Guild Wars 2

guardian is meant to be played as a defensive profession. I have seen some guardians do fairly well offensive though, this is how you do it.
1. Do your spinning sword slash move.
2. When they get out of range pull them back to you.
3. Immobilize them.
4. Do your spinning sword slash move again.
5. Keep doing your spinning sword slash move until they die.

But asking for guardians to be more offensive viable is like asking for thieves to be bunker viable. Thieves are the worst kind of bunker in GW2, do you think they need to be more viable to be bunker specced?

Of course its connected, how else do you think a server like stormbluff isle would manage to have pvp games going all the time. If they weren’t servers like stormbluff isle would have massive que times just for a game.

Yes they should connect both regions EU and NA and have it only done on a certain day just to make it extra special. HEck they should add a special zone that gives you access to it like the Underworld only on that special day like Friday, if you want Underworld access then play every Friday and make sure your region is winning. Then add ultra rare drop armor you get from chest that makes you float and is glowly type godlike armor in the Underworld so everybody really really wants access for Underworld.

Make it based on whichever region has the most wins gets access to underworld and make it so NA ques NA and EU ques with other EU, but its NA vs EU with no mix EU and NA on the same team.

But make it so the Underworld is really long zone, kinda like raid zone, you have to control the Underworld long enough to make it to the chests, if the other region gets Underworld then everyone gets booted from it. Have to create some drama between the regions.

Kinda stupid how defeated team is going to pax because if they lose TC has the rights to say “if I was there I’d woop team sync kitten ”.

Basically since you sending defeated team it defeats the purpose if NA wins because NA didn’t face the best team in the EU tournament because anet failed to disqualify them sooner before CC would lose the EU tournament, if TC been disqualified sooner everyone would’ve known CC as the victors and the best of EU, but such is not the case anymore. Its a difficult situation, I’d say rematch between CC and TC if TC can find someone who does qualify that wasn’t on any of the teams that was in the tournament. This way you at least give TC a chance to redeem themselves and if they fail then they are not the best team that is qualified to go and face the best team NA.

People solo que because they don’t want to form a team, they don’t want to deal with drama, they just cant find anybody to play with that is why people solo que.

Best of your team and more than 1 person can get same top stat.

Its a rank 50, 60 or 70 armor, some armors in pvp are extremely rare to get like the Masquerade armor you must either get lucky with chests or crit on mystic forge. I have no idea what percentage is a crit on mystic forge but most likely dredge armor you must crit on mystic forge to obtain.

SoLeciTO.3490:

+1 op

Skyhammer is not a map to be in a ranked.

Necros, mesmer, engis, ranges are toooooo op throwing you out the clif or AOE condi you in 3 sec.

You forgot to say warriors and there stability stance with stunlock, you forgot to say guardians with perma stab and knockbacks, you forgot to mention ele going into tornado and its knockdowns, you forgot to mention thief basilik venoming you on the glass and using fear.

Every class has something, its just you not skilled enough which is why you get knocked off instead of them.

Just because you don’t change and adapt doesn’t mean everyone else is not going to not change with you, they are going to change they want to win and its clear they are winning because your the one falling all the time and not them.

Goto point b and stay there the entire game if you cant position well which means you fall off cliff all the time.

Or you could get some skills and PUSH THEM OFF CLIFF INSTEAD.

More images of unfair matchmaking system, putting the top 1-100 vs 400+ ranking on leaderboards.

My last 5 matches have been against top 1-100 players, yes I lost all 5 because theres no chance in hell I can defeat them, because I’m not suppose to anyways hence why I’m playing with people 400+ ranking in these “we aren’t suppose to win” type games.

Anet having a matchmaking system that puts together matches and makes games that one team is clearly suppose to get dominated is pretty kittened up.

As you can see in img 1 Erience rank 25 on leaderboards, Scintelle X rank 73 on leaderboards, Necrofiliaa rank 50, Nagara W rank 62, Ostrich Eggs rank 49 on the leaderboards all on the same team.

Game 2 image 2, same people with exception of Erience not being there but Beastjk rank 20 on leaderboards toke his spot, they are all on the same team the rank 1-100 team.

Matchmaking is suppose to make games fair, not make force me to play against everyone better than everyone on my team. I kittened up one of the players but since there team is better than my team they automatically win, never giving me chance to advance in ranks due to being forced to have a crappy team every single game.

I’d keep playing but going to call quits for today because I keep getting these totally unfair matchups thakittens GG at the start of the game because I get paired with crappy people while other team has so many good players theres no way you can beat them.

kitten you anet for giving me crappy matchmaking, fix your kitten, don’t tell me to wait for the leaderboards to adjust, just because it adjusted doesn’t mean I wont face unfair matchups like this anymore, ITS YOUR MATCHMAKING SYSTEM YES ITS A JOKE NOW GO AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I don’t need to play any waiting game I already know your gear and your system is kittened up, fix it now, no need to wait just so you know I’m 10001% right.

Theres no syncing involved, its just anet loves to watch teams get destroyed hence why they have a stupid matchmaking system where the best of the best are all on one team while a bunch of nobodies is on another team so anet can do its evil laugh while they watch one team get completely destroyed by another game after game all day long. Just look at those 2 images, yes it was game after game (look at the time stamp), I don’t feel like getting farmed all day long so I’m not going to keep playing.

This isn’t no hate to people that played spirit ranger since beta or whatever, this is just a build that’s out there, that’s Guia decided to share with everyone and I’d just like for everyone to try it out as well because I’ve seen a lot of success with this build myself from never having played ranger.

This is Guia spirit ranger build, not deku god or anyone else, I’m not saying its better than anyone else but this is one of the most up to date spirit ranger builds that’s being shared, I find it extremely strong and very well made and I’d give Guia respect for sharing his build because not everyone does this kind of thing.

Well I just started a ranger, and in my 2nd game I was pounding on some celeb player, made him run from me and eventually downed him 1v1 style (went butt mustache on him, spammed short bow 1 on him… if only butt mustache knew about this build). I let people know that I finish 1v1 that I just started playing ranger.

Anyways I couldn’t find any spirit ranger build until I came across this one and its very very strong build. Yes it maybe hard to understand the video but Guia explains everything perfectly by showing you the combos and how to self rez.

I give this video +10 because I never played ranger and I’m doing really good so far, just due to an outstanding build and great explanation of it by Guia.

Yeah there is, you have to be relatively same rating. So if Shan, Stunning, Ostrich, H Necro and Arrow in the eye wanted to play together they could if they did a countdown and pressed join solo because they are all same rating, and you’d get something like this. A 1-50 team vs a 200-500 team.

However if your trying to sync with someone with a rating of 25 and your rating is 500 its impossible.

Its not really syncing per say, its how there matchmaking works, Anet loves to laugh at people with 300-500 rating getting there kitten wooped by 1-50 people and loves to see people rage quit because the team they’re facing is impossible to beat. They don’t want to make it fair now, cant have h necro and shan with others vs ostrich, stunning and an arrow in the eye with others.

I hear someone was from out of area, Dubai was it? Last time I checked its a united states friendly country.

TC should’ve picked someone less risky to cause them the championship.

Edo Tensei.8254:

i tell you why , i was top 30 the first 3 days after release of solo queue and solo queue leaderboards. when i did play i had to play against and with good players like suldaris , phantaram , teldo and many more just to name some. Until i started to play solo queue outside of the primetime my rank got worse and worse even tought i had a high mmr i got many newbies in my group because the good players with high mmr rating did stop playing solo queue after 2-3 days of release and afraid to lose their ranks or sleep and work outside of primetime. I had like 10 min waiting time to pop solo queue game.

it was really a nice experience to play with and against one of the best players but now some days later i am on rank 100+ on leaderboards and it get more worse every day because of my lower mmr rating i get now matched with more newbies and it wont get better if those which are on top 30 decided to stop playing because they are afraid to lose their ranks.

this system is really bad , it force you to not play outside of primetime and it rewards those which only play at primetime or stopped played solo queue to not lose the rank.

what you guys think about it?

I’m just like you, day 1 I was fine, I was up there 1-100 all day long, then here comes day 2 and I go and lose like 30 games and win 15 of them. And yes now I get stuck with newbs on my team but what makes matters worse is my team is always going against the celebrity players and its very demoralizing seeing not one but TWO of them on the same team and then one of your teammates say “well this is game over” every kittening game I play same kitten.

GW2 needs to change its matchmaking to make it FAIR, not if you have good rating you play with good rating people but play against people worse than you. That’s totally unfair matchup.

Romek.4201:

i lost my first 3 matches and after this i won 9 games in a row and lost now another one
now im on 9 win 4 loses and ranked 700 or something last time i looked

dont think there is something like a elo hell -you have same crappy playerz in enemyteam as you have in your team – only you are the constant – only you can change something

only problem is ppl always think they are better than they are and they deserve more than what they get – human nature

I lost 13 matches in a row and won 1. I’m at 300-400…. Wanna know why???? Because I keep facing these kittening 1-50 leaderboard players. At least your winning more than your losing. You wont enjoy entering the game and crossing your fingers every kittening time hoping some hot shot isn’t on the enemy team along with his goons.

Like I keep telling people, the longer you wait to create your rating in the solo arena, the better chances of you being stuck with a bunch of newbs because you will start out as the rating of a newb instead of having made your rating when it was equal.

Not sure if you saw in my other post but I was in a 5v5, my team rating was 300-700.. The enemy team rating was 1-50… GW2 doesn’t matchmake off of ratings so don’t believe it when they do. If they do matchmake off of ratings it puts the very best against the very worst game after game, they don’t equal out the playing field.

If you havent played solo que and waiting for it to “cool down” your in the wrong because when you start playing it, youll have nothing but newbies on your team due to not getting a rating while it went live, so you’ll be considered a newb and good luck and have fun getting a good rating when your playing with nothing but newbies.

Look at this pic, a previous game I just played.

Notice all 5 of those players are in top 50 of leaderboards. I’m at 300, the people I played with are around me or worse. That’s entirely kittened up they have to be syncing or this matchmaking is so kitten stupid to put 5 top 50 players against people 300-700 on leaderboards. Keldorz rank 14, davinci got banned rank 11, only happy kid rank 35, uhiwi rank 36, dugen x rank 45.

You know why they got such outstanding win loss ratio? because they play teams 300 ratings below them, while they always have people super good rating with them as well.

SYNC or NO SYNC….ANET IS A FAIL in the matchmaking and fairness department.
STOP putting me against AN ENTIRE TEAM OF 1-50 on leaderboards while my team is 300+ in the ratings.

This is a really good build if you have no idea how to play a ranger, very very strong. Very well down video as well, explains everything perfectly.

Just wanted to post this so others can try the spirit ranger build as well its very effective in both dps and defense, you can play any position you want with this build.

In starcraft it goes off of wins/losses/disconnects. Theres really no reason for someone to ragequit because it will count as a loss and not a disconnect.

This is why you play solo que when it came out and not a month or year from now because if you start now, youll have a decent rating, if you start a month from now you wont be on the leaderboards, youll be a percentage.

stunlock and perma stability (from some kind of stance) warriors need to be toned down as well, I see a lot of warriors in my solo que games. warriors necros and rangers a lot of them. Hardly any eles or mesmers.

Krayiss.4926:

@uber ban someone for macros? Its the same. Id rather play a team with all macros and I had voip vs them having Voip and us using macros. Voip is was more game chaning than macros.
Voip shouldnt be used in SoloQ unfair to those who dont/cant

I don’t know what your talking about, I never used macros. When you say that to me it sounds like botting, where you just move around and you let your computer do all the calculations on when to dodge what combos to lay down, when to lay them down so it actually lands ect. The only time I saw botting, a lot of botting was playing Quake 1, where people could literally keep you in the air with the shaft, it was that perfect, I’m surprised people haven’t carried it to other games that or other games have been doing a very good job at preventing people from botting. Because if you ever played Quake 1, its nearly impossible to keep someone in the air as they jump with the shaft, if you can make a program that does all those calculations in GW2, you’d see people that never die 1v1 because they perfectly dodge everything and land everything, you’d be surprised. Humans can make errors, but bots never make errors.

I haven’t seen anyone in GW2 crazy enough to be called a bot though haven’t seen any bots since Quake1. Quake1 had some sick bots too though, some bots will shoot people behind you while your facing forward, if you have lightning gun and your playing arena with unlimited ammo you literally kill people in mere seconds because they so accurate it never misses and people cant sneak up on you because it shoots backwards too, some crazy kitten, all you have to do is be in range and as soon as your in los and it sees someone zap 1 second 2 second 3 second they dead, also switches guns automatically as well, uses best possible calculation of dealing damage. Only the best bots where those players that could maneuver very well and get in good spots and dodge. The only difference between Quake1 is so many different servers admined by different people, most of the players didn’t know who to contact if someone was botting, so you’d see a couple of people bot all the time. But with GW2 they admin there own servers and people know how to report them, just like all these new games out right now admining there own servers, so this is why you don’t see many people bot anymore because they easily get banned.

That’s not even a team leaderboard, all that it looks like to me is an individual leaderboard, you don’t see any team stats on that leaderboard you just see individual stats because it was a soloque/halfmade/premade leaderboard before which made it more individual like.

I don’t understand how someone made a post thanking anet about team que because it shows GvG ladder, it doesn’t show any GvG stuff or team stuff, it just shows who had good premades, even with team que now it doesn’t show anything team related.

Like for instance the only teams I recognize and know of is USA, SYNC and AL, I don’t know any other teams in GW2 that PvP besides those because I don’t see there names anywhere, I don’t see any of those teams playing. I don’t follow mist league and it seems like a joke because those shout casters were like such and such is a top team in mist league they 6 and 2… They get there kitten handed to them by USA SYNC or AL, they didn’t even stand a chance, if they top team in mist league it must be a joke than right? because they got there kitten whooped. I’ve seen better premades formed by friends list than those top mist league teams those shout casters praised. I don’t condemn people forming leagues to make the game fun, but don’t go over praising someone especially when they get wooped extremely bad.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

@uberkingkong Yeah problem is matchmaking tries to match you with teammates of equal rating and then enemies with equal rating, but because the playerbase is so low, it only has the small amount of players to work with and so it puts the ones with your rating on your team and because there are no more players Q’ing with similar ranking, it places on the enemy higher or lower rated players.

Matchmaking concept is fine, but doesnt work with a small playerbase.

wtf that’s how it works? that’s a kittening joke right? How kitten am I suppose to get to higher rating if it stacks the team by having all those higher ratings together vs me and my equal lower than higher rating guys?

That’s like putting LeBron, kobe, howard, garnett and wade on same team vs a bunch of nobodies and saying to the nobodies when you can beat these guys enough times youll take there spot. it aint never going to happen, all they going to do is lose and lose some more. matchmaking needs to mix it up some guys from higher rating play with lower ratings and vice versa not stacked team bullkitten.

I already know they better than me, your matchmaking doesn’t need to make me lose 10 times plus IN A ROW just to prove a point that the high rating people can take out my lower rating team.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Are you in charge of leaderboard decay? Because it needs to be speeded up. People should start dropping after maybe 3/4 days of not playing.

3/4 days would put a lot of stress to players. I agree it’s a bit too slow, but I would probably make it last for seven days. Playing at least once a week seems a nice balance to me.

Nah I agree with him, I see the people abusing the leaderboards and they online nearly 24/7, they just chill in hearts of mist all day long, I don’t understand how people chill in hearts of mist all day long, go do something in the real world and hangout with your real friends instead.

Obviously a lot of people are competitive right now but you have plenty of people preventing that by chilling on the leaderboards. In a very high demand of competitiveness you need to raise the bar on the leaderboard decay and make it more volatile like 3/5 days as that guy said. Because if you don’t your going to lose a lot of people due to not meeting there demands of letting them be competitive. And if you ask me winning 2 games and going up 2% and losing 2 games and going down 7%, that’s not very good, that’s what happened to me on the team leaderboard. You’ll burn out competitive people that way, its difficult to explain why though but its true.

I really loved it before I got onto a 10+ losing streak. You figure its suppose to be 50/50 chance right? well that’s how it was day 1, day 2 it was more 20%wins/80%losses, and don’t any of you kittenes tell me I suck, I may not be better than some of you, but I’m better than most of you. When you go 20/80 you know something is fishy, because people brought up people syncing during day 1 which was fine, but day 2 came along and my record drastically changed because some people probably doing something cheap that I cant catch yet, or my luck is really THAT BAD (I faced a lot of celeb players every kittening game with none of them on my team to even it out, for the longest time). Every kittening game I had was a “well its over, there team is stacked”.

I do enjoy playing with/against celeb players but going against them every kittening game and my team has nobody worth of mentioning that’s even good, it gets old fast.

lol, ban someone for doing a more effective means of communications, you silly.
Why do you even bring up some people don’t have a mic, if your team is on voice you’ll probably win even if you don’t have a mic.

Also a lot of people are pretty dumb and don’t realize that when you play on a labtop… it comes with a built in mic if you have a camera on it…. just saying.

Allie Murdock.8152:

You guys need to play more for the matchmaking to even out. Solo Arena was launched with everyone having the same rating, it’s only natural that it feel unbalanced right now because people need to work their way into their places on the ladder.

Also, we’re monitoring leavers and will adjust dishonored if necessary.

You mean rating, don’t talk kitten about matchmaking because your matchmaking is a joke.

If anything your matchmaking puts the top 100 leaderboard players together and puts them against the 101-500 leaderboard players. Don’t tell me jack squat about you match make on hidden rating because in image 1 all those guys are clearly in the top 100 solo que leaderboards. They are also much higher rank than us as well.

Stacked rating team, stacked rank team, you matchmaking is a joke don’t even talk good about it and tell us to wait for it to even out before we see good matches.

I been on 10+ game losing streaks to terrible matchups like that.

I already knew your matchmaking was a joke before the solo que, before the last solo que system was implemented, I knew it was a joke 4 months from now, and if you ask a lot of others about your matchmaking they’d tell you its a joke as well, just goto hearts of mist and listen you’ll hear people rage over this joke kitten matchmaking.

You need to do something and fix it, I’ve waited 4 months for things “to settle” so I get good matches. I waited months for things “to settle” so I can see my own rating. Theres no need to wait any longer, I’m not going to wait 4 years “for things to settle” I’ll be playing a different game 4 years from now at that rate.

Some people are stupid enough to not run current meta, so don’t expect all rangers to be spirit rangers.

I been seeing a lot of necros and warriors lately, that’s really all I get on my team, and facing a lot of warriors. As a necro I don’t like how warriors have as much stability as a guardian does. I know it doesn’t say they have stability but they don’t some kind of stance that’s up 24/7 that acts like stability, pretty stupid if you ask me. Perma stability and perma stunlock so there buddies can eat you alive is pretty dumb.

Hawatak.8049:

Hurra ! Thanks (After all it “only” took a day)

two days.

Seren.6850:

I just did a hotjoin and sat on the cannon uncontested the whole game, I think a lot of people still don’t get whats going on with this map.

Too many newbs running around with there “support build” so they cant handle anything 1v1 related therefore too scared to even try and contest it or anything 1v1 related.

Hopefully they hotfixing people syncing and improving the matchmaking. But you never know it could be a pve related thing.

They making solo que as perfectly balanced as they can, here is the wait timer.

Time before next match begins one week.

Got Might 17 1, I have to agree with some people thakittens possible to win like 8 in a row but that’s pushing it too far, I haven’t seen people syncing but I haven’t played those guys that could be syncing back to back so I wouldn’t doubt it if people are doing this and yes it needs to be fixed.

Anet is failing so hard at keeping the playing field even. Everything they do theres some cheap way to look good on the leaderboards.

There is no matchmaking, it is random. Random people with rating of 1-200 will play with each other 1st 5 people to que on a team 2nd 5 people to que on another team.

I haven’t seen anyone syncing yet though I been on same team as people 3-4 times in a row, really frustrating especially when you lose and know they bad.

No your right in a way. Even when the solo que adjusts youll still have unfair matches due to rank imbalance and profession imbalance. I know it cant check names and make sure the celebs aren’t on same team but most of them are rank 60 and when you got 3 rank 60s on a team…. yeah that matchmaking.

My que times isn’t a issue, I get instant que sometimes, and sometimes I wait 5 mins. If you waiting 10 mins you must be over exaggerating.

Yes I’d like to see more fights of celeb players going against each other and not on the same team.

+1

They aint syncing… well maybe but highly doubtful because I seen euratien with couple nobodies as well… just once. I see cruuk leading a bunch of nobodies all the time though.

Like I said, hotjoins is all about luck, some of those celebrity players are getting it while others aren’t. Also if your going against celeb player it pretty much means game over because a lot of people feel defeated at the start of the game, unless you have a celeb player on your team as well then you know its good game.

At least you didn’t have to 3v5 this.

Solo que is fine, but matchmaking they need improvement on, like I said a million times before.

That’s why you gotta have a system where it takes a pool of 10 players then equally distribute them, rank wise, profession wise. That way people cant que at same time and have 90% chance of getting in same group.

Current system just hides the people in que but if you que’ed at same time its likely that you’ll be on same team, not always the case.

At first I thought you guys was talking about team SYNC, but then I realized you guys were talking about something like this.

Whats the most stacked team you seen in solo que? This is mine.

They testing the player community to see how they like longer respawns due to longer load screens.

Kinda nice to make killing people a little bigger difference than capping points due to them being out of game longer.

Team sync? They aint abusing it, well davinci isn’t because I just saw him in solo que and he had no sync members with him.

hamsteak.1368:

solo q is alright,

i’ve played about 9 matches so far, and about half of them have have been pretty evenly matched and close fights… and then i’ve had matches like the last one i was in where the other team had 3 spirit rangers

Yup I was in same game, you lost to them didn’t you?
Spirit rangers sooooo OP.
Our ranger wasn’t even spirit ranger lol, he a newb instead.

No its just when I die, I wait the respawn timer, its over and instead of instantly spawning it goes into loading sceen and takes up 10 seconds then I spawn.

So I was playing solo que, during the map with the loads everytime my respawn timer was over, I’d have to wait additional 10 seconds of loading screen before I could get back into PvP.

Get rid of this garbage.

Told you guys team que wouldn’t get a new leaderboard.
If you ask me its dumb, because yesterday I went from 88% to 90% in 2 wins then I dropped 83% after 2 losses. You can yap about ELO system but fact is you drop crazy fast, don’t expect to see many people going up team que leaderboard because its already corrupt.

For a second I thought you was talking about the achievement weapons (yes those suck). But as far as burst, ele has the best burst in the game, they can take a treb down in 5 seconds, they can take people down as well in 5 seconds.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

later people will complain about their bad luck with various random team mates.

They only making it so solo que is 100% against another solo que.

The bad matchmaking will still exist.
The corrupt leaderboards will still exist.