Guild Wars 2

Entered a ranked match with 2 others in my party, I disconnected during the initial countdown. When I logged back in, I was in Heart of the Mists with ‘Match in Progress’ at the top of my screen and login server problems. My party members were still in the match, but I had no way to get back in. Eventually the match ended and I had dishonor.

This happened around 11pm GMT.

There’s no link in the top right and no Call of the Mists buff and the first round is already starting.

Still looking for these

Supreme.3164:

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Yeah don’t you just hate people who can’t afford HoT and want to play PvP with non-HoT builds, they clearly just want to throw games on purpose.

And I assume you have ways to verify that all these people have reached legendary with a non HoT account with the builds they were using…if so pls show me your method..unless we have to believe that legendary status can be passed from one account to another..oh wait that must be it ^^

And I assume you have ways to verify that all these people have reached legendary with a HoT account without the builds they were using…if so pls show me your method. If Leeto has already hit legendary with an F2P account then anyone can.

Yeah don’t you just hate people who can’t afford HoT and want to play PvP with non-HoT builds, they clearly just want to throw games on purpose.

Of course, I should just save all my dodges for when they switch to staff and spam them until they leave staff.

This is skill that takes out around 40% of the hp bar, while CCing you in the process, but by the time you see the animation it’s already too late to react to it.

There needs to be at least half a second of a windup animation for this attack if the damage and CC is going to remain the same, either that or the damage/cc needs to be toned down on this skill.

And before anyone says you can counter it with stability, the rev is obviously going to use it when you have either no stability or only 1-2 stacks of stability since those would be stripped easily by the attack.

Now I don’t have a personal issue with these achievements as I got backpiece a few weeks ago, but this has a direct impact on match quality. Very few players are going to be as good on 2 other classes as their are on their main class, yet people are being forced to play these in Ranked Arena. This completely undermines the entire matchmaking system, as they likely didn’t get to their division by playing that alt class.

Suggested change:

Remove all profession achievements. Replace them with “Map Master” achievments, which require the player to win a certain number of games on all 4 maps. As a positive side-effect, this would also increase the diversity of maps voted on in Ranked Arena.

I don’t mind the concept of elite specs, it’s just that they made them all overpowered…

cosmicegg.8502:

What combat system do you guys like better a more reactive one like BnS or GW2.

GW2 combat system clearly destroys BnS, it’s not even comparable.

Malediktus.9250:

Browrain.7346:

Pretty sure if you leave a match before it’s over, it counts as a loss…

No, only if you leave for more than 2 minutes. You can even change classes mid game without getting dishonor.

You took this out of context. OP is saying that people leave before a loss, but leaving before a loss still counts as a loss (except for hotjoin but that doesn’t count).

Pure Heart.1456:

Wings and I’m outa here, back to PvE and WvW.

You mean PvE and PvE?

I don’t know how you can say that everyone finds unranked more fun than ranked when after last season everyone was moaning on forums that they were being forced to play unranked because there was no ranked.

I’m extremely confused about the way guild team ratings work.

I was playing with a team last week and we got to somewhere about 1.3k rating. After not playing for 11 days with that team, the rating decayed to around 700. We played won some matches yesterday, but only gained 10-20 rating per match we won and finished around 800 rating. Now I just checked today and we have 1369 rating.

Can someone explain this to me?

Also a decay of 600 points down to 700 rating after 11 days seems a bit ridiculous, I’m pretty sure that any new teams that have 1 win 1 loss will have over 1k rating. The system is basically saying that a new team with a 50% win rate is better that an old team that hasn’t played for 2 weeks but had a 70% win rate.

This might sound crazy, but maybe pvp isn’t just about 1v1s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system

By far the biggest problem is the breakable panels that make the map a CC contest, I’m personally happy to have them around if they don’t kill the player but instead require the player to jump back up (like the hole by point.

Hello,

We are currently looking to form a team with the goal of entering the Season 3 pro leagues as well as any other tournaments that we can between now and then. We currently have a core roster of three players who have played together for several months, two of us have played in ESL cups in the past:

Me (Trixxti) – Elementalist
Fresh Cake (Spacecow) – Mesmer
Shazard – Thief/Rev

We are looking for the following:

Engineer (Hammer scrapper)
Necromancer (Any meta condition reaper build)

Tournament experience is highly preferred but not essential. Must demonstrate strong communication via TS3, as well as proficient mechanical and rotational knowledge. We generally play in the evenings.

Please whisper/mail me in-game at Random Weird Guy.3528

How about a new PvP game-mode where everyone is a moa? That would be a 100% balanced game-mode.

On a serious note though, I always thought moa skill #4 was a bit rubbish – it requires you to stand still for over a second just to get a 3s aoe weakness. This needs to either allow movement or do something better (like a 1s aoe daze).

All the non-pro tournaments seem to be cancelled every week due to lack of interest, these things were the only thing that kept me going in PvP a lot of the time.
The EU tournaments have all disappeared because apparently nobody in EU cares about tournaments anymore (ESL, AG, pugquest), NA Thursday ESL cups don’t exist, the NA pugquest has vanished, the only thing left besides pro league is the NA AG cup, which would require to stay up until 4am if I wanted to take part.

Nobody groups up in map chat anyway because it’s just a really bad way to group up. Vast majority of the time it’ll be either you carrying the other player or the other player carrying you, both of which suck.

Silverkey.2078:

You’re right, let’s buff Moa. Let’s make Moa as good as scrapper hammer, with evades, blocks, multiple leap finishers, CC, boons and high damage. And then change Moa to target allies because everybody will want to be a Moa!

Actually make moa target both allies and enemies, including yourself if you’re in range of an AoE moa. Then extend duration of AoE moa to 10s.
New moa meta inc.

What’s unfair? They clearly said that the matching is within 15 pips of where you are.

I don’t actually know if this video is any good, it was just the first thing that came up in google.

Stand The Wall.6987:

its really really lame to get one shotted out of nowhere because they abuse line of sight and the z axis port.

It’s not really an exploit when you can use LoS to surprise burst anyone on pretty much any point on any map (harder on legacy). If this is an exploit, then stealth is also an exploit.

Stow weapon really needs to be a universal ‘Cancel skill activation’ key.

At present there are skills that cannot be stowed – the main example of this being kits and conjured weapons, yet skills can be cancelled via Esc or weapon swap. You can’t even cancel an overload while wielding a conjured weapon with stow. Neither of these keys are optimal, as the Esc key is not in an ideal location and cannot be reassigned (also brings up the option menu if you mash the button), whereas weapon swap obviously drops the conjured weapon.

Stow weapon needs to cancel all skills the same way that Esc does.

There was a blog post that said that matchmaking matches within 15 pips of you, does this include the full legendary prestige spectrum or could Leg x1 players be for example matched with/against Leg x3 players?

No, this would result in stupidly unbalanced builds. Also just the thought of double beastmaster makes me shudder.

If you didn’t agree with this and you think it’s an important tactical choice, how did you not notice that ferocity has been gone since the start of the season?

Ferocity’s been gone since the start of the season – was wondering how long it would take everyone to notice.

Maybe it’s using the new state-of-the-art Silent Gliding™ technology?

Hello,

Due to a drop in member activity, we are currently recruiting active PvPers to join our ranks, with a primary goal of forming multiple teams to participate in tournaments. There is no representation requirement, you may also be a member of multiple PvP guilds.

We have two hard requirements:
Must use and demonstrate experience with TeamSpeak 3
Must have a positive attitude, flaming will not be tolerated

We also require our members to be at a certain skill level and have a solid grasp of team coordination – each potential recruit be tested in duels and then in queues. We would like the guild to remain as a small group of skilled players, which make it necessary to have these trials. You are however allowed to tryout multiple times with no limit (as long as you’re not spamming me constantly).

Please whisper or mail me in-game if you are interested.

bubby.5798:

we won trixxti! BTNA did it!

Nice! Seems you’re doing well now that you don’t have to carry me :P

Jourdelune.7456:

Fivedawgs.4267:

Zero counterplay is out!!!!! They did it for the streak !!! 0 games won since S1.

So since Edison team won (Ez Pz), it means that we have a second team out…. which is?

I believe it was Apex Prime?

That’s not what I mean. In the past there was a rule where rewards could only be won if 8+ teams took part right? Or is that rule long gone?

These are most likely going to be PvE sigils, think of how long it took certain sigils to even be considered for adding to PvP.

Is there still a minimum team requirement to get gems?

Which teams are in the pro league? I can’t seem to find any recordings or info anywhere.

Thief isn’t nearly as bad as people say, it’s just that you actually have to know what you’re doing to be useful at it, which 99% of thieves I see in PvP clearly don’t.
You can’t really win even fights (unless it’s a rare favourable matchup such as mesmer), but you easily win outnumbered fights and you have the mobility to be anywhere on the map in under 8 seconds.
You can also win 1v1s against necros if you take condi clear on dodge and dash.

P.S. I would love to have some sort of stability however… (dagger storm doesn’t count)

Does Hard to Catch break you out of taunt? It doesn’t say so in the tooltip, but I thought it would break any cc.

I don’t know where you’re getting this idea from, I was away for maybe 1 min 20s which is only 10% of the match time, is 90% ‘little to no contribution’?
I also helped the team get 2 caps and a neut within the first 3 mins of the game.

Match was around 22:30-22.40 GMT on EU.

My client crashed mid-game, I tried to log back in, but when logged in and clicked on a character I received a message saying “Transaction in Progress” and the client crashed again. This happened 3 times and meant I was out of the match for over a minute for something that was completely out of my control.

I eventually got back in and we won the match 500-370, but I lost a pip for ‘desertion’ as well as gaining dishonor.

I seriously believe that winning should never result in a pip loss, if anything it’s an even stronger win if you are able to win a game after disconnecting for over a minute. This is even more frustrating if it happens as a result of a client bug. Please change this.

P.S. I also wouldn’t mind having my 2 pips back.

Yeah I’m so fed up of losing a pvp match every time the enemy team has more mesmers. Oh wait…

Can we have a ‘repeat last recipe’ button for the mystic forge? Would be extremely helpful for upgrading large quantities of materials.

This isn’t anything specific to reapers, necros have always had this.

When Leonardo DiCaprio rerolls to Revenant and is finally able to win an Oscar with it.

You want to play with a dead woman? That’s disgusting.

From my experience this past week, soloq is actually easier to reach legendary with than with a full team…

Can we please have back the option to buy 10 discounted fractal keys at once? It’s not only extremely inconvenient having to click this so many times every day, it can also contribute to RSI.

Eventually it finished, tried again and crashed again with the same issue.

Whole team crashed on the loading screen into a ranked match, now we’re all in HotM and can’t do anything due to ‘Match in Progress’. On EU.