Guild Wars 2

GW2 doesn’t advertise the combos and a lot of people are unaware of how to combo and to be effective in GW2.

And yes most MMORPGs are used to standing still and smacking each other, GW2 needs to make people stop moving around and just a smack fest.

They went to LoL because they realized GW2 wasn’t esports.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

They said they are trying to work on it somewhere. Calm down and read in wiki or the various interviews more.

Upcoming changes in wiki and the trading post section of thee forums is a good place to start.

Yeah dude they working on it, so just chill. As long as they working on it you shouldn’t get angry at them…..

Some people work slower than others, if it takes them 10 years to implement it, it takes 10 years… They working on it and whining wont make them work any faster.

If you ask me, I’d agree rangers are pretty strong. necromancer isn’t even near that strong. Spirit ranger is kinda like a thief venom share with no cooldowns on his venoms. although ranger would be better ranged and thief is better up close.

I don’t even try and I almost down lots of celeb players, spirit ranger vs necro, spirit ranger will win, because I always woop necro kitten. The only profession strong against spirit ranger is kittening perma stun annoying kitten warriors. Or those annoying mesmers that make so many clones and always invising, you know what I’m talking about.

Thing is if you can prevent somebody autoattacking you, you good against spirit ranger, but if your going toe to toe with them dps style, you going to get your kitten wooped by one. Thieves that invis all dang time aren’t as threatful as those clone kitten invising every 3 seconds or so mesmers.

A lot of people play these builds were its just all out attack mode and no tricks or other types of skills, so they get there kitten wooped all day long by that spirit ranger because they are meant to woop your kitten in straight up fight.

All yall just need to reroll as them stunlock warriors and you wont have any issues.

Don’t worry I’m pretty sure a sotg is coming soon, we haven’t had one in august so it maybe sooner than you think.

Sometimes if you play on big servers like Jade Quarry the skill lag from WvW will affect your pvp game as well. So if you intend on playing pvp a lot more than pve and wvw than play on the worst wvw server which right now is Anvil Rock.

Stronger mantras. That is all.

sgarnev.8213:

Selenya.6410:

@ Lordryux +1

Omg, i just cant take this no more.. Driving me to insanity…

Yeah, totally agree with you. I don’t want to offend any of the newcomers that want to learn sPvP, but i can’t understand, why they are learning it in tPvP. And the most frustrating thing is … not that this ppl can’t play their chars, they just don’t read map chat, don’t care about game mechanics in tPvP, sPvP respectively, they are just for the kill… You can have a real good guess what team you are in after you say hello in team chat … 75% of the time no answer : ) and we are talking about team and role playing

Ya I don’t understand why newbies are learning pvp in tpvp as well. They should be in hotjoins and zerg around a bit and get use to zerging in hotjoins before they come to tpvp.

I love it when people follow me around and cap the same caps with me.

All yall need to stop whining.
Stop over exaggerating as well.

Pictures or it aint never happened.
#ainthardtoscreenshot

Thing is getting better gear is a bigger incentive than just ranking up. In competitive MMOs people hardly ever play for the fun, its all about the incentive this game right now as barely any incentives.

That guy that reached rank 70 his incentive was to get to rank 70, he got it, nobody cares about rank so he quit.
That guy that got ultimate dominator, that was his incentive, since nobody really cared about it or not he quit as well.

Getting the master sword after grinding…. You go own newbies and watch them go crazy over you because you that amazing. That grind was fully worth it.

I get what your saying by not having to grind to be competitive, but they can always make a mode where everyone is equal and have open world pvp server where the dude with the master sword could woop your kitten .

In GW2 you have no reason to grind, you just grind because that’s all there is. The best thing to do in PvE? Grind CoF P1, its the best way to earn gold lol.

In other MMO’s you grind because you have to, you have reasons to grind which makes the whole grind worth it. Its not just some pointless grind for gold.

This game has some crappy competitiveness as well. Games like Quake didn’t boast about esports and all that crap, yet there was a lot of CLAN WARS back in the days, there wasn’t any official tournament it was just what clan has best record of beating other clans.
You barely see any of this in GW2. Even though you see a little bit of structured guild battles, its as good as Quake or worse and that’s not good because Quake is 18 years old, this game needs to be more of today’s standards and by today’s standards this game kittening sucks at competitiveness. And yes I know one is FPS and other is MMO, but as in terms of competiveness and guild/clan battles, this game sucks. FPS are games were you just want to have fun. mmo…RPG is a type of game where you want to grind gear and stuff, gives you a reason to keep playing the game rather than asking yourself what to do all day long…. hrmmm I guess I have no choice but to farm CoF P1 because its best way to get gold for my 10th legendary which is same as any other dinky weapon.

Also both Quake and GW2 are games. And its my belief all games are rated and compared the same regardless if one is RPG and the other is driving and the other is basketball and the other is FPS, people will play the game that’s the most fun. When HALO was fun it didn’t just hurt other FPS games it hurt MMORPGs and other genres as well. So I have a right to compare games of difference but similar concepts. In the end the best game will not matter if its RPG or whatever it will just matter as how fun it is, competitive it is, and if you can play with a lot of people as well.

I do play tpvp seriously, I am one of those people.

Just saying theres people who just play for fun, they going to find someway of giving up anyways. Some people like I said just have short anger issues and quit just because they didn’t get rezzed or people left him to fight 3 other people by himself or everyone on his team got wooped in team fight, those people quit easily. They just raised to quit when the going gets tough.

I don’t think spirit rangers are necessarily op, they probably just have the best 1 attack skill.

I mean if you cry the spirits do all the damage, than kill the spirits, is the ranger still that op of spamming 1 then?

BTW best spirit ranger build is this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDAlBmaJrI

Butt Mustache spams 1, his problem was he wasn’t spirit ranger. If he was, all his spirits died and that’s why he wasn’t that op spamming 1.

All you guys cry its all AE now, so it should be easy to take out the spirits.

All you guys have is mindset of ignoring pets and going for person right away, Anet developers countered this by spirits, because of your lack of abilities to go for pets first that’s why you fail against spirit ranger.

You guys need mindset of necromancer minions, IGNORE.
Rock dogs…. IGNORE
Ranger pets…. IGNORE
Ranger spirit pets. KILL ON SITE. but because you have them on IGNORE, you fail… Spirit ranger is as strong as the spirits, if they remain INGORED that’s your fault of not weakening the rangers full trait line. Traited fully for spirits yet you ignore them and yet the ranger use his complete traitline on your kitten rather than killing the spirits and crippling the ranger because he has hardly any traits that are in effect without spirits.

Harbinger.8637:

uberkingkong.8041:

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago

That’s the same person fyi. I always got matched on his team for the most part. He just made a lot of account during the free weekend to show how broken SoloQ is.

It’s all about how you start. If you can have a strong start you’ll get match up with better players. On the other hand if you have a lousy start good luck climbing out of the pit.

SoloQ is pretty much broken, and I’d wouldn’t worry so much about the leaderboards.

Oh yeah sure, he could probably do that all day and still come out the same, hes the 4th person I seen do this, well the first person I actually watched, he was some euro dude, I watched his entire stream.

Yall need to quit complaining, they do this repeatedly and if you paid them, they’d do it all day long, they know what builds to play and when, they know whats meta, as long as theres bunch of newbies and disbelievers that disbelieve builds carry that much weight, they’ll just continue to faceroll you all day playing the meta builds while you play some junky one that they kitten all day long because your not killing fast enough, your not able to hold that point, etc.

I was joking one day and said in map chat “will pay someone 1000 gems to carry me to top 100 on leaderboards (this was a week before solo que leaderboards came out)” and some celeb that was worthy of carrying whispered me 5000 gems and he’d do it.

If you offered someone 5000 gems they go all night long on all those alt accounts or whatever accounts you want and get you top 100 on solo que or team que, they know the right builds to play, they are more than capable of playing them, they have friends if they need them to help carrying you up team que.
A lot of good players sit in HotM all day long anyways, I wouldn’t be surprised if that guy whispered me would split the 5000 gems and ask them to tag along.

So basically, I could grind CoF P1 until I accumulated 170 gold, then buy 5000 gems and have someone use my account and they’d easily get to top 100 on leaderboards if I really wanted too.

Well just do what Darnis said, we both are in agreement that you need to play the cheese “meta” professions and we both mentioned warrior, necromancer, ranger and guardian.

Like I said before GW2 keeps changing the meta and if your one of those people that quit not too long ago but when mesmers were op, well they aint op anymore, its time for a change. GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning back to GW2, hence why they change there professions abilities so many times that I lost count of them.

I just called you out because you seemed like you was one of those 4v5 or 3v5 whiners. I’ve played 170 games like 3 weeks ago, only 5 of them were xv5 at start and entire game, some people be overexaggerating about this stuff, if they truly get those kinds of games printscreen it and show it on forums. GW2 has very nice way of saving your screenshots, all you do is hit printscreen and it saves instantly.

If you didn’t know, I’d bet you that guy I mentioned has 4 or more accounts and he got to top 1000 3 times on 3 different accounts 2 days ago, of course he started from 0 as well. If he can go 46 wins and 2 losses starting from zero 3 times, than it sure aint that hard. Like Darnis and I been saying, play those cheesy “meta” builds and youll win, that’s how Anat ….. got his wins most likely. If you haven’t watched one of those euro guys either they got that far as well doing same thing, playing warrior, playing necromancer, playing ranger, using meta builds.

9 times out of 10 in GW2 if your doing something wrong, it aint your skill level, GW2 has little skill cap and its mostly the build your playing is wrong.

Yeah they should add a leave option, should come with the penalty of going afk or quitting the game in tournament as well.

Some people just play to have fun and not for the leaderboard, they don’t want to waste time in unfun environments.

Sure they can play hotjoin, but they like structure in there game and in tournaments people play better than they do in hotjoin, theres more structure.

I think he wants someone think ride the lightning, where instead of using rtl and not hitting anything and getting a longer cooldown, he probably wants something were you dodge nothing you should get a longer cooldown on your dodge (more endurance used, stunted endurance or whatever) Same with abilities like if you don’t evade on an evade and attack skill it should have longer cooldown than if you did evade in the evade and attack skill.

But if you ask me, it sounds like some thief is evading all his attacks by spamming it regardless if hes attacking and he aint hitting kitten and getting owned lol.

I don’t believe anyone does tpvp for dailies. Those people with high achievement points should know better than to have a bad pvp record of doing tpvp to do daily than lose on purpose.

Accusing people of doing dailies and quitting in tpvp is stupid, nobody does that.

People just get upset you didn’t rez them or all yall got your kitten wooped or you guys ran away from the fight and left him to die so he gives up. Some people just have low anger issues or whatever its called when someone gets mad because you didn’t do something right.

All I can say is keep the op’ness of all those op abilities and make other ones as op as the current ones.

The game would be a lot more fun faster, nobody wants to spam the same combo on people because everyone is bunkery enough for anything. People want to one shot others and if you mess up you mess up, should be all about skill and quickness and fluidness. There really should be a class that’s anti bunker and when I say anti bunker I mean he really is good at kittening up bunkers, like when a bunker sees him he gets kittened fast.

Oh quit whining, you see all these good players easily get to top 1000 leaderboards, you think they got lucky with teams each time? You have people recently starting from 0 and going to top like:
Anat My Prof Broke 19 wins 1 loss… rank 3… 2 days ago
Anat Fix A F K 14 wins 1 loss…. rank 5…. 1 day ago
Anat Plz Fix Decay 13 wins 0 loss…. rank 6…. 2 days ago
Also its obvious they didn’t sync together because the win/loss doesn’t match up at all. They all started from 0 like 2 days ago and here they are still going through this leaderboard like its some kind of joke to them. Also they didn’t play with some name that makes people think they going to win or its game over, they played anonymously as in someone who is pretending to be a nobody.

Well to help you win, one thing is for sure is your playing the wrong profession.
The next thing you need to play a meta build. However you can continue with your builds, but don’t come here crying that your not winning, because 9 times out of 10 its your build that sucks and if your not willing to change than its your loss. Currently Mesmer isn’t in the meta. Play warrior, ranger, necromancer or guardian they currently the best professions to win with these days.

Also don’t forget every month or two GW2 changes balance and a whole new meta is out. Like right now everyone is crying ranger, not too long ago it was engineer not too long ago it was Mesmer, not too long ago it was elementalist, a while ago it was warriors.

If you haven’t figured it out right now GW2 doesn’t welcome people returning to the game, hence why they change a lot of things about professions every month or two rather than make new game modes, new maps, better WvW, PvP, PvE.

Changing professions every month regardless if its balanced or not is #1 on there priorities, hence why its always happens compared to new PvP maps. If they could make a new map as much as they change the professions we’d have a lot of maps, and the game would still be balanced. Game has been balanced, they just too dumb to realize it.

Maybe you got lucky and was playing when a Anet Fix A F K or Anet Pls Fix Decay were playing.

Those guys seem to have gotten to top 1000 easily as well.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

well yeah hope its not grindy

What you mean like GW2?
Grind out as many CoF P1 as you can to make enough gold to buy a legendary.
Grind out as many PvP rank points as you can to make rank.
Grind out as many WvW dolyak assists as you can to earn a title.

At least other MMO’s have a worthwhile achievement at the end of the grind compared to GW2.

After people are done with GW2 they quit because its so exhausting and simply isn’t worth the grind after all.

Look at the WvW’er that got Ultimate Dominator, he quit.
Look at the PvP’er who got rank 70, he quit.

Gandarel.5091:

Hold on guys, it’s over soon, let’s hope they will do something about balance shortly after.

Btw I don’t think the top teams would need more than 1 day to adapt to a new meta, so this should have been fixed even just 1-2 weeks ago.

Awwww yah I’m super excited for the 7th next MAJOR balance patch, that’s only thing I look forward too in this game is how they completely change professions and its so much fun having to try something new every month or two.

Only reason why I play gw2 is because I love how they completely change professions and make one profession super powerful and another super garbage. Just think back a couple months ago, elementalist was the profession to be… Now its garbage.. I wonder whose next, and that’s why I play GW2 because when people come back to this game they don’t know how to play the profession they played 6 months ago because it completely changed.

Yeah that’s what you do because you don’t want them to farm you, its better to just sit in spawn area and not give them rank points.

It’s not there fault, its GW2 matchmaking system fault

I like how all of you mention balance. I have to let you guys know they have been balancing, just about every month or two theres a big balance patch, theres been several big balance patches.

The one coming after PAX is going to be the 6th balance MAJOR balance patch (not including the minor ones).

IMG1 was taken JUL19 a day before IMG2 JUL20
I wouldn’t be surprised if Gemmu Dun is or has already been rank 70 as of now.
Because this finisher was shown on youtube awhile ago, but this one right now has a background instead of the other one that was shown on youtube.

So basically what this means is it takes 29 to go from 67 to 70. which means 9.6 days for each rank, but also note going from 69 to 70 is longer. So if he continues to play it’ll take 96 or more days at his rate to get to rank 80.

Also note, none of those high ranks were at the NA qualifiers. Most people at NA qualifiers were ranks 40s.

Also I noted the topic creator plays with kira and that server 06 is the newbie farm server back in the days, ironic if you ask me! No I didn’t stay on server 06 both those days, I don’t have many more screenshots inbetween those and I believe I went to do some tournies and came back to hotjoin and server 06 was the server to farm them newbs.

Daecollo.9578:

Who cares about rating?

Do you think anet wants this kind of attitude in there game?

But yes its true many people could care less, that’s why this game will never become esports because in esports everyone cares about there rating. People secretly do care about there own rating but when it comes to other peoples rating, they could care less, that 200th placer on team leaderboard, nobody could care about him, hes probably the 10th best guardian but since team leaderboard is so corrupt and flawed, it makes him look like he has a bad rating.

However in general people could care less about ratings because its so flawed, therefore this game isn’t esports. If GW2 is esports then its like badminton in sports today, which I don’t really call a major sport. Nobody cares about the badminton ratings, nobody cares whose 2nd best and such unlike basketball where people have several different people that they call the best.

In starcraft you don’t have people running 2nd and 3rd accounts or phony accounts and get to rank 19 on leaderboards then never play it anymore, in starcraft the ratings are important, it does mean something, if you see someone with high rating they are good, its highly unlikely its there 2nd or 3rd or phony account because it takes hard work to get that high. Also its quiet stupid to buy another starcraft account just to redo all that hard work so you can have 2 or 3 accounts and leaderboards and such.

This is GW2 of today, the team leaderboard wasn’t always teams, many of those people on the leaderboard on team leaderboard could have 2 or more accounts just wasting space because people didn’t want to hurt there main account rating. That’s why they should’ve reseted the team leaderboard because it was during the time when several people were buying another account and more just to preserve there rating.

Back to my statement, if a game wants to become esports people must care about ratings. As of right now I can tell you many people don’t care. However this is just one of many things a game needs to become esports. Major in game tournaments is another thing.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Justdeifyme.9387:

It’s all about the Server. On mine I can’t walk a minute on ANY Map without seeing people running around doing stuff. There are a ton of people on my server and I get in a Overflow everytime in Lions Arch, the Pavillion and any Area where a Meta Event happens when I’m not fast enough.

So I got curious, and decided to check a few areas.

I decided to check LA, and the two most common champion farms in CS. I assume you will include 7 pm central as prime time, but who knows. The server is Borlis Pass. Which as I’m testing is listed as “very high”. I’m not sure what very high is, but I can post more screen shots. The only thing we have a queue on is the actual pavilion, which btw had an artificially low number set on it I will let others speculate why.

You are welcome to check the time stamps on the mini map.

edit
I absolutely agree it’s about what server you are on. It’s just that there are only 4 or 5 servers where you can actually see people. Most of the servers are just ghost towns. You can see people in a few maps, or just in the living story area. Otherwise it’s dead.

Ghost towns? Maybe you should goto Lions Arch, that’s were everyone hangs out, also a lot of people are playing WvW so of course those PvE zones are empty.

GW2 PvP is esports, so that’s also another area where everyone is at.

Know whats funny. DIABLO 3 SOLD 3.5 MILLION in a day.

Guild wars 2 sold 3 million in 9 months.

DIABLO 3 HAS SOLD OVER 12 MILLION thus far.

http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/diablo-3-sold-how-many-copies/
http://www.statisticbrain.com/blizzard-entertainment-statistics/

If you ask me, Diablo 3 was a joke, its worst than GW2 because GW2 isn’t really that much fun as an MMORPG, maybe as an RPG, but MMO, GW2 is a terrible one.

Goes to show, marketing MAKES a DIFFERENCE.

CryxTryx.9208:

uberkingkong.8041:

Troop.1369:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Its RNG, what did you expect?

You had just spend 400G betting in your luck. Almost a precursor, so… you are doing things wrong. Soon A-net will introduce a form to craft precursors, so… stop wasting Gold guy.

After what the OP posted, you’re still gonna defend Arena.Net???

The guy wants his legendary weapon. Apparently that in this game, going on an epic adventure to build your legendary weapon = standing in front of the mystic forge and dumping items.

kittening Legendary.

+1
I’d rather go through a raid and do something epic rather than stand in front of the mystic toilet.

Oh really? Please describe in detail a ‘raid’ that could be done that would justify the reward of a precursor and still be difficult enough too keep Legendaries rare.

Do you want the Legendary status gated by behind skill? I’m all for it! I’ll bet you 300g that the community sets this board on fire should that happen.

This is how you do it.
1. Make PvP tournament Fridays. Make Underworld
2. The PvP tournament is European teams vs NA teams only
3. The PvP team with 5 consecutive wins will have the Underworld for there region (NA or US) (Matchmaking system wont allow both regions to have 5 consecutive win streaks by forcing the one with 4 consecutive ones to face the best of the other region but having them wait a long que. If 15 minutes pass (this is enough time to win a game and que up again) and nothing happens that region faces the another team and if they win they steal the Underworld)
4.The Underworld is a massive zone, that has mini bosses that trigger raid events that prevent you from running to the end, it should take 3 hours to complete it and if you don’t start from the beginning with the raid force you’ll have to wait for it to complete or failed so everyone starts over again. So if you fail at event 2 you have to do event 1 all over again. Finishing event 3 will give you the little chest that pops up on your screen and only 1 random person will get a precursor. Also if your region loses 5+ consecutive win streaks than everyone is booted and you cannot enter until your region has the win streak again.

Promotes raiding, promotes hype, promotes pvp, promotes a lot of things.

Notes
1. Have a message saying “such and such from (NA or EU) has won 5 consecutive tournaments in a row”
2. If you won 5 consecutive games its ok to lose but when an enemy region wins 5 games than you lose the Underworld.
3. There should be another leaderboard, and this one contain both EU and NA, the best of the best leaderboard, since these tournaments are special it’ll spice things up because people WANT YOU TO PLAY, being #1 wont mean as much compared to seeing your team name come across everyone screen.

This way a pvp’er feels important, and it could be custom to give them a silver or gold whenever you completely finish the Underworld events because they won those tournaments long enough for you to get all the rewards and loot and you can go through it again and again until Friday is over or when you lose the Underworld, and not only is precursors a good thing but the other loot you get there as well is equally good due to only obtainable on Fridays and when your region is winning the pvp tournaments.

PvP’ers wont feel neglected and PvE’ers will have something very fun and special to do on Fridays, its a win win.

Yeah this is why you play meta builds, every class has one of those kind of builds where you don’t even have to think all you do is press buttons and put the circle over your enemy. Was HGH engy, necros, etc too many, if you don’t play the meta your doing it wrong because that’s the way to go if you want to actually win fights and games.

The biggest issue I find with tpvp is that I never get that feeling where so much is on the line that my adrenaline starts rushing. They need to create more hype and stop balancing because its never going to be balanced. Its like taxpayer money, your not going to make everyone happy.

This game needs more excitement, like rainy maps it rains so hard you cant see, the sound of thunder and lightning, giant t-rex growling and chasing people off of nodes and away from places, tournament system once a week that gives a crazy award but involves going through 4 way team matches where your team has to survive a fatal 4-way for the championship chest. That way the best team doesn’t win, more so the best alliance and the most witty players win. Stuff like that is what this game needs.

I really just cant wait for TESO to come out, open world pvp, the environments are amazing, so much you can do open world pvp. In the end its not all about the tournament its about the adventure and excitement. EQ2 did this pretty well, unfortunately EQNext is too cartoonish but I’ll give it a try.

School is starting back up and I can say I wont be coming to this game immediately, I’ve given it too much time but it really hasn’t done a thing, I’ll let EQNext and TESO decide if I come back to this game or not. Theres better games to try, I’ve given this game chance, it just wasn’t good enough for all the competition that is out there. But you never know its B2P so maybe in 5 years I’ll come back, maybe not. (new consoles the new age of gaming, better mmos, so much out there coming soon that after school is finished, this game really doesn’t stand a chance).

If you ask me this game doesn’t have a chance to be esports, LoL toke that away, this game doesn’t have a chance to become best mmo WoW toke that away. It wont go away completely, EQ hasn’t but I don’t know of ANY mmo that made such a comeback.

I can tell you one thing for sure, just because you balanced the game a million times, and tell me to come back and play, I honestly wont give a kitten about it because the last thing I want to see is my profession completely changed due to insane amounts of balancing. Things I’d like to see are the things I mentioned, abnormal pvp that only Gw2 has and none other. Every game has a pvp system where you just run to each other and bash skulls, but a t-rex chasing people all these weird and funky pvp modes and fatal 4 ways, you really don’t see that anywhere else. If they made WWE an mmorpg, kitten I’d play that, I could use some mmorpgs that use grappling and fighting moves instead of just swinging your sword and casting your spells all day long just like any other mmorpg. I’d love to chockslam, piledrive, powerbomb, full nelson slam, bearhug, missile dropkick, axe kick, haymaker, anklelock people to death. Too bad theres only 1 wwe game out there and its not day of reckoning series, it could have a lot of potential as well.

Tracker.6483:

ANET should have the numbers.

Hopefully they’ll check to see if Temple is obviously queued more often.

They wont, just like they can view the matchmaking system of all the matches its creating, they just don’t care.

Play good profession that’s good in teamfights and 1v1 like spirit ranger. Or play a good node assault build were youll never die 1v1 (or take long time to die and 1v2, 1v3) like a bunker engy specced for knockbacks and condi removal and just keep assaulting the far node and stalling there team there by neuting and capping the node in 1v1 fights and trying to do so but difficult in 1vx fights.

I’d play the spirit ranger though, because some idiots don’t understand what your doing and go and assault the node with your even though you deal hardly any damage at all and will lose every team fight because all you can do is take damage.

When I was on my losing streak, also kept getting this map and this would be the map I lose every game on, so yes I’m just like you, kitten the temple of kittenty storms.

I loved khylo on my necromancer but was never getting it. I love khylo as a necromancer because what a lot of people don’t do is take there time going back to repair treb, well while I toke my time, I’d drop the repair kit, lay down all my wells in ct, run a lil more than drop kit again and switch weapons and lay down all my attacks, corrupt the enemy bunker boons, then grab repair kit again and repair the thing and start owning on that treb.

But nah, that’s like 1 time every 2 hours because I was stuck on temple of kittenty storms.

Vena.8436:

I’m a bit confused, how does one look beyond the first 1000s players who rank?

Also how does the math take into account that multiple people will sit at the same ? You can have a bunch of people sitting at every % from 99 to 1%. Doesn’t this presume that each % is occupied by an identical population?

For the team que for awhile you could never get 94%, which means your better than 94% of players because 94% was leaderboard worthy, now its 96% I believe, so all that really tells you is GW2 PvP population is growing OR that a lot of people played enough games to play the leaderboard, which doesn’t really mean they still play it just means its tougher to get a better % with more people on it and more competition.

So having a % like 85+ is nice because your better than 85% of pvp population, but when it comes to competitive teams, you just have to be on the leaderboards to be worthy for a team. If % stops at 96% that means 4% of population is all leaderboards. You may advance fast in % but once you get on leaderboards you don’t advance as fast anymore.

necro aint op, spirit ranger is better than necro but that’s not even op.

If you ask me its pretty balanced right now, every profession has 1 build that’s pretty good. If you play any other build besides the “op” or “meta” build your just hurting yourself and your team.

Because that perma stunlock warrior, that’s pretty op if you wanna play this game. For mesmers I find that build where you constantly create clones and constantly vanishing, that’s pretty op as well, for elementalist if you use zoose build, you pretty much faceroll anyone as long as you get your combos down correctly.

Theres so many op builds out there, the fact is its not op its just the best build for the professions and you’d have to be stupid not to run them.

Tracker.6483:

Can you bring over all of the names?

Only the top 1000 are there now, but there’s a lot more (the ones in %).

Thanks for making this website.

He cant do the % because it doesn’t show for everyone, hes not a GW2 employee he doesn’t have access to everyones %.

Although I’d like to see peoples leaderboard rank and highest they got to when they were on it, be nice if they saved the information of when you was on it before you dropped off, I know it shows up when you get back on the leaderboards but when your off the leaderboards you just vanish.

They should do what EQ does, if you play small race, some stairs you have to jump because your too small. If you play a small race your FOV isn’t that good because its adjusted for you height.

They should adjust small races fov to being on the floor while big races have huge fov because fact is if your small you cant see kitten, but if your big and tall you can see everything. That’s how it should be in GW2.

Spirit ranger is pretty easy to be honest. When I started Guia’s build http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDAlBmaJrI or whoever build this is I was just playing around and wanted to kill people and I’d go up against celeb players and pretty much rock there world all day long. But when I started to know how everything worked and played more defensively and smartly I started dying more. The thing about celeb players is that they’re VERY GOOD at running away and coming back, before I wouldn’t allow them to run away and I’d not cap a node, but now since I cap nodes and play to win I die more because with spirit ranger you have to keep the pressure on, if you allow enemies to heal and comeback quickly youll lose. But if you want to kill people, this is the best build to do so, so many dodges, so much dps, can do pretty much anything.

One thing I realized playing this build is some people target your spirits before they target you, its kinda nice to have something up that people have to destroy before going after you, like spirit of renewal. I’m actually liking spirit rangers in the game. Its nice to force people into being aware and killing NPCs that could change the game.

This is an mmorpg, most people that play mmos don’t play for the pvp they play for the raids. unfortunately this mmo doesn’t have raids, so if I was to guess it wont last that long, because people will eventually become tired of living story and move onto a real traditional mmorpg. I’m looking at TESO, maybe EQNext I played EQ and fan of it, I’ll give EQNext a try even though it looks way too cartoony, looks pretty easy mode too, but then again GW2 is just as easymode as any other game out there.

I have PvE characters, one of them with 100% map completion, another 79%.

If I knew I could do that I’d go EU, I see it as being fun and you could probably learn a few words in a different language.

Also EU PvP is better than NA, you seen symbolic he went from nothing to #1 leaderboard solo quer NA, he made it look easy as well. I highly doubt any NA player would even come close to that doing so on the EU solo que leaderboards.

Im Europe they take sports serious, I remember living in Italy and the Italians that worked next to my building would get 1 hour or so break just to play soccer even though NONE OF THEM WAS ON A MAJOR TEAM. They got like holidays every other day, they don’t even work at all if you ask me, they just enjoy life. Italians also sleep twice a day, they goto bed in the middle of there work and go back to work for a lil bit longer, its very funny how there lifestyle is, but you can tell they are enjoying life and not being stressed all the time like us americans do.

Ele went from OP to worst class in game, and some people considered necro or ranger worst class and guess what they now best class.

You know after playing necro for a bit than switching to spirit ranger, necros aren’t as op as everyone thinks they’re. I find some games even the warrior is more op than the necro.

I have to agree with you on one thing though, eles are very terrible right now. I just don’t see why anyone would play an ele. The only thing they do really good is bursting a treb down in under 5 seconds. I’ve never seen an ele burst down the lord so cant say anything abou that. Eles are so squishy they go downed while not even targeted due to all the AE they eat up. Eles are the squishy class in the game, more squishy than a thief.

Well at least all your team knew how to play PvP, even though they didn’t have as much experience as the other team did to know where to be and what to do.

The other team had 1 guy who had no clue what to do, that’s what I consider rank 1’s people that don’t even know whats going on, probably don’t even know how to win the game.

It was pretty much 5v4 but your team just didn’t have enough experience, you should’ve been leader and tell them what to do since you obviously have the most experience and pretty much know where to be at and what others should be doing.

This is how, he played it when it came out or so. You win the first couple matches than you keep playing it more and youll have the same teammates due to them being around your leaderboard rank, and you stay with them forever while continually beating those player(s) that have worse rating than you.

The game doesn’t matchmake, it likes to see if Team A the better team (everyone is higher rating) wins because team A is suppose to win against Team B the worse team (everyone on that team has worse rating than team A)
There is no balance, Got Might was suppose to win all those games and he did except for 1 of them, which was probably an upset or there was enough people que’ed with 1-100 rating that his team probably consisted of 1-25 fought a team that was 26-50, which is very possible to win.

Now this is why you don’t win that much if your in percentage there are those that are better than you and not everyone is in the percentage and if not enough percentage players que youll be teamed with people around 50-70% while you face people 600-1000 on the leaderboards and your expected to lose. Once you get to Got Might rank your expected to win every game and you do and its very possible to be teamed with people 1-100 and fight people 300-700 which is a huge difference and its pretty much humiliation.

This is a team game and the ELO system is hard for you to rise in the ranks because you maybe very good player but those other 4 guys are holding you back by being worse skill level than you while you continually face 5 people equal or better to how good you are.

This system doesn’t work in random team based when its not your team its solo que team, which means you stuck with people you don’t even know and expect them to be good as you but you cant improve there skills because you don’t even know them, so they are really just holding you back, which means system doesn’t work. If this was a dueling arena where all that mattered was you than it’d be perfectly fine, but since its you and 4 random others you cant improve there skills, if they all suck and your good it doesn’t matter because the other 5 people your facing are your skill or better.

This is why you have to make the games fair, because the game is fair enough where your going against 1 guy your skill level, the worse guy is going against another worse guy and the better guy is going against the better guy, if you do good it carries more weight than going up against 5 people your skill level while the rest of the team isn’t even there yet holding you back.

They need to make fair games, not force you to beat a full team that’s your skill or better when the rest of your team hasn’t even gotten to that skill level to advance, which means they holding you back.

In Team arena this system is fine, because you know the other 4 people and you can try and improve there skills, in solo que this doesn’t work because you cannot work on improving the skills of people you don’t even know and most likely wont see again for a very long time and they could possibly be on the other team.

In solo que you could be the very best player there is but those other 4 teammates, they just suck so much that the 5 other people skill level is far beyond theres but no where compared to yours but they have better rating because those 4 random teammates holded you back and will drag you down with them depending on how bad they suck.

Its like anet is using rectangle formula, since team que is a rectangle it works, but since solo que is a square, something just isn’t right. They need to change the formula for solo que, and it needs to be based on player for player. If you got a rank 1 leaderboard player and the 2nd highest leaderboard player is rank 5 than those two go against each other and so on, some formula like this, it just has to be fair.

Israel.7056:

All they really need to do to make the matchmaking fair is remove the elo rating from solo queue and the leaderboards and just make matches truly random. That way anyone could get matched with anyone. Right now what we have is like a team arena lite version.

+1
You pretty much right, its basically same people stuck where they are and they destroy people below them and get destroyed by people above them unable to go anywhere. So basically I keep playing with around same kind of people, which is pretty much team que lite.

ELO system isn’t bad, but this is a team game, 5 good players will ALWAYS beat 4 bad players and 1 good player, and that 1 good player will NEVER rise in the ranks due to being paired with 4 bad players.

If this was a single player aka duel arena than it’d work but this is team arena even though your going in solo, ELO system doesn’t work in this area, they need to do matchmaking on fairness and not can you beat all these high rank players with all your below high rank players.

Oh you mean games like this, where top players on leaderboard are all on same team?

Oh yeah I been telling anet there matchmaking sucks. I been telling them there leaderboard is being abused. Anet seem to enjoy it being abused, anet seem to enjoy watching one team so strong that they humiliate the opposing team and force them into rage.

I don’t listen in on there mumbles, teamspeak, ventrill or whatever so I don’t know if these guys do it intentionally, I do know anet intentionally forces one team to be so strong that the other team is “suppose to lose” and make several games off of that motto. I do know that anet makes the leaderboards so easily to abuse. If I was to blame anyone it would be anet developers, I give them 100% of the blame, they make this game so easily abused.

Yes they make the leaderboards the norm for people to abuse it, its disgusting how people do abuse it but its not there fault, theres too much of an incentive to abuse it to resist not doing so, and its all coming from anet developers logic of how it should be runned.

Theres thousands of people who want to be the top 25 on the leaderboards but anet prefers to let people abuse it so thousands of people are disgusted by it because they cannot advance and they drop faster than they are advancing.

You have an active playerbase, reward the active players, don’t reward players who go on vacations after they win 1 game. The system right now is more so for inactive playerbase, people play several games everyday or most days, they don’t play 1 game and quit for a month.

Not everyone is going to come to the forums and voice there opinions, most people will just quit the game period without even letting you know because they are so disgusted.

OH you guys with teams don’t have any solo que’ers to farm anymore? OH that’s too bad isn’t it.

#yestheyshouldhaveresettheteamleaderboard

Shademehr.1397:

I’m calling it now: Our “random” matchup next week will be Eredon Terrace / Blackgate / Jade Quarry

lolol

Ahhh hell no, Jade Quarry doesn’t want to face you, Jade Quarry only wants to face the best.

When Jade Quarry faces chump servers like ET and HoD all it does is drop our rating. Jade Quarry is the #1 WvW server right now but due to terrible matchups Jade Quarry cannot be the #1 even though it is the #1.

When you want WvW you come to Jade Quarry, when you want access to CoF (and other PvE related things) you come to Jade Quarry, when you want to PvP you come to Jade Quarry. Jade Quarry #1 server overall NA.

People don’t want to admit it but of course people like people with legendary weapons, it means they’re rich and everyone wants to be buddy buddy with the rich guy.

You see the poor guys have any chicks around them? Nope. You see that rich guy, all those chicks are his.

Even though 90% of female toons in GW2 are males in real life, don’t ask me why people play female toons, all female toons attract are males.

Troop.1369:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Its RNG, what did you expect?

You had just spend 400G betting in your luck. Almost a precursor, so… you are doing things wrong. Soon A-net will introduce a form to craft precursors, so… stop wasting Gold guy.

After what the OP posted, you’re still gonna defend Arena.Net???

The guy wants his legendary weapon. Apparently that in this game, going on an epic adventure to build your legendary weapon = standing in front of the mystic forge and dumping items.

kittening Legendary.

+1
I’d rather go through a raid and do something epic rather than stand in front of the mystic toilet.