What makes your poll more important then the opinions already expressed in the mega-merged-thread.. This one will suffer the same fate, if not get closed.
I haven’t seen any polls on this subject, please show me if you’ve seen one. This poll has more utility than the mega thread does.
There are no polls because the other 5+ got deleted by mods, just like this one eventually will.
Heh, I’m the one that knocked you off the edge there.
And I’m pretty sure Wunzy only play engie on skyham. That’s called adapting.
Yeah. It’s up to the players to all learn to play engi because one class dominates on a map, not the devs’ jobs to balance the map so that people can play all classes, right?
Mesmer is actually the best class for skyhammer, but barely anyone plays it.
“I got outplayed by much better players, warrior must not be strong”
exactly, and this is the reason why warriors are not overpowered.
because, if warriors are overpowered, we would overwhelmed the much better players. but this is not the case, so, warriors are not overpowered.
Or you could be so terrible that even the warrior class could not carry you.
Outplayed.
yes, we were outplayed. the 500 team were mostly dragon players and have much more experience than our team. on our casual team we have a bear, a tiger, a wolf and 2 dollies.
By these standards, my 3 mesmer 1 Necro (MM), 1 Guardian comp was the most broken thing imaginable with how badly we stomped in soloQ. You know except for the fact that it was only because the enemy team constantly sent people to 1v1 an MM and couldn’t take mid once. But it probably wasn’t that, it was just that mesmers are so OP.
I’ve rarely seen a worse reasoning than the OP’s, but hey, this world never ceases to surprise me.
what are you talking about? my reasoning is perfect.
because this reasoning “warriors will never be overpowered because warriors can be outplayed by better experienced and skilled players” cannot be refuted ever.
Deyum…Elaine, Jose, Reikou, Rizla, and Jtan went Hayummmmm.
hmmm sorry i dun get what you are trying to say.
I guess nobody wants to put you out of your misery, so I leave you with these questions: What happens when an experienced player plays war vs an equally skilled x-profession? Who outplays who?
Grab Chests >>Put chests in bank> Put chests on 80 > profit.
i’m on 16gb of ram (running everything maxed) and heres how long it takes to transfer like that…
porting to main city, 15 second loading screen.
putting chests in the bank, 10 seconds.
relogging on an 80 (likely in the mists), 20 seconds for logging in and loading mists.
porting to a main city, 15 seconds loading screen.
getting chests out of bank and opening, 10 seconds.
relogging on alt and loading in the mists, 20 seconds.
1:30 wasted time,
the only way this would be ok is if they added a banker to the mists and they won’t.
or just don’t click the chests and have the little icon flashing and wobbling around like it suffers from ADHD? so distracting!
why can’t they just scale the loot to the highest character on your account?
after all what person with a lv 80 will want a handful of low level greens from their match chests?
Ram doesn’t affect loading speed.
Step 1. Buy SSD
Step 2. Switch to best performance
Step 3. Have 7 sec load times.
Step 4. ???
Step 5. Profit
In other games, longer queue times = more equally matched opponents, here the opposite is true. If you have a 10 min+ queue time almost 90% of the time you are paired with and against opponents that aren’t close to your own lb ranking.
Both teamcomps and strategy work off each other for a win. You can have a great teamcomp, but terrible strategy and still lose the game. You can have good strategy and bad team comp and still (possibly) win the game. Given that there is almost no legitimate strategy you can have as a team in soloq, teamcomps rarely have to do whether you win or not (imo).
I can’t really agree. Usually, 50% of my soloQ matchs are about similar team compositions, and it’s relatively fair, even with lesser experienced players.
However, rest of matchs are about unfairness, such as 2 warriors 2 engis 1 necro against no heavy, and most of the time it’s simply a pure destroy. Camping 2 points is usually enough to win the match 500-200. It’s team composition win entirely..
At least from my point of view, even if you don’t have the best team comp, you can still see people rushing into a 1v2/1v3 situation in solo queue (nothing will change this mentality until they learn). In relation to the “team comp” you typed 1 necro could have taken both engis 2v1 and warrior is just based on when they pop zerk stance and endure pain (+trait).
edit: even at the most extreme situation you have the enemy team camping 2 points; this means you are at a 5v3/ 5v4 situation wherein which strategy still overcomes team comps if played right.
Both teamcomps and strategy work off each other for a win. You can have a great teamcomp, but terrible strategy and still lose the game. You can have good strategy and bad team comp and still (possibly) win the game. Given that there is almost no legitimate strategy you can have as a team in soloq, teamcomps rarely have to do whether you win or not (imo).
You can help players anyway if you want to. You don’t need to have that tag up and show off.
Pretty much this, if people actually ask for help in hotm I don’t hesitate to help. (It could be me, but people that spam forums I can care less about)
I have been into the top 1k, and then dropped out again. Over and over. It appears to me that the yoloQ matchmaking system is almost completely random…. matching players up based on a priority queue rather than an actual rating system.
I have played over 1k games so far, and if there was a rating system in place, you’d think I’d be encountering the same opponents/teammates on a fairly regular basis. Although there are one or two people I recognize… it seems to be different players every time.
Further evidence to this… if the game was calculating your rating and matching you against similarly rated players…. wouldn’t it make sense that you could see your leaderboard-rating in game, and not on a time-delayed website?
If I was a betting man… i’d say there’s no actual discrimination based on leaderboard ranking. The ‘improvement’ in your teammates is more likely an improvement in your own ability which you mistake for teammate competence (its easier for your teammates to rotate correctly if you’re winning most of your 2v1s and 1v1s…)
I play vs the same people all the time. There are usually some randoms, but always people I’ve played over and over again. My last four matches solo queue over a week have all had Toker and/or Cmc on the other team. It is enough that I change my build according to the players in the other team. Say you fight cruuk. Get your homepoint 1v1 build out, and wait for him to come every single time he spawns. Get your stunbreak ready for AK, because that guy runs burst every single time no matter the class.
It happens enough in Team Queue that I’ll even face the same team 3-4 times in a row with my premade.
This only happens relative to the activity of the time you’re playing. Theoretically, if at least 20 top 100 players are all playing during the same time then matchmaking usually works well in placing all the players together, but if you play later during the night and are in the top 100 range, the queue wait times go into 9-14mins of waiting and the system will place you with people not in top 1000, how? personal experience. (last week I hit a 13min queue time, reset, and got a pop in 7 mins)
They took out mystic forge in hotm, but you can’t use your mystic conduit in your inventory (gg wp anet). I’ve been asking the devs for the day I can use quaggan tonics in hotm (for ~6months) so I don’t expect that one to work anytime soon.
Except if you were playing these 200 games you claim to it would actually show those games on the website every single day you play EVEN if you’re not in top 1,000.
9,000 isn’t a rank, it’s a place-holder for anyone who has been top 1,000.
So if I understand you correctly you’re saying that that website won’t show your games played if you’re not currently in top 1,000? If that’s your claim ill show you plenty of people not currently in top 1,000 that are still displaying games played won and lost which has been updated every single day despite not currently being top 1k.
My point being it shows you as not playing any. Though there is a glitch where it won’t show your games played if you only played 1 that day. Since you’ve played 200+
Then we should be seeing about ~20 games played per day based on when you made that post.
When you add me to your friends list at work, and notice that my Leadboard stats are different simply because I am not in top 1000 what will you say then?
You know you can post your pvp pie chart with games played to completely settle your “uncounted games” argument and it will speak for itself.
I love you Zepidel, but can’t wait till all the afkers MMR drop so I can play solo q again…
I play tons of solo que, but I don’t take it seriously. I usually change my build every 2-3 matches and use it to test stuff out. If you realize solo que is actually just the dumpster que, and play to have fun/learn/theory craft a bit you will have a lot better time.
If you “tryhard” in solo que all that is going to come to you is frustration, I learned my lesson years ago in dota1. And this is why the communities for mobas and GW2 solo que are so terrible, people want to be MLG Pr0 tryhards, but cant be asked to get 5 measly people together.
And considering how much anet puts into the game non cash shop wise (nothing) we can expect to see afk detection, pause, and full roster checks before the game starts around… never. those are honestly my only complaints with solo que.
I dont really ‘’try hard’’ in Solo Q. I change my build like every week except for my thief. Most people are not try hards they just wanna have fun with an equal match up. Winning or losing 500-0 is basicly the same thing. Winning with a decent team against scrubs its just as frustrating as losing with a scrub team against decent players.
The only thing I can reply to this statement is just play more and more games to the point where you don’t care if you win or lose, you will (in a sad way) enjoy this game more.
There almost no communication in solo que, theres no team comp. You get what you get and you hope you have the roles you need. Its not competitive in the slightest, and shouldn’t be taken seriously.]
I’m no GW2 MLG pro but this is hows its been from games like WoW to Dota DAoC etc…
+1 to this and also knowing that even if you play a flawless game, there is no such thing as carrying a team and people shouldn’t take soloq seriously
This is a reality in every single game that has solo que. And the fix for this has existed since the dawn of time.
que with a group
Solo que TPvP is no different than hotjoins, don’t fool yourself into thinking otherwise.
I can never find 5 people for team Q . And no actually, the match making was way better pre-patch.
Whether matchmaking was better or not pre-patch is partly debatable, but anyone that has been in the top 100 bracket knows that it has always been a dice roll (luck) who you got on your team, eventually even the top 20 matches result in a total blowout during peak times when you have consistent top 20 players on 1 team vs 1 top 20 player and 4 no lb rank players on the other team.
If you think score matters, you’re doing it wrong. Unless there is some bug, everyone in the team shares the same rank points and silver reward per win regardless of points.
If it doesn’t affect rewards, then ANet have no reason not to give Bunker more points.
I would like other players to know that I am a great bunker.
Scoreboard as of now only serves the purpose of determining who wins a tie. The entire system has its flaws which I won’t get into detail; but includes doing 500 dmg to a downed body and it counting towards 10 pts for you and whoever even cleaved damage on the body…
If you think score matters, you’re doing it wrong. Unless there is some bug, everyone in the team shares the same rank points and silver reward per win regardless of points.
If you’ve read the sticky you are well on your way to learning how pvp works. One suggestion which isn’t mentioned often (no clue why) is just ask in hotm map chat “New player here, can x-profession help me start out?”
Any person who has ever typed this alone in map chat I will spend at least a dedicated amount of 30mins minimum to 1 hour just explaining certain situations/general pvp knowledge and giving optimal meta builds that are being used in order for our dying* pvp community to grow.
The only problem is that depending on the time, hotm can become a cesspool of trolls that will just type nonsense in map chat, but if anyone that wants to help is on I would assume they can help you better and show you skill rotations on golems.
Even with the disregard behind ranks, there hasn’t been any word from ANet that they even took any of the suggestions behind increasing the tiers for champ titles seriously.
If they did make this change it would show time played/experience in a particular class for winning x-amount of tournaments. (150 wins for the title is a joke for people that have hundreds/thousands of games won a particular class, but the title itself makes it seem like 2000 games won is equivalent to 150 games won)
Yes! Please! ArenaNet listen to your players! We want to get stuff super easy super fast! We don’t want to actually put some effort in! Please,. trivialise the only end game content you have in the name of Free Stuff.
Insert whiney crap about PvPers getting screwed out of items since forever
We AFK on Treb in Khylo! And by God, it’s time we got some recognition for it!
I guess you don’t PvP that much, don’t you?
Assuming Player vs AI requires some sort of effort except for grinding and mechanical knowledge.
I would like to add on top of this that RNG skins do not make them difficult to attain. You can do 600 fractals runs and not get the skin you want or do 1 run and get the skin you want, this doesn’t make the skin itself difficult to get, just pure luck.
the actual Scoreboard be removed entirely? It is even more useless than ranks being seen in the match. proposal
Use the actual scoreboard that exists now to watch when an enemy player (or ally) is downed or dead during the match. (this at least alleviates some problems in soloq [not all])
Of course the obvious rejection to this idea are the infamous (1/300 games) where it ends in a tie. I actually can’t fault the current scoring system since I can’t come up with a better solution to “more people on points = higher points overall.” The scoring system itself needs a rehaul since it reinforces bad playing.
If they want to remove ranks because they mean nothing, can we remove the scoreboard? That is even more meaningless than ranks shown. (except when it comes into 1/500 games of a tiebreaker)
One tip that I see a majority of people leave out is watching both minimap and your teammates health bars for knowing if they need help or not; for example: You see someone capping a point but don’t know if he needs help? Look at his hp bar! Another quick one is seeing your teammates hp bars all slowly falling into downstate at the same time on a point (usually mid)= time to go to another point to decap (usually far) so that when your teammates res you can rally together back to a point and win the fight.
Your progress stops if you only do hotjoin (I believe the limit is 2), which also increases the flux of “noobs” in soloq since progression does not stop for solo/teamq. So for the people that posted above, stop doing hotjoin.
So basically what your all saying is “People with internet that disconnects often should not be allowed to enjoy core gameplay or else they will get banned from said core gameplay” This is so unfair. I am taking part in the tournament of legends in 9 days now. Now my internet messing up has lost me 2 days practice. This is wrong, and unfair, and unreasonable.
As someone that recently had an unstable connection (for almost 1 week) I just didn’t play because it’s not a fun feeling knowing your team would’ve won if you didn’t dc. Just don’t play, call your ISP and fix your connection. [dishonorable still lets you do hotjoin and custom arenas]
Most of these issues don’t bother me, but the fact that I can put 500 hrs into a specific character and not be able to transfer the same look I wore before patch due to being lvl 2 really annoys me.
This is an old bug which I’m surprised someone actually used in a match, since it is being addressed now can we get a fix on the Foefire teleport glitch to lord? the obvious exploit to break the map on Forest to get to the enemy base (on any side)? maybe??
The glitch to get to the red lord was fixed ages ago as far as I know.
This is an old bug which I’m surprised someone actually used in a match, since it is being addressed now can we get a fix on the Foefire teleport glitch to lord? the obvious exploit to break the map on Forest to get to the enemy base (on any side)? maybe??
From the dev responses, leaderboard fixes are coming later, so it will be full of new people trying to do soloq/teamq, which leaves you with 2 options: 1. Don’t play soloq for ~1 week so the new players won’t be matched with you (during peak hours) and decay far into leaderboard hell or 2. Play teamq and farm the players that are forming a straight up pug spamming in the new (megaserver) mists.
Total games played solo queue: 26
Current rank solo queue: 9,000 (highest rank, 605)
Total games played team queue: 528
Current rank team queue: 9,000 (highest rank, 959)
How you can sit there and believe your opinion carries any weight whatsoever when it comes to what is due to veteran players is what is truly hilarious and hypocritical.
Yes, I know… your disrespectful and ill-conceived opinions are completely unrelated to your lack of experience and success in pvp, or the fact you have everything to gain and nothing to lose from the rank changes. It certainly has nothing to do with your jealous resentment or sense of victimization toward players who achieved a higher rank and leaderboard standing than you. Everything you say is completely true and objective.
Yeah, someone like you is highly credible.
Where you get that info? I would like to have access so I can see my own stuff.
Actually if there is 500-500 I think the winner is decided by the highest individual score. Here, both teams have the same highest individual score, so that’s why
No, everyone’s score is added together, in this case Reds Total Points (785) > Blues Total Points (675), so his team lost.
Anyone remember turtles and the jade quarry battles in GW1? Ah, that was so much fun! Really innovative stuff. How come they had so many ideas for GW1 and none of GW2? Did they lose a key member of their staff? What happened?
Also, the rewards for GW1 PvP were awesome. Zaishen keys could net you real gold to be used in PvE if you wanted or you could use your balthazar faction to buy PvP items as well.
kitten , that was a well rounded, fully integrated game mode. What…the…hell happened now?
Feeling nostalgic all of a sudden.
no dedicated healers and cast bars (primarily to introduce interrupts for key skills) killed this game very fast.
Too many modes is not good. They dropped team arena’s, hero battles, etc.
They should stick to gvg/HA but translated into Gw2.
I can agree with too many games modes since some were removed, but to bring the most unanimously hated game mode (AB/cap points in GW1) and make it into the MAIN competitive game mode for GW2, it becomes a shallow/less competitive environment for this game.
