Guild Wars 2

Matchmaking was catastrophic again today. Like playing and barely winning against teams with 4 legendaries but only gaining 1 pip. Then loosing 2 pips next game for a much tougher game. I think it is stupid that you need to reach x points with your team to reduce pip loss. Against bunker teams it is very hard to even reach 200 points once you lost an objective

It is random. When I bought all 16 plated weapons in one go, I sometimes got 2 or 3 machined parts from one pod.

It is easy to avoid the F2 skill, it feels like it misses 80% of the time unless you catch the enemy off guard. But maybe that only in diamond+?

Matchmaking is truly horrible today. Went from 21 to 14 pips in diamond.

WhiteRabbit.6931:

I dont agree! You can easily avoid it. CC is fine!

CC spammer detected.

So I am diamond and got paired up with 2 saphires in my team. We lost a bit and 2 pips were gone. The opponents had all diamonds as far as I could tell.
How can this matchmaking happen and why do I loose 2 pips for it? The matchmaking today is worse than yesterdays matchmaking…

I try to precast stability on ranger, but I am out of luck if someone drops a gravity well or similar on me. All stability skills on ranger seem to have 1s cast time

I feel like there is too much CC in pvp. It should be something that you have to time well on important skills and not something you can spam 24/7 on people. Also all skills which grant stability should have 0 cast time. What good is a stability skill if I have to use it upto 1s before the CC hits me?
It really is no fun to loose control over your character all the time.

99% of the guardians are free kills for my druid (currently 18 pips in diamond)

They only become strong when they come with a 2nd person and you cannot exclusively focus on their traps anymore.

Eldbrand Charging.8902:

Someone thought it worth 10.000 G, it’s gone.

I am not suprised. Some people got millions of gold (mostly in sellable assets like t7 materials). It is a pocket change for them to get such a rare item.
I commanded a lot of chak gerents already and never someone bragged about getting this drop, so expect it to be at least as rare as queen bee.

Did you get legendary x1 pre patch or after patch?

Crinn.7864:

Malediktus.9250:

I want biweekly balance changes. There is no reason to wait for meta settle.

If the meta hasn’t settled then they have no idea what actually needs to be nerfed. Remember that it took over a month after HoT launch for the bunker meta to even begin to appear.

Besides rapid class changes is hard on us the players. I’m willing to bet most players would be extremely annoyed at having their class kittened with every week.

It doesnt matter, just do some random changes every 2 weeks to keep things changing and interesting.

I want biweekly balance changes. There is no reason to wait for meta settle.

cranos.5913:

Malediktus.9250:

Before HoT said they can make one raid wing per 2 months / 6 per year. Disappointing so far.

No they said 4 to 6. And knowing anet you shoulda put your money on 4, not 6.

Knowing Anet it will turn into 2 per year at best after the first raid got its 3 wings. They are producing content at glacial speeds because they keep making too many iterations and throwing stuff away all the time.

Before HoT said they can make one raid wing per 2 months / 6 per year. Disappointing so far.

Honestly, the suggested changes are outrageously bad. If you nerf bunkers there will be 1-3s kills everywhere again.
Better start with nerfing all AOEs, amount of cc and remove minions/pets.

TexZero.7910:

are people really so daft as to think that asking for insights is a good idea ?

Here…..2 seconds of my time on google.

[&Ah72LQEA]

It is the only filter people have (except eternal title) when doing pug raids. Sharing API keys would be too much hassle for most I think? Btw your item code does not seem to work.

I must say I am very disappointed from reaching diamond division. I get the same stupid people on my teams who die at far all the time wasting my nice pipes. Went to 8 pips twice in diamond today and now I am back to 0. 3 times I lost 2 pips for a loss! This whole system is outrageously bad.
I honestly wish you would have never introduced this league system because it makes me hate pvp.

If he had 0 score he obviously did not even assist in a kill. All he did was running around mindlessly and bragging that he got the top player – most damage award at the end of the game.

Well I just lost 2 pips because of a stupid guard who had 0 personal score. nice. We didnt even loose that badly (292:501) because I killed their lord. I guess it would have been -3 pips if I didnt do that

Spartacus.3192:

Malediktus.9250:

Well lucky me, I am in diamond now. Hopefully I get less of the “i play ranked games just for fun” people now

Nope…now you will get the diamond players who need their other class wins for their achievements.

As long as they try hard I am fine with that. I play multiple classes, too.

Well lucky me, I am in diamond now. Hopefully I get less of the “i play ranked games just for fun” people now

I doubt it, the title would make no sense if it is for future seasons.

Prince Vingador.8067:

Actually i think it doesnt matter, it comes down to team play and good coordenation.
i did all divisions up to legendary, solo and with the core spec.
if u cant or are stuck in some division its just a l2p issue.

Dont make me laugh. Advancing in leagues is just a matter of luck and the amount of games you play. Today I gained 8 pips, while the last two days together gave me +3 pips. It is all about luck if you win, really.

Ok, post here when you finished white listing. I will check if you missed any after that.

Father Busho.2796:

Malediktus.9250:

Can you remove people without elite specs from ranked matches? I am tired of having them on my team and lowering my win chances. At the very least try to put people without HoT/elite specs into their own teams so I dont have to play with them.

How about…. kitten no? Actually, nobody gives a kitten about your win chance and nobody gives a kitten about you. Build diversity is bad as it is and players like you continue to degrade PvP scene even further.
Get productive instead and provide feedback how to improve PvP state instead of this.

Oh, and if I play with you in ranked, I’ll AFK just to annoy you.

Thanks for the heads-up. I screenshotted this to send it to the customer support if this should ever happen.

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

Malediktus.9250:

Can you remove people without elite specs from ranked matches? I am tired of having them on my team and lowering my win chances. At the very least try to put people without HoT/elite specs into their own teams so I dont have to play with them.

this is such a troll thread

I am dead serious about this. If I see a guard without dragon hunter or engineer without scrapper spec I always cringe.

foste.3098:

LOL you reason is so stupid. You do realise that every pvp season will have different legend title and therefore different achievement? So if you want to stay on top of the whateverboard you are condemning yourself to pvp’ing to legend every single season.

And if you read what i wrote you will know that i did solo queue which means that i did carry my weight in a 5 man effort to win, without a elite spec.

I already condemned myself to getting every black lion set (currently 26 sets complete), so I dont know why getting legendary is that different.

JETWING.2759:

I did 4/5 saphire tier with warrior, and i did well.
And still doing well with rifle engi… w/o HoT.

Just because you do well does not mean your build is viable. It is a downgrade compared to scrapper.

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

You can play w/o HoT, you just need to be better than enemy. I am running vanilla do build because i hate daredevil design and i am doing fine however i agree elites are just stupidly ovetuned due to dubious marketing strategies and need massive nerfing.

everything works if you are better than the enemy, but why use something that disadvantages you against equally skilled players?

For fun? I thought that is why ppl played games? Current elites are really bad designed and are extremely boring (including daredevil).

I played ranked to wins and not for joking around. Anet needs to give people without HoT access to elite specs in pvp if they dont want to do anything about this.

Ranked is srs bzns lol. I can’t believe some people actually take current system serious xD

I have to take it serious because it gives achievement points to reach primordial legend title. Thanks to all the useless people in ruby I am stuck in the same stage of ruby for 10+ hours now. Win a pip. Loose a pip. I dont want to see people who use the wrong builds, no elite specs or people who dont know how the buffs work on temple map anymore.

If it is THAT important for you, do it like poster above me suggested: make a team.

But I want to soloQ, if I make teams I have to play against other premades. If I play against other premades I need to find people which make for a team better than the average premade. Premades which only reach 50-60% winrate are not worth the effort.

foste.3098:

Malediktus.9250:

Thanks to all the useless people in ruby I am stuck in the same stage of ruby for 10+ hours now.

Everyone ends up in ruby, even the ppl who never played pvp ever before. This is because before this point you cannot loose tiers. If you own HoT, and cannot make a build to steadily carry you our of ruby then idk what to tel you.
As i said above i do not have hot and i managed to do it solo. So if you, who has access to the objectively op elite specs, cannot maybe you should not pvp?

Besides who gives a kitten about a stupid title, and you can get the ugly wings if you reach ruby in 2 different seasons.

The whole carry your team is bs. It is a 5vs5 game. Everyone should pull his weight and not 1 person carry the team.
I dont care about the title or the wings. I just need the achievement points to stay competive in the top 5 of the achievement point leaderboard. If the title would give 0 AP I wouldnt give anything about it. But 6 AP is 2 black lion collections. And thus I cant skip it.

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

You can play w/o HoT, you just need to be better than enemy. I am running vanilla do build because i hate daredevil design and i am doing fine however i agree elites are just stupidly ovetuned due to dubious marketing strategies and need massive nerfing.

everything works if you are better than the enemy, but why use something that disadvantages you against equally skilled players?

For fun? I thought that is why ppl played games? Current elites are really bad designed and are extremely boring (including daredevil).

I played ranked to wins and not for joking around. Anet needs to give people without HoT access to elite specs in pvp if they dont want to do anything about this.

Ranked is srs bzns lol. I can’t believe some people actually take current system serious xD

I have to take it serious because it gives achievement points to reach primordial legend title. Thanks to all the useless people in ruby I am stuck in the same stage of ruby for 10+ hours now. Win a pip. Loose a pip. I dont want to see people who use the wrong builds, no elite specs or people who dont know how the buffs work on temple map anymore.

Cynz.9437:

Malediktus.9250:

Cynz.9437:

You can play w/o HoT, you just need to be better than enemy. I am running vanilla do build because i hate daredevil design and i am doing fine however i agree elites are just stupidly ovetuned due to dubious marketing strategies and need massive nerfing.

everything works if you are better than the enemy, but why use something that disadvantages you against equally skilled players?

For fun? I thought that is why ppl played games? Current elites are really bad designed and are extremely boring (including daredevil).

I played ranked to wins and not for joking around. Anet needs to give people without HoT access to elite specs in pvp if they dont want to do anything about this.

Cynz.9437:

You can play w/o HoT, you just need to be better than enemy. I am running vanilla do build because i hate daredevil design and i am doing fine however i agree elites are just stupidly ovetuned due to dubious marketing strategies and need massive nerfing.

everything works if you are better than the enemy, but why use something that disadvantages you against equally skilled players?

Matchmaking definitely got worse with the current patch. At least for ruby. I keep getting the most useless players on my team who do not even have elite spec or completly bad weapon choices. I wonder how people like this even got to Ruby. Ruby is the new elo hell I guess since you can just grind your way there.

Can you remove people without elite specs from ranked matches? I am tired of having them on my team and lowering my win chances. At the very least try to put people without HoT/elite specs into their own teams so I dont have to play with them.

Looks like none of the missing achievements got added to the API this patch. Also add the Wintersday 2015 achievement to the list now. It only shows one of the achievements of that category in API now.

Stand The Wall.6987:

Josh Davis.6015:

The title should unlock once you enter legendary. It’s a bug, and is slated to be fixed in our next release.

did you get promoted?

It required League Champion during first season now according to patchnotes? That legendary x2 and first season

Anet should start splitting pve and pvp balance again.

I have w10 + nvidia gpu +64 bit client. Works flawless.

It took me 4 days to find the adventure part, getting 6+ gold medals per day and some silver.
The Ulgoth part dropped for me on 2nd try, the other parts went rather quick, too.

I dislike DS, too. Definitely the most boring and tedious of the 4 HoT maps.

I am tired of winning 500-0 and gaining only one pip (the opponent team had better divisions than us).
I am tired of loosing pips for matches like 495-500 also. Anet said it it worth it to play hard until the end of the match. Most of the time it feels like wasted effort.

Meanwhile people still farm easy pips with pve tactics in stronghold.

They cannot fix that for you, they never fix achievements for people. You will have to kill Sabetha again and hope it will not bug.

Yes, stronghold needs to go from ranked. All diamonds+ I know farmed pips in stronghold but know nothing about pvp (they admit this).

In story mode his vortex deals a lot more damage. It instant downs my chars if I dont dodge (or sidestep)

Scribe is horrible tbh. Did you see how much Thesis of Superior Strength costs to craft? 263g last time I checked.
https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/item/77146-Thesis-on-Masterful-Strength
Even for 26g it would be a waste of gold.

Anet needs to recheck costs vs reward or soon scribing will only be levelled by AP hunters.

Hunter.4783:

Raids are challenging for 90% of the players out there, if not 98% of them. I think the difficulty is perfect

and 90% of those 90% are only challenged because they are too lazy to improve and learn some basic stuff

Rising Dusk.2408:

Malediktus.9250:

Inventory space is always rare. Especially if it is account bound and cannot store it in guild banks or alt accounts.

And if your inventory space was too valuable before to keep the minis, then nothing has changed with this announcement.

Depends on what will happen to them. Before duplicate minis were worth exactly 0 copper.

Rising Dusk.2408:

You’re certainly free to try a customer support ticket, but I’ve been warning people ever since this was first posted that they’d do something about it.

Inventory space is always rare. Especially if it is account bound and cannot store it in guild banks or alt accounts.