Playing some blade and sould during the beta weekends. Nice & deep combat sytem. Not a lot of time to play a lot of games these days due to rl responsibilities.
It depends on how good your opponent was according to the MMR system aswell. So if the team u played against was worse or even compared to your own team……
Why shouldnt you lose pips if you lose?
Maybe if you stopped trying you wouldve lost 2 pips instead of only 1.
He was pushing boss early on foefire…… -_- He basicly made it a 4v5 for the first 2 mins of the game. And he didnt kill it since they had more than enough time to run back and take him out.
If your going to push boss at beginning you need to do a fee things, you need to make sure the other team doesn’t have a theif that could potentially steal, you need to make sure you can kill the thing quickly .
Wow u can steal a kill on your own boss on foefire now? Thats amazing dude…please tell me more.
While rank isnt a factor….matchmakign is terrible.
On my other account that i used for playing on the US ladder iw as playing vs top of the ladder players like Caed, Kensuda etc within 3 games…. on a fresh account + during peak hours.
Dunno dude, but when I see that stuff happening, I just disengage and follow wherever they rotate from mid. I mean, he was rude and an kitten, but essentially not wrong.
He was pushing boss early on foefire…… -_- He basicly made it a 4v5 for the first 2 mins of the game. And he didnt kill it since they had more than enough time to run back and take him out.
In all fairness i see a lot of really bad players flaming and talking about scrub legendary champs. Last game in foefire our split whent like this:
1 whent home
2 mid vs 4
1 far vs 1
and 1 necro rushed boss solo….
after we didnt win mid that necro had the courage to call me (1 of the 2 in mid) scrub legendary champ. I didnt even die in mid but it speaks for itselve the other guy + the guy from home that came to mid after died.
And raging that he did that necro guy.
In all fairness, not all legendary champs are good. But ive never seen a legend champ do dumb kitten like that AND act like an elitist after.
In fact…i can turn it around quite easily. Ive met one humble new player the last few years. Every other new guy pretends that they are gods even if they are attrocious.
Back to topic, you ask why? I will tell you why!
It’s because Revs aren’t Rangers.
That’s fine.
But there needs to be a way to avoid the attack. The suggestions saying to double dodge, hug a wall or interrupt the 3/4s cast time is so unrealistic. Anyways if you’re a revenant you’re using UA from ranged so interrupting it is unlikely.
Thats weird…i dont play rev a lot yet i have no issues with dodging a big chunk of the revs dmg.
Thing is…ppl are used to randomly dodging. I see it non stop. Random dodging vs rev
mean u eat the UA.
Lesson: dont random dodge and just wait for UA to actually time yoru dodges :o
Its literally molds new/unexperienced ppl in to players that dont care about winning.
Its not just bad. Its attrocious.
The times ive been maintaining in 1v2 or 1v3 fights and keeping nodes….just to have some zerging player tell me that he carried the load and how i should l2p since i only have x points.
They tried to create a system that prefents toxic behaviour as much as possible…..yet the result is the direct opposite.
The only time a DH is really strong is in bigger team fights that take place on smaller points. Like forrest mid point for example. Or in fights where opponents are fighting others allready and slowed + out of dodges./def cds.
And what about the guardian using Judge’s intervention from 1200 range and directly laying all instant cast traps on you (especially Dragon Maw)? Unlike ranger traps, guardians have no cast time which makes it ridiculous IMO.
Would be absurdly OP if they actually where instant….only 1 is.
Won vs plenty of teams as soloq er. But they need to be way below you and your soloq teammates in skilllevel to compensate for the fact they are an organized team. Being able to set up and balance your teammsetup + having TS to coordinate rotations and kills is a huge plus.
I agree with you, that’s the kind of system they have in CSGO and LoL. But as it already takes 2min and 40 seconds for unranked, I doubt it will be any faster with all those requirements for Anet to add. We simply have way to few players, cause they don’t care about pvp at all.
As i said before……we had seperated qs in 2014 and it was fine. No long queues. The only reason they combined them is to force feed us teamq.
Won vs plenty of teams as soloq er. But they need to be way below you and your soloq teammates in skilllevel to compensate for the fact they are an organized team. Being able to set up and balance your teammsetup + having TS to coordinate rotations and kills is a huge plus.
even if we were to get seperated q’s, it would take an hour to find a match. And also, I don’t want to meet the same players all the time in soloq (due to low playerbase) as I already do 3-5 times within a day.
The pvp community has grown according to anet statements. Before the infamous dec 2014 patch we had seperated qs and we where fine back then. Qs wherent longer.
The only reason they combined team and soloq is to shove teamq down our throats. Force everyone to teamq…or gtfo.
Most ppl in pvp are absurdly dumb braindead zombies….so they will run in to anything. So putting a trap down will mean 90% of the players will run in to it with no stunnbreakers or w/e.
The vast majority isnt better than bots or pve mobs.
Just had a game with a thief who acted like a top tier player. Iwas fighting a DH as reaper. Trriggered the traps and waited it out. But no…thief came in to help and walked across the traps untill he died. Even tho i triggered them before allready
Regular traps arent the issue….good players will counter them with dodges leaps etc. The things that setup wombocombos combined with the traps are.:
Like longbow 5 for example. Relatively hard to spot during a clusterkitten teamfight. Makes it really easy to setup a really hardhitting wombocombo if followed up by some traps .
I don’t see how that works, already playing a build with tons of dodging and highest dodge range and have far more healing and more toughness than your average celestial Scrapper.
Maybe your timing is off…..no idea what else could be the problem. Have an entire guild who can do it yet you cant?
As I said I’ve seen it follow a Mesmer through portal and I play bunker Thief with 50% more dodge range and do double dodge it and it never goes away till it’s over.
Play something tanky like a scrapper and duel a friend on rev….youll see its dodgeable.
Longbow doesnt do less, but they will have no extra heals and no immunities.
So playing something like a hammer rev will pretty much rip them apart. The trap heal whont trigger since the rev whont run on to point untill the dh is dead. So his healing will be very low. His pure range dmg will be lower and easier to counter than the revs.
What bullkitten are you trying to spout? Can’t really understand but UA follows you anywhere, I’ve seen it follow a Mesmer through a portal from Keep in Niflhel to Mine. Only way to dodge it is to go out of range of while they are casting it but it has 450 range.
I really think the 450 yards only counts for the first hit. Dodge + walk back/away always seems to make the abbilitie miss close to everything for subsequent attacks.. Had multiple 1v1s on sidepoints vs revs the last few days…most of the time i lose like 10% of my hp from that attack.
Literally one dodge + backing off after nullifies 100% of the dmg after the initial 1st hit. Its automatic for me now: safe 1 dodge…wait for it….counter it easily.
Are you complainers just not good enough to time one single dodge?
Just tell me how much you want to give a proper matchmaking to my account, inbox me and I’ll pay
I simply can’t win 1vs5 fights! My team constantly blow up in 3-4s, I can support as much as I want, I can down targets as fast as I can..nothing help, they just go down in 3-4s, the skill difference is outrageous, so outrageous that you can’t help but ask yourself if any matchmaking is in place…
I know right. .. or ppl stay in everlasting 4vs2 or 3 fights. Where u are that lone guy that has to solo 2-3 on sidepoints.
Revenants most potent heal relies on you attacking him when he presses it (blue buff icon). If you dont attack him during this period …he will die a lot faster.
No counter play to Unrelenting assualt? U mean besides dodging blocking etc right? Double dodge basicly mitigates 90% of the dmg.
I think phase traversal is a much bigger issue when used properly. Hell without Phase traversal revs are absurdly easy to kite. And if ppl learn to stop attacking when the rev pops his glint heal the rev dies really fast aswell.
I GUARANTEE there will never be a reaper in pro tournament play. Never. Not ever.
How in any universe are anyone calling reaper op? Lemme make a tempest real quick. Or lemme make a daredevil or guard. I’ll drop any reaper under 30 seconds.
Well even if they use it over a kit it still has a cast time and DH has multiple ways to CC while you are stuck in there but you cannot dodge them and trying to wait it out with non movement based invulnerability will just get you hit by LB5 right before maw ends.
Toolbelts throw elixer skill is instant. After that you have to block the knockback…once that is done the DH pressure is low like for about 40 secs…more than enough to kill him.
Engineers don’t have any reliable stability or teleports unless they are a Flamethrower build. What do? Also how about Rangers, they only have it on skills with a 1 second cast time and they can’t dodge CC in there.
The use of elixer B is quite common amongst engis/scrappers. In fact the scrapper “meta build” uses B. B toolbelt skill offers tab.
I really love reading the forums after patch and xpacs due to posts like this. Ppl getting 1v3ed or w/e and blaming the other build instead of their own incompetence..
Druids are easily killed 2v1 unless one of the two plays a (semi) bunker build.
DH is the only spec I found to be blatantly OP so far. Crazy sustain, burst damage, sustain damage, condi cleanse, crowd control, unblockable. Everything about them is mental.
DH crazy sustain? They are like most guard dps builds → good dps / burst wise but low sustain. Esp if u compare it with something like scrapper. Wait what crazy condi cleanse? How…what build?
This. They’re doing everything wrong. Instead of separating solo and group queues for a fair and healthy league, they leave it as is and push for guild premades to participate.
Will be a nightmare for solo q, unless you can play between 2am and 5pm on weekdays…
They whont since the game isnt succesfull enough yet in pvp. So soloq will go at the cost of teamq popularity. But leaving soloq out will mean the game will be less popular in the long run anyway.
The funny thing is that they are arrogant…despite the lack of popularity of pvp in the esports scene.
The pvp game is a joke according to most of them. When i mention GW2 amongst my old group of wow friends, who where all multiglads ppl just laugh. Its all due to horrible decisions like removing soloq, horrible matchmaking (has been like that for years).
Instead of hiring a real good exp pvp dev or teamleader…they pour all their money in to price money.
If they gave pvp players elite specs… there would be no reason for us to buy the expansion. As B2P or F2P player we allready got everything else for free….
People all look at it from their own biased POV. I think that besides berserker and DD maybe players who play elite specs have nothing to complain about. Theyre all really strong in their own way. And it shows….since i see threads popping up with ppl shouting how OP X is for just about every elite spec in the game.
Problem is that ppl will always blame everything but themselves. While in reality its their own mechanical skill or lack of mapawarness thats the problem.
Simple example:
Temple match just now vs a team with a lot of sustain. At the start of the match our warrior starts comlaining about sucky MMR and how unlucky he was…
The opposing team end up winning mid but we get far. One of their MM necros camps mid tho which in theory makes it an easy game. Its basicly 5v4 on side points if he stays on mid right?
It wouldve been if it wasnt for the warrior who insisted in going mid after seeing the necro afk on mid for like 2-3 mins. I even said it in chat: if u dont go mid its 5v4. But ye he was so unlucky with matchmaking etc.
We ended up winning but it couldve been so much easier if it wasnt for that warrior. Im 100% sure that his lack of awareness costed him so many games.
Find someone or a guild who can guide you a bit. This game is all about the community and doing things together.
I personally wouldnt advice leveling fast. A big draw to GW2 are the very story driven dynamic events. You can try to explore and find them by yourselve or grab a site with an overview like: http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/interactive-maps/
If i where you i would keep my gameplay as broad as possible.
- Try a few classes and builds out. If u want to get a general idea of end game characters you can always go to the pvp hub which gives you instant acces to high end characters and a good selection of sigil, rune and stat combinations.
- Try all gamemodes and options out so you keep it diverse and interesting.
I’ve been convinced for awhile now that some accounts are simply on a “kitten list” within the server and are flagged to get bad matches.
I really dont understand how you can think like this. Youre just blaming the system for your own shortcomings.
I mean i get kitten teammates aswell. People that dont dodge (at all) for example or rush boss solo + early on foefire. The other day i had a discussion with a new player who insisted that zerker amu power ranger with 0 def uttis was viable. He claimed that with the right comp it was very viable… eventho he got literally one shot by thieves and mesmers in the game i was in. He doesnt realize that his “amazing build/setup” only works vs teams that dont focus him at all (which will rarely happen vs anyone decent.
In my honest oppinion its all about going with the flow. Adjusting to whatever your teammates find viable splits and strats. In most cases it impossible to convince them otherwise so its better to just go with it. Especially during the weekend where most younger and super casual players play the games tend to be “different”. So you need to adjust even if it goes against the most logical strats.
In all honesty…my win % is lower during the weekend aswell. Im less usefull as thief during those matches since my refuge + ress for example is useless. During the weekend people will autoattack out of stealth when downed in 99% of the cases. This happens eventho i always tell them up front that they shouldnt do this.
At times im forced to play as somewhat of a brawler as thief since the rest of the team doesnt focuss on getting and holding points at all. Since they prefer sticking to 4vs3 bunkery opponents on a fully neuted mid point for example.
But still despite all that im always above 50% as solo queuer and i never get huge losing streaks on either account. And i think there are 100s like me…. Its all about adjusting and finding ways to make your team win. I dont consider myselve top tier even, im far to casual for that atm. But im experienced enough to find those ways to win even in situations or games where your teammates resemble a pack of rabid dogs that just hit or zerg whatever comes in front fo them.
With solo and team combined, I will take it with a grain of salt if someone says they are at a 60% win rate all from solo Q because there’s no way to verify that all those games were indeed from solo.
Find me any screenshot (or data from anet even) that shows that i played on that account (supvil.3470) in a premade team post dec 2014 patch and ill donate 100 gold to you
You have 191 games played total and you are wolf rank. Your win/lose ratio is still volatile at this point. A 10 in a row win streak or lose will dramatically alter your win/lose ratio. That account would also be low MMR so you haven’t yet felt how punishing high MMR solo is. Don’t know what I mean by this? Exactly…
Also it makes me have ask: Is it an alt account? Are you an experienced player on a different account? If so, joining low MMR matches and tearing around vs. deer and dolyaks hardly counts for anything in this discussion.
Do you realize how fast your MMR will climb if you do well? Your MMR settles (as in stops being volatile) way way before 191 games. Its more like 10-20. After 191 games with a decent winratio you will be at top end of the ladder with ease.
A 10 in a row losing streak? I never experienced those during the 10.000 games i played.
How punishing high MMR is? The account on the screenshot was my alt US account, it was top 10 back then (devs feel free to verify). On my main account ive been top 30 aswell and been in and out of the top 100 for like 2 years straight with about 10k rated games played in total. So i think i have a good idea.
Played thousands of games and never had losing streaks like this. You really need to look at yourself; your own gameplay or attitude during and after games. A negative sprial is often caused by ppl getting agitated and playimg worse due to that during the games that follow.
Again, you won’t have time to decap, since you stop on entering stealth.
secondly, Every stealth ability has a tell, and if you fail to interrupt it that’s your own fault.
Again you talking about 7-10 seconds at most I know you guy’s don’t believe in reverse camera, but that will Easily give you time to prevent a decap Even if you started to run towards another point.
Are you really talking about win/lose rate. wow. poor little fella, you never realized it means Nothing. and as for 45% winrate, i’m surprised it’s that high honestly, As i don’t play Conquest i just fight on the road since i could care less who win’s this joke mode.
You where screaming how it whont happen vs decent oppponents…as if i never fight decent opponents. I have more games played …at a higher rating …with a higher winratio (which leads to playing vs better opponents).
Dont state things as facts since you struggle with a certain element of playing conquest as thief.
Maybe you should ask for help. Should i record some games for you tomorrow?
bliss, what you said about ESL players having 60% win rates as solo is simply not true. There are plenty of posts in this forum by those players, that indicate otherwise.
They may have 60% win rate in general but that is certainly not the ratio of games they win when they solo que.
What a load of kitten.
I have 60% winratio on the account i play on atm (see screenshot). What makes it even worse is that i do this while playing troll specs (like double pistol power based thief). While playing my main prof (engi) im actually at close to 70 % even on this account.
