Duel servers > unranked for training. My ranked winrate is higher on some classes than it is in unranked. Also, I heavilly suggest highly mobile characters, with either burst or tankyness for your first soloq main.
I posted it before, ill post it agian. A lot of people think everything should be nerfed, always, until the game comes down to 3 buttons per teamfight. The more casting, the more likely the actually better player wins, and the harder you can solo carry your team.
Nah you hopped into a match and lost a game for four of your allies, wasted their time and rating. It’s very disrespectful and deserving of a kick from ranked.
Most thieves are just extremely bad. It’s an easy thing to say, but seriously just play thief and challenge ones you see in ranked to a 1v1 and watch what happens. That’s discounting the obvious stuff like them fullcapping 90% of the time
I’m not even claiming i’m good. I would like, afk at a point for several rounds and they’d consistently rotate to 3 people just sit on the point and stare at me. All I had to do was not die and the other two nodes were 4v3.
I believe this late in the season it’s very plausible people get placed into gold much easier than when the season starts. If you aren’t playing to carry I feel for you. I’d be spamming mes if I was stuck in silver.
That’s not how matchmaking is supposed to work. Ideally, you raise their mmr until their winrate is 50%.
Ideally ideally they are in a match with all legends. Less ideally is them being placed on a team with scrublets and being expected to carry. Although that matchmaking is very fast, it isn’t good for gw2. That being said IDK what current MM works like.
I don’t think anybody really cares about non elite specs or f2p players. Less than 1% of people I see in ranked run core, and thank god.
Of condi/power/bunker, one is meta per class and at least another is cheese, so there are 12-27 playable builds rn, especially considering duoq that’s really good.
What would be cool is if the next expac had the tree as your third one, so you have to either choose between HOT or the next expac. Well, that’d lower the average game tactics (less skills to cast) but increase build diversity. Up to the community tbh.
d/d condi thief is eh. Sure they have invuln frames, nothing else.
sword/d longbow is a little more legit, that second shadow step is pristine for juking melees. Of course it’s not an amazing build, but it’s nice if the enemy is expecting meta thief/your team is all power.
I went on a losing spree playing soloq druid a while ago down from plat, and now i’m destroying on thief(a supposedly harder class?). Players are like camping 3 home to stop thieves and stuff. You can solo any class.
I think gold is only hard at the start of the season, and then it becomes potato bracket.
What anet ought to do is eliminate teams of any kind in pvp and go with pure random queue for AT’s if they are to be continued at all.
Yeah no. You don’t remove AT’s because people can’t easilly play them. The entire point of AT is to be competitive. You have ranked ladder, unranked, pvp lobbies, dual arena, et cetera you can play in.
That’s like saying REMOVE RAIDS because they aren’t super easy. People don’t play this game because they want super easy.
It’s hilarious seeing people blame “casuals” for pvp being ruined. “Casuals” are just here for the loot. Can you blame them? That’s all we ever offered them. They’re here because of rewards and dailies, that’s it. They’re not ruining pvp.
If anything killed pvp, it’s the “hardcores” and tryhards in these forums that tried to push this “competitive” scene down everyones’ throats. They’re still doing it. Even as esports has kicked the bucket. Instead of “How can we make this game more fun to play?” it’s “How can we make this game more competitive?”
How has that ruined anything? I got bored babbys first mmo pvp years ago, I play this game because it has the best mmo pvp.
HoT power creep and terrible build diversity. If I want to play my favorite class competitively, I’m stuck playing what is essentially the same boring build that’s been around since HoT launched. Everything else is just leagues behind it still.
Where did the “pre-hot had anything resembling balance” come from?
I’d say getting to 1800 as a supposedly non zerker power war soloq is even more kitten ing evidence. I didn’t know it was physically possible to lose to that.
Considering me and my buddy are running stuff like aura + necro, we should be stomping all the way to legend if this dude is doing fine in plat LMAO.
I remember playing ele and rolling my face on the keyboard for free wins. I remember war being a worthless kitten while rampage was off cooldown. Oh and power mes, who can forget. Playing gs/hammer vs 3 mesmers every game was physically painful.
Thats a stupid and overly general approach to balance. You need one thing, such as 5v5 class balance for soloq. Yall complained about damage when boonspam bunkers where meta and will complain if they remove dmg from the game. I can see daze spam being cancer and people complaining about it with the ops changes.
Balancing classes around 1v1s would fix soloq better than any of the mentioned suggestions, since it has a goal in mind.
I dont understand nerf fetishists. Stuff like physical skills on war and rifle engi have been garbage for years. Idk why the flame tree on ele is even in pvp because its a waste of anets bandwidth. If anything id like to see some buffs handed out.
And what do u want to say?
Dh got huge Nerf’s …they killed our only ranged weapon in pvp and wvw ,our f2, f3 and ToF …..but hey they buffed signets.
But yeah warrior is just soooo unplayable now in this condi meta.
Boo hoo, that longbow out dpsed many power builds at point blank and was bugged to have like 2k range. Literally the auto attack alone made it better than most weapons in the game due to the split cripple. You should be able to kill current condi war while afk sonce they have like, 7s of block every 30s, slower headbutt and potatoe skullcrack.
Only viable base build is p/p engi with invis, which is still worse than scrapper p. Evrything else is bad. Power necro at base might stomp some scrubs.
Elite specs are 100% required. Thief elite tree is better than acrobat and shadow arts combined.
War with 10s phys immunity lost to DH 90% of duels, or 100% if they are power.
Dh got a slap on the wrists and war phys resist went down to 4s
Then dh got another slap on the wrist and war had skull crack removed.
So with the removal of power rev from the game and the removal of war from the game, dh is even more cancer than s5. Just swap longbow for shield scepter and its free pips.
I dont think anet will be satisfied until meta dh counters not just every war build in the game, but also every power build as well.
I disagree. Core guardian, necro, and ranger are all viable. The skill floor is a little higher, so you have to know how to play, though. For instance, I destroy meditrappers and Symbolic DHs in almost every 1v1 I encounter, and I’m not anything special. Just a previous ruby player in gold 2-3 now.
Somebody who has spammed dh for a month and wound up in gold is hardly a GM dh player. They probably dropped the ball pressuring you pretty hard. Against other DH, you can take the double aegis trap and honour skill tree and heal for pooploads while spamming blocks. Theres nothing core guard can do against that.
I think people should be required to play a class for 100 ranked matches before complaining about it. Like, for real ANET. This would be a cool little thing to do for your forums. Maybe this would be the first good pvp forum in mmo history?
2. Play warrior sometime. They are mediocre if you play well, and trash if you drop the ball. You can either spec for mobility or killing. If you go power for gs mobility you cant kill anything if they are skilled. Condi is not mobile.
Core builds are weak so they consider it griefing. You are losing them mmr. It’s not actually a f2p game.
Core classes are bad, and are being kept bad on purpose, and will never be good ever. For instance, even after “buffs” guardian core virtues are not 1/8th as good as DH. It’s the differance between giving spell immunity to your team for 8 seconds+ and blocking one attack for them.
If you wanna play effective f2p builds, the only actually viable one off the top of my head is p/p condi engi. It’s pretty bad and actually better with scrapper even with p/p but it’s the best f2p build for spvp, since you can take tool kit alongside elixer s and basically be immortal due to the invis potion.
You will be very bad at playing it for a little while, but with rune/sigil of smoldering/flame legion, you can shotgun somebody for 17-20k dmg in a few spells on a 15s cooldown. It’s still trash, but it can kill druids and other classes with bad condi clear.
Elo hell 100% exists. You are playing a mes, and a good player will have a 60-80% winrate in bronze across 50 games depending on class. However it’s still possible to lose 7 games straight, and people with less games are more exposed to elo hell.
This goes for any game with a ranked system though.
Ele is not a good carry class in bronze/silver. That’s a better class for when theres somebody on your team with keeping alive.
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