Guild Wars 2

RADOM.9634:

uberkingkong.8041:

To be honest, if people don’t pay attention to the map what makes you think they’ll pay attention to chat as well. Sometimes in those big fights you need voice communication to get to you because your so in the zone in the big fight to even bother with chat or map. GW2 really should have some voice communications in the game, or more emotes.

if the majority of the ppl will use and force others to use it then everyone will pay attention to it after a while just like in WvV everyone follows the commander now – its a common sense , just like in MOBA the majority of the ppl says SS and force others to say SS everytime
so if the community is mature enough and want to win in tourneys without using Voice over this is tehe way to go until we do not have additional feature for us

In hotjoin everyone follows the zerg. In WvW everyone follows the zerg. Even when the commander says to back off you still got people trying to kill the guys on the walls and engaging in fights, they want there bags bad.

To get everyone to goto a tower is easy, to get people to goto multiple towers at same time probably not going to happen. When someone asks people to defend the yaks, it don’t happen too often. Everyone wants to be in the zerg getting bags. Just like in PvP everyone wants to be in the zerg getting points.

Laserbolt.6731:

Uber,

This all assumes yo have a much stronger team that can easily spawn camp. That isn’t going to happen much in a fairly matched SoloQ.

that pic above is a solo que game.

Anet is fixing solo que.
The matchmaking remains broke.
Current issue right now, matchmaking… Solo que wouldn’t be an issue if matchmaking was properly corrected.

To be honest, if people don’t pay attention to the map what makes you think they’ll pay attention to chat as well. Sometimes in those big fights you need voice communication to get to you because your so in the zone in the big fight to even bother with chat or map. GW2 really should have some voice communications in the game, or more emotes. If anything have a hotkey that brings you to voice menu and you pick something like near safe and it’ll say windmill is safe, or pick near under attack and itll say windmill under attack. All it takes is a push of a button and a click of whatever emote you want the game to announce to your team. But its 2013 these games out right now should all have voice comms.

1k8 for day 1 of tournament and 1k7 during the finals, started out as 900 viewers at start of day2.

On day 1 I noticed other people spamming in game about it, I guess from upset from day1, even though I liked team DUKE, not many people tuned in for day 2, even though it was better games.

I’m sure a lot of people can agree with me that solo que teams could’ve beaten most of day 1’s teams and I’ve seen better premades that play often (normally bunch of friends and not officially a team) that could woop 90% of the day 1 teams. I know I shouldn’t be hating but its the truth, and yes they should’ve signed up.

The only thing I can think of is lack of advertisement, maybe if they’d known there was such tournament going on they’d participate, but to be honest if I never came to the forums, I’d never know about this tournament.

I’ll go over your points,
1. People like to 1v1 so sometimes 1 guy goes far, if you start out with 2 guys going near that guy going far will reconsider it and goto mid instead otherwise he will be in a 1v2, the mid fight will be 3v3 and there other teammate will be capping the far point, that guy that went into 1v2 dies you help mid fight and it becomes 4v3, 5v3, 5v4 depending on what everyone does.

2. See my image, I woop people everyday I get people to ragequit and flawless victories all day long because I triple cap em solo que style.

3. Easy to say but if you got somebody that woops you 1v1 all day long you sure aint coming back to fight the guy at the treb, all that will happen is you raging at your team because none of them will help you kill the trebber. I woop plenty of newbs at the treb all day long, the person trebbing is normally very good 1v1’er anyways that or he runs away immediately.

So cap, then goto spawn area and 1v1 them as they come out and then zerg them as they come out, they wont have any chance at scoring. The only thing you’ll need to bring is a lot of skills. When you get someone to ragequit that just means your skill level made them believe that they lost the game already, that’s how you’ll win solo que just bring an incredible amount of skill and make your opponents believe that the game is over from the start.

Heres a perfect video of how you should play solo que, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsy1wmn1--U
Don’t defend any points just take everything and watch spawn and kill them as they spawn. yes rank matters as well, so make sure the solo que system gives you the high ranks on your team. The more marauder’s you have on your team the more the enemies will pause when they see you coming.

You can get over 400 points if you win, not sure how it works but heres a couple of images (one of them is 5 points away from 400).

I haven’t hotjoined in awhile so maybe I’ll try and win a game with 500 points, see what happens.

This is why you gotta win hotjoin games because at 275+ points youll get more points from winning than losing with over 500 points.

Don’t worry though, I don’t want to spoil the big pve event “the winner of the captians council!!!!” that was happening during this tournament which probably is why not many people viewed the tournament but heres the link https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-the-winner-of-the-captains-council-election/?utm_source=client

Obviously this stuff is more important than the winner of the NA team that’s going to PAX to compete for $10000… Nobody cares about that kind of stuff anyways, you goto any zone in GW2 and nobody cares about PvP.

It aint like you could be repping your world in PvP like you can do in WvW……..

If unranked isn’t hotjoin, then what is hotjoin suppose to be? Those 100 5v5 servers just a waste of space then?

Romek.4201:

how much threads you wanna start with this? we all played some soloQ before, its not the end of the world lol. Relax a bit ^^

+1

Yes because if you know where the necro is you click on him, the point of minions is to camouflage him so you cant see him and if you cant see him you don’t deserve a free tab to automatically find him for you. Same with Mesmer if you know where the real Mesmer is than click on him.

You shouldn’t be given a free pass to find the correct target for you by tabbing.

And this is why we have a system where we call targets so somebody else can help you get back on the correct target because sometimes too much is going on and you cant see kitten, still doesn’t mean you deserve a free pass.

Someone has a score of 700 or so, but that’s in one of those types of games where the ruleset is for crazy spawn times and such, this is through legit game so I consider myself the best! My team so bad, so angry at them for losing the game.

Let people bleed out.
If someone dies on a node that you already captured, just let them bleed.
I’m surprised not everyone does this, you really only see good players do this, in the tournament you saw how the top teams made there opponents bleed out and not rush to finish them because they wanted 15 points.

You play to win not for points, make your opponents take forever to respawn and keep them out of game as long as possible.

Parisalchuk.9230:

uberkingkong.8041:

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

The communications teams clearly knew because they did a fine job updating twitter and facebook. Problem is they have this huge population sitting in world that arent going to see those facebook and twitter posts about a tournament happening while they are playing.

I sure don’t follow there facebook or twitter, I play game mostly or am on the forums. The only way I found out is via being active member on the forums.

As far as skyhammer goes, if people aren’t tpvping I normally see people playing on the skyhammer map, that map isn’t overpowered or anything, it needs to come back in the tournament rotation.

If community continues to disapprove these unique maps anet makes then they’ll stop being unique and make boring maps instead where you just capture points and no side objectives because that’s too gamebreaking. Where everyone is on flat ground and no hills, cliffs or broken glass because its too gamebreaking.

I keep hearing this stuff about dota 2 or whatever has 10k viewers everygame or something because they have unlimited viewers in a game. I wouldn’t be surprised if people didn’t watch because they couldn’t follow there favorite players.

If GW2 likes shoutcasters than you should have a feature where theres unlimited players that can spectate and you can allow certain people to shoutcast and people that are spectating the game as well can listen in or have an option to turn it off if they don’t want to listen to them. If you going to bring up the issue of people can tell the teams playing that the other team left henge or whatever open… people see that while watching streams too so theres cheating either way if theres cheating at all.

However 1 thing I gotta say is what now? The next big tournament is a year from now, what you going to do to keep those who didn’t make it to pax to keep playing? Popular games are coming out to steal your playerbase what you going to do to keep them from going away? I see Cruuk always yapping about these in game tournaments you promised, but I don’t see any of them. I kinda want to tell cruuk to play wvw because anvil rock is last place in wvw and he should go bring them out of the hole because he a wvw commander but he got a point, when are these tournaments going to happen?

Yeah I agree with ya, these people are sad and you know who I blame??? The GW2 pvp developers because maybe the GW2 communications team (the ones that send out ingame messages) didn’t even know there was a tournament going on. The GW2 pvp development team is responsible for making sure that there tournaments and such are being announced though game by telling the other teams to do so or by doing so themselves.

But rest assured I a told everyone in Jade Quarry like 10 times each day throughout the tournament that the PAX tournament is going on, so you know Jade Quarry is fully informed… Well the WvW boarderlands, LA, DR and HotM in Jade Quarry at least.

Everyone on Maguuma should uninstall GW2, they waste of space in WvW better to just not exist if you cant even do anything against JQ. The only thing FA is able to do is get there zergs handed to them by JQ but maguuma, those guys don’t even know how to zerg, they need to uninstall seriously. Anvil Rock puts up a better fight than Maguuma.

TC is a joke…
JQ is T1 server just check http://mos.millenium.org/na it owns TC by 100 points and is 15 points away from being #2 server NA. SoR is slowly fading, JQ is still strong as its always been and BG is just too big, too many peeps xfering to BG…. Skillwise Blackgate sucks.

Oh and everybody follows JQ because JQ is the most skilled WvW server out there, hence why we get most replies and views on matchups with JQ involved. JQ matchup has 700 replies, 7000 views TC/BG/SoR only 300 replies and 6000 views.

Tournament ques are changing, there will now be a 100% solo que tournament, so you never have to worry about having to face against premades. Also solo que leaderboard as well.

Hearts of the Mist,

Its one of the only PvP zones, everybody likes PvP in that zone, theres lots of stuff to do like training golems, practice using trebuchet.

Its the best zone in the game.

I don’t like how millions play this game but only 1.8k people saw the official GW2 tournament and hardly anyone even knew about it in game.

GW2 lack of advertising to its own customers and letting them know through a ingame message “GW2 tournament is going on right now you can watch it at such and such”

Also something else makes it not ping as well, I think its being in fights or something, but you can draw on map even though you can ping it, so I make circles on it instead.

play unranked matches in regular servers.

You want duels? play them in regular servers.

What else do you want? Play it in a regular server.

I just want this so I can post on forums people that cheat.

You don’t know yet?

You just watch there healthbars and whose getting condi’s you don’t watch the actual game. Not in this meta.

Someone should tell these guys to use finishers, I want to hear people get bear finished and shark finished.

I’d like to see phoenix finisher but sadly none of these guys are rank 70 yet, bear finisher is my favorite though because I love that growl.

Very disappointing to see no one in this tournament use finishers…. Finishers are part of GW2.

All of you guys need to stop hating on low ranks in PvP, because all yall say rank don’t matter it don’t matter.

Don’t pretend it matters now.

me personally, rank really does matter

1 more thing, those shoutcasters press b too fast… When the match is over leave the scoreboard on, I don’t want to stop the stream just to see the score and ranks.

Laserbolt.6731:

So the higher ranked people on the leaderboard will be the people who gave their team a small edge. Over time, they would tend to win a little bit more.

I would expect that the win percentages of everybody on the SoloQ leaderboard would be pretty close. You won’t see any 80% win percentages.

My guess is that the top win rates will be near 62%, but the guy 100 ranks below will still be about 60%.

And even the folks in the bottom 100 will be about 40%.

This is assuming it really is only solo players without voice communications and is truly random team matchmaking with no significant cheating of any kind.

Those numbers are low, solo que right now has so much stuff into it like people duo que, premades and such that’s why winning solo que is so low right now. I had a 18.18% win rate one day because of a number of factors that made it extremely difficult if not impossible to win.

Duo que makes a huge kittening difference rather than straight up solo que. I’m glad duo que is out

But if you want to win solo que, this is how you do it, just look at the pic it explains everything.
IMG 1 is how you win SOLO QUE
IMG 2 is how you lose SOLO QUE

A lot of solo que has to deal with luck because GW2 matchmaking system is a joke.

Fix corrupt boon so it lands like its suppose to (says its range 1200, I’ve never had it land far away I’d always have to be right next to them). Also deathly swarm misses randomly as well, make it land like its suppose to because I need that blind for stomping and doesn’t do me any good when it misses when I’m on top of them.

When you get games like this, try not to rage because it doesn’t do jack kitten.

You will get games like this because anet hasn’t hotfixed there matchmaking yet.

Just do your best and pray for the best.

tichorum.2415:

ThatShortGuy.4672:

Great matches today! The last two matches for AL was the true test. Hopefully AL can keep going.

A lot of the matches today we’re very tame compare to EU matches.

If you think that was a true test, wait for them to play the winner of the bottom bracket… it’s stacked.

Agreed.

@Authority No hate for AL, its just they had really easy games and because of it, it makes them look like they got a freebee to the finals.

The people at the bottom brackets are actually going though some competition, so people are going to be cheering for them.

Not AL fault it was bad matchmaking by anet. Also everybody roots for the underdogs. You saw people rooting for DUKE there 2nd game. People just love AL but it a love to hate relationship, they love seeing AL so they can hate on them.

Just to let you know, Anvil Rock may have a lot of top players or top accounts, but Jade Quarry has more players with most wins.

Which really means JQ is more active when it comes to tpvp. And if you come to our world, you’ll notice its always packed in hearts of mist with active people and not people fooling around.

Jade Quarry has a reputation of T1 PvP, T1 WvW, T1 PvE, its simply the best world out there.

WvW has this, keeps track of times you escort, take a tower, every kill, pretty much everything in WvW.

I’m kinda surprised if WvW does it how come PvP don’t keep track of captures, kills, etc as well.

Yes they should have sounds, or you should be able to set an emote like when map pings make a certain sound.

Pinging map doesn’t always work though its bugged, sometimes during fight or after fight I’m unable to draw or ping map, just not sure why.

I highly doubt this, only time peeps attacked other peeps network is when I played quake. I know all about ping bombs from that game.

GW2 servers suck, I dc every 5 games, never dc in any other game, its there gear they need to check it, don’t tell me to check my gear.

Ezeriel.9574:

I fear for JQ’s eyesight!!!

….all that playing with themselves and they could go blind!!!

but yeah uh.. FA can’t fight JQ alone, and MaGoonies are so outmanned they’re no help… I think I’ll take the week off.

Funny how anet puts JQ against T2 and T3. JQ is clearly a T1 server and has proven itself many of times, all this nonsense just brings our WvW rating down because we are playing against servers way under our league.

Romek.4201:

did always soloQ only (real soloQ not this joining with 4 other soloQ friends^^ thats premade^^) and for this it can only be better after patch

had often 15+ matches in a row vs premades and win chance in soloQ before patch was way lower than 50%^^

Solo que win chance is 18.18% one day out of 11 games. Day2 was 40% out of 10 games. Its best to party with known good players after match, duo queing and above I noticed a drastic increase in win %.

Although with new system you cannot do so, so you’ll be stuck with luck. The only thing I can say to help you win your solo que when the patch comes out is good luck, I hope the games are 5v4 favoring you and you have good profession balance on your team as well.

I’d be happy if corrupt boon and deathly swarm worked as intended. Obviously broke obviously everyone knows about it but that doesn’t get hotfix.

The only things necromancers get is hotnerfs.

They report stuff that is nerfworthy to the developer pvp team, but stuff that is broken never gets noted and never even gets to the development team.

javasocute.1876:

The Kaypud account that’s 14-3 is one of my alt accounts, it’s not Kaypud’s. He always played on his main account because he feels this rating system is poorly designed and he didn’t care about his rank on it.

I didn’t use that account with the intent to steal rating from anyone, I used that account because I didn’t want to lose rating on my main account by duo-queueing with Kaypud when our team wasn’t on. We went 12-3 duo queueing together, and that placed the account in the top 10. Since then I’ve played 2 games on that account every month or so just to halt its ELO decay, but seeing as its about the same rank as my main account anyway, it’s not taking any more or less rating from our opponents than I otherwise would.

This guy got 2 accounts in top 25 and play one tpvp game a month on both, da kitten is this. GW2 allows this kind of stuff? How people going to pass you guys if everyone on top 25 plays 1 game a month?

GW2 got so many issues,
hotjoin newb farming for rank point xp
matchmaking system making one team super high ranks and other team super low ranks
leaderboards people just chilling at top because they can.

funny you see team absolute legends dropping in top 25 because they only ones playing tpvp, with exception of shan, he prob pretended he was sick because he didn’t want a rank hit. this leaderboard funny too funny.

Just goes to show you play tpvp you rank down faster than you rank up.

Just because we getting solo que doesn’t mean matchmaking is going to be perfect, matchmaking is still going to be the same, you can still have 3 guardians or more on your team.

Necro’s are near point bunkers, if you see a necro bunkering mid that’s pretty dumb.

Mid should only belong to guardian
Far point node assault and bunker should only belong to engineer (bunker knockback specced and not HGH)
Near point bunker can be ranger, Mesmer, necromancer, you want someone with ranged dps because you want to help mid out while you watch your near point node and people crossing.

samo.1054:

uberkingkong.8041:

Que with 1 or 2 of your buddies and check roster when it appears and disband if your not with them.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

The roster will be hidden in Solo Q so this doesn’t happen.

Thank you kind sir, oh thank you lord!!

Altho I’m still a bit afraid we might see teams of 2 people of the same guild in the same team… Chances for that of course depend on how many people will que and how the system works?

Does it wait a certain time interval, take the players it got in that interval and randomly puts them into the team, or are teams composed in real time as players sign-up (which would lead to sync entering…)?

Currently it creates a team based around rating, regardless of what profession and rank they are, then it creates another team or faces you against a premade of same rating.

I know this because I’ve had same solo que, with one or two new people going up against the same kitten premade.

This is matchmaking issue of premade vs solo que, and obviously why I tell these anet folks to wait for a pool of 10 players then do the matchmaking rather than 1st five people of rating 1-1000 are a team, next 5 people of rating 1-1000 are another team, no rank is checked, no profession is checked. Now you got Zoose, Jumper, Ostrich on same team because they did a 1 2 3 solo que. Now obviously it wont work if people are already waiting but it’ll work most of the time because there matchmaking system is junk.

I know this because I been doing a lot of solo que and every now and then me and somebody else will be running to tournament master and click join solo and woopdee do we on same team. I have a bad habit of rushing solo que after a game even though I know I’m going to face that kitten ed premade once again with pretty much the same exact team.

All I gotta say is 1 guy go near 4 guys go far, take down gate and lord rush right away, will destroy solo que every single time, especially when they specced to take down lord instantly and steamroll over 1 or 2 people that get in the way spirit ranger style.

Cyhann.2609:

Golems are slow, boring, have bad skills and can’t do anything too cool.
I’d prefer some Tank battles.

The golem effect where it bubbles itself, should work like guardian and provide a knockback, I’d love to see people get knocked off the walls.

Not every bunker that can hold a point is the best, good near point bunker is someone that can do ranged attacks from up top while keeping eye out for people cutting across coming to your near point cap.

So yes throwing a bunch of marks down while keeping eye out for your near point is pretty effective. And not everyone that attacks a point a knockback or node assault/neut build.

One of the best things is communications, letting people know 3 at mid, 2 at near… That means far is wide open.

I have lots of golem battles with other necromancers. Have to love that golem knockdown.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Vena.8436:

Now here’s something I haven’t seen answered/asked:

SoloQ does the team that wins continue or have to requeue?
If the above is “continues” do they eventually get through into TeamQ, ala GW1 RA -> TA?

Your roster will disband once the match is over.

Idk why, but you say it like you want people to complain and argue about it.

One thing I learned about a lot of MMO’s is the developer can like one thing, but has to do another thing because all in all its whatever the head honcho wants and not what the developer wants. In EQ everybody blamed smedly whenever something didn’t go there way and not the developer.

So all I gotta say is if you guys really want something, you keep voicing your opinion about it.

#matchmaking
#biggeringametournaments
#fixhotjoinsrankpointxp
#morearmor
#betterleaderboard
#announcementwhenwinningtournaments

Nikkle.4013:

uberkingkong.8041:

They should have a new newb area that everyone attends before they can play tournaments. You will go and fight where we ping. Map pings, then you do it over again. You will now have to finish someone without getting interrupted. Again. Again. You will now knockdown someone while they finish someone and then rez. Again. Again. You will now have to fight on a node and not let the enemy neut it for 1 minute. Again. Again. You will now capture a node. Again. Again. Congratulations you have passed the tutorial you are now ready to face the real deal.

So bring back tutorial island but force people to complete the events before they can use the portal?

Yeah why not, its not like a waste of time, just got to do it once per account. If anything it teaches people to finish without getting interrupted which is a big factor in a lot of battles and knocking people down when you see someone getting finished. If people just learn how to finish properly and save someone you’ll be better off winning more games than not knowing how. You can be good in a fight but if they’re better in the downed game, they’ll win and not you. Because the numbers games will take into affect and its you vs them.

Tenebrous.2451:

Tyler Chapman.1832:

Few tips from me!

Basic Tips:

• Defend the capture points you have!
• Use the map ping and drawing feature to better communicate with your team
• Type out in /team when you have incoming and if you might need help

Too often it seems you do not have time to type out anything. Something to make communications in hot join and SoloQ easier would be a great help. It is sometimes difficult to know what a ping means, go here, need help, etc.

I wish we could make communication macros to ask for help at your location. I did this in WoW’s Battlegrounds when I was in a pug and it helped a lot.

They should have a new newb area that everyone attends before they can play PvP. You will go and fight where we ping. Map pings, then you do it over again. You will now have to finish someone without getting interrupted. Again. Again. You will now knockdown someone while they finish someone and then rez. Again. Again. You will now have to fight on a node and not let the enemy neut it for 1 minute. Again. Again. You will now capture a node. Again. Again. Finally you will now have to call for help by pinging the map. Again. Again. Congratulations you have passed the tutorial you are now skilled and ready to play PvP.

Mystylaise.4673:

They have talented artists, and I think the best way to organize sigils and runes is replaced the bag icon at the Armosmith and Weaponsmith. Each icon must be different but easy to recognise.

For example, 2 arrows in a circle for each sigils on switch, or the target in a circle for each Sigils on crit..

They have to rework a lot of things about the UI in PvP. A search bar would be great as well.

They do have talented artists, but there concept team pretty dumb if you ask me. Because I agree with you finding sigils pretty rough now, I liked old method better. Also there concepts of 2 teams is a tourney that’s pretty dumb. Same with matchmaking concept they have right now. Also there concept of having hotjoin yielding better rank points xp per hour than tournament does. I don’t even want to talk about there leaderboard concepts.

They can fix all this but, they gotta do what the concept team tells them to do.

Laserbolt.6731:

Uber,

If you want to like it, then like it until you have a reason to dislike it.

Maybe they can set an hour wait before getting back into the match if an account disconnects more than a couple of times in an hour. Yes, abusers can claim it is not their fault.

But the reply is that PvP is not allowed for people with “unstable” systems, since it is a team effort and their team needs them.

So they can go play PvE in the meantime until their hour is up.

Oh hell no I aint going to like something where I get disconnected and it makes me wait an hour. You know what, I don’t experience any disconnections outside of PvP, I don’t recall ever getting dc’ed in PvE, or in WvW matter of fact. And when someone dc’s same time I dc it sure aint our fault, GW2 needs to check there gear. Also cant remember dcing in hotjoin either, it only happens in tpvp, like 2 mins into the game, and then I get that message telling me I got disconnected then I alt f4 out because I’ll just be stuck on some black screen and I check my connection, it is good, then goes bad for 2 seconds then goes good, then it takes 1 min to load and get back into GW2.

Should be the other way around, have 2 min wait timer when someone dc’s, because not everyone ragequits and when they do its obvious, it aint like when someone dc’s.

StarCraft esports game had wait timers when people dc’ed.