Guild Wars 2

Wut? I face enemies that are roughly at the same rating as me.

It doesn’t make sense because you said that you need a full team for Team Arena, which is plain wrong.

Actually it was always possible to queue with any number of players for sPvP, hence the OP’s statement “i quit because my friend and I couldn’t queue up as a duo for spvp.” is wrong as well ;-)

Two or three days ago I queued with two others (2x Warrior and me as Ele, 93-97% rating).
We faced 2+3 teams as well as full premades and had no leavers or afkers on either side.
In the end we won 7 or 8 matches.

So is it possible? Yes.
Can is make fun? Loads of it.
Can it be frustrating? If you are unlucky or not yet in the rating corresponding to your skill, yes. But that’s inherent to every PvP game.

Does it really matter? Since the updates occur hourly, the only interesting information are the minutes… and those are not affected by the time zone.

Good read, though ;-)

Which doesn’t exclude each other, and is of course also implemented in DotA2 ;-)
Such a mechanic would be very important for GW2, as well.

What would the removal of the confirmation pop-up change about the AFKers?

Imo there’s a better way to prevent one kind of afk behavior:
Make the GW2 icon on the task bar blink when you’ve found a game, so you can react timely when being on the desktop. DotA2 does that and it helps a lot when the queues get a little longer – a lot of people start to tab out of the game then.

Could you stop spamming this crap into every thread? Thanks a lot.

Well, I could try that, too.
Enemy numbers can possibly be drawn besides a map ping to provide more information.

I was blocked from the team text chat after typing 8 messages in the form of “c2, f safe” etc.pp. over the course of 4 minutes.
Really? That is “excessive messaging”?

At least in the PvP team chat the threshold has to be considerably raised.

Krayiss.4926:

@Eura
noone was called out. Sorry youve taken it that way.
Tich found his way here. Trolling just about on every forum calling people mad… :/
We are not asking for any players specifically to be banned just for the syncing to stop.

Wow… so you are calling other people liars and still directly contradict your own statements? Compare the bold statements in the quote to the picture in this post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/SYNC-s-gotta-go-Pictures/page/2#post2588694 and ofc to other statements in this forum.

You know that what you’re doing here without any evidence is called slander, a suable offense in the offline world (and even online, at least in Germany for things that are more important than game rankings)?
And no, the two screenshots in the opening post can not be considered as evidence.
Pretty much all official gaming forums do also not allow calling out other players. That’s what report forms are for. I’m quite baffled that ANet has not yet deleted or at least closed this thread.

Don’t get me wrong: I am very opposed to both syncing and using VoIP tools in the solo queue, but threads as this one are just inappropriate.

Rank shows time investment in PvP, including Hotjoins. That does not necessarily relate to experience in competitive PvP.

Saying that the matchmaking should consider ranks and not the rating of each player is quite dull, tbh. The matchup in your example could potentially lead to a close game.

… which is essentially cheating until ANet implements a built-in VoIP tool.

Pursuing this absurd witch hunt says a lot about your character, Krayiss.

Per Account. The leaderboard shows the character that was last logged in.

Uhm, I had 5-7 minutes at EU peak times yesterday.

Hi,

after understanding what the number aside the green/red arrow in the tooltip actually refers to (amount of risen/dropped places since the last update), I finally found out what it means when the number is the same as your rank when in conjunction with a red arrow:
It’s a new entry on the leaderboard that dropped from rank 0 to the current rank.

That’s not very intuitive, though.
Suggestion: The grey arrow is being displayed without a number while the tooltip states something along the lines of “new entry”.

Actually you need to think about what you’re saying.
“Stopping 2-3 friends from being on the same side” is exactly what has to be done in a solo ladder… which does not mean that they’re not able to play with each other. Ever heard of Team Arena?

Uhm, there’s a menu for that in the hero panel, default ‘h’. Do you want a command to open this specific page of the panel?
Or am I missing sth. in your request?

That’s easier said than done. To implement such a thing, the character selection screen would have to know which professions are in your sPvP group – in real time. Along with several factors you have to consider, for example locking the prof as soon as the “Play” button is clicked and notifying the other clients to prevent “sync switching”.

But the most important question is: Would preventing 3+ players of a prof actually benefit the game? I doubt it.
I’m not even sure if you think that this is an advantage or disadvantage for the team?
Do you think that “stacking an OP prof = unbeatable comp”? I’d disagree… such a team is potentially easier to counter than a mixed team, e.g. with a lot of condi cleanse if playing against a necro team.

To be able to change anything about this, ANet would have to hinder players from changing professions before the game starts.
But that would kitten of a larger playerbase than the current implementation I’d guess.

So… what are you suggesting, exactly?

Oh, did oversee the “stomp ressed”. Well, that’s weird, I agree

/sign to that.
Finally I’m motivated to play GW2 without a team, had a blast yesterday with some very intense matches.
Thanks ArenaNet

I was talking about soloQ, where the team comps are not totally random as there are quite a lot of players who switch out their profession depending on the team.

It was also meant as a response to Eurantien’s post, which suggested that you have to play one of the three classes that are currently viewed as the best to be able to get a high placement.

Authority.6145:

sid.9870:

well, ever since I had 6-1 I started getting total morons in my team, resulting in 6-7 right now so yeah…

5-1, 6-1 maybe if you are pushing your luck extremely well 7-1. There is no way in hell people go 10-1 without sync.

That’s bullkitten… I ended my matches yesterday with 10-1 and was definitely not syncing.
I also had a lot of different team members, even though I queued right after a match ended. The queue time was 5-7 minutes after the first couple of matches, so I’d say that the game does not put the first 10 players into a match, as some people claim. Both teammates and enemies could be found on the higher ranks of the leaderboard.
Conclusion: The matchmaking works fine for me. Of course there is often some luck involved, but isn’t that natural?

Void.4239:

that sucks, guess more and more cheaters gone pop up again to now

yesterday i met a ele that was selfressing her/him constantly , she/he didnt even use any of the downstate ability’s a ele has .
She/he just stood up without being healed /stomp ressed at all , 3 times in a row.

so your cheater must have been a bigger nub cheater compared to the ele

You do know that all nearby teammates get insta-rezzed if someone kills an enemy, do you?

Eurantien.4632:

Well, the top 10 players are rangers, necros, engis. The three specs atm that can 1 v 1, bunker for a bit if needed, and support team fights. That being said the top 25 players are also good players that also run things like, ele, thief, guardian. Teams that end up with 2 or 3 thieves and warriors against a team of 2 necros, a ranger, an engi, and a guard are gonna have a harder time because they can’t fill the rolls that need to be filled.

Well, after my 11 games yesterday – exclusively played as ele – I was ranked at place 2 when I first appeared on the leaderboard (with a red downside-arrow in the first column, which seems weird to me, as I expected a gray line… so internally I was 1st for a short time? Hooray, I guess ^^). My only lose was with a team where two players constantly whined about the absolute uselessness of eles (we had 2 – the game before was won with 3 eles on the team). Play more & QQ less I guess.
Phantaram (currently rank 4) also played Ele in a match with me, though I don’t know if that was his only profession in the 16 games so far.

That doesn’t really mean a lot with the low number of matches, but at least it shows that the balance isn’t as far off as a lot of people here claim it to be. Winning duels vs. Spirit Rangers and Engis was absolutely possible. CC warriors were a much harder matchup for me. Necro dmg seemed a little over the top though, even with my build that has lots of condition cleanse.

I was experiencing the same after a couple of Foefire matches this evening… after every respawn, the loading screen took 5-10 seconds for me instead of the usual <1 second.

This happened only on Legacy of Foefire.

The introduction of soloQ will not remove the standard teamQ. I expect that you can still queue with 2/3 man teams, but the wait times will propably be longer.
Queueing with 4 players might be useless, though, as you’ll need a solo player that entered the teamQ – which should still be possible, but who wants to do that? ;-)

The idea is not exactly new, has been rejected by ANet at least once, and has actually been tried in a 3rd person view, which would be the fairly successful standalone game Smite.

Spec templates != Seeing the enemies’ classes, which is what you wrote.
The first has been asked for quite often and will hopefully be implemented not too far in the future… the devs at least said that it’s a feature they’d like to have.

Open the scoreboard.
Problem solved

The last question seemed quite odd to me… what is a “PvP expansion pack” supposed to contain and cost? Without any info on that I had to choose “No” ;-)

Archaon.6245:

Max rank is actually around 65, but you have to farm hotjoin/custom arenas all day to get there so soon…80 will take a lot of time, as it should be in a game called guild wars..

Topic slightly missed

And this needs yet another thread because…. ?

Hey there,

I recently solo queued for a tournament match and went into a non-ranked game to test spectator mode right afterwards, because pre-patch you would get the invite box everywhere.

This time, after wondering about the long matchmaking, I left the game and were then directly ported into the running tournament match… not good ;-)

Either allow the popup to appear everywhere or prevent players from joining other matches when they are in a queue. The first is preferred, of course.

I can confirm this, the counters for “Daily Matches Played” and “Daily Tournament Matches Won” did not increase after 3 tournament wins, thus the PvP Daily is not achievable.

Because it’s so hard to create a new character for PvP? ;-)

That feature was never promoted, someone from ANet just said that they’d consider it.

It’s the percentile of the whole population, not only below the top 1000.
There are at least three more threads with answers about this topic in this subforum, too.

Dardamaniac.1295:

Is it possible to see some ranked Custom Arenas in the near future?

What for? This can’t really work, as each custom server can be set up differently.

Lux.7169:

Yes 90% is very high but not quite leader-board. I believe leaderboards is anything above 90% because I haven’t heard of anyone get above 90% but I have heard of some at 90% hit leaderboards after 1 win.

That seems to be the case. When filtering by world in the Achievements tab, you can see the percentile of players that are not in the top 1000.
At the 1k mark you can currently see this for my world:
991 Renegade.1694 6358 Kodash [DE]
90% Reema.7360 6353 Kodash [DE]

The percentile also seems to be a very rough estimate, as people with APs of ~4700 have 90%, as well. I guess it moves in 5% steps.

It seems to be the percentage of people that are under your rating.
Therefore 90% means that 10% have a higher rating than you.

Hammerheart.1426:

Socram.6587:

The MMR does not take Hotjoins into account. You should have played 13 tournament matches since it started recording, which was before April.

Does 50% mean that I am smack in the middle of the entire playerbase? With only 13 games played?

Yes, and 75% would mean that 25% of the ranked players are “better” than you (but mixing teams and solo queuers makes evaluating individual players nigh impossible).
I don’t know if that is including the top 1000 or not, though.

The MMR does not take Hotjoins into account. You should have played 13 tournament matches since it started recording, which was before April.

The items of the new “Match Win Chest” from 2-team tournaments can randomly be salvaged into both free and paid tournament tokens. I don’t really remember the chances, but it seems likely that paid tokens are rarer.

According to the leaderboard FAQ, the losses from left games do not show up until you complete a match again. This could explain the behaviour of the statistics and should be fairly easy to confirm.

This idea is not new, and a designer already responded to it: He said that they won’t do this for balance reasons.
And I kind of agree… with this change the extreme bunker/burst/condition builds would go out of hand.
I’d actually prefer quite the opposite – less variety in stat allocations so that traits become the major individualisation factor. That would only work if most traits were viable in PvP, of course.

turshija.3627:

Edit: I wonder what does this “Character” in leaderboards represent last played character or most played character ? If its last player character, then I can make pie chart that displays % of time someone plays with all of their characters
It would be really great if GW2 supported some kind of API for basic character data (fetching player info by name etc), ahhh endless possibilities ^^

It’s the last played character, the devs confirmed that in a different thread.

He obviously meant a pure W/L rating without taking the other team’s rating into account.