Guild Wars 2

I was cringing so much looking at all of the damage buffs given to thief, this is going to get ugly quickly

Quintoozla.7893:

Burtnik.5218:

The first thing im gonna do is hop on ranger notes and see if anything was done to the pet.. if yes then i will hop one hour later to taste delicious tears of rangers that cannot be carried by pets anymore.

Wow. This coming from a rev main. You do understand that bristleback is the only thing going for rangers. Remove that and you got a build/class thats not going to be taken anywhere.
Honestly l2p you can kitten druids on a condi rev and yet you stand here demanding rangers to be trash tier. Unreal. What is rangers sustain any good without pet dmg?
Besides come the removal of celestial its only gonna get worse. I run a crusader druid build. Toughness healing power and if i dont play at my best im gonna get rekt by anything. Seriously l2p scrub. All i have to say to you.

Folks there is no arguing with these people. They want their cake and they want it now.
And remember if this whining makes ranger trash tier again these people are just going to forget that ranger exists and move on.

^obvious ranger main

Your so rediculously biased its not even funny, your just screaming at everyone that says bristleback is overtuned and telling them to l2p, if bristleback is the only thing letting you win maybe YOU should l2p.

You say that bristleback is the only thing rangers have going for them, ok lets break down that statement, so your saying that a pet class with access to like 40 different pets has to rely on just 1 particular pet and you dont see that as a potential balance issue?
People dont want rangers to be trash tier and they arnt just trying to make pets ignorable, we want BALANCE, your viability shouldnt rely on running only 1 pet when there are like 40 others to choose from and your pet shouldnt be able to hit harder than a warriors hundred blades from 1500 range without investing any stats into offense

Alekt.5803:

If pets are doing so much from the result of hitting (Bristle being ranged; Smokescale having a blink attack), maybe the other pets should be have reworks to get to their level.

Hmm lets see, whats a more reasonable approach, rework about 30-40 different pets OR rework just 2?

If you druid players were as skilled as you seem to believe you are then you shouldnt have a problem being able to win without bristleback doing a majority of your damage, you have like 30 other pets that never get used anymore because of this pet, and your going to try and pretend that bristleback is balanced?

So many biased bads its not even funny.

MAN.9046:

By buying the elite specs of HoT you have a significant advantage over core class users, which you obtain by paying $50. If paying money to have an advantage over someone who didn’t(whether it’s an f2p nub or a 3 year sceptical veteran) is not pay2win then what is it?
This isn’t a rhetorical/sarcastic question btw
And before anyone comes up with the good ol’ ad hominem; I got more than enough money to get HoT and choose not to :p the cancer is still there even if i join it

Pay to win would be the ability to KEEP PAYING to get stronger, as it is right now anyone who buys the expansion is on an even playing field, no one is able to pay say an extra $50 to get better stuff then people who already bought the expansion, the expansion is a 1 time payment, a pay to win game would support a continual payment method like limited time buffs or weapons for cash were someone rich will be able to keep dishing out money to keep an advantage over someone who doesnt keep paying

Shovel Face.4512:

Kayberz.5346:

Shovel Face.4512:

Tom Trinity.1804:

Will partial progress on Year Of Ascension achievements be maintained? Or will they be reset if not completed?

For instance, if you completed 3 ranked pvp matches in each of 10 days, when the achievement max level is for 15 days, will you only have to do the remaining 5 more in the next league season, or the full 15?

On another note, when are the next league seasons expected to take place?

From my understanding, the only achievements that reset are the Leauge achievements. That ones that say “cross 4 divisions in a singe season” or something like that. So if you only crossed 3 divisions and the season ends, the achievement will reset.

As for when next season begins, my guess would be March 1st

Omg how are people still spreading such WRONG information, NONE of the achievements reset, the ONLY achievement that is limited time only is primordial legend

I’m talking about the League Achievemnt buddy. It’s the first one on every “Year of the Ascension Part #” For example, in Year of the Ascension Part 3, there is an Achievemnt called “League Champion” which requires the player to cross 3 divisions in a SINGLE season. So in this case, if the player wanted to get this Achievemnt in season 1, they would have to cross Ruby, Diamond and Prestige Legendary once. So by the end of the season, if the player only crossed Ruby and Diamond but did not Prstige Legendary, that means they have only completed 2/3 of the achievement. Since the Achievemnt says you must cross 3 divisions in a SINGLE season, yes you have to cross THREE divisions in ONE season, and the player didn’t cross 3 divisions in a SINGLE season, the Achievemnt will reset.

I know exactly what achievements your talking about, and your wrong buddy.
Reread the achievement it does not say cross league divisions in a SINGLE season it says "cross “x” league division thresholds during a PVP season"

This has already been discussed to death, those achievements WILL NOT RESET

WhiteRabbit.6931:

azyume.6321:

Staff and scepter are condition weapons why, why do you want dps on a condition weapon?

Calling staff a condition weapon is very funny… Its something that kinda become a thing here in gw2. calling it that… Let me explain why I dont agree…

Winds of chaos apply 1 stack of bleeding (7 sec), 1 stack of burning (1 sec) and 1 stack of vulnerability (5 sec)… ONE STACK, for a VERY SHORT DURATION and that ORB is MOVING very SLOW!!!

Chaos armor sure give some condition, but is also have huge cd… To apply conditions u dont want rely on that one lol…

Chaos storm same argument here, and has long cd aswell…

Just because you take a weapon and give it 1 stack of a condition on some skill, I wouldnt call it a pure “condition weapon”… But lets play with that word then… Why is the duration so low, and why so few stacks, why so long time until you can apply it to enemy after you press skill…

I think I trade that 1 stack of named condition, with very few stacks and duration, for some nice sustained dmg… I do that trade any time of the week…

That staff isnt going to kill anything, unless they afk or something… Or u really think 1 stack bleed (7sec), burning (1sec) and vulnerability (5sec), is gg condi dmg!? And that is going to make a change in that PvP team battle of yours!? kitten please…

You dont want it to get sustain dmg buff, but still wanna call it condition weapon!?

Then buff condition duration, give way more stacks and increase moving speed on that orb!

Scepter on the other hand I would agree call a condi weapon, it just work better and has some nice confusion apply, with more stacks and better duration!

But the scepter skill 1 still hit for very low amount of dmg and still only apply torment for a very very short duration!… It should be better!

And scepter skill 2 still needs some work…

With that argument, that all weapons that apply some kind of condition should have no sustained, then we sure need to nerf some weapons in this game…

Mesmers dont mostly rely on weapon skills for their damage like other classes, a lot of it comes from shattering clones

Staff applys conditions while also having decent clone production to shatter a bunch, thats why its considered a decent condi weapon, on top of all that its got decent defensive/control utility to help you kite so that your condis have time to kill, the weapon isnt ment to be your max power dps weapon

Just because you might like the aesthetic of using a staff as a dps weapon doesnt mean its going to work well, thats just not how the weapon was designed to be used

WhiteRabbit.6931:

Not at all! I said that gunflame hitting for 19k was a bit over the top, and I stand by that statement!

But this thread isnt about warrior, so I suggest you stay on topic!

They can lower the burst then, because i rather take some sustained over a 10 sec burst window, while hit like a noodle after…

It isnt reasonable ever that staff skill 1 hit for 300-500 max on a target in PvP, while that bolt at the same time is slow as hell… I dont care if staff got some defensive skills, I rather have them remove all of it for some great dmg there!

I dont agree with how you look at things but I guess we just got different opinions on how we want mesmer class to work!

Staff isnt supposed to be a dps weapon, its a condi/control weapon. Greatsword is the power weapon.
Your probably just going to have to wait for a new elite spec if you want to play a sustained power dps build because thats just not how the class is designed at its core, the very nature of how phantasms attack and how shatters scale with amount of clones is all geared towards doing high periodic burst damage

WhiteRabbit.6931:

Kayberz.5346:

You use the argument that mesmers burst is useless because of the current bunker meta, yet, by the times these changes come it wont be that same bunker meta

This is the problem with most of the proposed balance changes people suggest, they list all kinds of buffs to counter what is OP right NOW while neglecting all the nerfs that are already going to happen at the same time, resulting in them suggesting WAY overcompensated buffs

I suggest you go and play mesmer with staff, and also while doing so test one hand sword (main hand), and also test scepter.. Then come back and tell how good dps are, and that its fine! You can even go full glass build for max dps while doing so, and I can still tell u it SUCKS!!!

It doesnt matter if bunkers got removed all together, mesmer dps would still have lots of problem. Staff would still do horrible dmg, scepter would still do horrible dmg and one hand sword would still be very clunky to use while beeing non rewarding for going into mele…

Also there is a difference between sustained and burst… In shatter mesm you will have some burst windows, if u dont manage to drop ur opponent then and there, ur screwed! Also u are in full glass to be able to burst like other classes can, while they atleast are still able to take some hits… Also take that spec to a group fight, and we see were you land… lol… Beeing able to 1vs1 is a whole different thing…

People talk about mesmer like they run around with perma evade, blurr and amazing survivability… Go look at those skills granting that, then also look at them cds… And also inc nerfs hit some of that quite hard…

Also mesmer class is not = Chronobunk

People allways act like mesmer and chronobunk is that same, iam sorry but Chronobunk is a spec, and its broken, and now it get nerfed hard!

Core mesmer had problem outside of that chronobunk all the time!

Mesmers are tired of people that either dont main it, or people that play other classes telling mesmers that their dps is “fine”. Its not!

Dude, you were the guy that was calling gunflame warrior OP because their burst is too high

Btw, mesmer is my main

Not every class needs to have amazing sustained dps, mesmer gives a lot of utility to make up for its lack of dps, and is also one of the highest burst damage classes. Buffing mesmer damage is extremely dangerous as they can already instant burst down glassy builds, imagine that killshot warrior with a bunch of invulnerability, stealth, and teleporting, kitten gets broken quickly

You use the argument that mesmers burst is useless because of the current bunker meta, yet, by the times these changes come it wont be that same bunker meta

This is the problem with most of the proposed balance changes people suggest, they list all kinds of buffs to counter what is OP right NOW while neglecting all the nerfs that are already going to happen at the same time, resulting in them suggesting WAY overcompensated buffs

Shovel Face.4512:

Tom Trinity.1804:

Will partial progress on Year Of Ascension achievements be maintained? Or will they be reset if not completed?

For instance, if you completed 3 ranked pvp matches in each of 10 days, when the achievement max level is for 15 days, will you only have to do the remaining 5 more in the next league season, or the full 15?

On another note, when are the next league seasons expected to take place?

From my understanding, the only achievements that reset are the Leauge achievements. That ones that say “cross 4 divisions in a singe season” or something like that. So if you only crossed 3 divisions and the season ends, the achievement will reset.

As for when next season begins, my guess would be March 1st

Omg how are people still spreading such WRONG information, NONE of the achievements reset, the ONLY achievement that is limited time only is primordial legend

It might be retired from the gem store, they along with the scarlets gloves and shoulders were made available as a reward for the mordrem invasion event that happened right befor heart of thirns release

How about anet finally patches it so mesmers cant bypass their aftercast on greatsword auto by using wep stow

Why even give it an after cast if your going to allow it to be bypassed, they fixed it on ele and necro way back, but not mesmer

I dont like having my max dps depend on using what is essentially an exploit when other classes dont have to do this

I wish they would fix the mesmer greatword stow exploit, if anet thinks its ok to be able to bypass the aftercast then why the kitten does it even have an after cast

They fixed it on ele and necro so they couldnt do that but mesmer greatsword is still able to stow cast

Its just really annoying that to play mesmer effectively you have to essentially exploit which no other class has to do on their auto attacks

This is one of the reasons i dont advocate telling new players how they should keybind, you often have new players asking which skills they should bind to which key and then some experienced player tells them thier keybinds and the new player will copy it exactly and then end up playing worse because they try too hard to follow someone elses keybind setup and just end up pressing all the wrong buttons

There is no “correct” keybind layout, only what works best for you

Niekas.3854:

Been long since i was decapped or did not decap a point against anyone while 1v1 on my condi-permablock-shatter Mesmer build that most people bashed about on these forums. Yet there were quite a few thankful peeps who were easily carried to diamond/legendary using this and sent their regards through in game ~

Bunker mesmer was very strong in competitive-organized plays in certain team-comps. I have always decapped every bunker mesmer within 10 seconds, and most likely – killed them after. I disliked this meta, never played bunker one and im happy for the nerfs mesmers are getting.

In fact, all anet are going to do is just buffing my build in all ways regarding scepter changes and amulet changes overall.

I am very thankful and happy for this. ~ Mesmer is strong, too many short-minded people playing it.

Mesmer is definitely strong, always has been. The problem is, so is thief.

For years mesmer wasnt used in meta comps simply because of the existence of the thief, they both share a similar role, however the thief had always been a hard counter to mesmer. People would rather take thief as their +1 decap roamer because the other team is probably running one too so if you run mesmer they have to be babysat to prevent the thief from insta downing them.

The specialization patch finally made thieves and mesmers pretty even so mesmer actually started seeing more play, but the HOT patch changed that state of balance.

This upcoming season mesmers are getting a lot of nerfs while thief is receiving a lot of buffs, mesmers are justifiably worried they will get kicked to the curb again like they were the first 2 and a half years

Mesmer is just the class new and/or bad players always complain about because of how the class is played not because its “op”

It relys on tricking your opponent and locking them down, using a bunch of clones while simultaneously going invisible and popping invulnerabilies inbetween with all the shatters and animations, it can be really disorienting to someone that doesnt know what to look out for or how the class works

Gimli.9461:

:( Well gg then. I was gonna go for the backpack, but now won’t bother because I’m set back by what, 2-3 months? Might as well wait for the fractal one. Screw the leagues! W/e

Thx for the info.

Your not really that far behind, you can almost complete 3/4 of the metas in 1 season, the crossing 10 league divisions is going to take you longer than the daily achievements anyway because you need to wait for the next seasons to cross more divisions

WhiteRabbit.6931:

runeblade.7514:

WhiteRabbit.6931:

Warrior isnt that bad acually, ive met this guy ingame who was very successful with it in pvp, think his name was “John Conneer” or something simular.

And this guy sure knew had to play warrior!

How come I didn’t see him in any tournament games?

I think you should ask him that!?

But he was very good at his war, I can tell you that!

Just because YOU got beat by a warrior regardless of how skilled he may or myay not be doesnt mean that warrior is OP or even “good”.

Tons of skilled thieves can probably whipe the floor with top players right now in a 1v1, doesnt mean thief is in a good state this season

Lol this is the rank 20 something guy that said gunflame warrior is the most OP thing ever and ADMITTED to having no idea how the build even works while simultaneously claiming that anyone who says it isnt OP “loses all credibility”

Btw there is no way you got hit for 19k right from the start, getting that kind of hit required some setup that you let happen

If the only thing making elementalist viable was relying on an amulet that gives 40% more stats than other amulets because they can take full advantage of the spread, then the class was broken anyway and this change will help them in the long run

Before this anet had to tiptoe around balancing elementalist because if they gave them too much offense then cele bunker is broken, give them too much defence then cele bunker is broken, give them too much condi then cele bunker is broken. Now anet can actually make more substantial balance changes without risk of making an immortal bruiser every season

Celestial needed to go a long time ago, it made no sense that all the pvp amulets forced stat sacrifice and tradeoff but celestial basically didnt

And people saying removing celestial amulet will make elementalist trash, terrible argument

Lets say it DOES make elementalist suck without it, good. If the only thing keeping eles playable is relying on haveing a amulet that gives you 40% more stats than the others while taking full advantage of the spread then the class is broken to begin with and this change will allow anet to actually balance elementalist without having to worry that giving them to much defence or offence will make them an immortal bunker bruiser.

It might just a a recycled screenshot, or possibly a teaser, but the blog post talking about thr changes for next season has a picture of someone stomping a person on the raid on the Capricorn map

Rofl so rediculous

There is now way they just walked up and hit you for 19k, there had to be 25 might stacks, full adrenaline, you must have had vulnerability stacks and you must have no toughness in your build, and not running blink? Lol

Barely a high enough rank to even play in ranked, has no idea how a build works yet apparently has the authority to say that anyone that says that it isnt OP at all “losses all credibility” despite the build (and even ENTIRE CLASS) in question has ZERO meta presence

Fantastic

ZilentNight.5089:

Kayberz.5346:

Primordial legend title is for the FIRST season only, next season will have its own unique title

The titles are a way to display which season you have obtained legendary in and gives people who already have gotten to legendary in past seasons incentive to attempt it again for the new title

This is absolutely false information, do not listen to such players who have no basis behind these statements.

Except for the part where the devs when they started talking about leagues said that league divisions would reset every season but that you can receive a UNIQUE title for each season if you reach legendary division

Do you know what primordial means? It implies FIRST which totally makes sense with it being the title for the first season

How about we wait to see the patch notes befor we start screaming doom and gloom?

philheat.3956:

Kayberz.5346:

This is why you cant be to generous, because people will never stop asking for more handouts

The game was always buy to play with no trial, anet generously decided to allow people to play the entire base game for free with economic and chat restrictions so that people could try the game before deciding to buy the expansion

Instead of being grateful for even being allowed to play for free, people are now demanding expansion content completely for free

Some people literally ONLY pvp, so your essentially asking anet to give the expansion away for free to those people because if they had the elite specs there is literally ZERO reason to buy the expansion if all they do is pvp

Its essentially the same thing as giving a starving person a sandwich and then having them complain that you didnt give them a lobster dinner

For Spvp, the main thing Anet should prioritize is a very large player base.

Because if spvp has very large player base matchmaking works better, there is more interest about tournaments and pvp, more viral advertising, etc. basically the entire game has advantages to have more players in spvp.

F2P doesn’t work for spvp. Just that, They can download the client and try some games but they realize very soon to not have chance to compete if they don’t buy HoT. It’s a bad advertise, where is the f2p in that?

Works for PVE because you can do 80, visit every core zone, make every world boss and other stuff

But basically you can’t test properly spvp because this huge difference in builds.

So you’re wrong, I’m not asking for every elite spec unlocked, I’m asking for a compromise, to put immediately new players at the same level of veteran/old players at least with 1 elite spec unlocked, because this is the initial philosophy of pvp, skill and experience count, not equip or build.

There are people that literally only play 1 class and only pvp, giving them an elite spec just lost anet a potential sale on the expansion

People are lucky they evem get to play the game completely free, and people are exaggerating how much more powerful elite specs are, they are the most optimal atm but they in no way completely dominate the core specs to the point that they cant be competitive with each other, they are just a little better

A larger player base for pvp is all good and well but anets goal isnt to just have a ton of players just for the sake of having them, they want a large player base who are CUSTOMERS. Pure pvp players have little reason to spend money on the gem store compared to pve players

Primordial legend title is for the FIRST season only, next season will have its own unique title

The titles are a way to display which season you have obtained legendary in and gives people who already have gotten to legendary in past seasons incentive to attempt it again for the new title

This is why you cant be to generous, because people will never stop asking for more handouts

The game was always buy to play with no trial, anet generously decided to allow people to play the entire base game for free with economic and chat restrictions so that people could try the game before deciding to buy the expansion

Instead of being grateful for even being allowed to play for free, people are now demanding expansion content completely for free

Some people literally ONLY pvp, so your essentially asking anet to give the expansion away for free to those people because if they had the elite specs there is literally ZERO reason to buy the expansion if all they do is pvp

Its essentially the same thing as giving a starving person a sandwich and then having them complain that you didnt give them a lobster dinner

Lol, ever since launch mesmer has always been the class new players and bads complain about

Usually consisting of extreme hyperbole stating that the mesmer can do “everything” because they apperantly have all trait lines active at once and listing off a perfect storm of worst case scenarios while neglecting to mention or factor in ANY kind of attempt of the player to actually avoid any of the attacks as if the mesmer also held their hands behind their backs in real life during all of this

Nothing new here

Why does everyone assume that the elite specs need or are even relevant to the lore, revenant is one thing but all the others dont need some special story line, they can just be considered variations in fighting styles for the existing classes and dont need to have any outside reference and simply exist as the way your player character fights

Its almost cringe inducing when i see people trying to force some storyline for each elite spec and whine at anet to add them when its not at all necessary

I always choose cele for ascended back pieces because the amount of total stats gained is way more and the loss of dps stats compared to zerker is very minimal

Plus ascended back pieces arnt as easy to come by as other pieces and a celestial one will be effective on any build

I think its pretty clear Ohoni has some kind of mental illness
He preaches that players shouldn’t be forced to play a part of the game they dont like, yet CONSTANTLY is subjecting himself to playing game modes he doesnt like for a completely unnecessary cosmetic item that not having will in no way impede upon his game play

If not having that shiny skin in a video game is putting you through so much mental stress that you are forcing yourself to do things you hate and wont accept forgoing the skin as an option then you have some serious mental health issues and should quit playing this game and get some perspective on how rediculous your behavior is

Blurred frenzy and zealots defense are fine as is

100 blades however deff needs to be reworked to allow movement, its extremely low damage for how difficult it is to actually land in pvp against a competent player because the hard hits are the last 2 and unlike blurred frenzy and zealots, it has no defensive tradeoff for rooting you in place, quite the opposite actually, it leaves you wide open from all angles to get bursted, its just an outdated skill for an outdated gamestate, it used to be balanced, not anymore

Ohoni.6057:

So far the trend seems to be moving even farther away from your ideal setup, so maybe your just playing the wrong game

Or maybe ANet doesn’t really understand what their players want, and need to take a shift in course. We’ll have to see. Just all this “this is how it is now, so it can never change!” nonsense isn’t productive.

I think its pretty clear by the amount of people opposed to this idea vs those for it in this thread that anet is choosing the more popular of the routes. Legendarys are for people that work hard for them, not cosmetic handouts

Ohoni.6057:

If anet really wanted legendary items to be in the possession of every casual player than obviously they wouldnt put such hefty requirements on acquiring them.

What ANet wants isn’t necessarily right either. ANet wanted Elite specs to require 400HP. ANet went through two previous trait systems before arriving at the current ones. ANet thought that the classes were reasonably well balanced for PvP. ANet gets stuff wrong, what’s important is that they realize this and change things for the better over time.

If you really “casual” than it shouldn’t bother you if you dont have a particular skin, but we all know “casual” is just being used as a cover word for “lazy”

Wrong.

Whether or not what anet wants is “wrong” is irrelevant, fact is its their game and they make the rules, and after 3 years anet has changed a lot of things based on player feedback, one if which was actually making legendarys require MORE work then befor in exchange for making them less RNG dependant because people felt legendarys were already far too common and there was nothing “legendary” about them

So far the trend seems to be moving even farther away from your ideal setup, so maybe your just playing the wrong game

Ohoni you say its “wrong” yet every single legendary in the game requires more effort then you seem to be willing to put forth, so pretty much all of the evidence available says that it is correct, legendarys arnt geared for casuals

If anet really wanted legendary items to be in the possession of every casual player than obviously they wouldnt put such hefty requirements on acquiring them.

Fact is anet made legendarys for hardcore dedicated players to have something to work for

If you really “casual” than it shouldn’t bother you if you dont have a particular skin, but we all know “casual” is just being used as a cover word for “lazy”

The fact that there will be more elite specs later was like the MOST obvious thing about them when they were even first announced

You only have to do it twice, when you complete the track you get one automatically and then have the choice of a second one or a piece of glorious armor

Your option is to choose the mist core OR the armor box at the end of the track, if your trying to use old boxes it probably wont work

Im no fan of the current meta, but in my experience, most of the time the people complaining about “cookie cutter meta builds” and people being “unoriginal” are usually just people who dont know how to adapt and have been running their same theorycrafted build they always have and use the above criticism to avoid having to learn a new build and actually play what works rather then what looks or feels the coolest

Of course this isnt always true, but more often than not the people shouting “meta cheese” are just bad players who cant be bothered to learn a build that isnt what they first settled on

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

Sorry, there’s no way I’m going through the entire map. It’s already completely boring and I haven’t even completed a third – or maybe just that.

Your post is cool though, thanks.

“Haven’t even completed a third…”

And that is why your “opinion” isnt valid.
Your making assumptions about things without even having seen them, if you had actually experienced the parts of the game your trying to criticize then your opinion would be valid, but you havnt

Its the same as if i only watched the first episode of a tv show stopped watching and then proceeded to go on a forum dedicated to that show to criticize the show for lack of character depth and dismissed other people that told me to keep watching because season 2 is really good and does a lot of character building just because i “get it” already from watching the first episode

Aomine.5012:

Btw Ruby matches are like 10 times easier than Diamond matches.

The skill level difference from Diamond onward for players are Ground to Sky.
If you’re having EASY wins in Ruby, you’d find out significant differences once you climbed up to Diamond. People who can get through Ruby are no longer scrubs, but truly skilled players. (Mostly, except the Amber shopping individual)

Quite the opposite actually, ruby is much harder to get out of then diamond, ruby is filled with bad players that grinded to ruby so the odds of getting matched up with bad teams is much higher meaning good players have to carry the team which is hard to do if they suck, but once you get to diamond there are much more competent players meaning you dont have to carry as hard and can actually focus on supporting the team rather than covering for their terrible plays

Case and point, my roommate was stuck in ruby for over 2 weeks hovering in the last 2 tiers, when he finally broke out of ruby, he was legendary division within 2 days because the players in diamond carried their own weight

Funny how #1 on your list is something true that is actually happening

Yasi.9065:

I wouldnt really call that abusing, since
a) player pool is way bigger than you obviously think,
b) any one player cant carry whole team anyway,
c) if you play bad you would be on THEIR blocked list, since you cant carry, according to your logic and
d) if you blocked too many, your queue time would take forever.

And lets be honest, how else to punish those that havent yet realized – after playing pvp at least to rank20 – that rushing far and dieing there five times in a row is NOT the way to win a game?
Atm, that guy actually gets carried by the system, thanks to wl mmr. He just looses until his mmr gets so low, the system practically throws a win at him and he will look at his statistic and think “Im good, I win 50% of my matches in solo queue”.
While someone with REAL knowledge about how to play his profession, how to predict enemy movements to prevent point capture, when to decap, when to cap, when to go for boss/buffs etc. sits there and ALSO has a 50% win rate, because as soon as he gets ahead of that 50% rate, he gets saddled with 4 far rushing rallybots until his rate is again at 50%.

So yeah…. I dont want to get matched with those players. I also dont want to get matched with that kitten from hotm mapchat spouting jew jokes and work with him to win a game. As I said, they are on my blocked list, because I dont want anything to do with them. They disgust me. And then having to work with them to win a match…. on top of all the other stuff that just goes wrong in gw2 atm, its enough to make me wanna quit this game and just say “kitten it”.

So basically you want to manipulate matchmaking

/thread

Not going to happen. you dont like it? Make your own game

Melanion.4892:

It’s possible that they were in a party with one of the diamonds, then left the party via the chat command in order to not be told that he was abusing the mmr.

New innovations in matchmaking manipulation, has science gone too far?

Oh look another passive bragger that probably try- harded to legendary struggling the whole way, then when they finally get legendary play the whole “to easy” card to try and boost their ego while simultaneously attempting to devalue the accomplishments of others

Nothing to see here

Lol doesnt even have a lvl 80 and thinks he has the game figured out, and claims gw1 was more co-op and group based, lol. you arnt even a high enough level to do most of the group based stuff or even experience the endgame zones, yet you apparently “GET IT” without even seeing a majority of the game yet

Seems legit

you do know you can waypoint to places you have already been and there is more than just 1 crafting station, you gave up on crafting a weapon for a day because the crafting station near you happened to be unavailable? Do you even have a lvl 80? Your not supposed to just mindlessly grind mobs

It just sounds like you dont know what your doing and are just running in circles doing the same events