Guild Wars 2

Who cares. Don’t live In the past like the wow kiddies talkin about the best expansion. Just play with what you have at your disposal now and rock it.

Keep at it. GW2 isn’t exactly friendly to brand new PvP players. There’s a lot to learn, when to commit, when to disengage, downed state control, cleaving, animations, team fights and not to mention rotations and secondary objectives.

Knowing when to burst, when to cc and when the same is happening to you takes a while. My first suggestion is to find a friend, get an empty server and do a few 1v1’s to get the hang of trying to kill another thinking entity. If you have some guildies do a few matches of 2v2 or more if you have the people for it. It takes a solid 100 or more matches IMO to feel the flow of the game.

Really enjoyed it overall even though I got stuck in Ruby for the last few weeks, I probably belong there. I’m living proof that you can’t grind your way to Diamond with a 50% win/loss.

Sapphire was the best division for fun games IMO, had some crackin sub 10 point matches in there.

Even if you won every game straight at 1 pip a win, 30 games isn’t even enough to get you out of Emereld.

Play more games.

SoPP.7034:

Valkyriez.6578:

If there’s a lot of people playing, then it can’t be all that bad.

For what it’s worth, as a legendary holder. I absolutely hate PvP now. I log on, do my 3 daily, then swap to a daily room if I didn’t get my profession wins.

The poor bunker meta we have atm, the fact ANet feeds soloquers to teams because of ‘espurts’, the fact there there’s little difference between a pro player and a pro farmer in this system.

I got on a treadmill and have no intention to do it again next season.

I have no respect for this season and have lost a lot of respect for ANet.

I don’t know what it’s like at Legendary as I’m walking talking proof that farming won’t get you there but at Ruby ever since the recent changes to the way queuing with lower divisions works I’ve not seen a single full or even 4 man premade on the enemy team as a solo player. 9/10 times for me on the 20 odd games I play each day is always all solo vs solo. I can understand it would be different at legendary though as that player see is considerable smaller.

Bunker meta is rubbish, can’t argue with that. All being said, I’ve really enjoyed the first season. I’ve learnt a lot about other classes, my own weaknesses and where I need to improve and I’m highly anticipating the balance changes, the month off ranked to try new builds and then season 2 and hopefully do better then I did in S1.

I like to have positive thoughts

HipposWild.7185:

Valkyriez.6578:

An apology isn’t necessary or even warranted. What is this, grade 3 at school? Leagues have been a success by any measure due to the amount of people playing them. I get sub 5 minute ques in off peak hours. Some class balance could be better, but it’s not gamebreaking at all.

So wait…. your personal queue times ate the evidence of a successful game? That’s great news! I’m gonna make a game designed around good queue times specifically for you so I can be an accomplished developer. Whew I’m pumped to be a success.

If there’s a lot of people playing, then it can’t be all that bad. These forums are like a pity party, I guess misery loves company after all. Whatever, keep sounding the trumpet for an apology no company in thier right mind would give.

An apology isn’t necessary or even warranted. What is this, grade 3 at school? Leagues have been a success by any measure due to the amount of people playing them. I get sub 5 minute ques in off peak hours. Some class balance could be better, but it’s not gamebreaking at all.

As an PvP player from Australia, I’ve been running ranked all week constantly and have t had any latency issues, been holding steady at 250ms on my trusty ADSL 1 connection.

The pip breakdown is coming in the next patch.

Hellbound.5610:

Valkyriez.6578:

Constantin.5608:

Hmm. It doesn’t explain the huge streaks some people are experiencing. Also, average ranked queue times are significantly longer since Friday. Is the search range upwardly skewed – does it look for players above your division more than for players below your division ? or vice versa ?

I’ve been getting less then 1 minute queue times in Ruby the last few days as solo queue so no, I don’t think it’s skewed at all.

What’s your source?

My source?

Constantin.5608:

Hmm. It doesn’t explain the huge streaks some people are experiencing. Also, average ranked queue times are significantly longer since Friday. Is the search range upwardly skewed – does it look for players above your division more than for players below your division ? or vice versa ?

I’ve been getting less then 1 minute queue times in Ruby the last few days as solo queue so no, I don’t think it’s skewed at all.

I love sprit watch. I say throw caution to the wind and Chuck all the maps in ranked, just full Capricorn with sand or something first cause underwater combat isn’t fun.

There would be whinging and whining but at least it would be varied.

What’s your Source?

February 25th.

I’m kind of happy with the amulet choices. No need for more, could even do with taking a few more out on top of the ones that are being removed.

I was 4 pips from diamond, now I’m zero pips into Ruby. It’s been a rough week.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Before there was a ready check there wasn’t a problem because you’d just hop into the match once you finished loading. Of course this meant more AFK players.

The servers were completely rewritten at the end of 2014, and now there more sophisticated requirements to getting the PvP servers in sync with the game servers wanting to pause/destroy your roster when you hit load screens. The more people queuing outside the mists without fixing this, the more likely people will start seeing problems like ‘random’ dishonor.

How much money do I need to transfer to your bank account for you to fix this issue Evan? I has PayPal.

I think it would be an interesting change and worth trying actually. Force a 5 different class meta, and some solid team comps could come out of not allowing any duplicate class stacking.

It won’t happen, but I’d like to see it.

Shirlias.8104:

i would prefer to add elites for f2p accounts too ( talking about spvp ).

The game tends to be unbalanced with only elite classes… really, i see non sense into trying to balance for meta also non elite classes. Or at least, remove the elite concept and try to work on a build for the class to be the only one viable for spvp.

Why should they be free? By the time you go to play ranked, your PvP level is at least level 20. The free ride is over, pony up the cash or play the core classes.

The month between seasons is to test the changes, with a large sample of players which shows quality metrics. A PTS will be played by a very small amount of people, I would be surprised if queues even pop in a PTS and even then only during prime time. It just doesn’t make sense and isn’t cost effective to run up a PTS infrastructure for a tiny minority of people who could be bothered to test it.

Far better to just give it a month in Unranked and see how it goes. The only drama with this is that the ESL finals will use the new balance prior to it being tested, that could be problematic.

Kicast.1459:

Huge change coming….
To soon to be communicated…
Is where we want it to be…
Not aligned with our vision ….

Anet is used to communicate like they had a planned and consistent vision of their game.
Facts however…
Look at the current meta…look at the drastic changes coming that will lead to several classes butchered.

I remember before hot some devs claiming that their vision for the guardian was some close combat fighter providing support to allies….guardians then got dh…ranger pewpew with traps and selfish virtues. Lol.

Selfish virtues? Do I play a different DH to you? F2 virtue is team orientated, aoe heal, regen. F3 has a projectile block and aoe protection and stability.

It’s gone bro, let it go.

There’s still plenty of tanky amulets left, it will be fine. At least running a burst spec you won’t be killed by a bunker now with silly levels of damage, defends and healing. They will be able to take a hit but not give one back, hopefully anyway.

Thanks for the new thread I guess.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

Darkalons.1764:

I play with 120-180 ping since launch due where I live, and I don’t do bad at all. While I agree that higher ping will at some point be a disadvantage, I don’t think 100 ping will do much.

Im not saying we do bad, im saying we’re at a severe disadvantage.

Severe disadvantage? I play at 280ms if I’m lucky.

Pretty cool changes, it will be interesting to see how it all works out on top of the supposed wide sweeping balance changes.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

still wrong in my eyes.
nothing will change that.

How and why? It makes perfect sense to me.

Galandil.9641:

Valkyriez.6578:

You’re outright wrong. The match prediction worked perfectly. The ambers were treated like a diamond so they played a diamond team. The Ruby player probably had a very high MMR and it showed with the win and everyone who won got 1 pip, cause it was judged to be a even match due to treating the ambers like a diamond which is how it’s intended to be.

This system is NOT yet active.

Gotta keep up mate, it’s been active for like 4 days now.

By the time someone is able to do ranked they are PvP level 20.

Pony up the cash if you want to unlock it, you’ve had your free trial.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Ross Biddle.2367:

3 ambers 1 diamond, and me as ruby XD vs 5 diamonds

Not sure why I had to get dragged into it, but we won anyway. Only got 1 pip.

well if you ask me i would say match prediction is not working as intended.

match prediction should predict your team has 0-19% chance of winning but it does not seems to be that way.

seems like the new (current) match prediction expects the highest division player in one team to carry the rest.

You’re outright wrong. The match prediction worked perfectly. The ambers were treated like a diamond so they played a diamond team. The Ruby player probably had a very high MMR and it showed with the win and everyone who won got 1 pip, cause it was judged to be a even match due to treating the ambers like a diamond which is how it’s intended to be.

I play in a team as much as I can to be honest. At least duo que. I’m trying to improve, and that’s negligible as a solo player. If you want to succeed in this a lot any Esport game, the highest levels of competition is in teams, so trying to climb, improve and progress as a team makes perfect sense.

9/10 times I aus as a 3, 4 or 5 person premade the exact same is on the other side anyway and it’s always relatively tight matches. I just hit Ruby, I too ably belong here to be honest. I’m hoping to push to Diamond next season though. I’m happy where I’m at considering I only came back to the game after 2 years away and started playing 3 weeks ago.

Voreo Sabrae.5416:

Why isn’t not losing pips with extremely close games a thing?

Ive had 3 games today where we lost within a 5 point margin and i still lost pips.

Its like it doesnt want to encourage people to even try

You hat an equel chance to win, and you lost, so you lose a pip. I’ve had games where I’ve lost by 50 points and got 2 pips because we had a less then 40% chance to win.

Besides the cripple, those DH traps are all power builds, so not really even a condi spec at all.

DaShi.1368:

My criticism of the game is sound. Your criticism of me is uncalled for. Again, I don’t care if you like it. Your feelings about the game doesn’t make it better for anyone else and no one asked for them.

I’m not criticizing you at all. I’m criticizing your post. Why not suggest some changes you would like to see so that it becomes constructive.

DaShi.1368:

Ha ha ha! Anet remains as tone deaf as ever. Leagues as implemented are not fun. No one wants to wait a long time for a terrible match and have their progress set back for it too. They know that it is not their fault. It is yours. Your matchmaking will never be perfect (and will likely never even be near good). And punishing players for your mistakes is just bad game design.

Give up on leagues like this or your players will give up on you.

Maybe you hate it, but I and many others enjoy the system. It needs some polishing which will happen between seasons but the core idea is great IMO.

Evan Lesh.3295:

This has not been forgotten.

Evan, sitting in the Mists is deadset killing me. Just being able to do hotjoin or PvE is my number 1 request.

Kevin.4209:

Snorcha.7586:

Until you either:

1. Split SoloQ and TeamQ or;
2. Make it so you can’t lose PIPS against premades as a full solo team

these changes are pointless.

Am I the only one who gets a premade like one out of every twenty games and wins at least half the time?

So much negativity on this forum

Nah, it’s not just you. I rarely ever see a team when I solo que and when I duo or trio que there is always an equivalent on the other team. The whole “solo vs full team” is completely overblown. I’ve played only 160 matches this season so far and probably faced a full team no more then 10 times. Hell, the other day I got 2 pips for a loss against a full team of diamond/Ruby players with our solo que team of Emereld and sapphires.

Haha. Last thing I would do as a Dev is talk to the players around here. If twitch chat is anything to go by, I’d rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon then go through that willingly.

Nothing like a good idea fairy to brighten up the day.

Nath Forge Tempete.1645:

Valkyriez.6578:

I love hammer on my Guardian. I use it in my DH build which is all I play. The CC and #5 is amazing when you trap em in and lay traps.

So It could be another weapon ! which one do you think could/should be rework on guardian? =) (that’s the point of my topic)

I personally dislike the Focus but I see it being used all the time, I just don’t like it. I love GS and Torch, but Sceptre #1 is terrible but the immobilize is great.

Maybe Shield? Staff seems fine even if I never use it in my own builds.

Yeah, Shield but I don’t have any ideas. It’s seviceable, but outclassed by other shield skills on other classes now.

I didn’t watch any cuz my internet is prehistoric (like, serious. 200kbps is my max download speed) and twitch hates me but IMO that’s an achievement that you can be proud of. I duo que mainly because misery is best with company and solo occasionally, I can’t imagine getting to Legendary flying solo the whole time.

I love hammer on my Guardian. I use it in my DH build which is all I play. The CC and #5 is amazing when you trap em in and lay traps.

Nice idea, can’t see it ever happening. Maybe curse voice integration like Smite does where if you have it open it auto puts you in a team voice chat then removed you from it after, a 3rd party automated solution if you will but built in voice comms will likely never happen.

I disagree. I’ll take a thief or warrior who knows how to play anyday. Some sort of preference checklist for classes is a ridiculous idea. You want a team stacked with bunker Ele’s, Mesmers and Revs? Go make one and que up. The option is there. You want to solo que? Play with the hand you are dealt.

I took a rifle warrior into ranked today for fun. Never played it beforr, feel free to whinge about it.

I got HoT for free from EB Games so I’m not complaining

Go read the forums of any single mmorpg or moba or whatever genre out there that has PvP, don’t worry I’ll wait.

Done? Sweet. I hope you noticed they all sound exactly the same as this one. Regardless of game, if it has PvP, it has people who think it’s the worst ever and isn’t worth the time.

Just let me hotjoin PvP or quest whilst I am in the Que for ranked, pretty much it.

Some “shaving” of these bunker specs would be nice aswell.

Anapxist.5314:

ReaperJr.5967:

Anapxist.5314:

Azukas.1426:

So since you are now legendary you should be paired up with other high MMR players.

So uhh they should all,know how to rotate where you are queueing at.

But he blame ruby ppl as i can understand from his post, So all simple. Our Legendary friend had some Amber friends. We all know more Amber friend mean better pvp skill and higher Division.
So when he que with amber friend matching give him 2-3 random ruby in his team vs ruby/sapphire enemy. Enemy was stronger and won. Maybe even got 2 pips for that and topic starter lose 2 pips.
After that topic starter come to forum and blame his team, coz he hate when ppl blame team and dont blame themself

You do know that as legendary, we get grouped with rubies and diamonds right? Or did you think that we get grouped with 9 other legendary players? Lmao.

But you’re right, I queued with some of my friends who were from other divisions (blasphemy! I can only queue with other legendary players right?) and got mainly rubies on my team as a result.

Ofc i know it. And yes i think group legendary with other legendary or diamonds its not bad idea. And why u think que with player who have much lower division than you its right? It not right, but anet dont care about it.

And if u think its a big secret why ppl que with low division player’s you a wrong.
2 days ago i que with friend we both ruby. half way to dimond. We got same full premaid with 1 legendary player 2 ruby’s, emerald and sapphire 2 times in raw. First time we won, it was close game but we did it as 1 duo group +3 random. All ruby. And u know what. After we start next fight we notise that they emerald become sapphire. Its mean they got pip for lose. They lose as premaid team vs randoms and system give them a pip for it. Coz it was to hard for they legendary player i think. We lose second match vs they, and lose pip ofc. And after 2 matches. We won 1 time, lose 1 time. We got nothing. They lose 1 time, won 1 time. They got 2 pips.

And then you come here and telling me that all ok with system Legendary players play vs low divisions, que with smurf accounts, got pips for they loses even when fight as premaid vs solo/duo. And i just need l2p, coz i noob from ruby.

Pretty sure that was me with my guildies and there wasn’t a legendary player, he was Diamond. I know this cause I was the one who got to Sapphire from the loss as it was like 20 points in it. Our Emereld player literally downloaded the game 2 weeks ago and I started 3 weeks ago.

vlad.4871:

more great stuff

What’s wrong with that? Seems ok to me.

A different website will just take its place, just like before and later when Metabattle becomes outdated something else will crop up.

Instead of limiting options, try and make a build to “crack the meta”. It’s how metas evolve anyway and has been done since the start.