Guild Wars 2

Galandil.9641:

insanemaniac.2456:

whatever your mmr was before is what it was when you restarted playing. being gone for so long only caps out your volatility, so youre able to find your way to where you belong faster. there is no decay.

This.

It’s appalling to see how many ignorant players are still around regarding the subject.

I guess they’ll never learn (Geralt of Rivia).

Where does all of this misinformation come from? Not saying yours is wrong I have no idea, just if so many others are wrong why are so many saying this? The higher powers need to be more clear and address this stuff so clear up any confusion if so.

warbignime.4610:

MMR has a half life of 8973 hours. So its A(t)=A(1/2)^t/8973. I think.

In english please?

insanemaniac.2456:

what

so, i was at 8 divisions crossed when season 2 ended. when season 3 started, i started in sapphire and after 1 game i finished my division crossing achievement for my legendary.

you get credit.

cross as many divisions as you can.

if you cant win games, wait a week and try again. the people who were beating you will have moved on.

except u need at least diamond to get the legendary backpack since u have to cross 4 divisions in 1 season.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Depends on what you mean by OP I guess.

If we are talking the easiest thing to wreck noobs with then I would say DH. They just run into your traps over and over and die. It is easy to play, simple to pick up and highly effective in low tiers.

If we are talking about max skill play with proper rotations then I would say scrapper and thief are the most powerful classes right now.

A good thief is impossible to kill, can decap every point on the map in mere seconds and burst people down in under 1 second. But it is tricky to play, making them fairly uncommon.

Scrappers have absurd amount of individual sustain, access to tons of stability and invulns, and do decent damage. Having 2 scrappers on a team means 2 points will be tied up indefinitely.

If we look at a team perspective then aurashare ele could be considered OP as well. If one team has one and the other doesn’t then it is pretty much game over due to the incredible team support they give in team fights.

I’ve seen several matches like what you describe. What would you say would be your ideal team comp especially when pugging. Like you get in and see your teammates and say yes! Usually I’m good with 2 Necros, a scrapper, a rev, then either a druid, tempest, warrior or thief.

Specifically looking for what I can do to carry pugs hard. Have had some luck with condi necro and power shiro. Am a great thief too but the whole +1 thing usually requires a decent team in the first place.

ellesee.8297:

:D

thanks, been looking for more non meta battle builds, specifically builds that counter over repped meta builds like scrapper and condi reaper.

Does condi even have any real counters? Besides druid.

BeLZedaR.4790:

Yep guard sucks rn. Every other class is somewhere between somewhat competitive to completely broken, except dragonhunter. Considering this was the state of warrior in s1,2 and now warrior is also broken, i expect typical AN batkitten crazy buffs coming in s4 to make it competitive.

Any good guardian builds currently? maybe not on metabattle but counter meta? I think I heard somewhere maybe a shout guardian or something idk.

I’m guessing scrapper and condi reaper since that’s all i see. What counters them if any?
Talking about a class that people can actually win with easily on solo que. Like in previous seasons how we had dragon hunters and reapers as way to op. And tempest too.

MasterD.4790:

I play Chrono main and I can say it’s still pretty broken. However, as Crowley mentioned a good DH can give you it trouble, but if you play carefully and use CD’s properly (excluding double moa because in a 1v1 thats lame) you should be able to take a DH.

The one counter I have found is a thief running bound. If they play cautiously and use the mesmer steal that gives them boons and regen, they basically can jump in burst and then perma stealth, eventually they will get you down if they are patient.

A good scrapper will also be very tough to beat, but if you’re reapplying condi’s fast enough they will go down eventually.

whats a hard counter to scrapper since i see so many these days? Yeah I like my thief vs chrono mes b/c of the steal boon, problem is mes is usually with the group in a team fight so not as good there. Can +1 at least if careful.

Specifically builds on metabattle. I get stuff like thief vs necro depends on skill of both and if necro has life force or not.

Several of the builds under counter just say tbd (to be determined)

I know some things like power shiro is good but weak vs condis especially stuck in shiro form. And that druid and maybe warrior or engi can counter condis. Can thieves or rev, or dh or power reaper counter condis any?

What counters tempest, chronomancer, etc. I know chill used to counter tempest and reaper was a hard counter but the chill got nerfed. And don’t see any counter for chrono but not as familiar with it other than light pve. Would love a hard counter to scrapper too.

Just curious b/c most matches I see nothing but scrappers, condi necros, and maybe a warrior, rev or thief.

ventusthunder.5067:

this season has been out for less than a week, it’s a bit early to be freaking out hmmm?

except things didn’t really get better the last 2 seasons.

Also just curious, why so many dragon emotes in amber saphire and emerald?

Rebound.3409:

Just tell them to “git gud”…it has an instant effect. Not only will their skill increase considerably just by seeing that line in chat, but their morale will go up also. They will start encouraging eachother in team chat, share stories about previous games. Even go so far as to wish each other’s families good luck in life.

You just need to git gud bruh..that’s all /hugs

my brother actually did reverse phycology and won a ton bc of saying git gud. In previous season he would win 1v1 and say get good or laugh at them etc in say chat, and they would rage and keep trying to kill him, instead of helping their team or decapping or rotating. His win rate went through the roof doing this, b/c once they got mad and focused on 1v1’ing him instead of the match he would win several matches and the game would be over.

trunks.5249:

i was in ranked on Legacy of the Foefire. i looked at the other teams class comp and i thought they had to many condi heavy classes and we should go for sides . they said no 1 home 4 mid so i played along i was right it was a slaughter . so i said please dont feed mid and go for sides we need to split them up . they did not bother so i got home and far we had a 2cap 90% of the match but still lost because my team would not stop feeding the mid . any other experienced players any good at helping a team use some sort of strategy. i felt like a major failure. we could have won if they just would have took my advise sad part is it was 3 sapphire 2 ambers v 5 ambers lol….i am really about to call it quits on ranked but i cant stop because i truly believe i belong in legendary…….PS to the newer players. if you ever fight a team like above if your team is not built to handle constent condi do not rush mid you will die. . because you are not getting hit by one of them your getting it by a bunch of people because a lot of the condi skills are aoe. so you need to split them up

I saw a guy complaining in map chat over almost the basically same thing. Pugs not listening to him. Basically advised him to give up and stop.

Here’s why:

1) the pugs don’t know you. You could be a pro level player and get paid and still most won’t know who you are. So why would they listen to you, in their mind you’re just another pug.
2) You aren’t their leader. You maybe experienced and a lot of the time are probably right, but you aren’t their leader, they are going to do what they want at the end of the day. At best you can call targets, write orders and hope they even read mapchat much less look at it.
3) You haven’t proved yourself to them to be worthy of listening to. Again falls back to you’re just another pug to them. In their mind you are just another pug, maybe even one of those bad pugs who keep causing them to lose, same as how you may think of most of them. Its human nature to blame others instead of yourselves. Sad thing is maybe by the end of the match you’ve proven you’re good and know what you’re talking about but by then the match is over.
4) You can’t fix stupid. I literally had a warrior on my team that was horrible, last place by far on both teams, I’m guessing new to pvp or pvp basics and logic 101. Anyways myself and the enemy both downed each other at basically the same time, with him downing me first slightly b/c of cd’s or whatever. Anyways my teammate comes along and tries to F stomp the enemy who had maybe 10% hp or less twice. Both times the enemy stopped the stomp and then rallied off of my body. I call him out on it and explain politely that you don’t need to stomp players with such low hp, you can literally just blink at them and they die. 1 auto attack or less sometimes lol. He then rages and goes on a cap lock spree telling me its my fault because I’m the one who died. I’m like dude, logically, even if it was my fault i died to him, not saying it was or wasn’kittens still your fault for not knowing when to stomp and when to just attack. It’s a pvp basic. Pvp 101. Common sense. Well needless to say he died too to the guy that just rallied, and we lost but life goes on.Point is he was 100% positive in his mind he was right. He did nothing wrong. At that point there is literally nothing you can do to help him, at best hope he thinks about it and doesn’t try to stomp an almost dead player in his next match. But if he doesn’t want to listen to good pvp advice nothing I can do about it.

Cynz.9437:

I am in diamond and play relatively casual due to work and all. It is possible just takes a lot of games OR/and high MMR. The higher MMR you have the less games you need to get to legend. Oh and btw there are quite few people in legend already.

Thing is, with time the better players will move up the divisions, lower divisions (sapphire/ruby) will be filled with ex-ambers so you can farm your way to diamond eventually even if you are not really good.

If the matches are basically predetermined who wins 50% of the time how will you climb up later? Even if a lot of lower tier people grind up and get stuck at ruby, at the end of the day you’re still going to get a lot of those players on your team.

and again you’re 1/5 of a team, so at best you can effect 20% of what happens. That or maybe pick a super strong carry profession and hope your noobs are > than their noobs?

Rebound.3409:

Sry started is sapphire. Got them mixed up.

And no..he played like 80% solo both seasons. He does indeed know some people at his same skill level but timezones kinda made him play more solo. He is just legit good.

And as you i am also tired of people defending a flawed system who can’t see past their pride. As i said, the consequences of this seasons charade are already seen under the form of queues and pugs-vs-team matches which i get more and more. People are simply just quitting. If that’s what you wanted for your game mod, then you will receive it…pretty soon as i can see. It’s all down to the balance between time invested vs reward (may it be items or pips). What seasons have done is to frustrate and drive away new people who were attracted to this mod by the wings (without those wings you would have never had the pvp population to host seasons in the first place).

^this

agreed with op.

Let’s start with the basics. The changes to the 50/50 win loss ratio. If one can lose pips and tiers in ruby, how does one ever progress up to diamond or above? B/c you literally lose 50% of the matches anyways. I haven’t done the math but even a 60/40 ratio would take a very long time to grind up.

Now before people troll and say get good, I’m just talking about the math here. Even if one was legendary previous seasons they are still only 1/5 of their team, thus even playing perfectly they can still at most affect 20% of the game. And playing people of = skill or around it kind of means even if you are good the enemy should also be just as good. Or even if your allies are normally decent they could be having a bad game. Point is statically it seems most will be stagnant with no hope of moving on no matter what their skill level is.

The only real solution i see is try your best to win 50% of the time and then pray like crazy for a win streak here and there for the bonus points. That or get lucky and find a decept pvp guild, but after looking for 3 seasons I haven’t even seen one advertise yet in map chat so a lot more rare than you would think.

Just started playing this season so only currently emerald, got ruby the other 2 seasons by casually pvp’ing sometimes. Still feels unfair as every match seems filled with dragon emotes. I get you can grind it but still.

I’m confused as to what people are whining about? Or what the spam is? Normally I use venom, weapon 3 or steal, attack, smokescreen skill 5, hs for stealth and backstab.

What are u spamming? HS spam is dead?

lots of people wanted to raid… but only strong guilds with its “core team” got to experience them. After a few weeks of trying pugs fell apart as to hard without a solid team and organization (like ts, vent etc)

So its not that people are scared, its just that most have an its impossible attitude especially when it comes to (most) pugs.

they can still make gemstore armor and weapons… lol.

In the interview they said they had a “tough call” to make. They had to move the developers working on the new legendaries to work on living world content. And all legendaries after the new shortbow are suspended “indefinitely.”

Now I don’t mind them working on new content. Saw a similar thread on fb where people argued would you rather have new content or a new shiny stick? That’s a decent argument but not relevant to my post here.

I just find it funny how they don’t have the staff to make new legendaries, but they do have the staff to make gemstore weapons lol.

Oh well at least my thief can finally have a cool pistol and shortbow legendary now. Thanks HoT.