Guild Wars 2

Not quite – as the price went up due to other reasons.

The price spike of orbs has been minor and resets quite quickly.
Pump N Dump is not that viable in GW2- it may cause a minor blip but over the medium term (week or two) prices will be normal again.

Tell me more …

Like how you can 2v1 – down two of them (you may get downed as the end result)- yet your team mates are (a) unable to cap , (b) unable to kill anything.

Its like your MMR algorithm honestly isnt working well.

Exactly.. the effort required to ‘come-back’ is (A) tiresome : (B) Frustrating and does not lead to a good game.

I don’t think it’s quite as simple – win it goes up, lose it goes down.

If you were predicted a 0% chance of winning the match in the first place:
Does it go down and is it by a diff delta if expected a 40-60% chance of winning.

Does it go down even further if your team does not reach the expected points threshold ? (It expected your team to get 300v500 – but now people leeroy / AFK as is happening now).

Hint: 40K Gold

So it’s not that much.
there are some traders who make that amount monthly just from flipping.

So what is 2 Million X 1s99 ?

ibravitzk.8324:

They mayority of players with more then 20k AP suck as badly as ppl with below 1k AP…

Let’s get this right ..,
The majority of players play poorly we have a bell curve distribution of good players, top 0.1% are leet, 1% are very good.

The AP at least generally indicates experience in days with the game and they are more likely to have some better general knowledge of the game than a player with less than 1K AP.

Thankfully I have > 20K AP and know how to play well enough to complete all content (inc raids)- whilst also guiding many groups what to do in the majority of content in game .

The AP is just used as a general check they understand some basics like what is dodge, melee, range, stack etc – in he hope they have a clue.

Personally I give them a chance those low level AP players if I can see they have geared a toon well (or close enough) to a decent build for the content they are about to try (esp when I want a speedy run).

Hi All,

This is a question ;
How will the MMR algorithm update in the league system given matches are no longer around 50% win ratio manipulated ?

I mean if players get to diamond (which means they have at least broken some decent win streaks to get out of ruby)- and the. Lose every match heavily in diamond – will there MMR end up being lower than when they started playing when back at amber?

Would it be possible your MMR would end up lower than Someone who has played lots of matches but cannot get out of tier 1 emerald (they are bad).

If you end up in Diamond does that mean you have average MMR?
Or does it mean you have above average MMR?

Too many questions

Whilst people in Amber / emerald have very little to lose.
There is no point trying to comback on a game – it’s better to lose quickly than play.

It’s the same in chess…
You look like you’ve lost – knock your King down /resign ..
Yet we cannot do this…

Instead we AFK have a dance party or just leeroy Jenkins into Mid.

It should start to get better as people filter up the ranks.
But initially it’s all going to be a kitten mess.

When I see 3 on my team go for animal at a match start – I know we are right royally messed up and prob going to lose. From that point on you can either try to carry them as hard as possible and hope they do something right OR just leeroy.

ANET didn’t listen to the +1/-1 feedback (yet).
The system of N points was too complex for people to understand as it was not explained in game. If people have a explanation upfront in game (who reads the forum right ? ) – season 1 May have had less people loosing or afk from the start of a loss to actually try. Right now there is very little incentive to try if your team look like they will lose.

Is impossible to manipulate the GW2 market (through means of stopping supply, crewing patch notes which will increase demand etc): the players create supply and are not OPEC or another cartel which can just turn off the supply taps.

But it is possible to speculate on what the price will be – buy it lower sell higher etc.
Manipulation is not speculation. Speculation is not manipulation.

Dhuum,
Grenth,
Lyssa,
Melandru,
Balthazar,
Mallyzx

Evan Lesh.3295:

It is correct that allowing profession swapping works against matchmaking. While I don’t have hard metrics readily available, my gut tells me a relatively small percentage of the player base does this. I don’t think it would be worth while to rip out the profession scoring entirely, though we did lower its effectiveness in relation to other scoring factors.

Locking professions upon queuing gets us a couple things: Profession stacking can be completely controlled via the matchmaker, and we can start using profession MMR again which should make much more accurate matches than just using account-wide MMR.

For those now asking for non-class stacking I thought it was time to bring up the discussion that Evan was asking is about this.

Don’t worry they will return when the demonic souls come back to lions arch (red eyes)…
In all seriousness the cash shop items like this appear and disappear frequently to create a feeling of a limited timeframe availability to help sway your decision to ‘buy it – before its gone’.

Just keep an eye out and It’ll be back.

Tell you a funny story…Oil was speculated at 150 USD/barrel that it would keep going up.
So tankers were held around the coast of major countries with full loads of oil.
They didn’t dock and were not allowed to until oil hit $150/barrel.

Many tankers are now offloading at $30/barrel- why?
Increased supply dynamics. Oil is now starting to reach its floor price.
I would now consider buying oil futures in real life IMO.

Now we have many players hoarding this material (leather) who can cash out whenever they want. I have made about 300-400G from the leather which I bought up a few years ago at 9c/piece. Listed many stacks at random prices just for giggles knowing it would never stay at the floor price forever.

I thank everyone who has bought my leather – I hope it brings you much happiness and clothes your body in the finest armour money can buy.

If it keeps going up – I will make even more money,
If. Leather looks like it hits a new lower floor price I’ll probably buy some more (eg 20copper) and speculate it will hit a much higher ceiling and just place random bets on what price it will hit.

If you really want to know the buying up spree started a few days ago.
It’s been consistent that supply is dropping.

There is also another factor :
PvP Legues !

Why?
The normal PVE routine of these players have moved into PvP which means less supply (as they are loosing many matches). Supply generated for mats will go down for a bit as people spend more time in PvP (lower fauchet rate).

It’s all about math.

Yes- its because I bet someone knows what is coming for the legendary armor…

I can take a few guesses:
250 Deldrimor, 250 Elonian, 250 Damask, 250 Xunlai Electrum Ingot (any of these 3) + 250 legendary insights.

… This is then put in the mystic forge to give you a random armor piece.
Should keep us playing for a bit longer.

No point playing right now at all – lose a few – lower your MMR…
Cycle continues…

Get paired then with people who are DC’ing or are clueless …
Cycle continues downhill…

Uninstall.

You have to look at the details at the end – it could have been just 3 players.

Right now – may as well not even bother with many of the games.

1500 MMR vs 1000 MMR : Result known ..
Uninstall.

To be honest Fulgarite needs to be tradable.

I think ANET want us to PVP for the mystic clovers – reduces the number of mystic coins you need?

#HerdPlayerstoForcedBadContent

So do any of the PVP Tracks drop mystic coins ?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/0-pin-win-stronghold-Ranked-Match/first#post6002888

Yes…add to the this one

It could be even better – how about you can buy mystic coins only via the BLTC or the TP. There is no reason for them to drop in game.

Heck I would be even happier if they reached 20g/coin.

The end result is either recipe costs will change or more supply added.

How about we post exact details: end-score , screen shot can be taken if possible (hit print screen button – configure it in options ), exact server time end and player names. Also include if it appears in your match history or if anyone DC or swapped toons

People will still buy them at 10g/coin even for the new legendarys.
Why?

Cause there are things called credit cards.

I have seen players with all levels of AP – some not even knowing what agony resistance is – joining on lvl 32 : as it says fotm 32 right?

So we just walk them on over to the agony checker: if boom dead=kick.
Simples they need to learn some more stuff

I am happy if we stop people class swapping mid match tbh – or at the start.

I’m happy about that.. at least this way MMR can be fixed – and worked out properly.

Hi All,

We have the rules for ESL Pro legues with 0 class stacking – why cant this be extended to leagues?

The match making works out that people are a certain level of MMR on a profession and matches people around that bracket. If they swap toons from a low MMR -> high MMR it skews the teaming and match up.

We all know people can swap classes mid-match and at the start but getting 3 wars, 3 thiefs or 3 necros on your team can be a bit depressing.

Now that Que times are short (in most cases) – do we know how much longer they would be or an estimate if this change was put in place?

Thanks

And you would honestly pay for 4 maps?

If that is a WHOLE Expansion – NO NO NO….

We need more than 4 maps this time – The Desert is 4 maps.

I have both selections ‘selected’ – others are also reporting it is happening for them in ‘conquest’ mode.

The API also does not report that the match ever happened.

Looks like there is a server side issue.

Seyiwaji.4082:

so… maybe i was not crazy after all.

Nope – you’re not crazy.. how about we take screen shots as proof / put the server times in for Evan to investigate.

Lets see how many we can get before he wakes up ;-)

Okay so we now have PROOF that the system has at least 1 bug.. So what else do we need to investigate Evan ?

Hopefully when you rise n shine on the 24th (I know its like 1am in USA !) you’ll be able to look into it.

Hi All,

At least 3 people gained 0 pips from win: 09.55 AM GMT (Server Time)
Cuddles Pls
Lyserg Yoshida
Aeon Akasha

Score was: 515v210 (we won).

The match does not even appear in our game history.

Something is broken.
Proof included of match – with no text showing how many pips won/lost..

No-one DC’d on either side.

Thanks.

Hi ,

What cool titles in game would you like to see , why and for what would they mean to you?

I have a few suggestions:
Title : How to obtain : Why /Meaning
I Die Often: 10,000 Deaths (on one toon) : It means you have Died lots ! Why do I love this idea? The fun I would have in PvP with this title.

Have fun with the idea/suggestions….

Supply and demand. Simples see.

Less supply , More demand = Higher Price,

I actually like the trash – it’s the only thing which gives repeating gold (liquid)… After you have max shard capped.

It’s the only thing that keeps me from redoing the raid to help others after max capped.. I’m enjoying my 1gold/hr.

It’s a way of letting your teammates know your doing well…something.
It’s a way to get noticed by the enemy that they should well do..something.

If your rampaging the opposition may make a bee line to kill you first.
If your making it rain they need to run for dry cover.
Etc

I think mega server wvw is. Ominous… Oh wait we already have this with EoTM…
Now let’s just extend it out a bit?.

Try rebooting your router…had this a few days ago was packet loss my end.
Reboot all =fixed.

Yes -well we have been asking for this similar content – you forget one big area:
DoA (Domain of Anguish)

Unfortunately these areas are all instant content “dungeons”… The team is dead.
It died when Robert was fired with a chaos gun.

Ever since ANET has been trying to produce metrics against dungeons..
How they are not popular :they succeeded last patch (with needed rewards) – so less people run them. Now They can justify no developments in this area – took them 2yrs to acomplish this. Funny thing this is backfiring as more people are asking for dungeons such as no.1 Reddit post today.

Make FoTM popular : Suceeded with brain dead levels (someone shoot me).

Make veterans quit instant end content and log on less :Success With weekly raid lockouts. Soon they won’t bother to log on at all -that’s happening now as most raids are face palm for the high end who used to do dungeons as there training and self improvement ground.

“…there is no spoon”

Quote…Guess the film.
I think they removed the spoon – to replace it for something else that was more vendor friendly.

Probably a good idea to post a bug report in the forum.

Weird – managed to taxi everyone into supposedly closing maps over last 3 days… AB and DS maps (inc starting one 10 mins + after timer has started)..

I have seen the pop up volunteer on the side disappear and complete the meta events successfully – it worked as we kept taxis up and generally ignored those in map who would say the map would close regardless .

The DS map inactivity timer was obviously flagging up that people had initially left that map for the first available organised ones..but we managed to repopulate the map and it was fine in the end. Boom killed Mordy and got our 15 min explore at the end,

It’s possible there is a bug on the activity threshold on events being completed.

What does the /s mean?

I was /s = serious about my post for the legendary recipe?
Personally I Think it is a good idea right now.. as most individuals have about 30-40 legendary insights.

Yup – please report exploits to : exploits@arenanet.com or whatever the email address is.

ITs funny they design a system which can be obviously full of exploits.

Soon – we’ll hit the cap before we’ve finished the RAID Wings…

Imagine 3 Raid wings – with 100 shard cap – you wont even finish all 3 wings and you’ld have cappd already.