Guild Wars 2

If you read the match making doc as I see it. Your own team will be players of similar mmr as you and you will face any other team of players who have similar mmr. So right now it’s quite possible team of 5 legends face off team of 5 ambers .

most likely in the afternoon. I’m gonna sucked it on my crappy alts for the fire tire to finish ascension anyway . tbh I realized I am having more fun playing risk of rain than gw2 pvp. Still I’ll push for legend this season no matter how boring gw2 is lol.

lol I can’t believe they gave out award for each team you are on

lol I feel the same but at least I’m winning my 1 v 2s so even when I lose I know it wasn’t me. Some times you just can’t carry that hard.

I run a shatter build and doing well. But in unranked I’m facing very poor players , not really a true test of the build. I haven’t lost to a thief yet 1 v 1 but I know they are not really good thieves. In general I chain daze and them then burst them down,works great. But from ranked played even before thief buff the good thieves would not get caught by chain daze like the ones I face now days.

unranked play means nothing. I also got to diamond on mostly shatter but bunker mes was by far more effective at higher end solo q .

Sorel.4870:

I am not sure what I am looking at. Is it not normal to win 50% of your games if you reached the MMR level you belong to? Soloq is basically a coin toss unless you’re vastly underrated, so the pattern your match history exhibits does not surprise me.

If you read my post you would see that I’m pointing out all the matches were blowouts. The outcome was pre determined by match making. Sure it gave me a 50% win rate but what I did or didn’t do meant very little. The system gave me 4 sure wins and the 3 sure losses. This is in diamond, shouldn’t the system have enough info to make good matches by the time players reach diamond?

9 out of 10 matches are 200 pts or more diff. So more or less the winners were set before match started.
See a winning streak of 4 follow by a losing streak of 3. This happens so often I have a hard time believing they are not actively pushing a 50% win rate.
Basically I wasted over 1 hr playing those matches because what I did or didn’t do made very little difference at all.
The interesting thing is I bet if they just switched the highest mmr player on the winning team with the lowest mmr player from the losing team those 9 matches would be nice close matches.

This kitten kitten 1/2 rank 1/2 mmr match making is just real bad. match diamond with diamond, ruby with ruby. Cream will rise to the top over time and ladder will be set. What we have now is just a joke.

you know the system is screwing you over when the pips you gain are more from losing than winning matches ..

same here, I bet you they changed match making again lol

que time just got super long this eve….

dps mesmer to t5 ruby and bunkered it to diamond

Here is my story.
Was in ruby before xmas pretty much stuck at t5-6 ruby until Anet admitted that match making was rigged vs people with high mmr. Whatever they changed made me go from ruby t5 to diamond in 1 day.
Made it to t3 diamond pretty easy .
Then they changed match making again . Whatever they did pretty much screwed me over. 5 – 7 game losing streaks followed by 4-5 game winning streaks. A lot of pips gained from losing matches leads to me to think that once gain I’m getting screwed and been placed on team that have lower real mmr in matches.
So now instead of just bounce between kitten diamond everyday I gave up and started playing alt to get achievement. If I’m going to be placed in impossible matches might as well do it on a kittenty toon

Well this is just typical. loss 4 in a row then win one. I had to kittening carry so hard to come back from 150pt down to win 500-485 by carrying BOTH side pts. Then the match after that not even close , 500-198. It’s like match making is saying how the kitten dare you win a match, here you go there is no kittening way you can carry this no matter how hard you tried…

I’m in diamond and no way I’ll reach legend. Can I opt out of getting pips and get out of this kittened up match making system? Give me back my 50% win rate , I am just sick of playing match after match of impossible fights.

when you change match making? Like we are making tweaks to match making etc etc
First you changed it so that matches got fair and I went up 3 tier in diamond then some time last night you changed match making again , If I knew I was going to be kittened over for 10 matches in a row I would have just stopped trying after the first 3.

they changed it again I’m pretty sure. just lost 9/10 after getting 3 tier of diamond with ease… sigh

It got easier by a lot over the weekend. The same day they posted about the next season’s changes. I have been stuck t5-6 ruby since before xmas and over 24 hrs I got 9 pips to get into diamond and now I’m tire 3 diamond. So ye things have changed for the better for me.

After been stuck at t5-6 ruby since xmas thank you for whatever you did to match making . Gained 9 pips to get in diamond in 1 day with a 70%+ win ratio.
It’s nice to not have 1/3- 1/2 of my matches totally unwinnable for a change .

if a diamond gps with a emerald how about raise their mmr ? They already have the advantage of gain 2 pip from a win and loss 1 from a loss at least make it a bit of work for them to farm the pips…

I’m stuck in ruby but I do think rank = skill for the most part. I see a clear increase in skill level from t3 ruby to t5/6 since I have been more or less living between t4-t5 ruby for a week and dip to 3 once in a while and make it to 6 once in a while.
I can more or less hard carry any match t3 or lower and pretty much hold my own at t5-6.
The only problem I have is that at t5-6 ruby I get a lot of diamond/legend + emerald/amber teams . Where is low ranked player is clearly alt account of another skilled player lossing a match 500-200 and loss 2 pips really hurts lol

lol that was me a week ago and it’s still me today !! hope you have a better time getting those last few pips than me.

I just love been throw into matches I have no hope at winning at all 10 at a time great match making there.

Sampson.2403:

I’ve recently returned to the game, and I have spvp experience with most classes. After buying HoT, I’ve been having trouble against condition spams (specifically the Necro). I played some Scrapper & MallyX Rev n was able to counter Reapers. Then I played 100+ games with Reaper to better understand how to beat them as well.

Now I’m jumping back to my favorite class, the standard (upated HoT version) Power Shatter Mesmer and I’ve been having tons of trouble vs the condition spam that reapers dish out. If they land their conditions, I’m almost always instantly dead (I have no cleanse, resist etc.).

BTW, I’m using the Chronomancer – Power Shatter build on metabattle.com … Any tips on how to counter the typical Reaper Spam?

Thanks.

meta power shatter is not idea if you solo Q. that’s all I’m sying

gets easier as time goes on. better player move to diamond and new grinders enter ruby

if you are the one winning every fight , taking every pt, 1 v 2 or 1 v 3 at 1 pt and bunk it down. Well you are carrying the team. As in you are the main reason your team is getting pts. I have carried teams and have been carried and many times I have lost matches due to 1 very good player on the other team . So ye carry does happen.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

zorokai.1486:

Right just had a Pvp ranked game 500-445 (defeat) Due to a player who Deliberately Tanked – how I know? simple, this ranger ran naked, left points which was ours to be capped by other team did nothing to support or assist the team, just died conveniently to allow the other team to Rally off his/her useless self.

2 confirmed people reported this player, but worst of all, my team lost Pip(s) for this? Total BS, feel bad for my team as we did well as a 4 man pug/duo and a person trying to make us lose.

More than happy to Pm people the players name and account details ingame (if they want to know)

You can run naked in this game and it’s no different than wearing armor. You will be buffed to max stats. This misconception has gotten me reported before, but it’s ignorance on the players reporting for not knowing that a character with no armor has the same “armor” stats as one with max.

not true. You need some armor , any armor at all in 3 slots to get stats

Nephziel.6053:

So, I was playing some Ranked with a friend and the most interesting thing happened.

There was a fight near the lord gates and I used Phase Retreat (Mesmer Staff 2) to avoid some of the burst and ended up in a wall.

I tried using Illusionary Leap and Blink but there was no valid path to the target.
I also tried asking enemy team to kill me which they refused to do.

This ended up me waiting in a wall unable to do anything for close to 200 points.
I also ended up being abused by my team due to “AFK”

I probably should’ve reloged but I didn’t think of it back than

known bug, happens to me a lot.

ruby is hard. For me I find that you have to carry almost as hard as the lower tiers except everyone you face are not noobs you can just blow up. That + all the ruby+amber duos really screw up your progression.

true for me. I soloed sapphire in no time at all. Mostly because you don’t get people do really dumb kitten rotations . Ruby is gonna be a rude slap to your face though lol…

whatever it is for you. I solo que in ruby, my normal is about 3 mins and once in a while I get a 6+ min que and more often than not it ends very badly for me.

Do you get the feeling that match making is just trying to kitten you over….. lol I sure do.

Maybe if you are really good. I’m not it seems but I have lost to a few players consistent enough to make me think it’s possible. Also once more and more grinders enter ruby it should be easier imo.

kdaddy.5431:

Mogar.9216:

1 home 4 mid. Don’t go far. Pretty simple but most ppl don’t get it.
After that READ THE MINI MAP.
only go far if you KNOW you can win the 1 v 1 in 40 seconds or less .

Why is not going far a good thing?

Seriously is the dumbest thing that gets repeated over and over again in this game. If a team does a 1-3-1 split and you go 1-4. That means you have a contested home, they capped far and you literally would have to kill somebody in 10 sec at mid in a 4 vs 3 to win that point.

Best yet, the person at home loses to the person running a 1 vs 1 build. The other team sent 2 bunkers to mid who support one another so you didnt get the kill there and now your triple capped.

Just like anything else in this game its about winning even number fights and taking advantage of odd number fights. Simply put if you couldnt win 3 vs 3 at mid its your fault not the person who went far. Home got decapped and person lost the far fight. The question becomes how come no one at mid was counting heads and saw you were fighting 4 vs 3/2/1 if you were getting the kills and capped it?

Im seeing so many people in the ruby/diamond rank who have no clue what they are talking about and that needs to stop.

you go 1 3 1. unless you are a thief you will most likely not get to far before they cap it. Every team send a bunker to bunk home . Any bunker in div3 or higher will NOT lose a 1 v 1 . meanwhile you are 4 v 3 at mid. With the new meta everyone is spaming ae you will lose mid and pretty much get screwed.

I don’t know how I can get matched in unwinnable matches for 14 in a row… I mean they are not even remotely close matches. I don’t even know how 4 ruby 1 sapphire vs 3 ruby 2 sapphire can be as one sided as the matches I am in. It’s like the rubies on my team are amber tier players . Sure most likely I suck , but isn’t match suppose to match me with players just as bad as me?

1 home 4 mid. Don’t go far. Pretty simple but most ppl don’t get it.
After that READ THE MINI MAP.
only go far if you KNOW you can win the 1 v 1 in 40 seconds or less .

I think with the new Div system you will not get 50% win rate. Because higher tier players will rarely if ever be matched with lower tier players. I seem this as a ruby, I rarely see any emerald and almost never any amber. So if you are a long time pvper the first 3 div should be easy . As time goes on the pros will move to the highest tier and more grinder enter ruby, I think ruby will get easier as well.

SWtor pvp was garbage hut ball is so gimmicky I would only play it for distraction .

There is always a gap in between invuls . mesmer has low hp pool don’t waste your skills when you can’t hurt the mesmer wait for the gap and burst hard. Do not let up keep at it.
It’s pretty much impossible to kill a bunker 1 v 1 but 2 v 1 is very doable. Since the bunker mesmer is doing no damage to you , it’s just matter of time in a 2v 1 or 2 v2 for you to kill the mesmer. Now the kitten part is if the mesmer is on a team he/she will be flash rezed that’s when you know you are kittened .

My win ratio has been better in league than my normal 50%. I did get a 10 match lossing streak but I also got a lot of 5-6 match winning streaks. I think as the pros move to diamond and above life in sapphire and emerald has been pretty good for me at least.

I have no idea how match making is working but I am guessing that high tier players such as diamond or ruby will be rarely paired vs players in amber and emerald. When you teamed with sapphire players you basically gave yourself a large mmr boost and ended up playing much better players than you would have.

I wouldn’t say I am one of those player who is winning a lot but my win ratio has gotten better with the league. I entered emerald with 10-1 then when on 3-15 and finished with a string of matches at 70% win rate. First tier of sapphire went by in a flash because I got 2 wins that gave me 2 ticks . Tier 2 is at a dead stop at my 50% win rate at the moment. So I guess you can expect a bit of everything in the league judging from my experience.

the only mistake soloQer make is not bring 4 friends with him/her.
All the things you listed are not rocket science , most soloQers with high mmr know them .
The problem is with skills being equal, soloQ 5 man will loss because you simply do not run the same build in a team as you do soloQ. You can not count on support or condi cleanse from other player if you soloQ, you do not take a lot of support skills because you can’t count on your team mates to take advantage of them. As a result 5 soloQer will have much less synergy between their builds compared to a 5 man premade.
There is just no getting around that fact.

insp duel chrono shatter is working out pretty good. imo best spec for solo Q. You are almost as tanky as a bunker chrono and still dish out very good damage. 2x moa won so many fights for me as well and much saltyness from people.

well got stuck last match was something to do with rev smoke skill. Some kind of strange combo with my chrono skill made it happen I think.

give it time before call for nerf is all I have to say. DH prime example

I bugged out a lot a 2 weeks back I think but haven’t since. Maybe they fixed some of it. It is a pain though to get stuck in one place and basically loss the match for your side.

alemfi.5107:

Hmm… I feel like I need to work on presenting controversial information to stir up conversation.

So (in my opinion), core bunker mesmer was strong prior to HOT due to the following traits:
Restorative Illusions : Condition removal on shatter, and heals.

Bountiful Disillusionment : Easy Access to stability for stomps among other boons.

Deceptive Evasion : Additional Shatter Fuel, adds to visual noise, additional condi pressure, fueled by endurance replenishment sigils and runes. This is not needed in Chronomancer, as variations of the chronomancer bunker allow you to keep illusion count up through other means, as well as illusion count not being completely necessary for the survivability of this build.

Bountiful Disillusionment and Restorative Illusions are two VERY powerful traits shared among the two builds. Was I being selfish by pointing out only stuff exclusive to the chronomancer setup? Possibly. Probably.

Perhaps Restorative Illusions needs to be weaker when shattering without a single clone up. Like no condi removal, or the heal should be significantly weaker.

Bountiful Disillusionment also does not seem to have any scaling based on illusion presence. Is this something that should be adjusted?

At the end of the day, the entire package of Chronomancer Bunker is “too much”, but I hope it can be adjusted without gutting the core mesmer.

you want to nerf 3 abilities that was there pre hot and not touch any of the chrono stuff ..

agreed , It is really about how you play. Still it gets pretty kittenty when you are handed 10 matches in a row where you KNOW there was no chance of winning any one of them.

account , there is a post by Anet floating out there somewhere.