Guild Wars 2

On paper the reaper looks fun and it opens up a lot of cool sinergies. The problem is that it doesn’t bring any PVE group utility outside of vulnerability stacks and even at that it doesn’t really outshine warriors or engineers. Don’t forget that engis can also stack might/stealth and warriors buff might+fury and have banner of discipline. As it stands right now you don’t have any reason to bring a reaper over a warrior or an engi.

Sure you get a lot of new toys to play with in spvp and wvwvw but as soon as you try to pug a dungeon with your reaper you will still get the same boot to the face that you used to get as a necromancer.

the new system is horrible i keep running into asdf full premade and i lose points every time we lose as a full solo queue team vs a premade, this is extremely dumb aka kittened how am i supposed to solo farm when i lose points losing to a premade ? losing to a premade is 100% going to happen if you have a pug group why do i lose points for something that i have no control over.

the system should go like “ok there is no one queuing let’s throw this premade group vs solo queuers but at least those suckers won’t lose any points because they are 100% going to lose so at least they have that going for them which is nice”.

as it is right now it is like “kitten these 5 players in particular they will play a match they have no chance of winning and they will lose points in the process”

well as things are now the only way you can raise is by farming with a premade. let’s say half your games are against another premade then it’s an even fight. the remaining half is against pugs and it’s an autowin. so with an estimate win rate of 75% you raise as a team.
an estimate win rate of 50% (solo) will get you nowhere anymore regardless of how much you play. i’ve played 6 hours today and barely moved at all. hopefully playing by night will bring me easier matchups.

insanemaniac.2456:

Readymade.1672:

Just a simple little question you may have overlooked: Aren’t high MMR players favored to win more often? (In fact that’s the only way to get high MMR is to win often…)

So, you’ve simply encouraged the same practice that currently gets people to the top of the farmboards.
Step 1: Play constantly.
Step 2: Win around 45-50% of your games.
Step 3: Glorious Hero’s Armor???

yes, the only way to get to high mmr is to win more than you lose… but to maintain high mmr you only need to win 50%. unless youre constantly getting poor matches against much worse opponents.

uhm no, if all games have the same weight and you keep winning half of them your mmr will get closer and closer to 50% the more games you play. The only way to keep an mmr of 70% (for example) winning 50% of the games is if the games you win are 70% more important toward your score than those you lose.

XGhoul.7426:

assume I am a high ranked player* I have an exceptional chance to win, get paired with 2 people that don’t know what they are doing, derank, gg.

Odds are calculated over the team, not individual players. So if you are paired with 2 unexperienced players and 2 average players it will be like 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 and the other team might have five average players so 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 and the odds are 9 – 10 so you won’t lose any points if you end up losing the game. Of course those values are made up but i hope you still get the idea.

SobeSoul.6910:

That doesn’t matter. If you’re wining 59% of your matches you are bound to raise your MMR.

And eventually it will match other players’ mmr and i will start to lose positions, however starting from far lower than many of them i could get on top with that relatively low win rate.

SobeSoul.6910:

59% is not below ground for solo queuing.

That’s the public rating, it’s only for show. What really matters (and in this case started out very low) is the private rating that decides who you play against and what % you have, in theory, to win a given match.

MarkPhilips.5169:

The new LB is the devil Lachance, it’s not healthy, leave the Dark path!!Save Yourself!

sorry man i’ve activated rampage i can’t stomp, for great justice !

Vissarion.6509:

EU is even worse:

1st: wins:68 looses:46 win%:59.65%
2nd: wins:63 looses:16 win%:79.75%

2nd played in duo q with 3rd for quite a while and he was top 500 last season so his mmr is high. His expected win ratio is also high.
1st is playing solo and last season was at negative points (getting dishonorable at 0 points), his mmr is basically below ground and so is his expected win ratio.

Hey there, #1 ladder EU here, if you analyze glicko https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm you will notice that roster size is taken into consideration when calculating your expected win ratio.

You will also notice that while the public ladder rank is reset each season, your individual mmr isn’t.

Last season i plummeted to the depths of elo hell so now my expected win ratio is very low.

I am also only playing solo, further lowering the expected win ratio.

My expected win ratio is extremely low, as long as i keep grinding i can get away with a lot of unlucky streaks without losing too many points.

It’s not luck boyz, it’s science. And farming, but mostly science.

brannigan.9831:

Lachanche.6859:

Invoker.5462:

no mesmers, EVERYONE was running sustain builds.

Just off the top of my head there was supcutie playing mesmer, tage playing meditation guard and fraelina playing thief.

Excpetions always disprove a rule right?

Sustain builds were the most common, I’ll give you that, but you can’t say that everyone was playing one when the winner team comp had 2 berserker amulet users

Invoker.5462:

no mesmers, EVERYONE was running sustain builds.

Just off the top of my head there was supcutie playing mesmer, tage playing meditation guard and fraelina playing thief.

I don’t see what downside there would be, honestly seems like a win/win situation.

Please bring it back, now i have to play other crappy games while in queue, it made much more sense to play this great game while waiting to play it some more.

my asura mesmer enjoying the company of herself

LonelyRaven.8106:

a funny thief that asked not to kill her because she was a nice person.

thievery is not funny and should not be condoned

multiboxing level: noob.
Pro multiboxers play alone with 5 turret engis at the same time aided only by autoattack.

mistsim.2748:

Lachanche.6859:

Zoose.1640:

Phantaram.4816:

BAM. I showed up Zoose. Looks like you put a lot of work into this video. Well done sir.

OH NOOOO Phanta I forgot to say you suck so you’d bump the video still. You suck :^)

Also that change could be good to intelligence sigil…trying to think how that can get abused though xd

rapid fire from 6 0 2 6 0 valkirie ranger would be quite lol worthy

uh no, only the first 3 arrows crit. sigil of intelligence is only good for one-shot nukes (earth shaker, maul, etc.)

really well thought out changes, +1. some of us are hoping anet is already aware of all this and there’s a large balance patch coming in January. we can hope right?

Do you know what the proposed change to sigil of intelligence was ? Someone had the idea to make it affect all attacks for 2 seconds, zoose wondered what classes would be affected the most, I answered longbow rangers as they would be able to use valk amulet.

So yeah, I know that it only affects 3 hits right now but that’s not what we were talking about.

xDudisx.5914:

How are you nerfing doom? Are you suggesting nerf the condition poison in all the game? Looks like a terrible idea. The celestial meta is great and 1 player can do anything. Much better than try to force people into bunkers no dmg or 100% zerkers. Celestial brings a much better balance to the game.

Summarizing the video: op suggests celestial to be nerfed to the ground and become useless to force people run zerker mesmer/thief and bunker guardian.

your summary is bad and you should feel bad

Zoose.1640:

Phantaram.4816:

BAM. I showed up Zoose. Looks like you put a lot of work into this video. Well done sir.

OH NOOOO Phanta I forgot to say you suck so you’d bump the video still. You suck :^)

Also that change could be good to intelligence sigil…trying to think how that can get abused though xd

rapid fire from 6 0 2 6 0 valkirie ranger would be quite lol worthy

It doesn’t seem like the system needs it to be this way because there is a bug that makes your queue pop even if you do other things like play in a custom arena, so why was this removed ?
It was good to play 1v1 while in queue, now you can only stand in the heart of the mists while in queue

Gaomagar.2396:

Lachanche.6859:

…axe/axe warriors are something capable of losing games by themselves.

That, and warriors running lots of signets… I cringe everytime I see a warrior running a signet build (and 9 out of 10 times he just ends up being rallybait).

My thoughts exactly ! the whole point of a warrior is to be able to facetank when needed and provide area denial.
If you play with 5 signets you lose facetanking and if you play without longbow you lose area denial

atm i have strength runes with battle/energy + air/fire, was wondering if there is something better specifically to fight eles

Mesmers and warriors but for two different reasons.
Mesmers are just very hard to play properly and rely on good team rotations to be 100% effective, needless to say most of the times this doesn’t happen.
Warriors because they have the biggest difference between a good build and a bad build, axe/axe warriors are something capable of losing games by themselves.

here’s my human mesmer showing off his shaved legs
(yes, i have pants on, primitive legwraps)

edit: vespa i like your armor a lot but i can’t identify your gloves, can you tell me the name of your gloves plz ?

can’t do much about profession mmr when 90% of the population is playing the same class because of poorly designed dailies

I don’ t get it, what’s the problem with rangers ?

The thing is you should not trust your random teammates, like, never in a bazillion years.
Why should you trust your teammates to survive 10 seconds 3v4 ? go there and make it happen.
Why should you trust your close holder to move to mid after he full caps ? go clsoe yourself so you can type in the chat if you get invaded by 2 or more.
Why would entrust the outcome of the match (because when you soloq there’s no way your team will regroup after a wipe) on other players ? Play it safe and don’t gamble with far.

MrKrataus.6420:

an other.

need i say more ?

Rangelost.4857:

Gotta love Shadow Refuge. It’s like a thief’s self-created prison which they mustn’t leave, a treacherous bright red circle that tells all of their enemies, “cast AoEs here to win”.

dodge dodge withdraw (weapon swap to avoid withdrawing out of shadowrefuge).
you just wasted all your aoe cleave and the thief is still full hp.

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

/stuck is still there, it just takes 30 seconds to take action.

Thanks for the heads up !
Don’t worry too much about this i’m sure there are other things that take priority
Oh and don’t overwork during the holydays xD

Did it happen to you as well ? Sometimes you queue up and then leave the queue only to have it pop anyway after a while ?
I like it when it happens because i can do other stuff in the meanwhile but i’m not sure it is supposed to happen.

The only thing i do is pvp in this game (was ?) but as it is now completely unplayable unless you join as a team i won’t play anymore.
I’ll be back only after a proper solution is put in place.

Well staying there a full match is time consuming, joining and leaving would be faster.

would repeatedly leaving matches lower your MMR or just your ladder points ?

Hey there, we could use a fifth player every now and then, i will add you to my friendlist.
Hopefully we’ll have the chance to play toghether anytime soon, nostress teamq.

hey don’t complain, you get a landslide onesided match ? you can now change char and queue again (better luck the 2nd time).

Mrbig.8019:

Going solo is now impossible.

If you’re at any half decent MMR ( mind, n ot rank) you get paired with full high rated teams ( no, i’m not talking about bad teams)

had 3 premades ( baddies) first 3 matches, stomped them with randoms.

Next 3 matches, old top 100 teams ( got AFK twice in a row).

So if you’re any decent, bye bye solo q.

NOOOOO don’t give up i know you can do it, perseverance is the key, you must keep on keeping on !

Meditation guardian gameplay: spam all you got off cooldown and watch as everything in your immediate vicinity istantly melts.

Low on hp ? use shelter.
Still low on hp ? spam your virtues.
Still low on hp #2 ? use renewed focus.
Still low on hp #3 ? spam your virtues ep. 2: the spam strikes back.

And it’s not even over yet, you also get access to protection and retailation which are the two strongest boons in the game.

I don’t always call for a nerfhammer, but when i do, i call it on meditation guardians.

a t s e.9614:

Because people are expecting the highest level of play when they watch the finals. And when a player dies 15 times in 2 games they get dissapointed.

Hey give credit where it’s due, he also won many teamfights to his team with well timed backstabs.
Everytime someone went down with most of his cooldowns up it was caed’s work.

Aggrostemma.1703:

What did you expect? Magi? Soldier?

Full rabid tribulation mode.
I would also concede a rabid/carrion mix.
However, if you go full dire you are a wuss.

i hope this kind of greedy updates will eventually backfire

Well, micromanaging is possible but not necessary, you could masterfully switch and activate spiders and wolves for immobilize + knockdown + fear chains or just play with a juvenile owl and let the pet autoattack your target for 2k dmg / hit.

I guess gs autoattack could use a little shave on the aftercast + removal of the sheat weapons exploit.
This way the aa will still be faster than its current form but it will be slightly slower than the aa-sheat weapons-aa chain.

so today i decided i wanted to give solo queue another try and this is what happened.
nevermore.

pff nice try but you were obviously afk, enjoy your report.

I heard they were yesterday and i missed them, does anyone have a link to the recordings ?
I couldn’t find them on twitch.

lolwut keyboard turning theef

cuge.5398:

Actually…even if you build this supposedly unbeatable bunker engi, and you place your butt on close point, you wont have your assured win, cause even if you bunker a point your team might still loose teamfight mid, specially if they have a roaming comp and they fight 4v5 mid.

It’s a game of chances. What would you say is more likely: meeting a competent roamer comp that can coordinate in solo queue or meeting an average (random) 1 close 4 mid comp ?
Over one thousands solo queue games (the biggest the sample, the more significant the results) you will notice that your success rate is much higher with a turret engi.
Besides turret engi stack, the more you have the better, even if you already have 4 turret engis in your party you won’t have to reroll as opposed to, let’s say, 4 mesmers.