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Crashing

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msalakka.4653

Someone mentioned in the bugs forum that they can reproduce the crash by hovering over the reward track bars that reside on top of the minimap in WvW. I am able to confirm this.

What about you guys?

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Constant crashing [Merged]

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msalakka.4653

Don’t know if this is related but i can consistently reproduce the crash by mouse over the reward track above mini map in wvw.

Can confirm, same here. Win 10 x64

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Crashing

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How this got past QA is beyond me, unless there quite simply is no QA process that includes WvW, because even 15 minutes of walking around would have good odds of the client crashing.

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Glicko Rating Manual Adjustments 7/29

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Also, we will not be making any adjustments to EU at this time.

No, of course not. We are merely an afterthought. I guess we’ll get to “fight” either Deso and Piken OR Deso and German Server Of The Week again, thanks to your idiotic world link system.

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are you polling the entire gw2 community?

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msalakka.4653

Portable cannon blueprints? Wow. Just wow. And this crap is winning?

How about a poll about the next Living Story? I’d love to return the favour.

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WvW Quality of Life Suggestions

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I’ll probably be in the minority, but I’d actually prioritize some semblance of class balance and build diversity over what kind of armor the NPCs wear.

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Make your own balance patch

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msalakka.4653

what yall doing to the poor thieves xD

Balance.

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Mesmer Staff- Chaos Armor.

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msalakka.4653

Chaos armour needs something going for it. Since they removed the blind it’s such a pathetic aura.

Nevermind staff 4 on a ridiculously long cooldown only to provide this aura.

It’s Mesmer, so it doesn’t need to be better.

Stop asking for buffs, it’ll be on a longer cd before you know it.

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are you polling the entire gw2 community?

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The outcome of the repair hammer poll really speaks volumes.

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The change to mortars is OP

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Was there a thread somewhere that I missed wherein people whined about the mortar stacks not being painful enough? Because I fail to see how buffing up the mortars’ condispam ever got on Anet’s radar to begin with.

Is someone at Anet doodling at their desk, trying to come up with ways to pour more conditions into this game mode or what?

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REPAIR HAMMERS = ruined wvw

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The only way a small group of defenders can defend against a zerg is by using defensive siege to kill the zerg’s siege. Zergs have the supply to keep repairing, theoretically, faster than an AC can kill superior siege.

This will help only zergs, as usual.

Please focus on scoring and class balance, and not this nonsense.

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Removed crafting stations and vendors.

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Eight pages of this nonsense? The WvW forum loves to talk.

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20160711 Valid build for Mesmer: PVE/WvW

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msalakka.4653

Go to Metabattle, locate the condishatter build, and enjoy the mindless boredom of having no build options.

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When is the next balance patch ?

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Prob 26th, along with the patch.

No. There won’t be a balance patch until the fall at the earliest, September/October.

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[Suggestion] Reaction Buttons for Devs

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msalakka.4653

Unfortunately, the forum software isn’t really malleable. Perhaps, when and if new software is implemented.

That makes no sense to me though. This is proprietary forum software, they can do whatever they want to it. Would they have been better off going with a third party solution, like almost every game studio out there?

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[Suggestion] Reaction Buttons for Devs

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msalakka.4653

I hope I am posting this in the right subforum.

It is unrealistic to ask that a developer respond to every suggestion thread on the forums. However, not getting a response fosters the feeling that no one from Anet is reading them. One of the biggest complaints in the WvW subforum is that no one reads the suggestions or feedback.

Would it be possible to implement a reaction button that devs could use to add a small red sticker onto a post when they’ve read it and made note of it? This way they would not need to take the time to write a response, which is more time-consuming, but the community could clearly tell that the post was read by a developer. It is easy enough to click a button next to a post, right?

Of course the downside would be that if developers did not read the forum, this would quickly become apparent as well. But that would not be an issue, because they do read the posts. Right?

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Dire/Trailblazer Stats in wvw needs nerf

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It synergize crazy with some of profession traits like mesmer PU

lol

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Stomping after bowing [Rude]

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The old custom was that you indicated by bowing that you wanted to duel and would not stomp your opponent should you down them.

Newer players may not be aware of the custom. Trolls and kittenes who don’t understand sportsmanship may simply ignore it.

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I hate veil + portal

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I don’t usually follow zergs, but when I do, I never use veil. I don’t have anything on my utilities bar that I deem worth swapping for it. I’ve been asked for a veil before, and the answer was and is no. Its that simple.

I also don’t portal golems.

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Linked Worlds Transfer Restrictions

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In other words, there was a drop in gem sales.

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Stealth in WvW

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The most OP I have ever seen from stealth was recently when a trapper condi thief had what basically amounts to permanent stealth. He downed me twice before finally killing me with just condi traps, and he never once came out of stealth before or after the engagement (a period of about 3-4 minutes), even to do the killing blow warstomp. I was basically fighting a ghost. This really should not be possible… my reaper has over 2.6k armor and over 21k hp.

Condi ghost thief is literally powerless if you cleanse and walk away.

I have to blow all my cleanses to survive its initial burst. Not all classes have the mobility to simply “walk away” before the condispam is reapplied.

The problematic nature of this build is not mitigated by being able to run away from it. Blowing all my cleanses and dashing into the nearest tower should not be the only counterplay available to me.

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Removed crafting stations and vendors.

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Yeah, I will miss them as well. Was the main reason I went to WvW.

lol

Don’t forget to cast your vote in all the polls.

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What keeps you from watching pvp on twitch?

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Power creep and lack of class balancing render the fight outcomes predictable.

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On the Validity of WvW surveys

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1 hour per week? Rank 10? So in other words, these polls are a joke.

This caters to karmatrain zombies, nothing more. DBL is a lot easier for brainless karmatraining, which got already easier and more profitable. I am seeing a continuing degradation of skill among the increasing mass of brainless PvErs who follow a tag around for reward spam. Of course they will vote for DBLs to return since those are the maps they first experienced and karmatraining is not as easy on the Alpines since these maps actually get upgraded and defended. Even just 2 guys can hold off many times their number at Lake because they can see all 3 walls from one spot, so you can’t simply attack a wall or gate and send a guy or two to cata a wall on another side. Sparkplug has, what, 5 walls?

Not everyone who prefers the DBL is a blob mouthbreather, obviously. However the problem is that the results now are skewed by a large number of votes by people who will ditch this game mode the minute something with easier, less-effort-required means of acquiring loot and reward track progress comes along. What you are then left with are only the committed WvW players who are in it for the competitive play, and far too many of those would rather leave WvW than play on the DBL.

When my server got a free transfer for a tournament season, we got a massive influx of PvErs who just wanted to be, for free, on a server that would win its league. We breezed through those boring matches with an overpowering 24/7 force of skillspammers who then promptly vacated the game mode once the tournament was over. That left us in a tier higher than we in reality were built for and we kept getting our teeth kicked in for weeks before Glicko adjusted.

Of course every clown that gets this email will vote on it without the least bit of consideration for the longevity of the game mode.

But c’est la vie. When you refuse to learn from your mistakes, you’ll just continue repeating them.

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Confused by polls

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Oh my god. The “people just didn’t want to learn the new map” fallacy once again. Couldn’t you just necro one of the other equally harebrained threads for this?

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Anet Fix the Ghost Thief

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The fact that there are people even trying to defend this garbage tells me a lot about the current state of the game.

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Is GW2 dying? Just a question, no hate

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Lack of class balancing. HoT killed build variety, what little there was to begin with.

That in addition to Anet’s continued lack of communication. As far as I can tell there isn’t even anyone working on balance anymore.

People lose interest because they lose hope.

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Anet Fix the Ghost Thief

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Nothing whatsoever will be done to nerf this.

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WvW Poll 6 June: World Linking Schedule [CLOSED]

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I bet the people advocating a long schedule are the ones who transferred to the low-tier servers, thus bypassing T1 being locked down. Maybe you developers should have thought this through and seen it coming by locking down the linked server too from accepting transfers. The “full” status is a joke when they can just go to the linked one.

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Sudden Lag Issues

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Been getting this too for about a week now. Also several DCs each night, which did not use to happen before.

I guess it’s because the servers have been downgraded or removed to cut costs. Happens with all games that are bleeding customers.

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WvW borderland rotation poll

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This is disappointing, because if my server draws the short stick and ends up as the one with the deserted map for the week, I don’t need to log on that week. I am a home border scout, and the desert borderland is undefendable.

This is why the argument over borderlands is silly because I find alpine to be less defensible when the enemy zerg you just wiped can be back at the gate 30 seconds after you wiped it. It’s all how the individual commanders and servers handle to defense and the attack.

Variety is the spice of life, have both at once regardless of it’s 1 desert and 2 alpine or 2 desert and 1 alpine. It also opens the opportunity for a third map later.

It has less to do with dynamics as the simple fact that we rely on EB commanders bringing the zerg to defend keeps from zergs, and on the DBL they flat out refused to come help because people hated playing on the map. On Alpine we get help when we call for it. On DBL we don’t.

I realise that many PvE fanboys in particular have a difficult time accepting the notion that a lot of people hate the DBL.

And yes, I would rather take a break from the game than play on DBL. Did it before, will do so again. That’s how unfun that map is.

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WvW borderland rotation poll

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This is disappointing, because if my server draws the short stick and ends up as the one with the deserted map for the week, I don’t need to log on that week. I am a home border scout, and the desert borderland is undefendable.

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Request to the devs regarding Bay

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msalakka.4653

Every day we find enemies waypointing directly into Bay even though we own it. This bug has existed since the Alpines came back and there was no response or acknowledgment in the other thread so clearly not a huge priority.

Since there’s no hurry in fixing this glaring oversight, could we get the keep lord HP bars back that you could see in the event whateveryoucallit? Previously, you could see the lord’s health was dropping so no one could quietly ninja the lord unnoticed so long as someone was within the keep area. Now the bar only shows the “ring” or whatever you’d call it once the enemy has killed lord and is capping it, rendering it pretty much useless.

I’d rather just look at the lord’s health bar than run into the lord room every time the keep is contested to make sure the enemy didn’t just WP in again.

Thanks guys, keep up the great work.

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Season 3 with 2500 viewers on Twitch

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I am aware of the tournament. I don’t watch the tournament. Seeing more ads about it isn’t going to change that.

The tourney IS the ad. It already got its message across to you whether you like it or not.

I have a feeling that the message I get isn’t the one they were going for.

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Season 3 with 2500 viewers on Twitch

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msalakka.4653

I am aware of the tournament. I don’t watch the tournament. Seeing more ads about it isn’t going to change that.

I don’t want to watch HoT cheese fighting HoT cheese. It’s that simple.

Spend that marketing money on hiring people who focus on balancing the classes.

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Thiefs, balance and you

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The class is broken as kitten, so it’s hilarious reading all this l2p nonsense.

What’s next? “Just dodge” to avoid condi reapplication by a perplexity chrono?

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GW 2 [HoT] - Worth paying and playing?

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If you want to play WvW and be anything but a staff guard, you can’t afford not to buy this “expansion”. It is so heavily steeped in pay2win that without farming the elites and all the broken runes and sigils hidden behind a paywall, you are going to have a bad time.

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ALT account spying/exploiting

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I don’t think you can really effectively prevent it.

There’s a guy on my server who occasionally gains access to enemy server’s Teamspeak and spies on it. He reports the enemy actions as soon as their commander announces them to his troops.

This behaviour is extremely frowned upon and has resulted in sanctions before in the small capacity in which the community is able to dish them out. However, intel is intel, and a commander cannot ignore it regardless of their disapproval of the fashion in which it was acquired.

I’ve considered reporting them before, but seeing as the reporting system has no option for spying or exploitation, and since my reports of enemy hackers have gone entirely without reaction, I’m not inclined at this time to go out of my way to do so.

Perhaps, in a small way, the purpose of the inflexible design of the reporting system is to discourage such reports from being made to begin with. Out of sight, out of mind. When you can’t report it, it doesn’t happen. Shalalalaa.

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How about we HIDE the total score

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There’s no need to remove the score.

Just remove the champ boxes from tower/keep lords. Have them grant no loot whatsoever, only wxp. Actual lootbags should only drop from player kills.

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ALT account spying/exploiting

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The man to talk to is the head of game security, which will be Chris something-or-other. Cleary, I think?

He doesn’t read these forums. You want something done, start a thread on Reddit.

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Game losing connection to server

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Is this happening on PVE maps as well, or is it just the usual business of WvW not quite being a priority at the QA department?

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Bug: Immobilized in WvW by Druids

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Start a new thread in the Bugs forum every time it happens.

They don’t read this forum.

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I wrote GW2 Balance Manifesto

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It’s saddening how far into this thread I got until I noticed it was a 2-year necro. So much of it rings true today.

The bit about spirit weapons and guardians should perhaps have tipped me off.

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How do you deal with stealth gankers?

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You can always wait for your karmatrain at spawn. I doubt the whole carnival will fall apart if one staff guard is missing.

Peeling zergs is what roamers and havoc groups do.

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How strong is Chronomancer in PvP?

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msalakka.4653

In sPvP, condition chrono is your only build option. Don’t even fantasize about going in there on a vanilla build, much less power shatter.

In WvW, power shatter chrono is possible but condition builds are stronger. Vanilla can only compete with PU condi.

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Alpine Border Land Back - Spawn Treb Bug

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On the one hand the citadel treb is a really lame maneuver.

On the other, in a match so completely imbalanced population-wise that the enemy server can hold your northern towers much less garrison and upgrade it, in the absence of Siegerazer (as toothless as it would be now) I am seeing the treb in a different light.

Under no circumstances should an enemy server be able to dominate so severely based solely on numbers that you have no recourse. This is why Siegerazer was implemented to begin with.

With it gone, well… I wouldn’t build it myself, but to loosely paraphrase Chris Rock’s old joke, I’m not saying people should build ’em, but I understand.

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Dishonored by anti-gambling

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So, none of you ever had a queue pop when you are in downed state?

No.

If their queue popped while downed then you’d probably not run into them again soon after on the same map.

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Dishonored by anti-gambling

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That seems absolutely crazy to me that someone would try to avoid being stomped. Considering most nights right now it takes me about 30 minutes to even get into a BL there is no way I’d even remotely think of doing that. I’m assuming OP that this happens a lot otherwise you’d not be making a post?

I can’t speak for the OP but I see this about 15-20 times every evening.

It’s more common when we fight servers that are so used to being carried by numbers that their ego can’t handle losing. It’s particularly bad this week since we got Deso and the New Piken. Deso has an engi that’ll even /bow to duel you but Alt-F4 every single time instantly if downed.

I thought that it was implemented ages ago that a player who logs while being in combat in WvW is considered being killed.

They respawn dead in PvE when they log in. This is not a deterrent.

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Dishonored by anti-gambling

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The main problem is using the WvW window (B) and click leave the mist

That was disabled.

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WTB Ranked Qs

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msalakka.4653

What about Ranked do you enjoy more than Unranked during off-season?

Is it that you prefer climbing a ladder all the time? Or are there other particular reasons.

In my case, it’s the Unranked I used to enjoy.

Unlike WvW where crafting ascended means I am locked into one build or playstyle for weeks on end, the reason to play sPvP was the freedom in trying out crazy ideas which in WvW would require too high a monetary risk. The Practice and Unranked modes allowed me to try out these builds and play just for the fun of it.

I have 533 matches played, and 0 of these in Ranked. I stay away from it because I am not a competitive-minded player and I want as little to do with the salt and ego as Ranked wants to do with a scrub like me.

Sure, the premades would sometimes come to farm Unranked, but for the most part it was a good place to play. If someone raged after a loss in map chat, people would just say “It’s unranked, what do you expect? Go Ranked if you want flawless.”

Disabling Ranked brings the experts, streamers, and other “pro” players into Unranked and ruins the fun for us and for them.

Then again I play a Mesmer and I don’t like Chrono all that much and the condition build even less, so there’s little reason for me to step foot in sPvP anyway. I see from your signature that you don’t play it either. I don’t blame you.

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