Guild Wars 2

Eyia Hellhide.7320:

I was right. As always!

“Warrior at far! Wait, how did he switch attunements?”
“I’m going home! Oh, this is far…”
“These guys are pro” end up getting the first win of the day

lighter.2708:

a button to hide the chests icons please

There’s already a way to do that.
It’s called opening the chests.

If you’ve only just started sPVP, your MMR takes some time to settle as it’s trying to figure out your skill level. Give it a few days and it should settle.

Rank has nothing to do with MMR (nor should it).

Hello,

I’m looking for a partner (EU) to 2-man AC p1/3 once per day to make some easy cash as the partner I used to do this with is no longer active.

Requirements:
Elementalist running 66002 berserker staff – experience with staff preferred.
TeamSpeak 3 preferred but not essential.
Experience at soloing/duoing is preferable but not necessary (I can easily teach this if you’re good enough at ele).

Whisper/mail me in game if interested.

So, the original poster decided to delete his post and now I look like an idiot :/

Yes, let’s totally forget about the 10k heal from the bandages. Also, a 2 second AoE stun is pretty strong…

EDIT: The original poster deleted his post… >.>

Why does this thread even exist? There’s already a thread talking about the nerfs that are coming to turrets…

The reason we’ve been given for not being able to do anything while queuing is that people could be stuck in a loading screen or cutscene or whatever when the queue pops.

So why not send people straight into a custom server the moment they start queuing? You can even allocate special servers for this purpose with no score/time limit if you’re really worried about the loading screen at the end of the match and turn the whole thing into a warm-up arena. Players that leave the server will also leave the queue (with a warning popup). Could even put a trading post and merchant in the spawn areas of these special servers.

Vieux P.1238:

ronpierce.2760:

Vieux P.1238:

it’s not a nerf.. A nerf is when they remove or reduce an advantage. They just made turrets not invincible to crits & condis anymore. So basically your keeping all the same damage output as b4. That has not changed. For sure..you guys gonna have to get skill’s instead of afk’ing & laughing at ppl trying to decap you.

Some might consider crit and condition immunity an “advantage”. That “advantage” was removed. An advantage was removed. It got nerfed. Not a direct damage nerf (notice I said direct). But it got nerfed.

Hey i want my clones to have immunity to then.

You want your clones to have immunity because after this update turrets won’t have immunity? Makes sense…

nightblood.7910:

Of all my losses (right now Im only playing unranked) I end up either top scorer or second to top. They are still loses for me though. In those I question, what else could I have done to better my personal stats in that?

Thus I think individual player win//loss ratios mean nothing and if they meant less to individual players then the match up’s against premades would be less of a problem.

It would be more about how well you played that match personally than whether the team you ended up with won or lost.

Just my 2.

Player performance is impossible to judge under any system without having actual people spectating each match.

If someone holds a 2v1 for 10 minutes on the far point without killing either of them, he will gain no personal points from it but is being incredibly useful to to his team by allowing them to outnumber across the rest of the map. How can you judge this under any system?

Now compare this to a thief that runs round decapping points then leaving again and using heartseeker on low targets and then leaving those targets as soon as they go down. He’ll automatically get top points because he contributed to all the kills and point captures/defences regardless of how good the other players were.

Just watch tournaments and see what comps the top teams are running if you really need to know what the most viable ones are.

I get afk’ers when my team is ahead in points with a double cap =’(

I seem to be having an opposite experience from everyone else…

Whenever I queue with a full premade and end up against another full premade, it generally leads to a fairly balanced match-up. The moment we get pitted against 5 soloq’ers, there’s an obvious increase in the enemy players’ individual skill level and leads to losing a number of the 2v2s and 3v3s. I think I’ve actually lost to more 5x soloq’ers than full premades when queuing with a premade…

Xillllix.3485:

You can get a Call of Duty map pack for 4.99 and it usually includes 3 to 5 maps, and they make 3-4 of those per year.

And how much of a PvE playerbase does Call of Duty have and therefore how much of its resources can it dedicate to PvP content?

If they rewarded teams that only defended and didn’t attack much, we would have full bunker teams which would result in extremely boring matches.

The purpose of defence is essentially to buy you time for your offence. Remember that the primary objective of this mode is to kill the enemy lord.

Scenario #1: 5 of the enemy players are in your base and being successfully held back by 3 people while 2 of you are killing their lord uncontested.

Scenario #2: A large team fight occurs in your base (3v3+) which you are able to win. Having 3+ of them down allows you to assume control of the whole map and run supplies, channel heros and advance your offensive uncontested before they can respond.

[trollmode]
15 mins is plenty of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh8BhaNzNlo
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Seriously though, this is going to be less of an issue once proper tactics have been figured out. Also if it does end up in a stalemate, the whole purpose of the point system is to reward aggression and therefore preventing full bunker teams from winning by stalling and forcing a stalemate.

This suggestion would basically be Fort Aspenwood from GW1, which I should point out was a successful and fun game mode to play. I personally think having both teams defending and attacking simultaneously makes for much more tactical play between fixed teams, but splitting offence and defence could be beneficial for teams that aren’t premade.

Just for fun – post your fastest stronghold run here!
Screenshot or video for proof.

Managed to do a run in 2 minutes and 29 seconds with plenty of room for improvement (pug ignored instructions, I started a few seconds late because I was typing, I also only made this build an hour ago):
https://youtu.be/kh8BhaNzNlo
Personnel: Random, Impact, Arathorian, Kakazoe + 1 pug that didn’t listen.

I am aware of this, but why can’t outfits be mixed? I’m pretty sure individual pieces of the pirate outfit used to be mixable for example.

Shifts in meta usually happen to either counter the previous meta or overcome weaknesses of the previous meta. For example, the condi meta some time ago was the reason why there’s so much condition cleanse in every comp to the point that condition-reliant compositions are no longer effective. DPS guards are steadily replacing mesmers in the meta to overcome the mesmer’s weakness to thieves.

Why can’t we do this? I thought we use to be able to mix different pieces together before the new outfit system came out and I don’t understand why they would remove this option.

Just let me get my time machine.

ArrDee.2573:

Cele Rifle’s IP does ~2000 removable damage every 10 seconds! A warrior could literally stand there and outheal that damage! Warriors can also remove 8 million conditions every minute from their entire party!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

1 class being able to deal with it doesn’t make it ok.

glock.6590:

Premades aren’t the problem, turret engis are.

What on earth do turret engis have to do with anything? The premade he was against probably didn’t even have any.

There’s been quite a number of times when I’ve hit character select and the whole game has quit and the game launcher loaded instead. I can’t really give any more information about this.

As the title suggests, I’m just looking for more buddies of a similar skill level to play with, a lot of my old pvp buddies no longer play and there’s times in the day where I’m stuck soloq’ing.

Req: TS3 with good communication skills and experience in team pvp. Any viable team build.

If you’re interested, just add me in-game and whisper me when you want to pvp, if we turn out to be of a similar skill level then I’ll add you and we’ll pvp more.

Side note: I’m not currently looking for a team since I’m currently in one, I’m just looking for people to play with when they aren’t all online.

I don’t think more classes are in that much needed at the moment to be honest, I’d rather they fixed up current issues and improved the current classes than create even more issues by introducing several new classes.

Oxidia.8103:

6. Never ever fight off cap point. Ever. Glue yourself there and die as a man on the point

This is horrible advice, especially if you are either a glass build or you’re against a class with a huge number of knockbacks (or both).

If you’re forced to defend a point as a mesmer, thief or power ranger and you have a tanky class incoming, you need to run off the point and force them to fight off-point before they reach it. This allows you to actually kite around without having to worry about standing on the point. Even if they ignore you and run straight for the point, you scored several free hits on them before the on-point fight.

I think it does, although none of the enemy team would gain personal score. It’s the same as jumping off the edge of the map in skyhammer without being tagged,

Jasher.6580:

What I would personally like to see is a leaderboard that represents Character and not Player.

Example: Everyone knows that style.6173 may be an amazing player on his Thief: Ichigo who is ranked 5th on the leaderboards.

Nevertheless, he is borderline garbage on his Engineer though he gets carried sometimes by his friends so his Engineer: Inspector Gadget is ranked 987 on the leaderboards.

This way the introduction of a class icon would be useful. It would also be a lot more telling.

The only way what you just said would work if there was an individual leaderboard rank for every single character a player runs in PvP…

You wouldn’t be able to get anything out of this since the top of the leaderboard is dominated by soloq’ers and it’s easy to rake in wins in soloq and the meta only exists for teams. You can easily roll over soloq with things that are never seen in teams such as turret engis, power necros, condi rangers, etc…

GoogleBrandon.5073:

Khylo is not a map that allows comebacks easily…

What…?

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/6040601
At 51:05 the score was 210-50 with a triple cap BOTH in favour of oRNG. Skip to 1:00:55 and you’ll see that 55hp won the game 270-501.

There were enough Khylo comebacks throughout the ESL cups for the EU casters to start nicknaming Battle of Khylo as Battle of Comeback. I’m not going to dig up all these examples, but they exist just as much (if not more than) comebacks on other maps.

brannigan.9831:

The best you should be able to do for a loss is lose zero points and that should be against a team you have like <10% win probability against. MMR should be wiped frequently like after each season. There should be a cap on number of games that count toward leade rboard ranking. Its not like in the NFL one team plays 1000 games and another 16. However, a lot of the things people are complaining about are features of the system and not necessarily bad.

Wiping MMR regularly defeats the point of even having MMR and having to put up with a boatload of unbalanced matches at the start of every season. May as well just make all matches randomised.

Because #redresignday

I pvp while naked all the time and I don’t have any issues with it.

We’re talking about being naked irl right?

Zodian.6597:

Josh Davis.6015:

Thanks for writing up your concerns so succinctly.

This test season is intended to test an algorithm that’s tailored towards ranking players higher for better W/L ratios, in addition to using points gained from playing (meaning games played does not become valueless). The algorithm we’re using this time around is completely different than what was previously tested, and they both have different purposes. We’re already having internal discussions on how we can adjust this season’s algorithm to better suit the goals we stated on Thursday – rewarding players who play well, not just play. These discussions will continue into the next week, and now we have an entire weekend’s worth of data that we can look at and extrapolate on.

Are they even using a rating algorithm anymore?
It kinda sounds like it’s just a ladder point algorithm, which would be a step backwards imo.

MMR still uses rating, but the leaderboard is purely points based.

Now I realise that losing a match weighted heavily against you or winning a match heavily in your favour will have little impact on your leaderboard points, but it still shows up under wins and losses and contributes towards the win/loss ratio.

Matches that are 80%+ weighted on one team in which the predicted team wins should not affect the total wins/losses or ratio for either team, it’s basically rewarding/punishing players for hitches in the matchmaking system.

trampled underfoot.4523:

You receive points for defending though.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

He does not kill anyone, so does not get an points for bunkering this point

You only get points towards objective defender if you actually kill someone while defending a point.

The only reason I can come up with as to why we’re stuck with this new system is that it gives less experienced players a chance to win the rewards at the top of the leaderboard (glorious hero’s armor, mini llama), but why should this affect the only way players have of seeing where they stand in comparison to the rest of the players?

I’m fine with having some sort of reward system that rewards hard work, but please keep this separate from the real leaderboard.

This is a bad idea.
Here’s an exaggeration of a common scenario:

One player is bunkering a point 1v2 for the entire match. He does not kill anyone, so does not get an points for bunkering this point, but has taken two enemy players out of the game while the rest of the team farms points across the map.

Yes this is exaggerated, but in a large majority of games in soloq you’ll have someone who actually defends points getting the least credit on the scoreboard and they don’t necessarily even get point defender since point defender requires you to actually kill someone.

I don’t understand what you’re talking about, the vast majority of PvP meta builds don’t require any unlocks.
Off the top of my head, I can only think of Rune of the Traveller and the Path of Corruption necro trait that require unlocks, neither of which are that common in the meta.

Call of the mists when it’s an ESL monthly final tournament, Greater Call when it’s the World Tournament Series.

Fistandanthilus.6824:

But I still see the old formula on your GW2 wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm

The wiki articles aren’t written by ANet, they’re either written by players or copied by players from official posts.

Was playing a match about 20 mins ago from this post, game crashed near the start. When I logged back in, I was in heart of the mists, but the match was still in progress and I couldn’t enter it or start a new match.

Keksmuffin.1450:

AH Guardian giving everybody arround him 25 stacks of stability would heal him for like 10k HP. c:

That’s not how AH works, or you’d be getting 15 heals per tick of empower rather than 5.

Ravenmoon.5318:

Zenith.7301:

Cynz.9437:

the real nerf is elites actually reapplying stab so steal is kind of useless vs elite stab now

I know, you might actually have to take Dagger Storm to crap all over a necro instead of just crapping on him outright.

Sure, if the necro is blind enough to not see the kittenstorm of daggers coming their way and that rotating thief. I guess the autoattack pros will get shredded. But I always guessed that semi kittened necroes will avoid that

And does the necro do in the meantime? Either slowly walk away or exit lich form, neither of which are ideal.

Dredd Spirit Caller.4082:

with thief u can say: “stability its just an wirling elite skill”

As well as a stolen boon.

#Trebthegolems
It’s fun.

Bountiful theft has always been like that.

It looks like the conditions are critting (think about it, crits are sudden upward jumps by 50-100%)