Yes the matchmaker is flawed not only because the small amount of players. I was playing during very busy hours trying to solo queue I ended up facing 3 different premades(They all had guild tags) with a full pug. I didn’t quite understand why the matcher didn’t match the premades against each other…
Then there is the issue of premades just rolling pugs during off hours when only a handful of people are on which is why the leaderboard is useless
if my team is just terrible or we are facing premade with poor pug I go afk I dont see a problem…..You can introduce any punishment but it wont prevent me to do that again so…..quite useless if you ask me.
Thanks to you and your behaviour, your team is the one that got punished and discourage people away from tPvP as a solo querer like me. I know it won’t stop you no matter what but at least minimise the frequently of same thing happened if a punishment is implemented. Now where is my block button again?
People go afk and leave because there is no punishment in place
Commander doesn’t mean much in pvp usually people who have it on want attention. Also gaining the most points doesn’t mean anything you can have the most points and still lose
It was the reason I didn’t like wvw. Big zergs already had a huge advantage then to top it off if you pick some off from the huge zerg they get ressed 5 seconds later. They should have had it only in pve. They won’t remove it probably because strategy revolves around it and some skills/traits would have to be reworked
I lost out on an extra 10 laurels when they gave pvp monthly laurels rewards. They didn’t reimburse players for that so why would they reimburse for less?
They do have a cooldown, its a global 1-sec on equip/unequip for kits. Putting that to five seconds, or just putting on an additional 5-sec cooldown may well just murder the class without major other changes.
Your comparison is otherwise flawed because you’re comparing a main mechanic of the class (engineers) with general mechanic of the mesmer. Yes, Mesmers have a prerequisite but they also have clones which do more than just stand there, something that an engineer doesn’t have access to while he may be swapping weapons and using his F-keys. The elementalists have access to four completely different sets which, technically, you can also do with a engineer but why the hell would you? I don’t think there’s an actual viable spec with four kits unlike the almost innately viable 4 elementalist attunements.
All classes also have the same global cooldown to swap weapon, half to 1 sec so that if 1sec to equip and unequip for engineer than it make other profession 11 sec to swap weapon too , so 5 sec if not too much.
Yes because other classes are required to put their other weapon sets as utilities and engies obviously can wield a rifle, pistol/shield at the sametime
whats wrong with it? when a guy with 0 games played defeat world champion in box, he become a new champion, is that wrong? here if you defeat much better players than you are, you gain more rating and become better rated fast, works good imo
No they haven’t changed anything for pvp except spectate and custom arenas… It is obvious their focus is on pve which is the reason there is no updates that add a sense of progression for pvp
1 patch a month 90% of the time it is a pve patch. Anet obviously lied when they stated they wanted to improve upon what players liked best about gw1. Then they top it off by advertising gw2 as a e-sport to get me suckered in. I waited and waited and nothing has changed i’m done with this game the devs dont care so why should i?
1) Technically speaking monthly patches are far faster than any other MMO but they need to be patches of substance not sprinkles. Also bugs should never come under patch release…they should be fixed asap and not considered apart of " what we have to offer this coming patch ".
2) I agree but Anet have stated in the latest “SOTG” in april etc that they 1 intend to ditch the monthly patch updates as evident by the may 14 or may 17th patch ( can’t remember what date it was due for ). They said bug fixes and features will now not wait for an end of month patch and will be released when ready.
3) This is one of the biggest issues atm, but anet has a slight advantage in that being free to play there is no cost to try out the game in say 8 months 3 months 2 years etc.
4) alot of talk about conquest = bad….i disagree here….the one thing that made WoW fail as an esport regarding arenas is that theres no reason to force a fight….what resulted was 5-10-50 resets a match. Having a system where victory isnt determined by just kill the enemy is a must for esports when it comes to team games. League has it in that you kill nexus thus making for epic split pushes and comebacks etc.
GW2 has it in node captures etc…the downside is I feel some things definitely do need to be tweaked. Conquest itself though is fine.
Finally….never forget it takes most popular games time to develop into what is acceptable for esports. EG : League of legends 18months – 2 years.
Didn’t know this game was free to play thanks for letting me know
The RNG is disgusting. I wanted the fractal sword, but I ended up getting Bolt quicker. Crazy.
Been doing 48 every day for so long looking for a fractal sword has burnt me out. I actually wish I spent that time working on getting Bolt instead.
Congrats
Lol you’re still trying to get that sword?
After I got the greatsword I pretty much stopped doing fractals which was around February. I was doing fractals 5 times a day had 2 characters at 40s(Two 28 runs, Two 38 runs and a 48 run) It’s kind of obvious they have it obtainable the way it is so that you keep playing if you could use tokens you would eventually get what you want.
Ya when doing solo queues I always get the team mate that decides to constantly rush into 3-4 enemies and die almost instantly. They are the same players that don’t fight on the capture points and the ones who swarm 1 enemy. I’m guessing these are the cod players who can’t play games without constantly being in the midst of a battle.
I don’t blame them not many find fighting on a capture all game fun
OP seems to need constant attention anyway grats on pug stomping with your premade and doing a couple solo queues to try get sympathy. OP suffers from not enough attention when littler syndrome
Like the other poster said how would they know the difference between a plug pull and a d/c. Also why do people care so much about leader boards it is basically which premades steam roll the most pugs
Pretty much never I highly doubt Gw2’s pvp viewership will come anywhere close to sc2 or league. This is subjective but GW2 pvp is not enjoyable to watch also the rate updates come for pvp is way too slow. Esport was just a marketing gimmick
Simply make it public knowledge that leaving = loss both on your leaderboard rank and your rating. The only reason we’re seeing so many leave atm is because of the belief that it helps their leaderboard rank to do so.
Please make it so that when you queue you have to hit enter game after a set time something similar to counter strike go. If all players don’t hit enter dont force them into the match it makes no sense having them auto-join when they are afk
Probably because they are near completion of custom arenas so they are working to get that done and like the other poster said they have way too little people working on the pvp team so they can’t really split tasks…
A good mouse isn’t any better. I destroyed two Razer Mamba during one year while playing sc2, LoL and DotA2.
The right mouse-button always breaks
same… I dont understand why right click breaks, when left click is most used. May it right click get jealous of left click and he kills himself in the process.
They said it is a lesser priority for them the top being custom arenas. I don;t know why they didn’t implement a deserter debuff like they had in gw1 whatever happened to taking everything players like about gw1
