Dropping divisions mechanic or limited people on Legendary (or even on diamond) would solve this issues.
We had a MMR based Leaderboard but instead of fixing the issues with it anet decided to trash it and first introduced a grind leaderboard and now this league system.A MMR based Leaderboard would solve these problems.
But yes, dropping divisions is a must because some people are Amber material so they shouldn’t climb to ruby unless they learn how to play as good as a ruby player would be expected to.
This
What?
People will lose pips from losing you know?
At the moment you can win unlimited pips but can’t lose unlimited. In low divisions you lose nothing, in mid divisions you don’t lose tiers and even in high divisions you don’t lose divisions. So even with 50% win rate over time you win more pips than you lose. At least this system must allow you to loose unlimited pips (tiers and divisions).
If the 5 of your team are 1 pip higher, 5 other guys that lost will necessarily be 1 pips lower… meanning that to climb you have to be better than someone (the guys above you), and you will lower this guys and drop them (if you can).
If Matchmaking is about MMR you are right. If matchmaking is only about leagues, with the current system of limited losing, sooner or later your league get empty because all other players have moved to the next league.
If the lowest division for example consist of 100 player and you are at position 80 (better than 20 other) you lose many games. After one week 50% have moved on. The lowest division now only consist of 50 player and you are at position 30 (better than 20 other). Now you win much more. After another week 50% of the player moved on, the division consist of 25 player and you are at position 5 (better than 20 other). Now you win most games and you enter next division. So a league only system, with limited losing, means better player progress faster but in the end nearly everybody reaches top divisions.
Ofc this example is not accurate because new players start PvP etc. But the general tendency is that without MMR bad players reach top divisions after some time. So you need a matchmaking which pairs players according their MMR across division boundaries.
after some time the good players and premade teams move further/faster up the league, the casual and not-so-good players will stay in the lower divisions.
That won’t work. As soon as the better players have moved on to the next division the other start to win and follow. So better players move faster other slower. But in the end everybody is in the highest division.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.
There are a few rules about „GoldTransfer“:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Gold-Transfer-Changes/first#post4931494
But I can’t see any reason why you should get banned.
HoT
I love gliding and the 3-dimensional maps.
Sadly in the current chrono-bunker meta most matches are about as interesting as watching paint dry.
I attached kitten and as you can see I have lost the last 10 games in a row. I am top scorer almost every single match consistently
Maybe exactly that’s the problem. You get personal score for many things including very bad and silly things like double capping. So playing for personal score often results in very bad play. You should play for the team and anet should have removed personal score long ago.
Silverwaste Shovels and other ACC stuff SCAMS
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Using LFG to sell IS against the policies.
The LFG is not the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread are scams. The OP didn’t even mentioned LFG.
I honestly don’t know what to do with them since, the rewards for these at the moment are nothing I could possibly want or need.
If you find nothing better to buy with them you can use them to buy “Shards of Glory” which you could sell in the TP.
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Posted by: Shylock.4653
He is not just posting about a rumor. I saw someone advertising shovel selling in LFG this week. Just did not know why they were doing it.
He complains about scamming not selling. Did you saw someone scamming?
Selling services is not against the rules. You can sell dungeons and so on. Scamming is against the rules and get punished.
Mallyx rev or bunker mes?
Discuss.
Revs risk to reward rate is a bit too much towards reward. That’s bad but didn’t hurt the match too much.
Chrono-Bunkers are nearly immortal and slow down the pace of a match so that it is boring for everyone playing and a pain to watch. This is not only hurting the match, it is hurting PvP.
=>So by far Chrono-Bunker
I have a positive win ratio. But always winning 3 pips, losing 2 pips …
This slow progress can be demoralizing sometimes.
Rev has a lot of mobility. It’s better than a thief, and not as squishy.
Thiefs mobility is unrivaled. The thief has dozens of shortcuts on each map he can use with SB5 which revs can’t because they need targets for their teleports.
Not as bad, but kinda shocked I lost a pip for this.
May I ask you why?
Two full premades, not much league difference but huge score difference.
You can’t expect the system to find you an full premade enemy team with exact the same leagues as your full premade team.
No
Thiefs high mobility and map control brings action in matches. They can turn a match with a few good moves. Now we have very boring matches and even most ESL matches are a pain to watch.
This is such a good idea! It makes leagues fair for all and more of a test of skill with far less frustration.
Far less frustration???
OK let’s think that trough. You can’t play with a friend or two, can’t talk or laugh while waiting in the queue. You have no one to cheer you up when a match goes south. I’m not sure if many would call that less frustration and more fun, I for sure would call that horrible.
Many people derided and defamed my viewpoint. See here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Stealth-Classes-OP-in-PvP/first#post4615485
Chronomancers are quite strong at the moment but this has nothing to do with stealth. So your arguments were wrong then and are wrong now. If your arguments were right thiefs, which have much more stealth then mesmers, must be good. But they are bad at the moment and are not even meta.
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Posted by: Shylock.4653
Take actions? In what? Ban? Did you think a ban would stop scams?
So tell me, how could a person which is banned scam you?
I’m not aware of many scams in this game and even gold selling is rare. Seems like banning works.
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So now i heard that People got scammed.
So you heard rumors of scammers? You shouldn’t trust every rumor. If there are proofs send them to anet and they will take actions.
DONT GO on metabattle !
Old builds from the core GW2 are still Meta on this site … plz
These are the meta builds at the moment
Chronomancer – Alacrity Bunker
Druid – Celestial Avatar
Herald – Condition Mallyx
Scrapper – Marauder Hammer
Tempest – Celestial Auramancer
according to http://metabattle.com. Please tell me which of them is old/core GW2, in your opinion. ;-)
I’m not doing anything wrong. There no way ive been on 56 now losing teams and its my fault- especially when I’m placing 1-3 on the team.
Ah, problem detected. You think personal score matters, right? It doesn’t. You get personal score for many things including very bad and silly things like double capping. So playing for personal score often results in very bad play. You should play for the team and anet should have removed personal score long ago.
Yes the game is not 1v1, but the test is. We are talking about the test here. There is a reason why the OP posted a 1v1 video.
So the test is false.
You can’t take a ranged weapon which is balanced against multiple targets, test it melee against a single target and then come to the forum saying it is to weak.
Single Target weapons are stronger? Please check the coefficients on necro dagger, warrior axe, etc.
The strength of a weapon is not only defined by its coefficient it is although defined by its speed. A necro dagger makes a whole sequence (four attacks) in 2.1 seconds. A fireball needs 1.4 seconds for a single hit.
Every weapons autoattack is balanced against its usefulness.
Melee Weapons are stronger? Please. Warrior Sword with LB ranger? Even with Just Rapid Fire, LB outdamages Warrior Sword hands down.
Since when is Rapid Fire the autoattack of the Long Bow?
Another blind defender.
Another illogical offender. ;-)
Where does the AoE part of the weapons make a difference? It’s 1v1. Therefore The Staff being AoE is irrelevant on this point since there is only 1 target.
The game isn’t 1v1.
If you use weapons of mass destruction against a single target it is not the fault of the weapon that only 1 get killed. ;-)
Every weapons autoattack is balanced against its usefulness. So melee weapons in general are stronger then ranged weapons because you have the range disadvantage. Single target weapons are stronger because you can hurt only one enemy which is a big disadvantage against a group. That’s although the reason why thief and necro dagger is quite strong.
What do you guys do atm?
Getting mad about the new PvP Meta. ;-)
So you compare a AoE ranged weapon with a (mainly) single target melee weapon?
=> Looks solid ;-)
There are many runes which give boon duration and a few of them give toughness AND vitality (Traveler, Durability, Leadership). Traveler is in PvP for a long time and newer was a problem. So I don’t think that it is necessary to take out Durability. But maybe the AoE part in this boons need to be reconsidered.
STOP IGNORING THE FACT THAT WE NEED SOLO QUE
Please stop ignoring the Caps-Lock-Key, your arguments don’t get better if you write everything capitalized. ;-)
On top of that you are mixing different topics.
Solo- Queue
There are many arguments for and against it so this is a complicated topic.
Queueing outside of the mists
I can’t see many reasons why we have to sit and wait there. So please change it.
You will always see a meta, that’s acceptable. What’s unacceptable is the current meta
You are absolutely right here. There are many flaws with the current meta and with the whole league system. As you say there will always be a meta. Say there will always be good and bad builds and the good will be called meta. But the OP doesn’t want to play meta, he wants to play his favorite builds. While you can blame anet for the flaws in the current system you can’t demand from them that every possible build is balanced. If you choose to play with a bad build it is not the fault of anet.
separate
/15 char
I only play builds I enjoy, and I never or rarely play meta, only if I think is fun to play. In a balanced or semi-balanced game, if you are good, you should be able to be competitive that way.
With all the traits and skills there are thousands of possible Build-Combinations. In no way can every one of them be viable and no game can be balanced for every possible Build-Combination.
In the first Division (Amber) you can’t loose pips.
To be honest LS2 is quite easy, all you need is DPS Gear, a little positioning and awareness then everything is fine. If you still have problems you don’t need to solo everything, you can invite some friends/guildies to help/teach you.
I have done much of HoT with every class and to be honest HoT is quite easy regardless of Class. All you need is DPS Gear, a little positioning and awareness then everything is fine.
Does changing the graphical settings in the Nvidia control panel actually affect the ingame graphics? I tried changing some of them around but I noticed no graphical difference.
I use GeForce Experience to Auto-Optimize GW2 and had no problem with it.
I assume the first master “Follows Advice” is the Mastery needed?
Yes
That’s the merchant you need.
. . . even more than I already did.
I mean, I never liked PvP, at all, but I still played unranked a few times a month to fill out my dailies sometimes. And it was usually awful, but I had a pretty decent win/loss average, and it wasn’t completely intollerable.
If you hate PvP and only play unranked for your dailies, why are you affected by leagues? Leagues are only in ranked and you can still play unranked for your dailies.
Am I supposed to endure more of this?
Pls fix match making. teammates are always so……
Aren’t you a little bit overly dramatic here?
10 games of which you won 3 and had a few unlucky defeats like 500:494 . You had a little bad luck. I have seen much worse streaks.
how you could play all content in the game with level 60-80 blues and greens just fine and that ascended wasn’t required. Oh and let’s not forget my personal favorite, that max gear in this game is easy to get. These people weren’t sarcastic either, they were very sincere.
This is partially true, but I wouldn’t recommend doing high level content with blues and greens.
Ascended equipment is not required for most high level content. It helps a little bit but most high level content can be done without it.
Exotic equipment is quite cheap at the moment and can even be bought with Karma, Dungeon Tokens and Badges of Honor.
If you want to improve your stats a bit you can buy ascended trinkets with Laurels, Badges of Honor and Pristine Fractal Relics.
Only for very high fractal levels you need full ascended gear. Medium fractals can be done with ascended trinkets and for low level fractals you need no ascended gear.
So Staff/Fire works pretty well to get me through the game. And whenever I switch away from Fire, I get locked out of it for what seems quite some time. Enough time that even though I’ve tried to move through the other elements to include them in my rotation, I finally gave up and just use Fire.
You have so much utility on all attunements. I think you have to learn quite a bit about ele. Without recharges on attunements ele where totally OP.
To show you the use of rotations here is a little Guide to rotations.
This is for D/D ele in PvP, but I think if you search a little bit you will find guides for other weapons and areas of the game.
A 20 slot account wide bag would be a bit more reasonable, and practical.
Sometimes I lose track of who has the machetes, chak acid and crowbars.
Or they could add those to the wallet so that every char can access them when needed.
My problem with raids is not the timer. The Vale guard boss always keeps wiping out my team with some flash attack that I have no clue on how to avoid.
This problem can easy be solved, read a Guide.
http://dulfy.net/2015/11/20/gw2-vale-guardian-raid-boss-guide/
http://www.guildmag.com/a-guide-to-the-vale-guardian/
ArenaNet and their berseker meta
The meta is not defined by anet. There will always be one gear most player consider best and that will be meta.
my own guild doesn’t want me if I don’t have one of those supposed meta armors
Well, you can’t hold anet responsible for that. Maybe you should look for another guild.
Let’s look at nearly every mmo out there raiding is what runs off the average player since new players must spend months and months getting geared to try to kill harder bosses to advance in game.
Ascended equipment is not required for raids. It helps a little bit but raids can be done without it.
Exotic equipment is quite cheap at the moment and can even be bought with Karma, Dungeon Tokens and Badges of Honor.
If you want to improve your stats a bit you can buy Ascended trinkets with Laurels, Badges of Honor and Pristine Fractal Relics.
So even for new players there are easy ways to get high level gear.
It’s allowed. Buy the raid if you want, but beware of scams.
Selling is allowed.
Scamming is sanctioned.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Policy-on-the-LFG-Tool
There are dozens of threads about this topic. Why we need another one?
@Moderators
please merge
Meanwhile here a few posts worth reading:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Legendary-precursor-journey-is-a-joke-Merged/first#post5772722
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Legendary-precursor-journey-is-a-joke-Merged/first#post5772797
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Legendary-precursor-journey-is-a-joke-Merged/first#post5772898
Please apply some critical thinking skills before you make such statements:
“Fastest growing” doesn’t preclude low population at all.
In fact you have no idea how they are measuring growth: is it players per day? players per week? players per month? players per year? Are they measuring in percentages?
So if the population is 100 and the game becomes F2P, and one day 50 new players click on the PvP icon by accident, do they count that as 50% growth rate? Not unlikely as their announcement was exactly as the game when F2P.
Plus, there’s the precedent where they said WvW was doing great! …and then it turned out they were including all the PvE EotM karma-train-levelers in those numbers. So we’ve seen them being disingenuous with their statistics.
What’s the message here?
We should distrust anet and trust you?
By all player accounts, PvP population is low.
So it appears Anet is willing to sink lots of money and dev time into low population content.
Do you mind sharing any proof for your statements?