the rating system is a bell curve, as you get a higher rating you find less people with that rating and therefore win less points and lose way more, so unless they maintained a 75% winrate everyone above you has gone down due to less people to play against so the maximum achievable rating has also decreased. Since you were nearish to the top of the rankings (~15 win streak from first) and due to the significant reduction in the player base, your rating which was inflated due to a larger population is now much higher relative to everyone else that has to play in a more restricted rating range.
I find it is much easier to fight a necro with dps guard than with d/p thief- and I basically just spam my abilities with dps guard. Playing thief I have to be careful and set things up well to have a chance.
dps guards can pretty much maintain 100% uptime on either blind block or evade vs terrormancer, so ya it is heavily favoured for the guard.
If the enemy is aware of you in a 5v5 as a zerker ranger then you are doing it terribly wrong. Get a team mate or a pet to land immob on the target and rail them with a super fast lb2 and say that isnt burst lol. and it was said that they were not getting that much burst but they got a substantial boost in burst ie more damage less time.
Rangers got quite a bit of extra bursting ability, like a ton actually. The gigantic buff to signets, the 10% player and 5% pet damage boost in its place, the reduced cast time on lb 2/5 the might stacks from axe all mean tons of extra burst. Even if zerker ranger stays with gs over axe they still have cleaner after casts on the 2 clunkier skills and more evades which will lead to more damage before needing to run out of melee. (since if they are in melee and see something they need to dodge they can now just use gs3 and automatically avoid the attack)
It blows my mind how many times you kids are told how the leaderboards work and you still complain about it, no one is playing soloq, there are 100s of people above you in terms of rating but none of them are active, the system would work fine with an active playerbase but there are <50 good active players in the entire game so even if they remade leaderboards it would not matter because it would just be a bunch of noobs complaining about the new leaderboards.
None of the pve grinders care about pvp because they got destroyed in a hotjoin or are too scared to try or mainly because of the complete lack of rewards for pvping compared to mindlessly grinding boring/abysmal pve content.
the voting should have been restricted to once per account to rule out any foul play. Still really annoyed with anet for not sending blu to cast, but there are so many disappointments with the game at this point that I can’t be surprised.
I’m not even interested in allstars because it should have been a match between apex and tm, now it is just tm vs not a team, although I still think that na has a chance if they practice for 2 weeks together.
I think the most exciting change is that it seems that each class(or at least 2) will have the ability to put revealed on targets so that also might lead the way to more classes getting stealth or smoke fields.
EU has a solid team comp while NA doesn’t have a Guardian. Hmmm….
EU is a team, and pretty much everyone can play every class well, but teams dont really need a guardian especially against that eu team comp. Like eu has almost nothing that you would want stab for other than earthshaker if rom even runs hambow. More burst would work really well against them, instagib the mes, ele, or thief and you pretty much win the teamfight.
but character movement is strictly 2d for both games, when creating a replay you need to log the positional data of every character during every frame, in gw1 you only needed a 2d plane to deal with all of the movement (if it was 3d you could jump over objects). Obviously the games are 3d but the models only need to be loaded once as the game starts.
Use spectral walk, corrupt boon, and wurm, kite them while they have zerker up then chain fears on them. If you get stunned used spec walk or wurm to get away, eat pindowns on purpose then throw the immob back on them with staff 4 or that dagger skill. Warriors are pretty much free kills for condi necros if you get a fear chain going, just conserve skills and kite while they are immune and you will beat almost all of them.
Also learn to dodge earthshaker, eviscerate, and arcing shot, those are the main skills that you want to avoid, but an easy way to avoid them is just by popping death shroud and fearing them mid channel as long as zerker stance is down (but remember when they pop that u have to kite) if they have stab up just use corrupt boon while they are trying to hit you so you know they wont be able to dodge.
Go to a dueling server and practice, you just need to count the cooldowns. Also if you can interrupt the combustive shot with a fear then they cant cleanse your condis which will really screw them over.
I think they did it to mess with all the people complaining about skyhammer. 1000 posts complaining about skyham in soloq and they remove a pretty fun 8v8 map. rip cannon nvr4get
Then again their decisions to make this a skin based game with the only way of getting the new skins by paying 800 gems completely ruins any feeling of accomplishment which really wrecks the aesthetic because anyone can get it easily. What we need is rating based skins with pve equivalents being unlocked through actually challenging pve content. But since this game is doomed to be farmville wars 2 that will never happen :/
But ya, unless more frequent updates or automated tournies start happening the scene is going to continue to stagnate. I just want pvpers to be the kings of the game like in gw1, if you were good at pvp you had all the money and everyone else had to work for it instead of having fun killing people :?
I generally get nervous whenever Grouch talks about Engineer balance because he has always been the bearer of bad news in regards to Engineer balance.
something something engies heal for 1000 hps something something incin powder something something potential 100% vigor/ perma swiftness and high prot uptime something something 3 sec shield block on 20 sec cd something something unblockable pull that can bait infinite dodges and some other things
Play warrior and go x/x/20/x/15 and use any weapon set you want with whatever runes you want and a zerker valk soldier or celestial ammy and have fun.
My personal fav atm is s/s lb 0 30 20 0 20 with str runes and celestial ammy, solid condi damage with poison torment burning and bleed, and you keep up a solid 70% crit chance with swords and can maintain 20 might stacks np.
You can also drop air for energy but I like the damage.
The only problem is your combat log dosent even record condi damage and on the pvp death log it ususally just takes all the condi u took that life instead of the damage you took in the last fight before you died. Just tally up the condi damage before it is removed then print it when it expires or is cleansed (really easy)
So a match history? What kind of information would you want to have in your match history?
Teammates?
Team scores?
Personal score?
Stats?
Profession?
5-10 previous matches?
More stats better, all the stats! Include:
damage evaded, damage done, damage taken
self healing, other healing
condi damage done
number of downs
i’d rather every match ever be logged but maybe give the option of saving good match histories against certain teams (cs go style)
Another really good thing would be damage dealt to each enemy in certain fights or overall if that is too much work to separate.
Just make a damage log that every other game has, this would be amazing for analyzing pvp matches, organized wvw fights, and im sure the pvers would love it too. This is probably the best feature you could add, people would definitely pay 800 gems for it per person if you want to go down that road.
If you remove air and fire sigils power ranger needs a serious buff or it will be worthless again. Warrior longbow needs a nerf, combustive shot is either too big or too much damage, doesn’t require target to clear conditions.
Maybe make the combustive shot go on cd and fizzle if it is fired while blinded, it would at least make it way less faceroll but d/p thieves would obliterate them.
I like the reduced might stack in pvp idea, 20 would probably be fine to start, I agree that every source of random effects through traits like engies incin powder should be reworked to have counterplay. (instead of dodge 10 engy attacks in a row and the first thing to land causes the burn proc)
Just looked at na 2 and im wondering if there are any known/good teams in that bracket? Are the last 2 weeks going to have 3-4 good teams while the first 2 weeks have all the new teams?
You guys better get into the finals of this tol with all the trash talk you’ve been droppin, back when I played with my pug groups your team was always free wins
I think the most helpful thing would be visual guides of all the teleport spots on the main maps, and some situational tips, and advice on when to use steal. Like vs a warrior wait for high might stacks or stab to steal and use p4 on combustive shot casts to keep poison up.
The problem with ranger is that all of their weapons are weaker than other classes because they get pets but the pets don’t seem to scale off gear which causes the imbalance. Also the pets are pretty dumb and if you strafe as they start their attack animation the attack wont hit cus they stop moving while they attack.
That is also why the gs auto attacks are so kitten, add in a dps pets autos and now ur doing 3k dps easy. But like I said most people just strafe the pets, and they do get blown up by cleave in teamfights which also makes them pretty useless. If the pets did a dodge whenever the ranger did then they would be way more viable.
People play the pvp because it is really fun, and if the entire pvp community stopped caring anet would just abandon it entirely instead of barely supporting it once a year. :/
