this happens less.

That is like saying, well when you get wealthy, you won’t have to beg for food.
How am I supposed to become wealthy if every system in my world is currently keeping me poor?

How am I supposed to get higher when i am being dragged to the bottom based on things out of anybody’s control?

I don’t think that’s even true. Today I played 3 games, the first one was fine, the second one somebody left halfway trough the game and in the third one we had one AFK the whole match. And I have been bouncing between rank 100-200 for a long time now, and I really don’t think it is much better then when I was at the bottom.

FirstBlood.7359:

Ironically, if you are an honest player that never leaves matches, then your rating on the leaderboards will profit from leavers.

Yes, mathematically speaking, as long as you are not the leaver yourself, you should benefit from it. But really, that’s not what this game is about, I don’t want to win a game because the opponent has a leaver. I want to have fun in a game an either win or lose but I want everybody to have a fair chance. Today I don’t feel like playing anymore because we lost 2 times due to AFKs. If I had lost a fair game, I wouldn’t be feeling so bad about it and would still be playing.

And if the devs think I am exaggerating about the times I lose to AFK, please check my report logs. I report every AFK for scamming, because that’s what they do, they scam the match. And I can’t even report 4v5s so believe me, the numbers are high.

Dear ArenaNet,

as everyone is aware, 4v5s are a big big problem right now in SoloQ. I am not going to exaggerate on numbers here, but in my personal experience at least 1 out of 10 games starts as 4v5 (in my team’s disadvantage) and another 1 out of 10 games starts 5v5 but with a person AFK for at least half the match.

In reality numbers will be higher because the other team experiences the same issues, though it can occur that each team has one member missing and the disadvantage gets ‘cancelled out’ but let’s just make a safe estimate that 30% of games start with an unfair advantage on one of both teams.

This is of course way too much. Everyone hates to lose, but losing because of a disadvantage like this can be really dissapointing especially when you are trying hard to climb up the ladder. I do think though that quick and easy solutions are available that can drastically reduce this issue, because the dishonorable-buff obviously is not doing enough right now (it helps I am sure, but just not enough!).

Games with AFK people: The reason people start a match AFK is because queuing right now takes somewhere between 10-15minutes. People walk away from their computer, are doing other things, browse on the web, and forget that they are in queu, or don’t come and check often enough. Would it not be possible to have a sound played when the queu pops and the Guild Wars 2 game screen trying to take foreground (the Guild Wars 2 icon would start flashing in taskbar). I think it’s safe to say that this would solve most of the problems on AFKs.

Games that are 4v5: I think this one is a little more tricky. People have suggested a real ‘Ready’ button, and let the game only begin when everyone has pushed it. I think that people would fake-AFK/disconnect if they see strong opponents, and if a person was really AFK then the game would never start. I feel that when the counter reaches zero and both teams do not have 5 people, it should kick the person that has not been able to make it into the game, restart the counter and choose a random player who is in queu at that moment, it doesn’t even matter if he does not fit in the rating of the other people, everyone prefers a random player over a 4v5.

If people have other ideas, please post them here and let’s have a constructive discussion! And please try to keep this thread free from hate and trolls.

Thank you for your time and have a good day!

When I play legacy of the foefire and it comes down to a battle at the guild lord, often there is many people involved, and all those people have pets, minions, spirits, … It is often very hard to target the guild lord to see his HP bar. Often you don’t even have time so you just ignore his health and try to win the fight. Wouldn’t it be possible to make killing the guild lord an event, so we can see his health bar on the top right of our screen like is the case when you fight a champion in PvE? This would be so helpfull, now you can just fight and you do not need to try and target the lord all the time.

I really like Helseth, especially when he comments on his actions and explains everything he is doing. He might be a little strange at times, but it makes him unique and entertaining, and he is no doubt a great player.