Guild Wars 2

Huttunen.8309:

I’ve been stuck in ruby t1 and t2 for four days now. Every time I’m starting to have a killstreak and things are going nicely, MMR throws a team of 4 reapers against me, and my team consists of people who seem to have no clue what they are doing. With this it feels like it’s impossible to progress anymore, and I’ve never been so frustrated at this game before

Oddly, I find that the quality of players in Ruby is lower than what I faced in Emerald. It is strange. Not sure why.

It is funny how ANET hasn’t commented at all.

I can just imagine their internal meetings. “Wow, we really messed up.” “Ok, let’s ignore it and hope the players forget” “Good idea. Let’s hope leadership is clueless and we’ll just tell them that everything is going great”

Somehow the matchmaker guy figured out a way to make matches even worse in Ruby than they were in Amber. Grats ANET. That is hard to do.

reapex.8546:

Chaoz.7941:

I guess Anet is just going to ignore us and not give us a reason as to why its not released yet.

Leaderboards. They said already, they wanted to release the content together. I do not have a link to this article from last year.

You may be right, but I sure hope you are incorrect. Leaderboards are mostly pointless for fractals. Just give us the backpiece already and I hope they don’t introduce a bunch of bad achievements to get it.

Cynz.9437:

The matchmaking can’t find enough non-necros for games :>

If only matchmaking existed.

Wolfric.9380:

Hmm the match today was an exception for me. Eles are not very common. Necros on the other side are like 50% in each match ….

I disagree with the ele comment but agree with the necro one. Personally, I’m seeing 2 necros on any given team and then I see an ele or even 2 in a very high majority of matches.

You will see more and more eles as people learn that it is the easiest way to carry solo queue matches right now.

The matchmaking person for ANET really needs to improve. Not sure why it is so hard to implement a model where a group of 5 pugs is NEVER matched with a premade of 3, 4, or 5.

Oh Snapalope.1378:

Believe it or not I want the old diamond skin eles back.

I just want the current bunker tempest nerfed hard

No, having a thief is usually a loss. They suck. Nothing wrong with playing them, but its better to play it in unranked where they have a better chance to win.

In solo queue, stop using thief. 95% of thieves are completely worthless and starting a game 4v5 isn’t fun.

If you are losing 10-15 in a row, you aren’t average. Look yourself in the mirror and then get better.

Good as long as I don’t get a thief on my team. Solo queue only.

I think you are mixing MMR and PIPS. For season 2, MMR is being ignored and you are instead being matched with others who are at a similar PIP level as you.

In the PIP model, you can have a newcomer to ranked being matched with a pro league player at the beginning of the season. That’s the cause of the issues. It will eventually get better, but the beginning is painful.

Saiyan.1704:

In soloQs, a good thief is closer to third tier level. I’ve been on teams where they carried the game, backcapping nodes and single target a person to down state. They just lack considerably against a sustainy comp who knows how to survive the initial butst but.. i imagine they didn’t make ur list because you haven’t seen a good thief

I don’t disagree about a GOOD thief. A good anything can carry a game. My list is more of a ranking of a classes.

Rap Tiger.1257:

vlad.4871:

L2play issue stop posting on forums

Reaper detected, perhaps when anet balance reaper, I’ll can tell if you have skills or not.

More likely he thought as long and as hard as he could, and after he realized he didn’t have anything valuable to say, he said L2P instead.

So, I played a decent number of solo queue games over the weekend. I finished at ruby. Here is what I see as the tiers right now FROM A SOLO QUEUE PERSPECTIVE (organized teams are different)

The top
Necro – The damage is so glorious. You will be a big focus though.
Bunker ele – A decent ele can easily 1v2 most classes in the game. A really great classes for causing matchup issues elsewhere in the map

Close to the top
Rev – All the best parts of a thief but has sustain.
Engi – Probably the best mix of sustain vs damage. More damage but less sustain than the bunker ele. Way more valuable in team fights than 1v1.

Next tier
Druid – Another really good point holder in this meta. All the damage comes from the pet. cc hurts
Dragonhunter – drop traps, press 2 on LB, heal, repeat. yawn
Mesmer – Would rather not have one on my team. They are ok.

Junk
Warrior – Mostly useless although there is a newer condi spec that is decent. If they use that condi spec, there is value, otherwise, gg.
Thief – D/P is useless. Staff can be ok. Needs to be carried.

Most who complain about getting stuck in Amber aren’t as good as they think they are. That is a fact.

Supreme.3164:

Fivedawgs.4267:

Revs scrapper bunker ele…. especially bunker ele.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/59603429.jpg

Bunker ele to carry?…XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD, maybe you’re talking about GW 3

You may want to actually try it. Bunker ele is the most troll spec in the game right now. It can easily hold a 1v2 until a 3rd comes.

Haralin.1473:

It will take time priority of A-Net is the following:

1. eSport
2. Shop Items
3. eSport
4. Shop Items
5. sPvP Balance
6. Shop Items
7. PvE Raid Content
8. Shop Items
9. PvE Content
10. Shop Items
11. eSport
12. Shop Items
13. WvW

Completely wrong. ANET didnt even announce the finals of their esport until like 4 days ahead of time.

It is more:
1. Gem Store
2. Gem Store
3. PvE
4. PvE
…

99: PvP
100: WvW

Akachi.1352:

When are we getting Ad-Infinitum?

Time to stop ignoring the rest of the player base that doesn’t enjoy PvP

lolololol. If you think the PvE playerbase is being ignored, you are either not currently playing the game or are just blind to everything that is happening. Oh, and say hi to Sloth.

I’d rather fight a team of scrappers than a team of tempests any day. The healbot spec stays alive forever and needs at least 2 to kill it.

@OP:

So, let me understand. You are playing a junk tier class, thief, using a bad weaponset, p/p, and you think it is the matchmaking?

I’d rather have new fractal content. Raids are ok, but kind of blah. Fractals need some updating since there hasn’t been much focus there in a long time

Because it is + or – a certain number of pips from your current level. That means when you cross a new division, you’ll play people in a lower division. Likewise, when you were still in Amber you were likely starting to face some people in Emerald.

Bottom line is everyone in the match is close to the same number of pips as you. Thinking that you are carrying is very wrong and you may want to even think about adjusting your own style. What worked at the first levels may not be the best approach the more pips you gain.

if you wait, you’ll likely just run into all rev/reaper once everyone learns how OP they are.

Hammerguard.9834:

Meanwhile the two top classes were still untouched. Anet wants faster paced meta but the first thing they nerf is damage.

Top two classes are rev and reaper. At least they gave a nerf on one of them.

Because skyhammer jump maps are stupid.

That said, the daily should be changed to “Win a ranked or unranked PvP match”

CombatEvolve.9238:

style.6173:

I would change the title…. As a non-thief, please don’t place a thief on my pug team.

That’s not at all what OP was saying. He’s playing thief.

I know. I’m saying what the title should be.

So many of you don’t read. matchmaking is based on pips. Currently, most people are just starting, so a player with super high mmr can easily be teamed with low mmr because they have the same number of pips right now.

If you are losing most matches, either you are not as good as you think, or you just have extremely bad luck

Right now matchmaking is pretty much random vs random. If you lost 10 in a row, it might be you.

They did it so that you wouldn’t know that the matchmaking was broken until the end.

I would change the title…. As a non-thief, please don’t place a thief on my pug team.

You are junk tier for two seasons in a row. I hope you have an alt.

Probably starts whenever ANET pushes out the new build tomorrow.

wolverine.5164:

Is pathetic how scrappers can deal a huge amounts of and still be able to sustain such…
there nothing much to explain, this is a fact and it needs to be fixed right away kitten , i wonder how stupid arena net is to not see this.

If you want to be taken seriously, you need to specify the game mode. Otherwise, you just seem like a whiner.

I actually thought the quality of the casting was quite good. They did a really nice job.

I just would prefer to see a double elimination similar to WTS with best of 3 sets. The whole best of 5 is too much except for the grand finals.

No bunker meta is more exciting, but the format of pro league finals was more boring than WTS

So how would you make it more exciting? You think this event was more exciting than WTS?

For me, the previous WTS finals were more exciting that the one we just saw. I think it all goes into the format.

1. The grand finals should be best of 5. Every other match should be best of 3.
2. The tournament needs to be double elimination (this shows which teams can adapt)
3. Double elimination will also give us a 3rd place game.

So many of you whine too much. PvP is in a much better place than it was 6 months ago. Be happy this isn’t WvW which does suck.

PvP just needs two things:
1. Better matchmaking
2. A better balance team (that said, the meta is a lot better than the previous bunker Mesmer one)

Yashuoa.9527:

Terrorsquad.4802:

Those OP’ness stated above is just making the pvp matches make very toxic. Every team is now running 2 Revenants, 2 Scrappers and an Ele. Great.

Where were those double scrapper teams?

Shhhh. Don’t make the OP think too hard. He’d rather rage.

Maybe try leveling up. You CANNOT kill any higher level bosses in 30 seconds. Literally none of them.

@OP:

You believe that population parity is the problem. It is not. It is one of the issues but not the main one. The problem is that people don’t want to play WvW. That is because of two things:

1. WvW was stagnant for a long time. A lot of people left due to boredom
2. ANET started making changes, but they were the wrong changes. They tried to add in a lot more PvE into WvW and make gimmicky terrain that took away the ability for larger fights.

Meaning they saw the feedback from the HoT release and realized many of their ideas were horrible. Now comes the time for redesign.

Brockolosso.8316:

Tempest-> healbot with cleric amulet or oneshotted glasscanon…idk how to save that one, but its definetly not fine compared to pre 23June meta

Bad comparison. Ele was incredibly OP in the meta you reference. Everyone ran two of them for a reason.

tldr; waaaaaaaaaaa. I want some applesauce

hackks.3687:

Chaith.8256:

You’re applying old matchmaking with a new streak mechanic, not taking into account that decent players will breeze through early divisions on streaks with the new PIP based matchmaking.

The less time that strong players linger in low divisions, the better, streaks will place players where they should be, faster, initially.

What about the decent duo and solo queuers who will still be subjected to facing full teams, except now those teams won’t be some ez mark PvE guild, they’ll be a team of similarly skilled players with a designed comp, roles, and communication.

These streaks will punish solo queuers. Decent or otherwise.

You may want to read other threads. A pug team won’t face a premade of 4 or 5 anymore.

StickerHappy.8052:

I do hope the Balance team do SOME REAL TESTING before listening to the whining pvp crowd.

Yeah, because why listen to people who PvP about PvP balance? :p

If you don’t get that balance is better now than the last meta, I don’t know what to say to you. I’m personally glad that the bunker mesmer spec is gone.

Really bad idea.

If you are worried about playing “out of your league”, then find teammates who are in your league.

Palindron.1964:

style.6173:

Palindron.1964:

We all know the Mesmer is really useless in PVP since a long time.

lol. Maybe you missed the whole season 1.

This should be an excuse for making the mesmer useless now? And even in season 1 the Mesmer couldn’t compete with other classes. Season 1 was trapguard/Rev time. Maybe you talking about a different game?

lolol. You really don’t understand that bunker mesmer was completely OP in season 1? Why do you think most teams ran two of them? For fun? Because they liked the look of their mesmer?

At least understand the meta if you are going to complain about it.