I find it a lot harder i can’t progress from Sapphire t1. I’ve been Diamond ( close to Legend ) season 1 by only solo q.
I stuck in Sapphire tier 1 now. System put me in team with weak players that just doing low damage, die every 1v1 cant win 4v2 4v3 fights also they don’t really know what is teamplay and help teammates, enemy players 3x faster at supporting fights so its end up i defending alone a point vs 2-3 while teammates doing something and we only have 1 cap that iam defending alone. its not single player game, but they play like it is. enemy team get better players that play together and focus one down while my team hitting everything with their 0 dps. I call that balanced teams at Sapphire..
It can be annoying if you get low skill teammates. Top players are already Ruby but ofc they make it the easy way and use party queue with other top player. Haven’t see one top player do it solo to Ruby yet. Im still trying but Sapphire is hell. :p
Matchmaking really bad for me too for solo playing today. Matchmaking system puts me in team with 4 peoples that somehow got to Sapphire but doing 0 damage and just low for that Division. Its as bad they can’t win a 2v1, 3v2 3v1 etc. while i geting rekt 1v2 1v3. so there are 4 peoples from my team to win and cap points against 2 or 3 and they can’t do it ! Some how enemy team get 5 players together that can play and know how to teamplay. A lot of games feels like im playing a single player game. I don’t need teammates to get rekt whole game trying alone to defend close or take something.
I recommend to do a 2-3 man premade like every top players do. I keep playing solo as 60-70% of the matches team mates doesn’t even help so i have to 1v2 1v3 a lot and that increased my skill as much like i usually never lose 1v1.
Emerald is close to same like Amber. You get peoples killing beast at start. Getting close then killing beast at start then lose close. Going far at start alone and die etc
It’s up to what teammates you get. As one player can’t win games. I get a lot matches with players that go for beast at start or someone take close then he decides to go beast, close free cap for enemy and stuff like that.
Same bad games for me atm. Every game my team have like 2 useless players that lose every 1v1 and die in teamfights in like 3-4 sec. Hope it’s getting better soon.
They don’t ban for that. Every MMO have these kind of peoples and be happy it not as bad as mobas. When i started to play GW2 it wasn’t that bad it felt chilled and relaxed after playing other big MMORPG’s. It’s 2016 now game went f2p and insulting inside the game, insulting in hotm map chat. a lot of kitten talking and raccism. Still not as bad as mobas but its on the way.
Stronghold shouldn’t be enabled to jump Divisions. Only Conquest. We don’t play Stronghold in tournaments so don’t allow it to jump Divisions. It’s that simple to fix.
I don’t have problem that players can keep their Division. If every Division have it’s skill level. Low-med skilled shouldn’t be able to abuse get to highest divisions.
I’ve made Diamond s1 and been 3 pips away from Legendary solo at the end of the season. ( only played necromancer ranked )
It’s a joke how easy to kill most of these Legendary players. I shouldn’t be able to kill Legendary players that easy in a good system if i only got to Diamond div solo. The bad thing is the pvp titles are missleading. There are better players stuck in Diamond than most Legendary players. Very little % of Legendary players are actually good players.
I hope the pvp system in s2 will work a bit better.
Less if the players can’t abuse pvp system anymore. So a lot s1 legendary players i think will stuck somewhere in ruby as there are a lot of s1 legendary players that only have like weak medium skill and understanding of the game and teamplay.
Last season most of my games had: revenant, mesmer, engi, druid, elementalist, guard and only after that necromancer, thief and warrior. So whats the problem again?
The forums are full of complete garbage threads and opinions so, to help Arenanet find the right answer to balance *they should have a forum section for balance where only players with 4-5k+ games can post(I wouldn’t mind an IQ test either :P). *
This would make people who actually have a valid opinion to be heard. Everyone hates when his good idea gets lost in the flood of trash which the forum usually is. (this is one of the reasons Helseth doesn’t post on the forum).
Moreover, it would make it easier for Arenanet to get feedback. (less comments to go through but they are of higher quality)
No offense but so to speak I’m not satisfied with current balancing. Neither the quantity nor the quality. I do understand that it’s hard to get feedback from the forums because half the people say that thief and warrior is op half the people say that they are way too weak. This is why the people who make these comments should be sorted.
There are many good changes each balance patch but the amount of buffed meta classes or too gentle shavings makes out the other half of the changes each patch. To give u an idea I quote myself from the finals discussion:
out of 20 players:
(each team had to pick at least 4 classes to meet the rules)
7 Revs (later 8 revs, which is the upper limit)
4 Eles
4 Necro
3 Engi
they all have to be nerfed. It’s funny that these were the strongest ones last balance patch too. Instead of buffing the most op classes or -in a better case- shaving them, they should be decapitated. Like why did they triple the dmg on rev sword2 if it was the most broken class’s most broken weapon already? Why did they buff (@thief) d/p more than s/x if it was already way better? Acrobatics negligible buffs when its utter rubbish? Engi shavings? Necro buffs?? and the list goes on… plus this happens every patch.
To those people who don’t have enough matches played to post something in the VIP PvP balance category they could still post valuable feedback to regular threads which VIP ppl could still read and quote in a VIP thread.
Anet doesn’t need any VIP section, they simply ignore the forum and ask top players for balance suggestions, which are arguably much better than opinionated trash like this thread
So you want necromancer to be totally useless and out meta. Who needs an easy to lockdown class, that cant do damage and also weakest to focus, one of worst to survive in bigger fights on his own?
I don’t think reaper is problem as it possible to beat them with every prof.
I did it also with base proffs without elite spec. as i read all whines on forums so i wanted to see if its true what people post on forums or just angry because killed by a reaper or just have learn to play issues.
The results was pretty good as my main is necromancer.
I have beat a lot of necromancers with base! proffs. Was pretty fun to kill that OP necromancers with useless garbage base professions. Both hot join till i got some skill with prof like i never played before and after that started to do unranked.
Reaper can have hard time vs Daredevil, Scrapper Druid Tempest. Burst mesmer also can cause trouble one mistake or something and reaper dead in some sec vs skilled mesmer.
Well it’s rare when i meet skilled mesmer as a reaper, but your hp can go to 0 really fast and they are also skilled at controlling their class to avoid most of the damage.
Lower skilled mesmers are easy kills as they don’t have skills to use their class to avoid damage and also doing lower damage.
I also killed some reapers with base warrior.
It was a good fun after reading everywhere reaper how OP and Super Superior OP tier. So i’ve killed a lot of reapers with gs/hammer warrior.
After a while most of the time reaper run away when they see me 1v1 but after that they teamed up and started to gank me till the end of the game
Reaper don’t have enough LF everytime. If your prof can avoid their skills generate LF its even worse.
Really up to how skilled the player is you ara against and using his prof at max potential or come here and whine because got killed by a reaper. which is like only #4 or #5 for tpvp without babysitting.
Its just starts to be less viable after 1v1 or 2v2 and require babysitting support.
Boring to see how low skilled people or people that got killed by a reaper whine everyday about reaper. There are good counters and skilled people can kite you and slowly kill you because of better mobility,good healing, self defense skills. Lets talk about teamfights everyone focus reaper, reaper dies no matter what he tries to do. Everyone focus XY class XY class able to run away and survive zerg then go back to teamfight after some sec with full health. I also killed a lot of reaper with base hammer/gs warrior a lot of reaper tried to run away like chicken. When i got bored reading all the whine on forums. Reaper is still not in top 3 for me as it really need good babysitters to be strong or maybe even viable in teamfights other than 1v1 or 2v2 etc situations.
If you able to change your skills during a match then the game is not competitive. One way that could work better instead is adding one more utility skill slot so we can try new playstyles like never before + more fun.
also if we are at being competitive! disable class swapping inside ranked game as no real competitive games allow you to swap classes when you are inside the match and seeing your enemies. Especially its not competitive when you have 60% win rate and a guy in your team decide to swap to his 30% win rate proff. Thats not competitive. Or maybe only allow full 5 man teams to swap class as there are more chance they atleast can control multiclass not like most randoms at soloQ.
Enemy team was very bad if you win 4v5. Next time also record a video so we can tell who was best player in that game. As in that screenshot all i can see is you are scoreboard hero. Also because you come to forums asap to show your 400 score which none cares about as it doesnt mean you was the best. People that top scoreboard actually can be one of the worst that dont care much about winning and defending cap points etc. but to get a lot score so he can sit back chillax and blame the team for losing. Also not you destroyed enemy team it’s your team as its not possible to destroy a whole team with one profession.
Its funny because you determine their skill level by their toon they switched too maybe they suck on their main too the problem isnt the stack/switching off classes its the way matchmaking and balance works in this game locking classes would make it allmost impossible for solo queuers as classes arent taken in account when setting up matches since there are 9 classes its ridiculus to think you will allways face even comps switching toons enables you too make matches more even and carry the kitten teamates you get grouped with
I think the point here was that if a player who has like 1000 games on 1 class swaps to class with 20 games it means that your team plays 4v5.
I’ve never said and never will that i am better than every multi classer or anyone. I talking about my experience. That some multi classer often can be a cause of lost games as they don’t have skill with the swapped char. Its easy to see on their playstyle and die very fast in every 1v1 or teamfight. So i don’t know whats funny about it for you. Lets say i played 10 ranked games with my engineer but i got to high division playing most of my games with my main. but i think the team comp will be better if i play with my engineer or i just decide i want to play engineer because why not? so i swap engineer and will play it. Do you want me in your team if you know that im not really good at engineer or only played 10 games with it? Decreasing your chance to win the game when you want your pips to get to the highest division? So you will get a player that know what to do in the game mode but can’t control his character at the skill level the division requires. Maybe this way easier to understand.
How you get balanced pvp only with removed class stacking but allowed class swapping? Why you think that class swap is so balanced? I never have seen things like that “class swap inside the ranked game” in any other successful MMORPG’s or esport games. Just join and play with what you have! What i win if a somewhat good thief swap to ele because he think it will be good. but he is terrible at it? What i win with him? Decreasing my chance to win. And a feeling like its a 3v5 or 4v5 game. At high ranked games it means a lot if people swap to class they cant play at high level. Or if you really want that class swap allow then but not in group with my high ranked and mastered main class if he don’t have same division and ratings with the swapped class. Thats called balance.
Profession swap ruining pvp too especially if you soloQ. I mean why allow someone to change to a profession that isn’t on the same skill level with the swap proff as im on my profession. People swap to profession they are not good at cause some very bad games for everyone. I don’t like profession swap as i see too much people that swap char at start they die in 1-2 seconds and are close to useless, doing 0 damage, doing nothing useful. respawn and go die in 2sec again. So we have to lose games because some players swapped to a prof they can’t play with in the skill level we are in. I can’t accept it.
This list is 1v1 or 5v5? even if 1v1 a lot of classes can do so much damage to reaper in very short amount of time or catch them with like 0 LF it can cause trouble. Reaper can feel very good in low / med skill range where you don’t really have to care much about surviving as people don’t focus and doing low dps so you can do full damage. 5v5 reaper still the same weak target that will get kitten d alot in higher league games. So i don’t know where this reaper OP comes from. Probably players that don’t play reaper and are low/med skilled got defeated by med-high, high necro and comes to forum to say necro OP nerf.
Its not about whoever lands his rotation first. It’s about are you skilled enough to outplay that player or just think like that as you do “he hit me first he win”
Im okay with some damage nerf if we get focus fire survivability buff. Better damage mitigation and mobility. Focused necro cant do nothing just die. Other classes catch you with their mobility so don’t think about you will survive may fights and run away with 2-3k health against good focus teams. ( we leave it to most of other proffs that can kite so good ) It only work against low/med skilled players. Can’t build up LF so no 50k health with shroud people usually talk about. Thats more like 35k or so with full shroud. If you can’t build up LF enemy only have to focus just 20+k damage which is a joke and still too many necro whine threads.
The problem with profession switch inside a match if the player plays worse than if he stayed on his main. I don’t like losing my matches because people switch to profession they ar not good at and are close to useless. They are wasting my time about 10mins / matches like that.
Or maybe only allow char switch if that player have same sucess rate on switched char as my main char. So if i win 60% of my matches on necromancer and i get teammate that win 60% of his matches on elementalist then dont allow him to switch engineer he have only 30%-40% win rate…
Profession lock / balance by matchmaking system is good for if we have a ranked soloQ and ranked Team Q. Team Q queue only allowed if we have full premade team. If team queue only allowed if we have full team maybe can force the pvp players to make new pvp teams and also there is a chance like Abjured etc. getting more hard fights by players that is not known currently but will be after that change So the game can be more competitive. Solo vs Premade problem solved. If we don’t have team then we shouldn’t do Team ranked anyway as there are higher chance to get owned even if we are skilled. With current system we know already before queue that we maybe get low skill random teammates or we have to play against premade or both so it’s about 10mins waste of time/life per games like that.
Just use profession locking so we get better games.
I never saw class/profession change in other mmorpg’s ranked system inside a match or before match start before gw2 and they are worked fine.
Probably will get better games especially if we get solo q without that counter comp profession change inside the match. It’s like a matchmaking cheat. Just play the match with the profession you are queued to ranked.
Sure, do that. Why would anyone swap characters after loading the map anyway? Is there a reason for that which wouldn’t be cheating? If you want to swap characters, do it in the lobby.
Necro needed a buff imo-. Will see how this buffs change necromancer place in competitive games if it change anyway. As the proff still weak to focus fire and have low damage mitigation/mobility can’t get away with 2k health like some proffs then come back after 3-4sec with full health
Man stop that whine threads. I think some core spec can work just fine. Also be happy you can play the game for free can try it and if you like it buy it anyway.
Just learn to play really. I never played warrior before. Made one after reading whine posts and people put it useless category. imo its very good for 1v1 and also win some 1v2 with very good rotation. Can run away from some zerg situation using stuns and warrior mobility together. where i just die as a necro so i dont have to wait respawn time,don’t have to run back from start on warrior i like it
