Guild Wars 2

Fix asap. Its unplayable. You made it worse for everyone.

Idk peeps. You have such great explainations to this sheet when its not even logical in this new system. I cant even remember last time i had a fair match (especially in ruby). Its always 500vs200 in the favor to my team or the other team. Never a close match… >.> The best fights i had was in end of sapphire but after i got to ruby i took a break for 2 weeks or so and then i got teamed with nabs who seemed to be 100% pve’ers. I miss the times the matches were close and you didnt get nabs who went for beasts in forest map instead of going mid, resulting in losing mid…etc etc.

I have the answer for you OP. The answer is that matchmaking currently is 50% division and 50% mmr when it matches players. So awesome when the current system can be farmed by anyone which result in pve’ers flooding in ruby (just to mention one division). I bet tons of nabs are in diamond & legend division too. I just got tired of the sheet i get to see every match that aggrivates me so frikkin much that i just stopped playing ranked entirely.

I srsly hope we get it back, this season was horrible with soloq vs premades. If we dont i think ill pass next season. If i get to choose between being annoyed for hours in pvp or do something else id choose something else 10/10 of the times. Its just not worth it.

Im not really trying to get to diamond, however it goes im fine with. I think i could get there if i spent time on it since ive barely played any matches since i got to ruby and already halfway to diamond. BUT i refuse to put so much time on grind when i soloq + matchmaking is a bit weird in ruby. Sometimes i feel like OP describes. When matchmaking purposedly give me 2x thiefs and a warrior in the same party i feel screwed over (sadly). That would be fine, if the other team got 2x thiefs and a warrior too, yet, they get 2x revs and 2x eles.

So the past days i tried out the matchmaking a bit again. I went on a lose streak and i found out the reason to why, its because i qued up in the afternoon and theres all various of players queing at that time. Im not saying im the greatest player, i have alot to learn still (rotations is my weakness mainly but ive gotten alot better at it recently). But despite that when i que up at lets say from 7 pm to 9 pm i get win streaks which follows by a loss or two. Funny enough my winrate goes between 50-52%. It feels like, everytime the game knows ive won too much it puts me on teams to lose. How i notice this is that the difference in playerskill is so huge sometimes you cant other than easily see it. When i duoq with a friend, we go on win streaks always with very few losses…so, makes me wonder if soloq even works when the game puts us in weird matchups to keep us at 50% winrate. Duoq seems to work better tho.

Then we have my friend who recently hit rank 80 in pvp meanwhile he was at end of ruby, and hes now diamond. He has had alot easier than most to get there since hes had about 56+% winrate since his mmr hadnt settled. People would say that rank doesnt matter, but he is terrible at pvp, i played with him a few times. I also have another guildie which winrate is 65% and he recently hit rank 80 too. He just played dragonhunter and killed all nabs ezpez and hes ruby now. Oh and this dude had about 40% winrate before he played dragonhunter. Feels a bit unfair but what can you do when the game is created the way it is. (This btw is the reason i think we get matched with nabs sometimes. Since leagues is 50% of the matchmaking now).

This!

I had a severe losing streak yesterday (saturday). I havent played pvp in ages on weekends for that very reason and for once i was gonna yoloq again on a saturday. Big mistake…

Havent had a losing streak like that in like…2 years, the players that was put in my team were pure pve’ers for sure.

This doesnt surprise me. My advice would be to not play ranked during weekends. I had 2 matches yesterday where i had 30% win chance -_- How is it fair? it isnt.

You realise that if you think anet release weapons skins too often you have alot of time to buy them over the years…And they will bring back old skins. Personally im happy they come out with new things more often. Something to look forward to.

And also, not all of us go for “full” collections. We buy some weapon skins we like and thats why many of us likes new weapon skins more often.

“The reality of league divisions” is SO wrong. The fact that people face their own mmr in the leagues makes it harder or easier for different mmr groups to raise their division. Only people that matter rly to look at where they stand is top tier aka high mmr players. In every mmr besides top tier, is a joke where they can get to ruby without an effort. If i actually continued with this league kittenz id be in ruby with just enough grind >.>

Thats why not many of us can take this thing serious. If the leagues had started with mmr reset people would actually take it seriously + if soloq was implemented.

Yea gj anet! I liked all of them, its gonna be difficult to decide which one to get.

Hi!

Anet pls make living world how you had it in season 1. Thats what made gw2 for me and made me play the game. Season 2 was boring, not saying the story per se was boring but im saying the achievements & the shortness that came out of it was very boring. Living season 1 had so much to offer, events where you could farm items and exchange for nice weps and it made the community get together aka they arranged events in maps and used ts to make an event successful. Season 1 brought the people together, season 2 split the community.

Thats all
Regards

Slein Jinn.8173:

sanctuary.1068:

If i dont get teamed vs a full premade its either this:

- Only soloq vs 3man-4man premades.
- I get put into a 3man premade to be faced fullman premade (when i entered as solo).
- I get put into a 3man-4man premades that suck kitten vs higher tier which the premade cant handle. GG.

I DONT WANT TO BE IN A PREMADE OR FACE A PREMADE UNDERSTAND ANET.

I cant be competitive as soloq in this game, and i said it before but i will say it again, im quitting leagues as of today. Have fun league abusers and premades >.>

The only constant in all those teams is YOU.

All this random QQ from random plebs about how they always lose and it’s all ANet’s fault—they couldn’t possibly have anything to do with their own losses (of course, if they win one, it’s because they carried). Take some responsibility for your own play. Yeah, it sucks when you get braindead teammates, but it happens to everyone, and it happens to the people you play against, too. If you’re really as good as you think you are, you should come out ahead in the end, because that would mean your team only has four rolls for braindead teammates, where the opposing team has five chances for idiocy.

When you lose, instead of pointing the finger at everyone else, look at what you could have done differently to increase your odds of winning. If you’re really honest with yourself, there’s almost invariably something you could have done better.

Theres smth wrong with your reading skills. I dont complain that i lose, i actually win more than i lose and im in sapphire division. What im complaining about is that i dont want to get thrown into premades or fight vs premades when i enter as soloq. Problem is that when i enter 80% of the time i face premades or get thrown into a premade. Even if i win i still hate premades. If i wanted to play as premade id create a frikkin premade with proper communication. Not this kitten.

So basically, im awesome since i win more than i lose. Thank you for your compliment.

I didnt pvp for 1 whole day, and then i was like, lets give it another chance. Guess what, i got faced opposite team members who abused the system to face lower divisions, aka 1 ruby is teamed up with a amber and both were revs. I even think the person played on both accounts since revs are just roll on keyboard. Im tired of this sheet.

If i dont get teamed vs a full premade its either this:

- Only soloq vs 3man-4man premades.
- I get put into a 3man premade to be faced fullman premade (when i entered as solo).
- I get put into a 3man-4man premades that suck kitten vs higher tier which the premade cant handle. GG.

I DONT WANT TO BE IN A PREMADE OR FACE A PREMADE UNDERSTAND ANET.

I cant be competitive as soloq in this game, and i said it before but i will say it again, im quitting leagues as of today. Have fun league abusers and premades >.>

I gave league a chance but after today im just done. Im a soloq or duoq most of the time and 80% of the time i have to face 4man-5man premades. The advantage teams have cant be ignored. They have better communication to mention one thing only which is an incredible advantage. Im srsly so dissapointed in the man who takes the final desicions in pvp. I dont understand how you think no soloq is ok and soloq being free wins to premades.

This game isnt a game for solo players anymore. Anet you might as well change the enter requirements in ranked to 5man because thats how redicilous pvp has become. GW1 was alot better because in heroes ascent you actually had to make a 8man before you entered, or random arena which worked like soloq. You rly had the best pvp in gw1. Gw2 is a frikkin joke in the pvp area. Get your kittenz together anet. I already stopped playing pvp earlier for like 6 months, i might as well quit alltogether. This game is just unplayable for soloq and the amount of teams you are FORCED to face is redicilous.

Evan Lesh.3295:

sanctuary.1068:

Yea the difference with me and some of the others tho, is that i actually got reward chest + 1500 win points and i left after we had 500 points (the way it always have been) yet the game decided to turn me into a deserter and i didnt get my +1 pip and i worked so hard for it Q.Q

I’m looking into your match to see whats up.

Thank you

Yea the difference with me and some of the others tho, is that i actually got reward chest + 1500 win points and i left after we had 500 points (the way it always have been) yet the game decided to turn me into a deserter and i didnt get my +1 pip and i worked so hard for it Q.Q

Ty anet for having such a broken game. Im so glad wasting 15 mins of my life. I won a match, got 1500 reward + reward from chests oh but here the twist comes. It says i deserted the game when i didnt, so i didnt get +1 pip in the division and a dishonor. Ty so much anet, rly rly ty so much for wasting my time.

Im not happy with this goldsink. Im not happy with anything atm in this game. Only thing i look forward to right now is living world 3. Oh and let me just mention that the gems dont drop in price fast enough equal to our gold income.

Nevermind just read one of the news. Raids apparantly comes mid november. Yay.

Hi everyone!

Let me first say that i like some of the improvements you anet did with the guilds, one of them being able to cross talk to all guilds youre in. I want to give another good advice which would make all this even better.

We now have representing button, which doesnt make sense anymore due to the changes of guilds (influence being removed and how a guild gain exp & favor) and cross-chats. It would make more sense if it showed that people represent all guilds theyre in but that they can have a guild hall switch instead. Since we dont get (from my understanding) things from playing the game to build a guild (influence) by representing, and that the cross-chats were added, it would make more sense to remove the representing. Now we get to build our guilds by doing weekly events together and i like this system alot more but it looks depressing when you see non-representings but they still talk in the guild chat even tho representing now has no advantage anymore.

If representing icon would be removed, i think that would live up the idea we all gw2 fans had at the very beginning, where you can be in multiple guilds and be involved in all of them and not have a wall by representing (as it used to be up to hot was released).

So basically by removing this, the community will look more alive in every guild. How a guild is presented visually is very important and since cross-chats were added this change would make even more sense.

Regards
Me

Hi!
Me and my guild tried to do the wvw & pvp weekly mission. We activated both before we entered a pvp game and wvw. We won both times in pvp and everyone got a score above 100, so in total we got more than 500 points. Still…no progress. Is it bugged or did i do smth wrong when activating?

Regards

Anything will be better than the current. Only valuable item i ever got was worth 80 g. Got that item after 2.5 years of playing. Everything else has been max 1-3 g if it was an exotic. All my g came from dungeon runs bc i got that certain 1-2 g from every path and now you nerf it….gg >.>

Omg, Anet! I dont know what youre thinking with…I question every move you take nowadays. So instead of having a variation of things to do, to aquire gold, you will force people to do raids only (insert curseword here). Im so glad you made buttugly new legendaries cause i aint getting any of it which means i dont have to farm gold in any shape or form. This game will die because of your stupid changes. Whoever decides these changes need to wake up and ask the community what they want not what you, anet, want. The trust in you Anet is so low and has been so low for almost a year now. Srsly, whats up with your logics? Its like nonexisting. Dont do stupid changes like this when you come out with a micromini expansion.

Yea im tired of premades too. You can enter with max another person because if you enter with 3 people you will face 4man or 5 man premades. Even if you enter with duo the chance is too high to face 3-4man premade anyway but duo is better than solo by far.

And the answer to why pvp has increased so much lately is ofc due to free to play and the fact every single player has beaten the pve content several times already since the release, people are bored, so they go to farm their pvp ranks for achievements. Simple explaination, it has nothing to do with a “success”. You cant even compare it to gw1 when gw1 never went free to play. I remember gw1 had like 18+ districts (servermaps if you will), in Heroes Ascent only. You cant forget gw1 had SO MANY different pvp modes. You cant even compare it. Dont buy all the talks…because its just numbers that doesnt explain anything other than people are bored with the game (due to no living story updates), so they go pvp instead to farm their titles and achievements before hot comes.

And yea i want soloq back pls!

Im happy to hear this, because it means alot of players didnt imagine things. Looking forward to the update!

I just blame human nature by now. Some people have different types of gameplay and some people dont fit when theyre bunched together and that results in a loss. But then theres this small group of people that always gets throwned into groups where they dont belong due to their mmr isnt decided yet. But really, the matchmakingsystem works in theory but when its executed it has its flaws. To me its just weird when one person have no issues vs two meanwhile another die like a fly over and over and theyre supposed to belong in the same mmr…I have just accepted that the sytem is flawed, no other way to deal with it.

Im pretty sure its from prophecies in guild wars 1. I dont know the name but try look on playlists from gw1 on youtube.

Possibly from halloween event in gw1. Ive been trying to find the song like crazy the past hour with no luck (in the actual gw1 game). Still looking…

No, race cities shouldnt be destroyed. If you want to destroy anything, we might as well destroy citadel because its so buttugly. Besides im tired of destroyed cities. Its kinda a shame old Lions arch was removed completely because it had an uniqueness to it. The new LA is beautiful as well but, just think about it…they could have added a whole new city with a different name and we could have kept old LA and still gotten a new nice city…But they didnt take this descision ^^

I really hope ls3 wont be instanced… But if you need to login to unlock then it sounds like it is. Imma go cry now because that means ill be bored equally much again like i was in ls2.

Sigh…another change i dont like. I feel the focus in the game is totally off. If the keys are so badly sold you have to adress the issue why. I can come up with one good reason why keys get sold so badly and this is the reason why i dont personally wanna buy them. Too much junk from the chests. The droprate on the goodies are too low. Why would anyone want to buy a key which will result in boring boosters and boring common minipets? Have you even looked at the droprate of these items from the chests? If a person gets a choice of buying an item which grants 100% that item or an item that has 0.0001% of granting the item you want, which item do you think people will choose to buy? The keys never had a chance on tp in its shape it has now…And you dont realise it…Instead we get these changes which WONT increase the buying of keys. Only the first weeks you will see an increase and when people see how low droprate it has of the goodies no one will buy them eventually. Its a shame it will affect the skins in game now tho. The prices will skyrocket on tp and personally, the upcoming skins need to be superspecial and superamazing for me to even consider buying from tp. Only superamzing skins up to this date, imo, would be the chaos skins. So you have alot of work to do now to make people buy the keys from tp, as in, you have to spend alot more hard work into creating superduper weapon skins.

My advice is to add achievements for every event like you did in the past. Second would be, teamwork based content where you basically have to split people between areas and the map gets reward for how well they do it together rather than solo. Queens Jubilee – The pavilion is a great example of when living world teamwork was at its best. It had bosses split in all areas and wherever people went it didnt matter because all got reward based on teamwork rather than egoistic gameplay.

I loved all your living world events up to this one. The reason why im not fond of this one is bc theres no varity in the map, no surprises, same mobs everywhere. You do the exact same thing for 30 minutes. Poor rewards for the amount of time youre there. Egoistic gameplay due to the buff. So basically turn the events into teamplay again with a map reward where everyone get the same reward of how well the map did. Like someone mentioned before, instead of the buff you could have had amount of invasions you killed (the whole map) like 25 would be bronze, 35 silver, 45 gold. Reward should have been bronze 15 blooms minimum, silver 20-30, gold 30-35.

Anyway, just look back at your old events and take the best from those and convert into your new events.

Yea its a bad setup. In other events you got reward for how well the whole map did during events, not individual achievement (which obviously gets cheated on). Im not even gonna do this stupid event. Did it twice yesterday with no reward and 5 blossoms are just too little and if you dont want to waste your irl life you have to cheat by doing what the OP described. Im just out…

Yea bring soloq back. Theres no way to be competitive as a solo player in this game. Anets logics “almost no one is playing team arena so we remove soloq, because soloq was more famous than team arena”. So Anets conclusion is, remove the most popular version…and then they think team arena will get more people, which worked for a while bc people do want to play pvp, but after tons of fail when it comes to facing premades people quit doing team arena. Anet is like “we dont know why people dont play pvp anymore so we introduce leagues instead”. The problem will still be there anet unless you add soloq back. Only because you think a change will make people play it more, doesnt mean it will be like that. Not all people have time to have a proper team. In gw1 you had different types of pvp, both individual and team. I remember a few months ago i lost 10 times in a row bc i faced premades only. When you lose 10 times in a row it has nothing to do with you as a player, bc you have 4 other people in your team that cant suck that hard everytime you have a match. The system is just flawed. More and more people will quit ranked and its because it gives solo players nothing in return and eventually there will be the same 5 teams that face eachother anyway.

Omg Aedelric “inevitably divorce”. Dont you believe in eternal companionship & loyality? :O But anyways, if they added that you actually could get married in gw2, if you get no benefits at all, theres no reason to even marry. In archeage for example you can choose to have a “family” and share a house as a benefit. I mean, theres has to be a reason to add it in the game otherwise i dont even want it added xD But they added wedding dresses to the game and then IMO its kinda strange to not do smth fun with that option. I mean, i bought the dress but then when i equiped it, since im not a roleplayer, i dont even know when to use it xD And i kinda thought you could make it look smth else but a wedding dress but only races that worked on was sylvari and asura. Sadly i basically only play human race and that version is doomed since it looks 100% like a wedding dress and dont you dare tell me you can make it look different, bc it doesnt look different whatever color i change it to. But anyways, i dont care if its a magic buff or w.e, but why would i want to have free teleports to the same person all the time? I would never use it since wp are cheap already xD

Rauderi.8706:

I could agree to a special title.

[Other character]’s Spouse.

And then if you split up, you get another title:

It’s Complicated.

I srsly laughed so hard xD

Nah roleplaying is not my thang, thats why i wanted to add magic find to it to give it a purpose xD Yes i understand that for some it would be “terrible” bc you dont wanna get married in a game.

5-10% magic find is not a big deal anyway.

Hi!

Normally im not one of these people that are very fond of these kinda things but it would be rly fun if anet actually added weddings as in you could talk to an npc and marry another person and share a special surname as a title (which you could decide together). The twist would be that you could get a passive buff of 5-10% magic find if youre married!

Im such a girl right now i know…

Donari.5237:

sanctuary.1068:

People really complain about anything these days…At least complain about smth useful for the whole community, like nerfing burn! I dont give a kittenz about if my character can sit on a chair or not, theres a /sit emote and ill gladly sit on a roof over a chair in a game when i sit on a chair irl playing the game.

There’s a difference between complaining and advocating for QoL improvements with hope they might be implemented once ANet has the resources. There are many thousands of RPers in the game, who tend to get pretty spendy in the gem shop, so adding a few fun things for the purpose would not be a waste.

I’m sorry if you missed the over-kittened thread earlier today. Now that was complaining.

I dont want Anet to waste their resources on useless things like this when theres so many broken things out there. It is a complain thread since it starts with “its been 3 years now and still no seats”. Anet already explained why we cant get it, theres no reason for further discussion really. The reason is not gonna change because the reason why is the game mechanichs obviously. The roleplayers dont speak for the whole community, youre a very small minority of gw2 community. Only because other games have the ability where you can sit on chairs doesnt mean gw2 game mechanichs can offer the same thing. As you can read in the second post where anet said they basically had to build a whole new system which would be able to support this. That doesnt take a week to build…

When i saw the 1000 gems, i thought…wow a tad bit too much, but imma have it anyway! But i dont know if ill do it again at that price. It was like 219 g or smth like that (had 50ish gems saved already), to exchange to gems. I dont buy the whole “its a different look for all races” – thing, every skin you could buy before, looked more or less different on the races. Plus, if you want to use that as a selling tactic to why you choose to sell for 1000 gems bc it supposedly have “different” looks for every race, then you should sell all normal outfits for 200 gems and you could decide which race you want to buy it for.

I always wished anet had done smth fun with this, like, turned it into a dungeon or smth in gw2.

Op new unofficial meta = condition spam. To survive vs all crap out there right now, run burn guard, d/d ele and necro and pretend youre pro. Purpose is to spam as much condition on your target before the target can spam condition on you. Only condition crap can counter condition crap. The one last standing = win. Work them buttons, become pro at the buttons! Take a course at how fast you can click 1-5 on the skillbar over and over until enough conditions has applied…..Sense my sarcasm…

The people answering that youre below average at gameplay is most likely not true. So look at that metabattle…scroll down from the “metabuilds” look further down…and find the disease condition builds under “great” or “good”. There you go.

And no its not a matter of learn to play. Just go and pick one of those classes and then youre good to go, see how the health melts without any effort. Takes a whole minute to learn the builds. Youre welcome.

Thief should in theory be able to counter mesmers

I agree with OP. My guess for this issue is that the pvp playerbase has become way smaller than before so we are basically forced to face more pre-mades as solo/duo q. Ive taken an active choice now to stay away from ranked as solo/duo because there simply is no point anymore to enter if its a 70% risk of a loss due to the chance of facing pre-mades are way too high. I cant even remember last time i faced a team where the opposite didnt have at least 3 guild members or full pre-mades. My advice is to yolo q in unranked.

I agree, i cant even see the icons on the pics you have added. Maybe im partly colorblind? :S

If they go back to 2 weeks tho, it HAS to be permanent content. Like new dungeon paths & or maps. It can also be mixed, some stuff can be permanent and some yolo content.

Im very happy about the expansion IF ONLY it would have been a bit bigger than it is. A (soon) year since the announcement, and the amount of ls we would get in that amount is bigger than the expansion we will get. I srsly dont understand Anet sometimes (no offense), but the people didnt dislike living story because of the content. People disliked it because it wasnt permanent content! Anet you just built it stupid…sorry. Thats why people wanted expansion (including me) because expansion normally is permanent stuff. People also wanted to see factions or nightfall as expansion, and we didnt get that either because anet never listen to their playerbase. End of story.

Hi

Title says it all. Was way better before. Now i get teamed up with new players who dont know what pvp is. I have two accounts and on my other account i got teamed up with tier 1 people when im rank 15 on that account. Its so broken…Your system isnt working. I get lose streaks on my r80 account because my team sometimes cant kill anything or dont know how capping nodes work. So if im in a team i get maybe another which is r80 and the rest is like r5 and the opposite team is usually godlike who can ping pong you back and forth the whole map until you die. Sometimes im vs 2 people and i kill both alone while my team get rekt over and over. Getting teamed vs a full guild pre-made isnt fun either which happens so often. When your new system arrive it wont work as intended either because nothing you ever implement ever works. How is this fair to me, when i often can kill 2 players vs me, and still, my team cant cap 2 nodes while i have 2 people on me solo? Which eventually lead to lose streaks. Explain how this is fun to me? Explain how this will make me want to enter ranked? Even unranked has better players than ranked.

Ive tested your stupid system for the lolz the past 2 weeks. Entered with both guildies & duo & trio. Trio is the only thing that works so far because if i enter duo or solo i only get new pvp’ers that you anet think that i can carry…Obviously im a god…

Only because its white doesnt mean its a wedding dress…

Hi anet!

What about my crashlog? I get it all the time too.

I have it too, imma cri. Had 3 crashes within 20 mins.

Hi Anet & the community!

Anet i loved season 1 and i bet many other people did too, but many probably hated it also. Then season 2 came and i hated it, and i bet many loved it as well. Now comes the expansion soonish, and im kinda wondering if we will continue to get a living world thing like season 1 or 2 until another expansion arrives? Because theres a few things ive noticed the past months which happens without having any content releases…

- Playerbase has decreased over the past 3 months.
- Veteran players run out of things to do (notice veteran).

When season 1 was active i was never bored in the game because we got constant new exciting things to do and explore, and achievements to overcome. Season 1 was positive in many ways because the community had to plan the events together to make an event successful which lead to a stronger community bond. Season 2 didnt have quite the same effect on the community since it was more individual based which lead to community being more spread out.

I really hope that you continue to give us some sort of season living world after expansion hits because new becomes old after a while and people will run out of things to do. I would love if you continue with the tradition! The risk is that once again when new gets old the playerbase will decline.

I just wanted to put my thoughts out there.
Regards /Me