I went 6-4 in my placements where 2 of the 4 losses were 4v5 games. I ended up at 1654 rating. Just a couple games later I’m sitting at 1758. Placements only count kitten much. Just keep playing and you’ll get to where you’re supposed to be.
I went 6-4 with 1 game as a rager/afk/leaver and was put Gold 1….
Reading your post and placement and comparing to my results, I’m not going to bother with this season…. This season is just luck again.
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Anyone that gets hit by basilisk and has no stun breaks, deserves to die. I have no idea how you’re pulling 10k backstabs off too, some funky signet build? Might stacking? Full bloodlust stacks?
10k backstabs is pretty low…. Although I haven’t played much power thief lately but I clearly remember CnD hitting for 7k and backstab follow up is 17k+ on a Mes…. (I only fight light classes with my power thief lol)
I’m gonna have to play it again once my Modem is delivered, surely Thieves weren’t nerfed that hard?
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Shatters need to be traited to apply torment and confusion, I thought this was basic knowledge? If you had paid any attention to my posts, I want applying damaging conditions to cause revealed. Which would make this a non issue in the first place.
I thought it was pretty obvious the Mesmer is traited for conditions when we ARE talking about condition builds (any player with any shred of experience in this game would know these facts without it being spelled out for them, most people the context is enough)……. And if you read my posts, I was the one who suggested condi to reveal, kitten .
I really hate spelling it out but if you don’t understand then you don’t understand and I’m sorry I can’t help you with that.
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MI has an almost 2 second cast time for you to interrupt or to get ready because you know something is coming. That is L2P issue if you either don’t interrupt it or if you don’t prepare for a burst to come soon after they use it. The phantasms are not invisible when they are summoned, and even if they get stealth from MI, they reveal themselves when they deal damage, so again I fail to see how this is at all relevant to the discussion at hand. Every source of damage that comes from a mesmer or their illusions reveals the source of the damage. If it came from mesmers, it reveals the mesmer. If it came from phantasms, it reveals the phantasms. The issue at hand is that ghost thief bypasses this balancing mechanic and can deal damage without ever breaking stealth.
Shatters inflict torment and confusion, I thought this was basic knowledge?
I hate spelling it out because it makes me feel like I’m having a discussion with someone who’s not thinking or using their brain but of course the shatters reveal themselves when they attack, the point is the player stays invisible………
I like how you’re so quick to “counterplay” MI and 12+ confusion/torment + Direct damage from stealth but you can’t counterplay 3 stacks of bleed….. /facepalm.
Mesmer uses the same mechanics, but better. If the player knows how too, of course.
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Ranger attacks from stealth > revealed.
Engi attacks from stealth > revealed.
Mesmer attacks from stealth > revealed.
Ghost teef attacks from stealth >
Stop coming with this nonsense when its completely irrelevant to the ghost build.
Mesmer has 2 Shatters that can stack quite a bit of condi from stealth while also summoning Illusions for extra condi/dps…
I believe there’s also runes like Balthazar and Perplexity that can stack conditions while in stealth…
Why not have conditions reveal similar to power? That would fix peoples issues no?
The shatters reveal the mesmer, so I don’t understand why this is relevant to the discussion. Regardless, the illusions themselves won’t be stealthed when the mesmer shatters, so you’d be able to see them coming at you for the shatter.
But yes, the best way to deal with this issue is to simple make it so that applying a damaging condition breaks stealth. Its all the change that is needed.
It’s relevant because Mesmer has 4 shatters, 2 of which can be used and not be revealed, Diversion and Distortion on top of that is Mass Invis to cover your shatters and Phantasmal Mage and maybe Illusionary Berserker for extra DPS if you ran Vipers…. Combine all that with your Continuum Split and you could probably be stealthed just as long as a thief + have Alacrity and be able to apply direct damage and still stay invisible…
Same mechanic people complain about but better!
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Ranger attacks from stealth > revealed.
Engi attacks from stealth > revealed.
Mesmer attacks from stealth > revealed.
Ghost teef attacks from stealth >
Stop coming with this nonsense when its completely irrelevant to the ghost build.
Mesmer has 2 Shatters that can stack quite a bit of condi from stealth while also summoning Illusions for extra condi/dps…
I believe there’s also runes like Balthazar and Perplexity that can stack conditions while in stealth…
Why not have conditions reveal similar to power? That would fix peoples issues no?
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i was replying to the poster above who thinks Stronghold is PVE. I think Conquest is good, and stronghold offers a change of pace and strategy.
Stronghold is PvE though? Don’t get me wrong, you can PvP in the mode but it’s centric focus is killing NPCs, Using Npcs to knock down doors, Getting Supply to summon NPC’s, using communes to summon stronger NPC’s, to win the game you kill a boss NPC and you defend by healing a NPC….. That might be why people refer to it as a PvE focused game mode?
To me it’s a hybrid WvW/PvP mode, it’s fun on roamer classes but it still doesn’t change the fact that everything revolves around who NPC’d the hardest which is probably why it should be left out of ranked.
Won’t say no to separate ranks for each game mode though.
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Player is sick of getting chased 20 v 1 so plays Ghost Thief…. Zerg gets tired of not being able to kill someone 20v1, come to forums to let everyone know that Ghost Thief shouldn’t exist. Everyone should play Necros when roaming.
(and yes, I play ghost thief when it gets extremely zergy and sick of getting chased by skillful roamers in groups of 7+, ghost thief atleast lets me counter play the groups or troll a group of 10+ for 5 or so minutes)
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Stronghold is for anyone that enjoys it, and is pvp just as Fort Aspenwood was in GW. Some people just want to battle arena style and hate variety, which is ok as long as they don’t try to downplay a thing just because they don’t enjoy it or have an elitist attitude.
How can you say people who love battle arenas hate variety when Stronghold is legit 1 map while conquest has a bunch in rotation?
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Im in the boat that says solo and duo only killed PvP.
After many threads and pictures of people in bronze and silver fighting top 20 players im also inclined to say rating and skill level doesnt mean crap either. Only the top players landed where they were supposed too.
The concept is good, but the quality is poor.
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I have no issues finding “numbers” in game unless they are really off hours and in fact prefer it this way. I am not a fan of the big blobs which slow everything to a crawl and which tend to be fights where one just spams aoe and pushes on the other.
Even on the lower tier server I am on , we get queues for EBG. The time of day is important as the biggest difference between populations is the amount of after hours coverage.
As usual if you don’t find a problem, its likely you’re the problem. People bandwagon to other servers too easily and without consequence, so winning servers just snowball.
And since HoT when people started quitting WvW until now, the few people that played WvW just bandwagoned into a couple servers and thats it. It was also a issue pre-HoT, Seafarers was full of bandwagoner guilds (i know because i was there before, during and after it was the top server). Until they change the way players are distributed into WvW then WvW will never be playable.
It’s not bandwagoning anymore, I think it’s more of a migration.
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It gets me all the time this one…. Click Accept, go afk quickly, come back and someone failed to accept and it puts me in a new queue that I failed to accept and get dishonor for it. (I also suspect this is the cause of those threads with people not accepting queue 4 or 5 times in a row)
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Afaik, the dmg output calculation (after the patch from 13/12/2016) counts only dmg to alive players.
See:
Personal Score & Top Stats
Personal score has been removed from structured PvP games, and stats have been condensed into a more meaningful Top Stat system:
At the end of a game, players who perform well in a particular area will be given the corresponding icon beside their name on the scoreboard, which is visible to all players in that match. Damage: Total outgoing damage to alive enemy players.
Healing: Total healing given to yourself and allied players.
Kills: Number of player kills and kill assists.
Revives: Number of allied player revives.
Deaths: Number of deaths. (A top stat is not awarded for deaths.)
Defense (Conquest): Number of ticks spent in combat near a friendly captured point.
Offense (Conquest): Number of ticks spent capturing or being in combat near enemy and neutral capture points.
Defense (Stronghold): Total number of mercenaries killed and trebuchets repaired.
Offense (Stronghold): Total number of defenders killed and supply spent.
From before this patch I managed to do 1,5kk+ dmg with my Rev. Can provide screenshot later. Rev is capable of incredible high burst dmg, you just have to play really aggressive.
You must play hammer?
That kill count is insanely low for that amount of damage. 14 kills is generally like 250k-300k damage at max, if an ele is present.
Hell anything over 400k damage is generally 20+ kills, and to manage having that sort of kills and damage requires no deaths. You have 750k damage and only 14 kills and a death.
I haven’t touched 500k damage since pre s4.
You damage suggests like 30 kills at least bro.
Prolonged fights….
10s fight and take node would be lower damage. If anything this suggests he was having 1 minute or more fights.
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I think OP is just saying that once you become experienced enough with a class then a DH becomes quite easy to deal with….
S/F Ele was a bad choice for an example as even a D/D ele could easily beat a DH or even a staff ele…. Latest build I’ve been using to beat most classes has been Marauder Staff Ele with Surging Runes and Lightning Rod traits and so far the only counter I’ve come across is Thieves who can focus.
Of course, this is Unranked, where I can farm up 20+ kills and 1-3 deaths… Seems most of the skilled players aren’t really playing anymore….
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Uh we know this would be a bad change I don’t know what you’re smoking. Anet has been dumbing down the game , making bugs, and sanding off polish since season four.
A good change would be to hide the enemies team comp before a match. Anet doesn’t see that I guess. It’s currently far to easy to switch to a class that will favor your team with the knowledge of the enemy team comp.
That is what makes a good player, knowledge. Using that knowledge should always favour the team who used it more.
I do think that is a good idea though, to hide the opposite team… It would greatly encourage team members to communicate before match and get a proper team comp, I simply do not trust the match making to do this for me given the facts of the past.
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No. I don’t want to encourage people to go after top stats over winning the game.
Thats exactly what top stats do allready.
The vast majority of players that communicate about a game after a win / loss refer to their top stats to measure their value for the teams succes. Look at the OP for example.
I cant count the times where i was defending our only remaining node vs 2-3 while the rest of my team was chasing “top stats”.
I mean all this says really is that how top stats are determined should be changed. For your example, defending 1v2 or 1v3 should be given you a lot more points towards the defensive top stat than if you were 1v1. It doesn’t mean that top stats are flawed, just that how they are determined needs some work.
Top stats are clearly flawed.
Player 1 who has the highest top damage took a minute to down his enemy and take the point.
Player 2 with the lowest damage killed his enemy on his first or maybe 2nd burst, 10 seconds to take the point.
Who was more effective?
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I voted No because they are still going to stop class switching during game… It’s just the window before the round begins and a lot of skill to this game comes from knowledge… If you’re not experienced enough or have enough initiative to counter comp or help your own team comp then you deserve to lose to those who do.
With this change, if yes, I’ll just queue Warrior too for the simple reason that it doesn’t need certain comps unlike being the Nec or Support/Tank.
( I don’t get this queue for ranked on my weaker class either and needing profession rankings, I think like most normal people I leave my weaker classes to unranked until I feel confident enough to take on ranked with it)
So you like getting put in teams stacked with 3 necros, and noone rerolls?
Sorry it took so long to reply, Anet has put a 15 minute posting gap on my account for now….
You obviously misread what was said, I don’t like that at all. We need class switching before the round begins to have control over own games, the current match making combined with this change will kill the game further when it starts putting DH’s on one team, thieves on the other but no one can swap. Players need that control to fix what the system can not do. There’s also other variables that come into play, the system might get fixed and it might be predefined that all Druids are healers so the system gives you a Berserker Druid in place of the team healer.
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I voted No because they are still going to stop class switching during game… It’s just the window before the round begins and a lot of skill to this game comes from knowledge… If you’re not experienced enough or have enough initiative to counter comp or help your own team comp then you deserve to lose to those who do.
With this change, if yes, I’ll just queue Warrior too for the simple reason that it doesn’t need certain comps unlike being the Nec or Support/Tank.
( I don’t get this queue for ranked on my weaker class either and needing profession rankings, I think like most normal people I leave my weaker classes to unranked until I feel confident enough to take on ranked with it)
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I hope everyone is reading the words carefully…. Appears most aren’t.
No, I want to be able to switch professions up until the round begins.
They will be locking class switch regardless of poll votes. This is a choice to let us switch before the round begins. Read the red posts in this thread to confirm it if you like.
(although I shouldn’t care, I haven’t spent a cent on the game or play it since they put a bias “punishment” on my account, 2 way streets are fun and so is saving $100 a fortnight or not buying Legendaries with Credit Card)
I’m also going to point out, this won’t work unless every Ele has the same build, every war has the same build, every DH has the same build and so on… Matchmaking might get fixed and disallow class stacking but what good is that if the player has control of the build templates and allows for such volatility? I’ll queue berserker Ele for fun, I bet my allies will be thrilled!!!
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Locking class switch will only kill your game further. You can’t even get the match making to seperate 4 eles from 1 team or compensate for those builds involved….
What genius came up with this? Let the esport crap go, 5 years into the game now and as kappa said, the game isnt ready for a change like this and its 5 years too late.
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First of all, to fight a Thief as a Warrior you need to rely on what you listed but you can’t use those skills until the Thief is almost at the end of his Evade frame otherwise you WILL miss, just a bit of timing and practice will get you there.
Secondly, 2-3k crits is not a lot of damage in comparison to the Meta Warrior build or even just a Power Nec build….
Thirdly, if you ever have trouble against any class or build, I advise rolling that class and build and learning to use it somewhat effectively so you can see for yourself the builds weaknesses and then exploit that knowledge in future fights against those classes/builds. (chances are while you’re learning the class you want to counter, other players already know how to and will counter you easily but you can learn from that)
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I stopped buying Black Lion Chests the moment they removed Boosters…. I tried out some of the new ones but I mostly got black lion miniature scraps, thought I could buy myself a mini I don’t own but nope.
Also the PvE orientated stuff like the Bitterfrost advantage point, is completely useless to PvP/WvW focused players.
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yeah, excellent idea dude, may i suggest another equally clever idea- have you ever considered drinking tea out of a toaster?
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as an fyi to anyone who thinks a 1v1 gamemode would work w current gw2, you do realise you can run perma stealth thief & just hide permanently so the 1v1 will go on eternally.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
PU Condi Chrono with Moa.
nah bro. perma stealth thief is the way to go. hide forever & flame in map chat.
i understand PU Moa if you want to win the duel, but that’s not my goal here. I want to break them emotionally.
annoy your enemy until he leaves making you the victor,
I love it.
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yeah, excellent idea dude, may i suggest another equally clever idea- have you ever considered drinking tea out of a toaster?
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as an fyi to anyone who thinks a 1v1 gamemode would work w current gw2, you do realise you can run perma stealth thief & just hide permanently so the 1v1 will go on eternally.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
PU Condi Chrono with Moa.
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They are now allowed but people still use it. Even if you report them, nothing will happen. After playing this game for years, i have the expression that all pvp related reports go straight into bin.
When you’ve played sPVP for a few years you can clearly see the different between those who use and those who don’t. Especially if you play those classes, and realise that is the only way they can pull off certain combos that quickly and consistently is with help.
No, just because you think you r ealized something doesn’t make it true. You might have bad keybinds leading you to think that it’s impossible, but there are people who practice doing combos as fast as possible. If you have both keys on your mouse and keyboard you can do it even faster.
You have 5 fingers on your keyboard and can have a few fingers on keybinds on a mouse aswell, personally I have 1 finger for key binds on my mouse. That’s 6 fingers I can click with. How do you fail to see that this allows me (or anyone else) to click 6 buttons?
Sry but when you see the guy doing same combo wombo even when it sometimes doesn’t make any sense given what target is doing, you know he is using macros (DHs and mes are prime example for those).
Not really, muscle memory is a funny thing and sometimes you can lay out your combo without meaning too….
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tl;dr if we hold ANet in esteem, then of course we should expect them to consider their limited resources when deciding among ideas, big or small.
Of course we should, there’s no question about that. Like I said in my post, I very much appreciate their prioritizing. What annoys me is that players usually don’t leave it up to Anet to decide, but shoot down each others suggestions without actually commenting on them.
Some things don’t need Anets decision because a reality check will clear up why it can’t be done. I think that’s all he was getting at.
I don’t even work with programmers anymore but for when I did, it’s a lot of code integrated into other aspects of the game so re-working skills to have colour channels could require a complete recoding of the game which could essentially bring the whole game down. That’s a big risk for something so minor.
On Top of that is everything else those skills would tie into such as Channelling, stomps, animations, legendary effects combined with colours over riding effects, there’s also the PvP side who rely on certain animations or tell tale signs for when to evade, list goes on and all of which would require a new code to accommodate the new change.
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I think Anet have stated on several occasions that programming characters to correctly sit in a chair is never going to happen due to some programming thingy….
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Ive been accused many times for using macros but the moment you say you have a mouse with 19 buttons then most people instantly understand why it appears a macro is being used….
If anything, Macros will get you killed in PvP because you’re not being fluent with the combat and wasting potentially much needed skills to survive.
Another key point to remember: A lot of players know their classes well enough to time their skills so it appears that they are using macro when not. Example would be S/D Fresh Air Ele…… Start to channel Earth 5 > Air > Air 2 > Air 3 > Lightning Flash > Feel the burn > Earth 5 finishes channeling.
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I think the F1 should have a Stun added to Berserker mode or maybe a boon strip… Other than that it’s one of my favourite weapons for Paladin builds. (Hammer Mace/shield – Pick the Necro/Ele or evasion thief and lock him down with CC till he dies.)
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Players who reconnect to a match and achieve victory will no longer receive a desertion game result.
Lowered the default/starting rating deviation.
There is now a minimum game requirement for the league leaderboard that is separate from placement games. This minimum threshold increases over the duration of the season.
These are my favourite changes.
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I don’t mind them, it’s a lot better than the old system and stones are easy to come by, I’ve got over 400 now just from PvP.
It would be awesome if we could open up light/medium/heavy to all classes though… Could finally make a female battle mage instead of skimpy cloth armor.
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1. Hard cap on matches with MMR so Silver vs Platinum+ is not possible.
2. Minimum requirement of games played for leaderboard of say 100.
3. Minimum of 25 games for placement matches.
Classes:
1. Resetting Traps once the CD is off timer.
2. Warrior Mace F1 nerf
3. Ancient Seeds ICD increase.
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