Yea, about that; Guild Leaderboards in the upcoming expansion. The Leaderboards you see now is just a test to get the algorithm right and now, they are doing a really good job considering how my match-ups have improved over past few months.
This left me speechless. :o Do you not read forum threads?
No matter what game you play, no matter what genre you like, no matter who makes a game, no matter if a game is old or new, one thing stays the same. Some people seem to live to complain.
When they are done griping about content they feel the need to flame other people’s posts. When they are done trying to make themselves look good (by putting down others), they complain about something else.
So what you do? pls re-read your post and jusge yourself…
Exactly. A forum post complaining about people complaining. It is really kind of funny in a sad way.
@OP:
How many times should a person need to complete the track before they receive a llama? If it is 1, I completely disagree. I’d be fine with your suggestion if every track complete gave you a component. Combine 4 of them together to get a mini llama.
In other words, if you do the track 4 times, you can get one.
For the most part, the map was good. I just want to see player kills mean a little more. In the first beta, the PvP part was secondary.
Playing thief?!… tough luck mate… you better change profession asap and save yourself the frustration of playing thief.
Thief is the most unforgiving profession in this game, you you commit half a mistake you are dead! the other professions are much more forgiving, even if you make a couple of mistakes you still have a chance.
so yeah… jump profession wile you are still new to the game!
Actually true. If you are just starting in PvP, I’d definitely recommend trying a different class.
Wow. The mythical build that can:
1. 15k damage in 1 button press
2. Permanent stealth
3. Permanent blinds
4. Unlimited evades
This is like a unicorn. I hear they exist, but I haven’t seen this mystical creature.
Ha this thread is terrible. The weakest, least used class that is rarely used in organized play and this community wants it nerfed without any compensation for its numerous defects? Really the downstate is so op that all teams want them? Fine they can reduce the numbers on our downstate which is the worst downstate in the game, it will not touch the class or make your class more viable. Necro downed is so easily countered with blind, stability or breaking Los and stealthing I hate saying l2p, but you should.
You also don’t get it. You assume that after a fight everyone has all of their cooldowns ready to go. If they don’t, a downstate necro can take a cele (even worse for zerker) class from half health to zero and then still win the downstate battle after that. That’s the issue.
You are confusing necro issues with the downstate issue. Downstate damage needs a nerf. No one is arguing that there are plenty of other areas where necro needs buffs/redesign.
This would be a great topic for an upcoming “ready up”.
20-25mins were no surprise back then
Yep, you got it. Nobody played in soloq when we had the choice. I don’t know why you are so nostalgic. The overall level has increased in soloq (facing partial premades has forced even the more reluctant to rotate a bit). Every decent player played in teamq because of how awful the queue times and rotations in soloq were.
I agree with you on the LB part, but your poll is a joke. Your questions are heavily biased. You are not helping your case at all.
Nobody played in solo queue? I stopped reading right after that. You are wrong.
I play necro (alt/almost-Main), Xom, and I’m not close to top tier. I agree. I started playing necro because I had some trouble with them as an Engi. Turns out all you need is some CC and an invuln stomp. Run a necro (meta first) and l2p.
The down state of a necro is arguably more powerful than its regular state. However, its no more powerful than some other professions’ down state. (I get hit 1.5k per AA with warrior throw rock.)
Terrorsquad, I do make it sound easy. Be calm and properly manage your cds.
You don’t get it. You assume that after a fight, your opponent has cooldowns. It is not a L2P when someone can kill you that fast in downstate.
Don’t even try to act like necro doesn’t do the most damage.
Easy…
Just introduce a reward track like spvp. Problem solved.yay… encourage WvW blobbing and ktraining even more than these changes do….
Not really. It depends how it is implemented.
Way to go ANET! Without the guard stacks, there the rest of the stat lines are pretty lame for roamers.
@OP:
The better question is why does the matchmaking system pair up a premade against a pug team. That’s the issue.
Obsidian Flesh -> Armor of Earth -> Stomp.
The more you know.
You assume that after a fight, the ele has their cooldowns ready.
When is this going to get adjusted? I shouldn’t go from half health to downstate in the middle of a stomp when wearing something other than zerker.
The damage is too strong.
The player base is actually pretty large. You just have a lot of people who just say it is small to try to justify the poor matchmaking system in place.
I wish they’d bring back RoC without the water components. I enjoyed the side point fights. I’m sure they could do something interesting for the point that was previously underwater.
I am fine with the stacks. They weren’t a big deal.
Ironically, most of the upgrades are kinda bleh besides those. Hopefully we see something new.
I hate courtyard becuase: If I want to play zergfest PvP, I’ll go do WvW.
lol at comparing 5 people fighting together in pvp with 50 people fighting together in WvW.
and how is that different than a 3v5 on any map? This is not specific to courtyard.
Courtyard is legit the one true PvP map. You know. Player versus player. No silly NPCs or trebs or PvE interference.
People state their hate for it without explaining why they don’t like it, too often.
The only reasonable explanation I can understand is the map design itself which yes, I will share my slight dislike for as it is very tiny, cluttered & a lot of skills get obstructed etc. That or the inevitable experience(s) of being matched up against ‘premades’ may trigger hate for this map but at the end of the day – it’s players vs’ing players and people are spilling their super ultra mega salty orphan tears over a map that’s mechanic/design/game-play intention is working as intended.. genuine PvP.
It is very bothersome to hear players requesting more/new ‘death-match’ maps regarding PvP when what seems like a fair portion of the playerbase dislikes this particular map; death-match PvP.
Perhaps if the map was designed better/differently would players still feel the same negativity?
Feel free to share your thoughts/discussion.
Your question at the end is the issue. The PvP deathmap concept is great. The map though is really bad. It forces fighting into very tight narrow passages. I’d much rather see an open space with some objects scattered around to hide behind for LOS attacks.
I’d rather just see a matchmaking revamp and a return to solo and team queues.
When in a team I am judged by my points…….. Even though I grab a node or hold off the enemy , I am judged on point totals and called a noob even if I am the reason we are winning!
No one cares about points. If they are calling you a noob, it is likely because of other actions.
I can easily get the top points every single game while my team loses. Does that make me good? No.
The OP really doesn’t understand what makes a build meta. It isn’t the best spec. It is:
1. A great spec for coordinated teams
2. A top player uses it and then everyone else starts to bandwagon it.
The reason a meta build doesn’t work as well for you:
1. You are likely not on a well coordinated team
2. Your playstyle is different than that top player
3. You play less, or are less talented at your class, than that top player.
We all know anet doesn’t care about game contents other than the Living Story, so we all have to make the best out of what we have. Basically we have few solutions for this atrocious match making.
Not true. They took away solo queue and introduced a new matchmaking system in hopes of giving everyone a better experience. Unfortunately, it failed.
The issue is that they are too stubborn to admit that it failed and to being back solo queue and the old matchmaking. Hint: It wasn’t that bad. Just use mmr and prevent class stacking in pug teams. That’s all it needed.
@OP:
As others have said, we blame ANET because:
1. They took away solo and team queue
2. They introduced a matchmaking system that is worse than before
3. They stubbornly continue to have profession dailies which just adds to the poor matchmaking.
It’s been 5 months now, since december 2014, that dishonor was disabled. You said you wanted to “test it” and reactivate it “soon”. That never happened. It’s completely ruining the PvP experience, with people not even caring anymore. It’s 10x as bad as it was last year and it was already pretty bad. Seems like every other game is a 4v5 or becomes one after one team starts to lose.
Stop kittening around and put it back in.
I’m wondering what your MMR is. I don’t have anywhere near the number of 4v5 as you do.
Well, the balance team is going to have to start releasing some updates more frequently soon. With all of the new spec trees, elite specializations, and new weapons, there will be issues. It won’t be acceptable to wait six months to balance.
Of course that is the logical side of me talking. With this balance team, who knows.
Well from guessing you’re probably a sensitive person.
How about you tell us how many people you have blocked, and then we’ll give you a list of the players who play this game every day, and then we’ll explain why that idea doesn’t work.Perhaps you could try being less sensitive, maybe quit instigating fights, or putting yourself in a situation that requires you to block people.
It’s pretty easy to not even respond to most of the people in this game, so perhaps start making the right decisions.
I take it you get blocked a lot and are worried that you’d have no one to play with if they implemented the OPs idea.
Sigh. Another thread about matchmaking. What is taking ANET so long to address it? Even the old system was better than this.
How many threads about matchmaking do we need until ANET does something? Even the old system was better than what we have now.
The game isnt already in a good shape, if they implement 24h bans, ppl will leave the game for good, and then you’ll have even more unbalanced matches, longer queues and more 4v5s
It is possible to have worst matches than now? Not sure about that….
Matchmaking is horrible. Why has there been no fix? It is a complete embarrassment at this point.
Keep playing unranked until the system figures out where you fit in. Matchmaking usually gets better after about 100 games.
I think I am over 4000 games at this point across different accounts and it is still horrible for me. Maybe I need to play more.
Or maybe matchmaking is just horrible.
People actually care about the leaderboards? Why?
I think pretty much everyone knows that engi are OP. They have been for a long time. It was just hidden a bit because everyone focused their rage on the turret spec for so long.
The PvP in this game is dead so it dosent have a working matchmaking system because there is nobody near that MMR range playing at the same time so they just put solo Q vs premade.
And even if they put high MMR solo Q’ers vs high MMR premade, the premade will still win 9 times out if 10 unless they are not in TS and playing some random troll builds.
So the whole matchmaking system is a fail. Not only in theory but also in game.
The excuse of a low number of players is a bad one. The matchmaking system is just horrible right now. ANET tried to get creative and add in a bunch of factors that had nothing to do with actual skill.
It really takes talent to take the ok system that existed previously and make it even worse. Grats ANET.
The issue is simple. Make the following change:
When 2 teams have equal numbers, the next member to join must join the losing team.
Think about it. In a game now, what happens? The next member ALWAYS joins the winning team.
What happens next? Someone from the losing team drops.
What happens next? Someone who was playing from the start gets moved to the losing team.
What happens next? That person is annoyed and leaves, causing another balance to occur.
The cycle continues.
I’ve said before that matchmaking is the worst part of PvP. It is horrible. A few key changes need to be made:
1. Implement a solo queue and a team queue. (Great new concept right?)
2. Matchmaking should be based on class specific MMR. Just because someone is great at once class doesn’t mean they are good at another.
3. A 4 or 5 person premade should NEVER face a group of 5 pugs. NEVER
4. In a pug match, ensure no more than 2 of a class on a team
Yeah, ANET. Let’s see these stats. Then please send an apology for doubting the community about the unpopularity of skyhammer.
New meta: 4 banner warriors, 1 mesmer(null field, phantasm regen)
No way. The favorite class is engi. That will always be part of the meta.
are you for real?…. disenguage for 25 to 30 seconds… then melt them. If you’re trying to best them in this state…. L2P
lolol. You clearly don’t play PvP. In PvP, there are these things called cap points. Try playing a game and see what happens when you don’t hold any of them.
Instead of telling people to L2P, you might want to actually learn the game mode first.
I think everyone knows that matchmaking is a joke at this point. I never thought I’d miss the old system, but at least I’d get better matches then.
tbh…im kinda tired of constant changes in base mechanics…add new things, stop changing base mechanics over and over and over
Wow. There actually exists one person in the game who thinks ANET makes too many balance related changes.
*claps
They mentioned in the stream that they want to push mesmer into more of a high skill level profession. So no more passive clone death.
I guess the new easier way to mesmer will be condie shatter. If you really want to benefit from the buffs, you kinda have to go into the interrupt regime now.
While introducing crazy passive triats (Confusion on crit says hi, burn burn burn burn burn guards say hi, fire auras ((oh god why)) on eles say hi).
Anyways, mesmer got buffed tons. Along with thief probably the most, you should be happy you didn’t get nerfed as ele or basically nothing as necro.
Stop with the ele got nerfed complaints. They didn’t.
Neither did Mesmer or any other class. Maybe your favorite spec got nerfed. That is fine. Try something different. There will be a spec that is much stronger than what you play now.
Spec getting nerfed does in fact mean that your class got a nerf :/
Mesmers will be MUCH stronger after the release of the new system. Either adapt or play a different class. ALL classes evolve over time.
Yes, this would be great. It will be easier to spam the nub who goes for the boss at the beginning of the map.
I do wish they’d bring back the raid map. The side points were fun and they could modify the underwater point to be on land and a wide open fighting point similar to the center of foefire.
I wouldn’t mind buying some new gear, but I only buy armor. I like to mix and match. What’s the point of doing a full outfit?
There are plenty of good builds. People just tend to be followers and use whatever a top player is using. Think about it:
1. How many people use the Tage medi hammer guard build? He did well and they all want to try to be like him. Earlier they all used him bunker build.
2. How many D/P thieves used the Caed critical strikes build? How many now use the EU panic strike build? How many used the sizer S/D build?
I can keep going here, but the point is that there are plenty of good builds. People just tend to bandwagon onto builds until a top player uses something else. Then everyone jumps to that.