Guild Wars 2

Oh, that’s nice.

Did the turret engies get nerfed too? Did there turrets hp pool go down 2% or are they 2% slower or anything.

Theres more talk about turret engy being op over the hambows.

Or its like fused gauntlets and if you didn’t pvp during that time its too bad. If you didn’t do living story when fused gauntlets were available that’s too bad.

It creates rarity.

They need to make leaderboards more active so, something like top 5 leaderboard players that was in top 5 the longest get good amount of gold. Like 1st placer gets 100 gold, 2nd placer gets 75 gold, 3rd placer gets 50 gold, and 4th and 5th gets 25 gold.

GW2 uses its system and gives out gold at end of every week.

You shouldn’t have to grind out rank or grind out games, it should be based on skill and the competitiveness of the game.

You know what. I really miss the old tournament system where there was only one type of tournament and no distinction between solo que and team que. I miss the old system because I did solo que in it and there was a bunch of other people doing the same, even though we’d face some premades every now and then but what I liked most about it is that when you had a winning team you would sometimes stick together and play as a team and if it goes well than you got friends and more you played more friends you get.

With this current solo que, you don’t ever see winning solo que teams say “hey lets join together and play as a team”

With this current solo que, I haven’t really made any friends at all, matter fact a lot of people seem more ignorant and kitteny. Always making excuses and stuff.

I have to say that change from one system to dividing it into team and solo que is big mistake if you ask me. If anything they could have made the system better and when your team is full solo que you face another full solo que 100% and when your in a premade you face another solo que guy with premade. But nope they chose this route and frankly I don’t like it at all. I use to have a good friendbase in pvp but I haven’t made any friends since this solo que team que split.

As for hotjoins, its just not the same anymore, its exactly how you put it, everyone spectating and waiting to join the winning team. It was a lot better back in September 2013, 8v8 was fun, its a hotjoin I play for fun. I think that decision that you only get points for winning or losing and no points for how well you did pretty much destroyed hotjoin, and whoever decided 5v5 was the way to go. Also there was more active players and felt like more active servers as well, to be honest I didn’t have to server hop that long to find a fair game at all back in September 2013, currently there doesn’t seem like that many servers anymore and most of those games are cheap games where everyone is just waiting to join the winning team, I don’t have fun anymore in hotjoin.

Dude solo que isn’t that bad right now.

Nothing wrong with maps like skyhammer in fact in wvw theres a map called eotm and its just like skyhammer where you can knock and fear people off the map and they die instantly….

People LOVE that map.

Only thing I agree with, with solo que is that the game shouldn’t start if not all players are in the game at the start of the game, it should cancel out. Also I think you shouldn’t be able to switch professions either.

Now whats in trouble for pvp is hotjoins. Theres no more 8v8. Those games are truly xv5 80% of the time because people stack the winning team and those that are new to pvp don’t know any better and get discouraged to continue playing pvp because they are on losing streaks since people are all stacking the team with the good players.

So if newplayers are losing matches in hotjoins because of bad matchups, that leaves them with solo que and I say give those newplayers a break in solo que.

If a newplayer asked me about wanting to pvp I would tell them stay away from hotjoins and go right into solo que, because they wont know any better and be farmed by all those good players stacking same team in hotjoin.

If you asked me about hotjoin, I liked it more back in September 2013 and there was definitely more active servers with active people playing and not spectating back then as well. The games were mostly 8v8 as well. I love the Raid of Capricorn map as well. Also I liked the old pvp rank system as in getting points on how well you did and not solely on just winning the game. Winning the game and getting set amount of points just urges all the people that know whats going on to stack the winning team all the time and never face each other which isn’t fun at all.

Dude, there has been so many balancing patches that no matter what happens someone is always too op. Hundred blades, hundred nades, spirit ranger, fear necro, etc etc etc.

I do agree this turret engy should get nerfed a bit though because its zero skills, at least with hundred blades warrior you were fighting a real person and not someone and all his turrets kittening you off.

Other than that, they need to stop this balancing nonsense, its never going to be truly balanced and someone will always be too op. They need to focus on other things like a real tournament system, real ranking system, more maps, pvp exclusive items (for example that pvp bags they got rid of, they need to bring those back).

Zephyrus.9680:

It’s a huge problem in hotjoins to the point that they’re not worth playing because it’s almost every game.

I don’t care about soloQ or teamQ, it almost never happens there.

Yup I agree with this guy.

I use to love playing hotjoins, but this new change they made its a problem.

Right now people just spectate, pick the winning team and win. Its hardly even fun anymore. Back then there use to be a ton of people hotjoining, and there was a ton of people playing tpvp as well. Now I feel that hotjoin is somewhat dead. Kind of same feeling with tpvp, but not so much as hotjoin.

You guys can talk all you want about how pvp is more alive than it was back in September 2013, but the only real thing I see more alive is hearts of the mist.
The PvP itself is to me less alive and more dead since September 2013.

Hotjoining was fun, now its dead. I feel its because of the changes anet has made since September 2013.

Thing is I play pvp games like your suppose too, but when you play it irregularly like a game after 2 weeks, I go up faster that way than playing a game everyday.

Like I said I was 95% before the decay started happening. If you win a game you go up 1% if your on leaderboards you go up like 100 spots. I went up 1% and 100 spots, as if I won 2 games.

You guys can babble about me facing better mmr players and won it so I went up faster, but I been playing pvp so long I know that’s nothing but mumble jumble. Because I know for fact that you only go up 1% and down 1% now. Its never going to be ‘since you lost to bunch of newbs, you go down 5%’.

Also whats your take on if you decay from 300 on leaderboard all way to 0%, you think they should be granted free ride all way back to 300?

Maybe its good because this pvp community is so small it doesn’t even matter.

Lukin.4061:

Why did you expect something to be given to pvp players?

ya what this guy said..

Only expect things to be taken away. For example, the PvP slot bags. I can no longer get my pvp 20 slot bags anymore, thanks to them not caring.

You know in GW2 pre release there WAS Hero’s Ascent…. THERE WAS GUILD WARS.

Take a look at this hotjoin picture I got from a friend that was in pre release.

Now take a moment and look at the current pvp gamescreen and compare it to the pre release game screen.

Clearly the pre release game screen has a tab for friends, and guild members. Making it clearly more user friendly than the current one without any guild or friend tabs. Although we they haven’t put the guild wars mode into the current game I’d still like to see a guild tab.

SAB pvp map will be next!

I agree with op.

Bhawb.7408:

So 1,000 players out of how many hundreds of thousands of PvErs, versus 100 of a whole few thousand players. The actual percentage of the playerbase of the gamemode watching is completely incomparable, PvE has a LOT more players than PvP, of course they can pull a measly 1k. I mean, just the guilds of the people competing could be up to 4k players…

Let’s not forget that arenanet promoted that GW2 would be esports PvP… It claimed nothing for PvE, just your underrated pve, mine as well play world of warcraft and do real raids than watch somebody do gw2 wimpy bosses not even compareable to raids.

I use to think this wasn’t an issue because its hotjoins…. However recently been looking for good games, its all stacked teams like the op says. Which makes hotjoins not feel as it did back in the days with 8v8 and such and forced teams. It’s nice to spectate and all, but because of this hotjoins just aren’t as much fun as they use to be because it’ll be 2v1 and all the spectators are waiting for someone to join the other team because they know the team with 2 people are going to win because they are very good players so they wait till a spot opens which never happens and basically you have to leave that game and go find another game because its always going to be lopsided because everyone knows that if they join the other team they going to lose anyways.

I say this is mostly because of the change of the point system where a win gives you certain points and lose gives you certain points no matter what. The point system is what really killed hotjoins. I know back in the days people would stack teams even with the old system but its not as bad as this new system. I would still join a losing team back with the old system but this new system why even bother.

Hotjoins just don’t feel the same anymore, and there use to be a lot of new players too, this new version is just a bunch of veterans picking on people and its not fun at all waiting for the good team to open up and what not.

When I goto dueling arenas I see mostly thieves, rangers, mesmers, and necromancers.

People I see doing good are mesmers and thieves.

I have seen some engies but I normally see them duel and it ends with them saying “wow that’s fast, I wasn’t able to throw down my supply kit”.

If you ask me I’d have to go with Mesmer and thief and cant decide from which one between them.

A common mistake people make when playing pvp is that they try and kill someone with there back facing their opponent and let me tell you, you wont land any attacks on them, and when they fight behind your turrets the turret wont be able to land any attacks on him either.

Just joking, maybe if you have a screenshot to post of the combat log with it showing everything that would help show evidence of this and the developers would look into it. Also don’t forget to submit bug report.

So I thought I knew how the leaderboards work, but it shocked me today because I haven’t PvP’ed in 2 weeks and went from 95% to 84% and I played 1 match and went to 800 something on the leaderboards.

I have to tell you also that I was in a match with leaderboard players, Silkysoft and H E L P E R those two guys I assume are on the leaderboard because I remember them from back in 2013.

Also when I came back a month ago after several month break, I won just one game and went from 6% to 607 on the leaderboard.

So I’m not sure what kind of wacky system this leaderboard is on, but if your bouncing back and forth a percentage and not making any progress towards the leaderboard, just give yourself a 2 week break and try and win your first game back… I’ve never lost my first game after a break, so I don’t have any idea what happens then.

They too busy nerfing they aint got time to fix anything.

Back in September 2013 it was a lot better. This was when spirit ranger was op, top of food chain.

Know whats strange, PvE’ers like maps like Skyhammer (EoTM). However PvP’ers hate maps like this.

Xaviar.2468:

I’m gonna tell you where is the issue exactly and what is causing it.
RMT “Real Money Trading”, Now hear me out
Lots of players instead of buying Gems to convert to Gold they do the opposite exactly
They buy Gold to convert to GEMS and they get more GEMS doing it for example they buy 1k gold at 60$ yep that’s right and then they convert it to GEMS and that would be how many gems? if 1k gems = 100g that is 10k gems for 60$.
So instead of having more supply on GEMS and Less prices we get the opposite.
A Lot of people isn’t buying gems and their buying GOLD instead from 3rd party sellers and Arena Net haven’t taken any counter measures yet so far! so it will result on having higher GEM prices and ANET will lose more Money since it goes into the pocket of 3rd party gold sellers.
I Voiced the problem but solutions is needed.
You can limit the amount of gold that can be sent VIA mail and limit it only to Friend List that will be a start to fight back! and i’m sure ANET can come with lots of solutions since it concerns millions of $.

I agree with this guy.

Back in September 2013, I would goto hearts of mist and not hear a peep from any gold seller promoting me to buy gold from his website.
Today I goto hearts of mist and within a few seconds I will get a tell from somebody telling me to buy gold at his website.
So yes, ANET is being lazy and not doing anything because they could easily setup a bot and when they receive a tell like that, it would do quick search of database and see if thats a true gold seller and ban him from game.

I mean if people can make programs to run to a node and gold farm in PvP, I’m sure ANET can make programs to counter that.

Also I agree with that guy that said people are more willing to grind in game for gold rather than grind real life for real money. Just think… You grind $60 in real life, spend it for 1k gold… Think about how long it takes to make 1k gold in game compared to real life. Clearly grinding real life beats grinding the game.

I cant believe they removed 8v8 as well. 8v8 is more for the fun factor, and when I play hotjoins I like to play for fun, this 5v5 you find this in tpvp, and everyone is intense and its not fun when everyone is tensed up. You could also screw around in 8v8, in 5v5 if your caught someplace else and not doing what your suppose to do… Those tense people start yelling at you.

You know maps like raid of Capricorn, that’s a fun map its still in hotjoins. That map is meant to have fun on, as in not fighting on points, using the cannon, fighting in the most random spots. That’s an 8v8 map not some 5v5 map.

These developers, need to stop changing the stuff that is perfectly fine. Listen to this, ‘If it aint broke, don’t mess with it’.

We could be seeing new maps by now, better pvp rewards (another thing I’m mad about…. They took away my 18 slot pvp bags, I’m bear rank I’m suppose to get 20 slots now).

Ever since I came back since sep 2013 a lot of things changed… The stuff that was working perfectly fine changed.. Stuff they talked about in sotg like saving your pvp builds, I don’t see any of that. Stuff like new/ better tournament systems, I don’t see any of that. Stuff like better things to spend glory on, I don’t see any of that. Stuff like new maps, I don’t see any of that.

Only things I see are stuff that nobody asked for back then, people wanted better things to spend glory on, not glory removed. I don’t remember anyone asking for pvp ranks to be obtainable in months, they must have listened to some PvE’er for that idea. I don’t see any new maps either, this map courtyard must be some special map because I don’t see it anywhere. And 10v10, 8v8 all gone because this new easymode pvp system. Hearts of mist empty now because a lot of the vendors are gone. I still pvp against the same people, so don’t tell me that it has more people playing it. When I que solo q, I get matches with same people, sometimes people that trash talked my teammates end up on the same team. PvP has changed for the worst in my opinion. Reward track is okay, but everything else, stupid decisions they made. Who decided to hide rank from end match pvp is pretty dumb too, all your doing is hiding up stuff to make it seem like teams are even, even though they aren’t.

They’re probably just botting for gold and reward tracks when they are away from keyboard and go back to PvE when they return.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there are a surplus of people botting because anet has made pvp so bot friendly, that you don’t have to do anything and easily make it to rank 80 or do minimal things like run to center node and do nothing collect reward track rewards.

You think I support these changes to pvp? nope I don’t, the system was pretty much perfect back in September 2013. I swear these guys change things that already working fine.

All that time spent making changes to something that is already working perfectly fine, they could have made a new map or 2… I’m pretty sure those guys that did those changes know this saying ‘If it aint broke don’t mess with it’.. I could be seeing better tournaments systems in this time too, none of this fake tournament system that isn’t even tournament its just a rating system.

You’re right there is nothing to play for.

I use to play for the ranks, but they made it so everyone can get rank 80 within a month.

I use to play competitively but there’s no competitive in game tournaments in pvp.

The problem here is that his strikes carried over for 6 months..

You should get a clean slate every month.

The old PvP system rewarded us with living story items…

An example includes the Fused gauntlets.

With the new PvP build, does it allow you to store different types of builds, like a skyhammer build, and regular pvp build?

I remember seeing one of those videos (state of the game) where someone talks to the developers and they said “would you guys like it if we let you store you builds?” and I remember everyone was like “yes”. So can you store your builds now or what? This was like sometime before September 2013.

He pretty much saying a leaderboard 1-100 fight and a leaderboard 0%-10% yield same reward in win.

Perhaps when you get on leaderboard a win should earn you gems. This is incentive for people on leaderboard to become active.

man i better get the next finisher, I was helping out EB for a couple days. Is there anything special you have to do? Like do you have to buy it off vendor after your world wins?

I’ve never got this finisher and I play on the Jade Quarry server and participated in WvW since April 2013 (never transferred out).

How do you get the finisher, can I still buy it or report and get it? Just curious how its normally obtained so when season TWO starts I will get this finisher and not miss out.

Thank you.

So I opened a WHOLE track of chests… Guess what I got???

LEVEL 14 gear.

I’m royally upset I opened a complete track of chests on my level 5 toon (Havent played since September 2013, doesnt show his level in PvP, totally forgot chests give you items based on your level and that he wasnt level 80.. Top it off, that toon went through an entire reward track and a half of another one and only leveled up THREE levels) and got level 14 gear instead of the level 80 gear that I should’ve gotten. Those chests should be level 80 stuff as long as you have a level 80 toon/main, regardless of if your pvp toon is level 5. All that kittening rewards I could’ve gotten all down the drain. I’m so angry and kittened off. I’m not even sure when these tracks reset if they do.

That or we kittening level up at the right speeds so time I complete a reward track I’m level 80 and get the level 80 items. I’m already level 80 on other toons but not on this guy and receiving level 14 gear is an insult to this so call “rewards track”…

You should have a notification button saying “If you open this chest on this toon, you will get such and such level items” NOTIFYING TO ME that what I’m doing is a mistake and I should bank it and open it on my level 80 toon…. Which in all honesty is just tideous work, you make life easy for PvE’er, make life easy for PvP’er and give us those rewards based on not the toon opening it, but the highest level toon we have on our account.

1.5 reward track… Wasted. How you think I feel??

The nice thing about PvE now, is that you get instant to hearts of mists, buy your salvage and gathering kits and can instant back to the gathering node or wherever your at in PvE…

Sure be nice to have bltc and banker there too. No reason to goto lions arch then. Since Hearts of Mists is turned into super friendly PvE zone that you can goto at any time.

I’m sure the developers didn’t want the PvP’ers to have there own little friendly place they can call home, without a bunch of afk PvE’ers sitting in Hearts of Mist while they use the bathroom than poof back to where they were in the game.

You guys try spirit ranger build

I still don’t get PvP, so it is that confusing….

I use to enjoy making my toon look good and what not, but its just too confusing now. WAY too many different tabs, there just needs to be ONE tab.

Example, PvP Build and Hero tabs…. Should just be 1 tab.

And yes, that one guy said PvP got made casual friendly he is right, moreso PvP has been made into PvE friendly….

Example, you have a PvE salvage kit vendor and gathering vendor in PvP zone…

There is no gathering or salvaging in PvP.

Do you think I have time to figure out how to make a legendary? Molten cores? What the kitten are those for… Surely nothing PvP related. I’d prefer I just get super random drop inside a chest instead.

Old PvP system, YOU JUST GET THE SKINS….. New PvP system, you gotta figure out how to make the skins, waste of time doing PvE stuff… They give you stuff you gotta put on bltc…. Just give me the gold instead.

You want more reward tracks? You better get good at running PvE dungeons so you can have more PvP reward tracks.

Just FYI, I’ve been PvPing for a good 40 hours, only leveled up 4 times… Currently a level 6 in PvE terms, no where near being able to do dungeons.

I still don’t understand WHY they got rid of glory vendors and made rank so easy to obtain.

Chaith, I took a long break of this game and things haven’t changed in a good way one bit.

If anything, the gw2 pvp developers made it easy for PvE’ers to farm rank and become rank 80.

Sinister.5792:

going in close, afk, free 300 points for reward tracks

free tome of knowledge

so much GG

oh i forgot

12 silvers

ez farm goldz

if you care about pvp, i feel sorry for you.

Wow, they really made it that much easy for PvE’ers to do PvP stuff.
67 games of losing will rank you up from 40 to 41 continuously to 80. So say if one of those PvE botters wanted dragon rank, they’d get 206 games in a day considering if they averaged 7 min games. They’d have to LOSE 5360 games to make it to that rank…

It would only take someone 27 days of LOSING nonstop to become a rank 80 in PvP and have the dragon finisher.

First of all, I want to start off saying how kittenED I am due to not being able to spend my millions of glory I had saved up.

Next, how kittenED I am due to not being able to open up all my Match Win Reward Chests to complete my set of unique PvP skins not obtainable in PvE, WvW.

Thirdly, how kittenED I am due to the game converting my skins to PvE skins, (HINT HINT: I PvP, keep my PvP skins for PvP…. At least give me a choice)

Fourth, how kittenED I am due to having to spend transmutations on skins… I switch quite often, and having to spend transmutations on skins makes me not want to be unique. ITS PVP, THERE SHOULD BE NO TRANSMUTATIONS FOR SKINS, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SWITCH FREELY.

Another REALLY BIG thing that upset me, I can no longer buy PvP ONLY high slot bags (20 slots for 500 glory), from EARNING my way to the high ranks.

Next, the reward track… ZERO THINGS TO DEAL WITH PVP. No armor or weapon skins, just PvE GARBAGE…. Could have been spent better like, ON YOUR WAY TO OWN YOUR OWN CUSTOM ARENA or something pvp related.

Than we got the rank points system, basically all you guys did was put the max to rank up 20,000 points… And you get easy 1k or 300 points a game. That’s a rank a day AT LEAST. Only takes 80 days to get to rank 80, that’s a JOKE. You got so many rank 80s it makes ranking up in PvP feel not as exciting as it once was. I easily found a rank 80 player, and lemme tell you THEY ARE EVERYWHERE because its so EASY to rank up to 80.

Next, the tournaments haven’t changed one bit since September 2013, its still boring to participate in them and you never in a high value match like the back then 8 team tournaments at the final match for the big reward. Having tournament tickets had a certain good feeling and winning the tournaments was quite an accomplishment.

Also all the pvp glory vendors and such are gone, which really makes the hearts of the mists feel dead, they should have made a new map for hearts of mists if they was going to remove a bunch of things from that map.

Another thing, putting a PvE vendor where the amulet pvp vendor is quite an insult. What this tells me is that some PvE player whined his way to free instance to hearts of mists to buy his gathering supplies and sell stuff and free instance back to wherever he was in PvE. Basically you turned PvP into PvE, and very upset the way the PvP developers are going about changing everything to make it more friendly for PvE and DESTORYING the PvP accomplishments and such…. Going up the stairs when I hit rank for to be able to buy the bags from the rank 40 glory vendor was a great feeling for me, now its all DESTROYED.

Also it doesn’t show rank anymore after the match, it use to be a way for players to tell how there friends and rivals are doing, but I guess since all of those people I pvped with they all rank 80 it doesn’t even matter anymore, because getting highest rank in pvp is pretty much a given.

Oh and the images is me figuring out why all my stuff is going missing. As you see in image 1 I have over 250 ranked match reward chests (WIN), and a few tiger chests and crafting materials. I goto a PVP zone… POOF ALL THAT ACCOMPLISHMENT from before VANISHED. That’s an insult and how I don’t get reimbursed for EARNING those chests and was never able to open them. ITS AN INSULT how I saved up OVER A MILLION GLORY and never was able to spend it. ITS AN INSULT how I was never able to use my PVP crafting materials and how I didn’t get reimbursed from them. Its AN INSULT that all of that stuff just vanished and not one note or reimbursement for ALL OF THAT TIME and EFFORT put into PvP.

If someone goes afk entire fight what do you report them as?

If someone doesn’t participate (same thing as afk but sits in base/safe zone all day) in the entire fight what do you report them as?

Is this map already live? I just came back since September, last new map I saw was skyhammer are there any other new maps besides Courtyard?

I been telling people spirit ranger still op since September, I actually played 5 hotjoins and 1 tpvp solo q and won all the games. Had zero issues fighting anyone and was dominating them instead.

I haven’t played since September. I whooped everyone.

So… What happened to the pvp backpacks… Ya know, the if your rank is 50 you get 20 slot bags for what 100, 200, 500 glory?

What happened to glory, whys it gone, I had a ton of glory, I really miss the backpacks.

You can say those backpacks are cheap on bltc, but gold isn’t that easy to obtain.

Why does it not show ranks after game?

Hearts of Mists feels different without those glory vendors, I just had some feeling of accomplishment going to them and wasting glory on them.

Where is the helm and shoulders? I found the gloves… That 20 more armor makes a difference, its the small things that count!

I don’t understand why I had to buy my secondary weapon since I been away so long, has something changed with secondary weaponset?

I got 500 some glory in hotjoin with 205 points. probably because I won, haven’t lost any games yet. Seems odd how I get so much rank points now without trying so hard.

Also, I saw a few rank 80s. To 81 its just 20k rank points, is it 20k rank points from now on? Seems silly, I was rank 43 or so several months ago, now I’m rank 52 and it’s so easy to earn rank. What’s the whole deal with ranks, did they want it easy intentionally or what? Back when I was on tiger several months ago, I had to earn 50k rank points to make 1 rank, 20k isn’t hard at all, I’m surprised not everyone is rank 80 because of this.

Also, what happened to 10v10, now all matches seem serious, I miss trolling people. I’ve been playing to win mostly, rather than zerg with all the high ranks and farm newbs… I have to admit it was fun farming newbs.

Another thing, I miss seeing my stats at end of game, as in how many revivals and such. The way it looks like now, feels like theres just an advertisement in the game screen. That reward track just looks like an advertisement to me, and I don’t like advertisements… What next? You going to try and promote us to spend $$$ in that area next? I just want to see my stats, I don’t care about the progress, I look at that through the hero screen, not the pvp screen.

Lastly, I remember in hearts of mist I hit hotkey B, it shows me pvp screen, in PvE, I hit hotkey B it shows me WvW… Its not a big thing but its the small things that count and I don’t like that change to make B WvW, I miss hotkey to my PvP screen.

I’m happy to advance 9 ranks and be a bear, but I really miss my cheap high slot PvP backpacks. I just loved showing them off, now I have to pay gold for backpack. I use to be able to get 5 18 slots backpacks for 7 mins worth of time. Now to get enough gold through PvP to earn ONE 18 slot backpack through bltc its 50 mins worth of time.

Hi guys,

So I was like 27 on leaderboards before I left back in September… Well guess what, came back at 6% on leaderboards. Won a game, shot back to 612 on leaderboards.

Went from 6% to 612 on leaderboards in 1 game.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Why not both? New game mode on a new map.

They did a new map and new gamemode before. You guys remember dragonball?

thanks for replies. I have a bit too much helmets and backpieces, thats all they seem to give out. Would really like more gauntlets, chestpiece, legpiece but its whatever. Like a santa suit or something. Anyways I guess I’ll pass but this game is B2P so I’ll be back later. Thanks again for replies.

I dont really pve that much. Is there anything for PvP’ers? like the fused gauntlets awhile back (I have them dont need them again just wondering if theres another special armor)?
But as for PvE, I pretty much have all the current armor I like but was wondering if there was a special holiday outfit I would be missing out on.

So am I missing out on anything by not doing this wintersday(xmas/new years holiday event)? Like armor wise? I could care less about the xp and gold and stuff like that.

GW2 is esports, rank = skills.
If people are smart enough to know how to glory farm and get to shark rank they have smarts and skills.
Other people are just dumb and no skills hence why they aren’t high rank yet.
This is GW2 it rewards people for being good at what they do.

Kugron.5128:

I’d personally like an explanation as to why when I win 4-5 matches in a row that I fall 20-30 spots in the leaderboard. Seriously how is this even possible?

You need to start playing against experts instead of newbies. It goes of mmr, if you keep playing against newbies you wont go anywhere.

Silentshoes.1805:

The leaderboards ranking is dependent on the MMR rating of the people you play against. It’s not about how many you won or lost. It’s about WHO you won against, or lost against that counts.

What this guy said.

So just quit playing against newbies and play matches against top tiered people.
You can have a 50-2 but still be ranked worse than someone who is 10-20 because that person played against experts and not newbies.

Oh yeah, well I told all ya’ll for awhile this was going on. Nobody does anything until the damage has been done.

Whoever mentioned about taking a year to get to rank 40 while others get to rank 50 in one week, yup I feel your pain. Play GW2 to have fun and rank up at same time, but appearently others can just abuse the system and make rank pointless to earn because you have people who get to rank 50 in a week.

dzindzinier.6138:

a bit too late ….
why cheating , exploiting …..in this game has no punishment ?

This game is behind in everything. Another game takes there player base and then they start saying “we have changes to counter this”…… Your playerbase is already gone… Doesn’t matter what changes you have……. These guys are already rank 50, everyone who wanted to abuse it abused it already….. Doesn’t matter what changes you make because they are already rank 50.