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Sorry Pro Leaguers, ELO hell still exists.

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The arguments you guys are making are ludicrous. If he belongs in silver as you state then he shouldn’t be losing games, he should be matched with players who lose just as much as he does. But you say he should be carrying, so he’s meant to be doing the bulk of the heavy lifting and the game expects him to. And the other 4 people on his team are just dead weight, they count for nothing. Thing is, unless you experience what he is experiencing you have no valid argument here. And please stop comparing pro gamers with common players, that’s just stupid.

Conquest was made for TeamQ not for soloQ

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People have only been asking for a dedicated solo and a separate team queue forever.

Sorry Pro Leaguers, ELO hell still exists.

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The usual suspects will show up shortly to remind you that although you are 20% of a team, if you can’t do 80% of the work you are garbage and you belong at the bottom on the ladder with the rest of the filth.

How each division should be read?

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This is why divisions need to be scrapped altogether, the only way some people can make themselves feel good is by trashing others. PvP is toxic enough without this garbage.
Also being proud of being good in a video game is kind of sad to be honest, most of us have real world commitments.

Lol what you mean is, you’re bad at the game so the only way you can make yourself feel good is to dismiss the achievements of other people. Being a hypocrite is kind of sad to be honest.

You have that reversed, I’m not trashing anybody. Comprehension is not your thing.

How each division should be read?

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This is why divisions need to be scrapped altogether, the only way some people can make themselves feel good is by trashing others. PvP is toxic enough without this garbage.
Also being proud of being good in a video game is kind of sad to be honest, most of us have real world commitments.

It's impossible to SoloQ to the top.

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Even with the playerbase as small as it is the match maker should be balancing the teams, if there are 2 plat players, seperate them on opposite sides, simple. Balance the games so it at least feels fair, the way some of these game are going it feels like being thrown to the lions in ancient rome with nothing but a loin cloth and a prayer.

Outstanding Rage in PvP

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This season has made it very hard to climb, it’s even very hard to recover after a single loss. That frustration often translates to rage toward whoever they feel is responsible for their pain. Keep in mind that while abuse is never warranted it usually goes away after 30 seconds and most people usually don’t mean it. I always forgive abusers unless they do it consistently.

Pro tips by urejt!

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Those are exploits, not tips.

Hi, I'm figuratively garbage.

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You aren’t doing anything wrong, pvp is not a solo experience. One of the issues this season has been the influx of first time players into ranked pursuing the ascended gear. Thats great, I love expanding the playerbase, the problem is that they often get lumped together against the more experienced players and get absolutely slaughtered, and if youre unlucky enough to find yourself on the receiving end of that often enough it becomes demoralising, for the new players as well im sure. I have no solutions to offer Im afraid, im a glutton for punishment and when I get into a losing streak i just keep charging through until i reverse it, just to start losing again after 2 wins. I’d love fair and honest matches at all levels, I just dont think it’s possible in this game, if it were it wouldnt be taking this long. So we either suck it up and deal with it or walk away and find something else to do.

Triumphant Hero

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Hey guys, quick question. Having unlocked all of the triumphant variations in what feels like a year ago now I’m wondering when the hero versions will be available and how to get them. The Wiki simply states “unavailable” and I can’t find any info anywhere. I notice in the screens for the lunar event beginning today that the hero sets are worn by the characters displaying the new dye packs. Anyone shed any light on this?

Matchmaking's greatest yet...

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Matchmaker working as intended, devs don’t want their top players facing each other. They might lose a match.

Hi, I'm figuratively garbage.

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Im in the same boat, although I dont care about division or ranks. What really bugs me is that for those loss streaks to happen the match maker is stacking all of the higher rated people on one side, consistently. And that isn’t fun at all, I know when a loss is inevitable after the first fight, and sadly it’s becoming predictable.

Matchmaking screenshots - you be the judges

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It is insanely suspicious how some people’s win rates are so high. Totally right that in the old leaderboard system, even 60% meant you were really good. Whatever, this “esport” probably only has a pool of like 2k players so who really cares.

Most of the top players have alts, they throw games for each other. It’s been going on for quite a while.

please perma ban rage quitters

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You honestly think someone would repurchase this game after they were banned. Just to grind back all of their gear and levels. If you wanna shrink the community banning is a great idea.

ANet Accountability

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For every person that complains about AFKers I’ve seen multiple reasons why they would AFK. People don’t AFK for no reason. This season has been the worst for bad play, pve players not caring about the game or how its played, they just want their ascended loot. This was a terrible idea brought on by the devs. The players that are legitimately trying hard, just to see team mates feeding kills to the enemy the entire round is enough to make anyone AFK. Or never play ranked pvp again. Maybe they need to start banning the AFKers, it’d be great incentive to move on from GW2.

Unpinning Eternal Coliseum in Unranked

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Whats with you people wanting to play the same vanilla maps forever, some of us love Coliseum. The more new maps the better.

What causes this?

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You rarely get a balanced match, since season 1 it’s been like this. This new and improved isn’t much better. From 2 duos vs all solos to 4 warriors vs 3 thiefs, it just never ends. I could count the number of matched games I’ve had compared to the number of what feels like predetermined results.

ELO hell climb was a complete joke LUL

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This is the most idiotic thing. A guy who plays games for a living claims because he can beat most players everyone can. I won’t even get into why this is stupid, you should be bale to figure it out yourselves.

skyhammer go away

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I like it, it provides an alternative way to decap. Specially if the enemy hold all points, the hammer will neutralize them all forcing a scramble. Any change is always good to the same stale map cycle.

PvP Reward Farming

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people should be happy if they eventually win 50% of the time, that’s balance, and that means dropping tiers until you hit your natural level. Prior to this season players were blocked from dropping tiers, now they are seeing their true skill level and not liking it/looking for excuses.

enjoy:

http://www.succeedsocially.com/negativetoothers

That link you provided is more relevant to you than the people in this thread, as it’s you who thinks you are better than them and they deserve to be down. And nothing you’ve said here is even relevant to the topic, they’re talking about game balance.

PvP Reward Farming

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Without cancerous word bashing and blaming? You literally just called all your teammates incompetent a few sentences up…

Not watching animations? How do you fight people, blind folded? In any game, PvP is about anticipating your opponents moves and reacting to them. GW2 allows you to take that a step further by allowing you to see these animations and react faster…

Also, welcome to PvP. You will win. You will lose. Its all part of the game. If you get that depressed over PvP then maybe you should stick to PvE and WvW. The game is about fun and if you don’t like what you are doing, then do something else. Sure, these seasons have ALOT of flaws, but there is no perfect game out there. Also, I prefer quicker fights. I don’t want a 18 minute arena fight like WoW. I’ll pass. I have things to do and ascended shards to farm.

Key word in your whole post is fun, this season is not fun because the matchmaker has consistently stacked one side over the other. 4 plat on 1 side, 3 gold and 2 silver on the other. It’s like the matchmaker has no idea how to be fair and split these players up. All of the higher ranks will always be on one side, always. Loss streaks occur as frequently as they ever did because of the way games are stacked.

Either total domination or epic butt whooping

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It’s been like this every season, the matchmaker decides the winners before you even spawn. I dunno how that is supposed to be fun for anybody.

It hasn't gotten any better

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So, it’s match-class-balance that you want? Fair enough, that could be improved.

But do you at least find the skill of your fellow and opponent players to be better than before?

I’d say 60% of the time my team hasn’t got a clue or the skill to win.
That isn’t a claim by me that im better than everyone else, but when 4 die to 2 its a given.

60% of the time? Is that hyperbole? In the past 50 or so games I’ve played, I’ve only seen that happen 2 times.

Well I’ve played 400 games this season, got all of the shards in the first week, didnt need or want them. Do you doubt the matchups or the quality of play?

It hasn't gotten any better

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So, it’s match-class-balance that you want? Fair enough, that could be improved.

But do you at least find the skill of your fellow and opponent players to be better than before?

I’d say 60% of the time my team hasn’t got a clue or the skill to win.
That isn’t a claim by me that im better than everyone else, but when 4 die to 2 its a given.

It hasn't gotten any better

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This is not complaint about where I stand in my division or climbing out of it as I really don’t care about any of that. But the quality of matches is horrific and we’re past the midway point and it’s not getting better. 3 thiefs on my team vs 4 warriors on the other. And it goes on and on like this match after match. Like I said, I don’t give a crap about divisions but is it too much to ask for a fair game? Are the devs incapable of creating a system that can deal with this? I just want fun games, this is not fun, not even a little bit.

High amounts of match/rank manipulation

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There is little to no point complaining about anything here, the devs have demonstrated repeatedly that they are incapable or unwilling to create a system thats fair and honest. If you want good pvp this game is not for you, nothing else needs to be said.

Ascended Items

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Ascended items are only necessary in fractals, no other game mode requires ascended, not even raids need them. Fractals are also the quickest route to ascended armor, with Ember and Bitterfrost being the fastest for accessories.

At first I didn't believe...

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Whenever someone writes how they are having trouble in gold or silver we get the same guys over and over telling them they aren’t good enough. Thing is how would you know how good they are, why do you keep making asinine assumptions about something you know nothing about. When 3 of your team are playing to lose you are not going to carry that, and nobody cares if a pro player can do it. That proves absolutely nothing. Until you yourself can go through what they are going through you have no right to tell them where they belong.

What ruins pvp?

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When a fractal or raid group look for a member they look for someone competent and someone with the skills required to get their task done. But not PvP, the amount of absolutely clueless people is driving me mad.
Losing a game because team mates wont or cant rotate, triple capping points, death matching off point randomly, charging onto points with 3 or more enemy and going back to die again and again and again, while I look on in horror and beg them to stop.
I thought this season was fixed but these are all of the same issues we’ve always had.

DH and their niche weakness in unblockables

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Reaper boon corruption, then freeze, then bleed to death. They dont last long. Same as eles

how do eles pull it off?

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Boon corruption from reapers works pretty well on eles, theres a trait that converts boons to condis as well. They aren’t so hard when they basically kill themselves.

I just won in pvp and lost 13 point's

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You didn’t win, appears they reached 500, milliseconds before you did as youre both over. No other explanation

"PVP/Bronze Hell" and leaderboard discrep.

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I saw a guy in the top 5 with 11 games played, 9 wins. No idea how that places you top 5 unless he wiped the whole enemy side single handle 1vs5

So much complaining

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So much complaining over nothing at all. Does it really matter what division you are placed, seriously. I was legend 1 season and diamond in 2. But atm I’m sitting somewhere at the bottom with 800 points, and tbh im having a lot of fun. I had a rough 10 games with bad matches and ended up here. Point im trying to make is im in no hurry or even concern to progress because it doesnt matter. if you love PvP you play for fun, you still get all of the rewards and the titles are worthless anyway, so why all of the complaining. Play for fun, progress if you can or stay where you are. So far this season has been the best of all, closest games Ive seen in ages, even at the bottom.

New players in ranked

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I tried, I contacted 3. 2 never replied and the 3rd said he’s out as soon as he’s geared. Most of them don’t read the forums or go to reddit, not much anyone can do.

Please stop the new/Pve player "hate"

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I have no problem with new players, as long as they stay in unranked until they learn to actually play. And as far as knowing who is new, when 4 guys are capping home at the start of a round it’s a good guess they’re new. And trying to teach them mid ranked game is more frustrating than it should be. They dont listen.

PVP needs kick power anti-afk fix!

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This discussion has been had 1 million times. People AFK when they know they are going to lose, because the match maker in this game leaves a lot to be desired. If you punish them they will just find a way to make it look like they are trying. People dont AFK when they are having fun.

Ascended Gear in PvP

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I just had a long discussion about this, my last 4 losses were due to my team mates having never played PvP before this season and only joining the games for the easy armors. Some of them tell me they will stop playing once they are geared.

Matchmaking Question

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I’m having exactly the same problem. It’s incredibly frustrating being placed into a team of people that really have no business in ranked matches. They die so fast and frequently that I wonder if they even know it’s pvp. Ive had many of them tell me theyre only here for the ascended armors and they’ll stop playing. I dont care about loot, or ranks, or divisions or any of that, but if it’s gonna be total domination or total destruction I honestly want no part of it. I dont want to have to play every game like a madman just to scrape a win, I want a fun even game. Please tell me it’ll get better in weeks ahead, I dont want to abandon another season.

I can't AB Multimap!

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The thing thats bothering me about AB multis is the commanders that idle in there all day long charging gold for “VIP” passes. It’s bad enough that people are exploiting the hell out of this map but charging gold on top is another kind of greedy altogether. To some people having a commanders badge is a license to farm gold. I wish Anet would make a stand 1 way or another. 1 guy was bragging how he earned a 3k item from the TP in 6 days, lets not pretend that AB multis arent exploiting, specially when people farm them 12 hours a day. Theres even a guild called AB created for just that purpose.

MMR hell is back again?

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After a disastrous 3rd season I’m doing pretty well this time around. Sitting on a 60% win ratio, im happy so far.

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I dunno where else to post this I’m hoping here is ok.
I’m trying to craft the new pistol HOPE and I’m at the stage where I need to kill the Gerent in Tangled Depths. Problem is every time I’ve tried in the last 2 weeks, scanning LFG constanly it’s failed due to low population or people don’t even attempt it and just keep doing the HP and mastery points. It’s becoming an issue with people not doing these events and I have no way of completing this precursor. I’m hoping the devs can look into this and any other crafting that requires group effort. It’s frustrating failing something when I have no control over the outcome.

Of 15 games, I've had only 1

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I’m also 15 games in, just reached Tier 3 Sapphire, but I’ve not seen anyone AFK or dc yet.
Specially on purpose.

Chieftain and Svanir Frustration

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You know you can go steal their beast the same way, it’s not an unfairness exclusive to you. It puts a great little bonus into the play, I’ve had sure wins stolen this way.

Capricorn Farmers

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After reaching it in S2 & S3, i’m going to reach Legendary on my Guardian again in S4. Then i’ll play DH on my gf’s account and hit Legendary on that Amber class as she has never been into pvp before. (Proving mmr hell doesn’t exist)

This is going to be the best Season yet but i’m sure their will be many complaints from non-competitive casuals.

That won’t prove anything, new to pvp accounts are easy to get to legendary.

How many are keen for S4

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Are you looking forward to the final season, or are you like me and many others burned out and apprehensive about Anets ability to deliver a quality season?
I will give it a go like always but if it’s more of the same I will abandon it pretty fast, there’s nothing more for me to gain except some quality game play that’s been sorely lacking from previous seasons.

WTB harsher punishment for leavers/AFKers

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Rewards that promote participation whether you win or lose is what’s needed. Gold or skins or titles for reaching long term goals like heals per match or caps per round. Anything to keep people actively fighting. The game could also be improved by rewarding people for doing things like capping and ressing and stomping.

How about a proper team ladder

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The problem here is how difficult it is to actually build/teach/practice with/maintain/schedule times for an actual 5 man team. Even when people are willing to do it, they get burnt out fast and require breaks from the pressure. Running a serious 5 man team can feel like a part time job in a hurry.

I like your idea but for GW2, it’s a good thing that guild league allows you to substitute players in at will, when you need to. Also, running a ladder like you mention would put even more pressure on scheduling. It’s already difficult enough to get all 5 on to sit down and play at the same time but when you have scheduled matches where there are now two full 5 man teams who need to be online at the same time to finish their match, you’re putting a lot of scheduling mandate in to this and most of the matches will result in no shows, dodges or just teams requesting to be removed from the competitive roster.

In my opinion, the guild league is setup perfectly. It’s competitive yet casual and allows players to schedule their own times to play. It also acts as a qualifier for the ESL. If the arena-net team did anything right it was the guild league ladder. The algorithm’s match making even works well for full 5 man teams.

It can be any 5 players from the ones you entered into the competition, so if there are no shows you just swap that guy out. The point was you can only use the guys you registered in your team or guild. In the years I participated in the ladder we rarely had any problems, the people that wanted to play were often always able to.

WTB harsher punishment for leavers/AFKers

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I’d rather they improve the game to minimise this behaviour and then focus on the AFKers if any are left.

Season 3 ends, share your stats and feedback

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Hit legend in like 100 games playing mostly core power Engi/scrapper grenade Engi. A lot of games were played with absolutely the worst builds like shredder gyro condi Engi and power FT.

From my experience playing other games with ranking systems like CSGO and League of Legends, there are so many crybabies at the low tier divisions who believe themselves a higher rank than they actually are. Maybe the matchmaking wasn’t perfect, but let’s be honest here. If you are stuck in Ruby, you belong in Ruby. There is no shame in that. Practice the game, get better, and move on. I can’t tell you how many CSGO players I’ve met who have hundreds of matches and still in Silver 2, the second tier in the lowest division because CSGO doesn’t baby its players by withholding pip loss at the lower tiers, but tell me they belong in much higher tiers. Give me a break.

Build diversity is still awful. I feel like they gutted my class. My first love was condi Engi and I spent the first 2 and a half years playing it. I spent way too much time and money making HOPE and yet condi Engi is just godawful so I can’t even use it. I won’t be back for season 4.

You were playing core builds or bad builds in general and made it legend in 100 games?

This is what I’m talking about. I don’t care who you are or how good you are. The kind of competition I was in during S3 simply did not allow core builds or bad builds to even be in play at all. They would get chewed up in about 2s of engagement every time. So if this is serious and not a troll, it seems as yet another testimony towards the presence of account favoritism.

Well said, I’ve met my share of people who coasted to legend without a hitch or real challenge. Do you really think you’re so good that every game you play you keep your competition under 100 points, or maybe you just sailed through with hand picked opponents that would have lost to ambers. Tired of people that rode win streaks thinking everyone who got stalled is bad when they themselves are probably bad.