Conquest is fun, just like solo arena is fun (if you ignore the syncers). It is probably the best mode of all. And different maps require different builds and tactics. I think the mode is perfect and should never be changed.
I never had any problems like that in solo queue (however, I was never ranked worse than 400 or so on ladder). I’ve never seen a complete newbie in my game, I’ve never seen anyone complaining about Skyhammer.
What I did see was people actually playing as a team and trying really hard to win. I did see a lot of syncers but no one complained about them, everyone always gives their best to beat them, and it works sometimes. So my suggestion is: play better and get to higher position on the ladder where the games are actually enjoyable.
I really hope they won’t re-enable this ever again. It was abused so much.
I completely agree with OP’s post except the class diversity thing.
Just nerf spirit rangers, and give warriors a bit more damage but less tankyness and it will be fine.
Definitely add 24h decay.
When you fix the matchmaking issue you should really reset the leaderboard because it’s quite flawed now.
If your rating is similar then you will get in the same team. If your rating is not similar then you can’t sync. This benefits top people on the leaderboard a lot.
Well it would be best if they just merged NA and EU queues for PvP.
Then NA prime-hours fill in for EU least active hours and Eu prime-hours fill in for NA least active hours.Win-win situation.
Agreed. Worked perfectly in GW1.
People get in roster with the people of similar rating. Therefore if top 5 players always enter at the same time, they will always be in the same roster and they’ll be fighting some other 5 people. What an amazing system!
You are not supposed to win each game. If matchmaking worked the way it was intented, the best players would have around 70% wins. Really good players would have around 60%. And others would be around 45-55%
PvP is fine as it is now. They just have to fix this extremely flawed matchmaking and then reset the leaderboard. Also, can this hidden rating become visible any time soon???
Those people you played against do sync. Just like Mila and many others do, it’s a fact. Syncing is too easy because of the flawed system and Anet should definitely fix this issue and then reset the leaderboard.
Even if it’s disabled, the items still pop out at the side of the screen, making zooming in and out of the world map impossible, and therefore making me miss many world events because there is no time.
Fix the bug please.
Thanks!
The way Sync Arena works is:
- It waits for 5 players to sign up and puts them in roster (team). Then it waits for another 5 players and puts them in different roster. And then another 5, etc.
That way all you have to do is enter with the same time with your friend, and most of the time you’ll end up in the same team.
When MMR settles in and there is the rating difference, this problem will not be fixed. There will just be longer waiting time, because it will take time to find matching set of 5 players who entered.
The way it should work is (but it doesn’t):
- It waits for X number of players to enter, based on time of the day or whatever. Let’s say it waits for 20 players to enter. And then it should start creating rosters and matching players up out of that larger pool rather than instantly.
I hope this is a bug and will get fixed.
Agreed, extremely annoying. I hope this bug gets fixed soon.
The “Escape” key doesn’t work anymore for closing the panels such as inventory achievements, etc. It just makes everything a lot more frustrating. Can you please fix it?
EDIT: it was just automatically disabled in options, just like some of my graphic options were automatically changed.
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Not sure if bug or intented. But because of the items that pop up at the side of the screen when I loot something, it goes over the zoom in and zoom out thing of the world map and makes it unavailable until the items disappear from the screen. Waiting 20 seconds to map somewhere is frustrating.
It took them a year to add RA. I hope they’ll add HA and GvG as well at some point in the future, and automated tourneys. Is Anet finally starting to realize that GW1 PvP model was the best?
I just hope syncing in RA (solo queue arena) won’t be possible like it was in GW1. And that you won’t be able to see who is in your roster until the match actually starts.
Yup it has been happening to me for the last few days. I hope they can fix it soon.
EDIT: commander tag is usually bugged at those times as well
My idea is that Anet organizes some kind of competition for GW2 video makers. That will bring the community closer to gether and inspire more people to work and even watch GW2 videos. Right now 90% on GW2 videos are about WvW fights or PvP fights, but there aren’t many actual videos (or so called machinimas).
The ideal thing would be that Anet staff are like judges and they vote on winner or who gets eliminated if there are multiple rounds (could have a different challenge from Anet or different topic for each round?)
And of course in the beginning they should just have everyone submit whatever so they (Anet staff) can choose who will enter the competition (so there aren’t too many videos to judge). So yeah, I think it would be a good idea and wouldn’t take that much effort from you Anet people.
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Can someone post notes for full “My heart will go on” ? I’ve been trying to improvise but it wasn’t the best.
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The video that will teach you how to fly in GW2
I hope it comes back, just as I hope that they won’t change a single thing about it. The map is perfect.
But yeah, a few “top” kids complained about it because they couldn’t use standard faceroll build so it got removed.
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Regardless of whether it will be removed, it was still extremely unprofessional to introduce a concept like that on a tournament level instead of allowing it to be seen via scrimmages by other teams and receive feedback.
There are no tournaments.
They should’ve kept the map in Rated Matches. It’s fun, different, requires bigger diversity of builds. But I guess “top” players complained because they couldn’t use their standard overpower builds and faceroll all the newbies.
Yup, those of are who are used to different maps all the time and needing different builds and tactics for them got completely forgotten. Skyhammer and Spirit Watch were great maps, in every way for me (a GW1 PvP player), but they removed them, so I’m back to getting my 3 matches played for daily and that’s all.
Because of few people who complained on these forums they decided to remove the map from rotation. Quite sad. I think the map was amazing and definitely the best so far. There was no need to change builds or anything, you just had to play good, use many tricks, and have fun. But yeah I guess what “top” players think is the most important.
The worst decision ever, after removing Spirit Watch from rotation. But whatever, let’s keep same old boring dull identical clone maps, let’s not have anything different where we can actually use a much larger diversity of builds.
Great map, probably the best so far. I really hope nothing will be changed. Finally it’s just not about dull boring team fights. Here you can use so many different tricks, and all professions can work just fine, as long as you use your brain and play good.
I didn’t change any of my builds for this map. Anything works, it’s all about how you play and how you position yourself. It’s really amazing map and it is a sad thing that they’ll change it and nerf cannon etc. And it’s even more sad that they removed it from the rated match rotation.
Seriously, bring back Spirit Watch and Skyhammer to rotation. So what if they get buggy sometimes? They’re fun to play and they’re different than the other maps. What’s the difference between Forest and Legacy? None really. Same goes for Temple. Khylo is a bit different because of the treb but yeah.. need more diversity and that’s why you should keep both Skyhammer and Spirit Watch in rotation. No one is getting real money from playing them, so small flaws shouldn’t really matter.
EDIT: I’ve been playing PvP here a lot. Rank 45 (glory) with only doing 100 Hot Join games in total, rest were tourneys, or so called rated matches, so the glory wasn’t really farmed. Anyway my point is, I know what I’m talking about. Now go make me happy and bring cool maps back to rotation. Thanks!
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The way it ideally should be:
condition>bunker
bunker>burst
burst>condition
The way it is now:
condition>bunker
condition>burst
bunker>burst
Something is very wrong…
Same here, for both forum and leaderboard. For leaderboard I have to login twice and then close that tab and then open leaderboard in new tab. Very annoying and complicated process. Fix it, now!
If you want to implement solo queue, you definitely have to make them unable to see current players in the roster. Else there would be syncing and dodging which goes against the whole idea of the solo queue.
Trash talk IS verbal abuse. I suggest reporting all who do it.
It’s copy-pasted champion karka. Exactly the same model, zero effort put into it. Same attacks as well. Only difference is egg throwing.
If you call something a LEGENDARY Karka Queen, then make it LEGENDARY, rather than copy pasting already existing models.
Let’s all take a moment and think of all the games that can be played online. Then think of how many games have a monthly fee and how many don’t.
Conclusion: p2p = scam, paid Custom Arena = scam
/threadwin
does the champion have to be killed? there was no champion on my server, but there was on other
During the escort part of the event he just stops and won’t keep moving. Please fix.
Alright, here is something from former top 100 GvG and top HA player:
Problem with PvP is definitely Anet’s attitude. They expect players to create tournaments and make esports by themselves without giving them much support really. Just remember what Anet’s plans were: to have tournaments running every day and the best players would collect qualifier points and then compete in the big monthly tournaments as well as the big yearly tournament at the end of each year. There was a Wall of Champions that was supposed to show the big tournament winners, and be there so everyone can see who the best teams/players really were.
Now we have: team/pug vs team/pug 1 round matchmaking. And that’s it. The big plans were forgotten due to no effort being put into it, and now they came with the easiest solution:
“dev1: oh I have a great idea, let’s add custom arenas so players can make their own tournaments and not complain anymore ever, and we won’t have to do anything at all”
“dev2: nice! now we’ll have more free time to spend with our families and won’t have to do much work on game, except fixing bugs once a month, brilliant idea!”
This game indeed has a lot of potential. It is amazingly balanced, even though many would disagree. GW1 was great but wasn’t even as close to be as balanced as GW2 is. Sure PvP there was better but that’s because they have actually put effort in it. GW2 PvP is just forgotten and what devs stated after they added Custom Arenas (“alright, go create your own tournaments now, our job is done, kktnxbye”) was just a nail in the coffin.
Solution: put some more effort in developing PvP, instead of forgetting it more and more.
Also: no one likes having “invisible” ratings.
Keeps happening all the time.
Actually, you might be used as a farm for someone. They have your account information and are just waiting for you to get your materials and they just “farm” you.
I suggest changing your GW and email password (and make them different).
same problem here
Very easy achievement, got it in like 10th game I played, and managed to have everyone dead while I was holding the crab at least 3 more times. I played around 15-20 games in total. Where’s the problem?
I hope they won’t change this achievement. No need for everything to be easy mode, even though this one is extremely easy.
How about the guy with 21 win and 0 loss is in lower rank than this guy with 13-0?
Is it mystic or magic? Oh wait it is Anet.
Actually he always left all the games where he was losing. However, before the recent patch it wouldn’t record as a loss on the leaderboard. He still lost the rating for it though.
Other games don’t have “hidden” ratings
I liked the old times when you could get at least 50 silver (some times around 1 gold) for each skill point. Converting potent blood to powerful was fun.
Same here, 81/83, I want my 10 pts
People still do CM?
Dredge is my favourite fractal, especially now after the glitch has been nerfed.
I do more with my ranger short bow autoattack… and it has 57% chance to crit.
I have the same problem. It only works on few maps, on most it doesn’t work.
My commander icon doesn’t show on any map anymore, the squad is created. Restarting the game didn’t work.