Guild Wars 2

Simon.3794:

5 people can represent a guild of 200+ people
but you will never find 6 people to represent a 5 men guild

get it?

I dont really consider 5 people a guild, I consider that a team under a name.

Also, its better to get a bunch of people together than it is to get a few people together.

I see 10, 15, 20 people a reachable and easily maintained number for fights.

More people that play together (in an actual guild/party, not solo que with other randoms and play many games with the same people, not a random pug), the better the community is, the more fun they are having.

There should be a thing in this game that promotes that, like friendship. If you play with friends you get bonus like +10% reward track, +10% gold, +25% mf, etc. max. Should judge your friendship. Should make something like friendship grinding, keep playing with friends and see how far you can make your friendship go (have something to measure it).

This is an MMORPG, needs to promote people playing together and not bunch of solo que’ers, they can go play single player games. I dont mind people solo queing every now and then, but if they have a friend on, there really should be incentives that make them play together.

Stronghold needs to be more than 5 people, should be 8 minimal. Should get more points based on larger fights like 20 v 20, to promote larger battles because they obviously require more thinking and strategy due to larger amount of people.

Anything more than 20 I see hard time having 21+ people actively engaged in something and not being interrupted, unless its full of hardcore players. Safe to stay 8-20 range.

Dont worry guys.

PvP titles were reachable but they made it crazy easy reachable.
Also, PvP titles come with unique things like finishers unlike the WvW titles.

If PvP reachable titles were made even easier to reach, I’m sure one day unreachable WvW titles will be easier to reach too!

kitten.1685:

uberkingkong.8041:

kitten.1685:

If flawless victories have more points people like noscoc would have 300-400 points in 100 games

Oh ya… Sure… Like I said before, mine was a solo que vs solo que.
Wasn’t a premade vs solo que.

Also, I doubt he gets many if any flawless victories against other premades. Probably 1 or 2 tops.

They should, and I’m assuming they do, if you lose by other team flawless victory over you, you should lose just as many points, as in -2 or -3. Should be incentive to keep playing and try instead of throwing in the towel at the moment game begins.

Haha don’t quote me but I would bet 90% at least of abjured teamqs are 500 0

Aint hard to get at least 1 point.
Also, like I mentioned before my game was a solo que vs solo que, as in a fair matchup and we got flawless victory.

I wouldnt be suprised if Abjured landed a couple flawless victories against a solo que being that they are premade which is unfair therefore should only get the +1.
Now if they got flawless victory against another premade, than I could see it that they get awarded fairly.

And like I said, those who lose to flawless victories should get punished just as hard as those who win by flawless victory. This way it encourages people to not let the other team rack up points, but also encourages the enemy team if they are that much better than you to get those points. If it was where the losing team doesnt get punished, I could see them giving up at start if they know who Abjured is, and its not really fair to consider someone winning flawlessly if the other team doesnt try and they know they going to lose because its a tough team they facing so they dont try and abjured gets freebee flawless victory +3.

That’s why I mentioned if you lose by Flawless victory, you should get a -3. Otherwise it would be leaderboard manipulation. “You know we gonna woop ya, just let us win flawlessly” ez +3., nah get 1 point or 5 point for kill, you get 0 points for losing against team thats suppose to woop you and you didnt lose flawless, and enemy gets +1. You let them win flawless on you, give em that -3.

This is only speculation and not how leaderboard actually works, but it should.
You should have some control of how to get a lot of points rather than wondering, “are we expected to win?” “how can we tell what we gotta do for more points?”.

This current leaderboard is good, but the point distribution sucks, you have no control on it. There should be given’s like flawless victories for +3, and -3 for losing team.

Also, make that dishonor very harsh if you DC and results in your team losing by a flawless victory. Except if you DC before the match even started, because game shouldn’t even start when x<5 people are on a team and not all people are there when match starts. Like if you DC during the map selection phase, it should restart the que, you DC anytime before match actually starts, it should reset the que.

but again. I really should be awarded +3, flawless victory on fair terms isn’t easy to pull off. There should be known ways to increase your point score on the leaderboard more than +1 a game. (Not these guess games wondering if your the expected to win team or expected to lose team).

There should be a % sign at starting 2 min wait timer in the match and it shows each teams % to win. Like red team 75% blue team 25%, and easy to understand how to get points and lose points on leaderboard. Again, flawless victory should be included.

I hope there’s more cliffs, and ways to make the enemy zerg die instantly. As in pushing them and they have no where to go but to there deaths off the cliff.

There needs to be spots where there’s one way in, and only one way out. That way encourages ambushing. Like for example, one way in and a cliff, able to squish zerg trapped and force them to fight the fight or fall off the cliff.

Also, should have 2 ways out of respawn (base waypoint), and have respawn areas highly ambush/campable. Cutting off enemy lines, cutting off the stragglers, weakening the enemy.

Another thing, they need to make bridges more of an impact in the game, enemy zerg should be able to trap the enemy by taking out the bridge and again force enemy to fight or fall off cliff.

They need to reduce the timer on spawning back to base to prevent people from easy way out. Should be on a 20 min timer, needs to encourage people running around and not easymode gating and therefore hard to track because you can gate whenever out of combat. Eliminate or reduce that kitten.

Should be something like if one guy is in combat on your team, everyone with a massive radius around him is not able to gate/waypoint back to base. So sick of chasing someone, and he sees me and “ooooh too scared to pvp, so he gates real quick”.

I hope theres fun elements to this new borderland too, like from the video it has glass panels, I’m hoping something like the fractal with the harpy, where you gotta jump through a bunch of glass panels to get somewhere, have fights on jumping puzzle.

Sick of these stale fights, open battleground, just run into each other and cross fingers that you win. I’m hoping this new borderland adds some spice to WvW.

I’m not hoping its like EoTM, as in people just do karma train, nobody defends, and commander always being all the way on the other side of the zone and having to wait till he waypoints back to join him. Hate that the most about EoTM, commander being all the way on other side of zone, 80% time I enter game, I gotta do super long run to get to him. In regular borderlands, commander is usually in base, and I’m hoping for a fun and unique environment like I mentioned but have your towers keeps etc, in position where you can actually defend them and encouraged to do so. EoTM its all scattered out, that’s probably why nobody defends except the keep or if they know your coming and they in the vicinity.

kitten.1685:

If flawless victories have more points people like noscoc would have 300-400 points in 100 games

Oh ya… Sure… Like I said before, mine was a solo que vs solo que.
Wasn’t a premade vs solo que.

Also, I doubt he gets many if any flawless victories against other premades. Probably 1 or 2 tops.

They should, and I’m assuming they do, if you lose by other team flawless victory over you, you should lose just as many points, as in -2 or -3. Should be incentive to keep playing and try instead of throwing in the towel at the moment game begins.

Novuake.2691:

That score matters EXTREMELY little in truth.

Don’t make your disconnections ANETs issue, fix the REAL problem instead of expecting them to change something that does not really need changing.

Oh it does, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had something in there algorithm, if you have 3 “top player” things at end of game instead of getting +1 you get +2 towards leaderboard. If you got the most “top player” at end of game you get +2 or +3 towards leaderboard.

As for DCing and it wiping your score, I’m fine with that, you DC’ed any DC even for 10 seconds is detrimental to the game.

Now if you DC before a game, and not even in the game, you shouldn’t get punished, the game should never start x<5v5.

That link, nothing but nonsense, requires too much critical thinking to figure it out and understand it.

These developers, and coders get paid big bucks not to put information out in only terms other coders and developers know, but to put it into terms where a simpleton can figure out what it means.

Also, I thought if you beat a team bad enough you get more points, and if you get into a really close game if you lose you may get points. I thought the game score matters.

Obviously I was a solo que, my team was solo que and we ANNIHILATED that team, which was solo que. I don’t see how I was in favor to win, we all solo que. I deserve +3 for FLAWLESS victory, heck I deserve +5, FLAWLESS victories should give +5, should be incentive to ANNIHILATE the other team.

You should be able to see how many points you can get per game, and what scores you gotta be within to get those points, like +1 if you win by 100, +2 if you win by 300, +3 if you win FLAWLESSLY. That way people can tell they are able to earn those points in game.

Because I gotta say, some people don’t realize the point system and they play around, and they could be getting +2s +3s but since they played around they got +1.

What title says.

Came, saw, made somebody rage quit, destroyed the other team 504 to zip.
Fully solo que’ed on both teams.

+3 points?
Yes?

So I got a match, accepted it, and before the acceptance timer went away I DC’ed and my connection been glitchy for a good while and keep DCing when I try to enter into GW2.

I got in loaded, made me go into a game (DC’ed before the map selection). Now I have a kittening dishonor. Such bullkitten, never even made it into the game.

Don’t kitten load the games if not everyone is present at start of game, I never even made it into the actual game/match. Should have kicked me out and not started the kitten match.

Such kittening bullkitten. I DC’ed before the match, and the map selection, I DC’ed during the acceptance phase.

-3 points, kittening serious, didn’t even make it into the match. The game should have realized, “Hey somebody DC’ed, lets stop the progress and force everyone to reque again”.

Cant imagine how those people that are 4v5ing are feeling too. Upset I bet. So kittening lame.

You guys need to make it so all 5 people have to be present in the actual map per team before you start the game.

All I did was turn on my phone and I’m assuming my phone took all the bandwidth. -3 points, man I’m disappointed.

btw
If you DC and your connection is connected but your not getting enough connection (yup weird), tip is go into internet and try load up google.com, because if you can get your internet working it’ll work for everything else too, it should reconnect you rather than being stuck in that connected but not connected and computer being slow trying to figure out what is wrong. For some reason it didn’t work for me this time, but it normally works. So if you lag out, load up internet explorer and a quick fast load site like google or facebook and you should reconnect faster.

Also, I should get -1 for dishonor because the game could’ve actually stopped this. Its not like I DC’ed during the match. I DC’ed well before the match even started, should actually get 0 point loss. And yes, I tried to come back but, once you DC it takes like 30 seconds for the game to think and realize “oh my internet is bad” and then crash for another 30 seconds, and then boot you out and than 30 seconds for you to log back in.

STARCRAFT had 2 minute DC timers.
Paused game while people were DC’ed too.
If you accept and DC’ed before a match even starts, I’m not sure what happens, I assume neither player wins, I assume it cancels the countdown timer to actual match (it had like 5 seconds countdown after everyone accepted before starting the match).

When someone legit DC’s 1 min is not enough. And my DC, I couldn’t even make it back, too frustrated after 4 failed attempts, so I come to forums and rage about my -3 from match I didn’t even see, no idea who was in the match, never even made it to the actual zone.

I did not ragequit DC, I deserve at least a -1 because its a legit one and before the match. Only DC’s during the match should receive a -3 because its likely to be a ragequit, me not even seeing whose on whose team or even being sent to the actual match, for sure not a ragequit or anything like that, deserves a -1 and or 0 and match should have never started.

Another thing, GW2 needs to check there gear, I’m having good connection on the internet but when I login GW2, after like 2 mins I’ve been DCing today. Faulty GW2 gear making me look bad on leaderboards.

Looks like a massive Skyhammer borderland!

I’m looking forward to this because I liked the map Skyhammer in tPvP.

I’m assuming you have to use the glass panels and do a lil bit jumping around, should be awesome!

Teutos.8620:

My first question regard Strongholds: For how many players are those designed?

Hopefully at least 8 but up to 15 people or even 20 people.

If its 5v5 that’s sad, they did it wrong.

If you look at sizes of guilds, theres a bunch of 490+ guilds out there and guilds 100-300. With ACTIVE players.

So stupid to have a 5v5 when you got a massive player pool.

If its 5v5 its dumb, anet looked at it wrong.
They looked at the PvP population and considered information from that to decide how to do GvG.

They should’ve looked at the actual guild population, the PvE and WvW population and based there information off of that.

Because lemme tell ya, the PvP population is nothing but a bunch of solo que whiners.
Theres no guilds from the PvP population, just a few players together, like 6-12 people that just play under a team name, they aint no real guild, they don’t do guild kitten. Only possible actual guild from PvP on NA is GASM.

You see those big guilds, promote that they PvX, none of them do PvP because theres no guild kitten for them within PvP.

You keep trying to make kitten based off the PvP population you dumb.

This better be at minimal 8 people per team but I’m hoping its a 10v10 up to 20v20.
I hope you issue challenges to other guilds, and if one guild doesn’t have 20 players, than do vs whatever they got, like if they got 12 players and your guild has 50 players, set the game to 12v12 (best 12 of the 50).

I actually like how they reset the leaderboard, I get a feeling they will do it more often now too. Because it shows you whose actively playing and not, some dude that won 3000+ games months ago as the most active player but they retired.

Also, OFF season ladder?
What are they waiting for, another season to happen?
GW2 is doing it wrong, they should have a season that promotes PvP, nothing but PvP updates, gets those PvE’ers and WvW’ers to do PvP because its all PvP hype, than do WvW season and get people to do WvW, than do PvE season.

Why you do all 3 PvP, WvW, PvE at same time? Some of us don’t have plenty of hours to do all that kitten at once. Space it kittening out and make it feel like something is always going on.

More productive and better quality too if people focus on one theme rather than WvW PvE and PvP at the same time.

Also, when do actual seasons start? For PvP and WvW? The marketing team should have a schedule calendar shown to community. Like predict season 3 starts on such and such day, can be scheduled to change. I missed season 1 and 2 because, AINT GOT NO CLUE when they were going on.

Like I tell everyone, if I aint got a clue, than nobody got clue.
Your marketing efforts failed, because I wanted to be apart of those seasons.

you need to serious add a short, straight to the point announcement type thing on the top of the forums, and in game a, “WHAT THE kitten IS GOING ON OR COMING” type tab in the game, calendar of events too.

I really feel that I try hard to know whats going on, but most of time I have no clue what’s happening.

Having some silly announcement show once and then disappear, nah, those are normally too long to catch my attention, and I got straight to the forums.

Need to do some research on how to get peoples attention, probably get more people involved in your tournaments and such if you’d get there attention and make it known to them something is going on.

Teutos.8620:

1.) R80 does not mean anything. Even lessen than our current ladder. It is just time invested. Maybe you just spent your time on one of the farm servers?

I wonder… What is the developer’s thoughts on this?

Rank 80 meaning nothing.
Are they ok with the highest rank in game to mean nothing?
Are they even aware that the highest rank in the game is considered nothing special by the community?

Wow, those screenshots. Fully prove to the community that they are premades, theres no need to show the premades team names, its way too obvious and name showing is not required.

I mean, when one team completely gives you a beatdown, they gotta be a premade, no questions asked.

See my screenshot, my team was totally premade, we gave those other guys a serious beatdown.

Stop the premade vs solo que madness!!!

Mrbig.8019:

uberkingkong.8041:

I thought the combination of solo que and team que would encourage more people to play as a team like it did back before the solo que system.

However that habit anet instilled on people to ‘its ok to play by yourself’ is really strong.
Anet needs to make incentives to play with others and not by yourself.
Maybe more reward track points for playing with others. Maybe PvP type karma and if you play with others you get more. (Glory). I’ll think of more ideas later, but its really the GW2 developers that should be the ones thinking.

They don’t pay you developers to just do stuff, they really pay you for your creative thinking, and if your not creatively thinking and figuring out stuff, than they should question your abilities.

In this day and age, anyone can be taught how to program, but not all have creative thinking skills.

Also, to you guys that are pro ‘play by yourself’ people. Your more likely to quit the game easier if you just play by yourself rather than having a community your in, a group of people you play with and etc. It’s better to promote community play together as parties rather than play by yourself.

Do I think they should force you to make teams? Nope, I do like playing solo every now and then but it shouldn’t really be all the time. Developers needs to focus on getting that 95% solo, 5% team to something more like 60% teams are queing and 40% solo people are queing.

Tell me a single reason to play with a team aside farming soloers

God made more than one of us for a reason.
Your playing an MMORPG for a reason.
Your playing a multiplayer game for a reason.

Playing games with friends is fun for a reason.

Ya he was a warrior and he’d be on the node downed and when the finisher is about to complete the cycle he’d port to the window and than port back to the node. Also, his hp would regenerate pretty fast too like someone was rezzing him. No thief in area, and he’d randomly be downed and all sudden its like somebody shadow refuged him for 2 seconds and he’d be back. I went for finisher like 3 times on him once, idk its just really crazy, I wish GW2 had a reply function so I could show you guys. I have screenshots but not very reliable and show what he was doing, he wasn’t predictable and felt like he could do whatever he wanted to do, as if he was a gamemaster/GM toying around.

As for not being able to stomp some people, I know about that bug, also about the one where you can get people stuck in the wall or ground. But this guy, he had to have been in GM type mode, to be able to blink where ever, hide whenever. He only did it in downed state though. Strong knowledge about knowing when to dc and hide yourself possible too. His downed state and rezzing himself fast tho, idk crazy, felt like some GM was toying with me.

I thought the combination of solo que and team que would encourage more people to play as a team like it did back before the solo que system.

However that habit anet instilled on people to ‘its ok to play by yourself’ is really strong.
Anet needs to make incentives to play with others and not by yourself.
Maybe more reward track points for playing with others. Maybe PvP type karma and if you play with others you get more. (Glory). I’ll think of more ideas later, but its really the GW2 developers that should be the ones thinking.

They don’t pay you developers to just do stuff, they really pay you for your creative thinking, and if your not creatively thinking and figuring out stuff, than they should question your abilities.

In this day and age, anyone can be taught how to program, but not all have creative thinking skills.

Also, to you guys that are pro ‘play by yourself’ people. Your more likely to quit the game easier if you just play by yourself rather than having a community your in, a group of people you play with and etc. It’s better to promote community play together as parties rather than play by yourself.

Do I think they should force you to make teams? Nope, I do like playing solo every now and then but it shouldn’t really be all the time. Developers needs to focus on getting that 95% solo, 5% team to something more like 60% teams are queing and 40% solo people are queing.

For some reason, dragon rank reminds me of dynasty warriors LuBu spear.
Something about a spear and the lightning on the spear when you do the dragon finisher.
Lemme tell you, “Don’t pursue Lu Bu.”

1. I don’t think its worse, its about the same
2. I think they could spice it up with better ways to earn points, like actual in game tournaments, not this play a random team tournament, let matchmaking que you with another random team. But rather a real tournament style like 8 teams tourney they use to do. And you get more points from that, heck even the GW1 PvP tournament system.
3. Balanced than ever before? It seems pretty much the same to me, some classes just dominating, others aren’t.
4. 5v5 still the only mode and you want 2v2 3v3, gtfo, how about 8v8 instead of that 2v2 3v3 garbage. GW1 highly rated pvp system, it wasn’t no 2v2 or 3v3 garbage, it was 8v8. Old, yet Fun hotjoins…. 8v8 pal. New, boring, always uneven teams and you hurt a lot because of uneven teams, the current 5v5 hotjoin, everybody hating on and perfectly acceptable to hate on it hotjoin. Bring that kitten back to 8v8.. 7v8 match isn’t as bad as a 4v5 match is. And ranked? 8v8 that kitten, don’t go smaller, that’s dumb.
5. Ya we do need seasons, current leaderboard is fine, it should reward active players, but there should be ways to get higher points like in game tournaments, 8 team tournaments or bigger.
6. Hardcore community of 5, you referring to The Abjured, the free $400 a week team because every other player too scared, too busy to try hard? 11 Weeks straight is it? They should just cancel ESL and leave a reoccurring $400 to there accounts because they win each week and they ‘those 5’ are the ‘only community’ left.

I mean they don’t even post the ESL videos anywhere as far as I know. Who wants to tune into ESL if its already known the same team is going to win anyways. That they win because those 5 players are the only hardcore community left, nobody else is hardcore.

Problem isn’t the fan’s because ESL is a fan based site and its giving some pretty good incentives, $400 a week to the best team of 5. But the problem is with the GW2 team, they aren’t making the game competitive within itself. I don’t mean it by those big tournaments they have, but I mean it as everyday or everyweek type competition. Like a weekly big ingame tournament runned in game and known ingame and no signups or anything, easily enter into it and get awesome prizes for participation (5g) and the victors get something nice like 100g 1000 gems, 50 leaderboard points.

But do GW2 do stuff like this? Nope.
Why 5g? Because you want people to do it, and that’s enough to get people to do something, and it isn’t going to break the economy either.

grifflyman.8102:

So a lot of my guild mates were talking about buying another copy of Guild Wars 2 this weekend for the extra character slots. You get 5 character slots for about 10 bucks vs. 1 character slots for 10 bucks which is around 800 gems.

It would be really nice if we got a discount on the character slots this weekend, maximum one purchase of course.

It’s just inconvenient to have to switch accounts, but I know in the end this is what a lot of people are going to end up doing.

I’d like this too. I’m kinda jealous of those that have 30+ character slots. Even though I’d be satisfied with like 12 tops until more professions and races come out.

Thing with getting a new account is all the cosmetics aren’t included too and have to be reobtained. As well as PvP rank and WvW rank. Like if your a WvW’er you want to play on one account than and not switch between them because its going to take longer to reach the achievements, same with PvP.

Here is a perfect example.

From this screenshot, of the scoreboard, you can tell that I was a main factor to winning, being at the right places at the right times, while that warrior on my team was ok, he wasn’t always where the team was, but no biggie, he wasn’t really a weak link due to him not being insanely far out of the deviation.

Now look at the losing team.

From the screenshot you see a guy with 20 points and another with 50 points. I’d say there team range would be around the 80 – 105 range, and that one guy with 150 points, obviously the guy with 150 points was a reason why they didn’t lose bad.

But having 2 weak links, the person with 20 and 50 points. Obviously at wrong places at wrong time.

Lemme tell you, I was owning that guy with 20 points, all he kept doing was try to take far. Sure, he’d decap it twice but he put his team out of rotation and in 1v2 2v3 scenarios.

That guy with 50 points, that’s the guy that was the node savior or holder for a couple more seconds, the 10 points for 5 point tradeoff kind of guy. Runs into 1v3 scenario to get 10 points for 5 points. Again it seems good but the tradeoff is bad rotations and uneven matches everywhere else due to you going Rambo and eventually dying and putting your team in 4v5 situation.

Since two guys were doing the 4v5 situation it was more like a 3v5 situation for them. Hence they lost. My team staying more closely together in the score faired better and therefore won the game.

You can tell a lot from the scoreboard.

Obviously if your a really good bunker and its notable because you always make the team fights a win and people run away when they see you on the node, your team isn’t going to complain if you have a low score, but if you have a low score and they complain, pretty much you didn’t do jack squat even if you think you did.

Other team turned your bunker build into garbage and threw you away, made you worthless. Hence low score.

I’ve had a few games where the enemy bunker made a difference (they make my team scared to engage and leave them with no options to do anything) but those are rare cases, most of time if someone has a stupid score, its because they played stupid and therefore caused the lost.

Scoreboard matters.

However, in my second image, would probably be only time scoreboard doesn’t matter.
It’s a blowout game, that guy with a lot of points on losing team was just decapping and making the game last longer than it should. That guy with low points on my team, doesn’t matter either, we already crushed them. He hardly has to do anything in blowout games, except sit on node so enemy stops decapping it. So individual scores don’t really matter much in blowout games.

Scoreboard, team scores, individual scores. Inform you a lot about the game.

I’ve seen something similar too, like a few months ago.

This warrior in downed state would randomly blink or fade in and out of game preventing my stomps. I went for like 5 stomps and he kept not dying. Cant remember if he blinked a few spots away too.

I remember it was in CT and he be on node downed, and randomly blink to the ledge preventing my stomp and blink back on the node.

This was like the second time I seen crazy stuff happen. The first time was in spirit watch, watching a ranger cap the orb in like 5 seconds. Blinking all over the map to there node.

Also, seen someone on enemy team inside my base at start of match too.

Lots of crazy stuff in this game.

Laserbolt.6731:

uberkingkong,

I disagree. I have contributed a lot and had low points. I have saved people and prevent points from getting flipped. But the big points come from pew-pew tagging.

Lemme tell ya, when in someone gang bangs your teammate 1v3 style and you run in and try and hold the node for a lil longer and then die from that gang bang which you willfully ran into…. Running into fights and dieing and letting a node last like 10 points isn’t really contributing to the game, even though you got 10 points for there 5 points, your dead and your team is at a 4v5 while you wait to respawn and they’ll eventually get those points back and your also in a bad rotation which makes life difficult for your team.

So having low points due to going Rambo and saving a node all the time and not killing anyone but dying all game long saving nodes for 10 to 5 point tradeoff, ya that’s pretty much not contributing at all, your giving your team a hardship with the other negatives that include with that tradeoff like I mentioned, 4v5 disadvantage for your team, bad rotations, your team constantly in 1v2 2v3 fights.

You’ll get low points on the scoreboard because of this.

And if your that dude that bunkers home or mid and does nothing, yup… keyword does nothing. Meaning you didn’t contribute at all.

Enemy team adapts goes near and far, you lose near and far, you refuse to help team out, you eventually get into bad team score and decide to help team out… tooo late pal. You end game. Team score higher than your score, obvious you didn’t help out much.

Yup you didn’t do jack squat, didn’t contribute at all, all you did was sit on a node.

Now obviously if your the bunker on that node and the enemy is constantly coming to that node. Your going to be within the margin of error of the team, and be considered a contributor, since your with the team in scoring, you look good on the scoreboard, scoreboard shows you contributed, and not be that oddball like example I stated, 40 points, while team is at 100-150.

If your at 100 points and team is at 100-150, and someone is at 165, big deal. If your at 40 points and team is at 100-150 points you didn’t do much for the team. Your team carried you, I don’t care what you say, they did more hence its shown by the points. You did less hence why you score low. Now if you have 200 points and team is at 100-150, ya you probably one of the main reasons why you won the game. You was at the right place at the right times. Unlike the odd ball who scores nothing because he’s at the wrong place at the wrong times.

I think that premade probably has double accounts, those 3 other guys… did they sit in base?

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone decides to rig the game, like que there team, and que there boxed accounts separately and do nothing with boxed accounts so they easily win game which is what it looks like to me by looking at that scoreboard.. I mean seriously how do people not even score a single point in a game?

Also, as far as I know… Dishonor is still turned “OFF”, so don’t be surprised if people do rig the game, because thing is… THEY CAN, as long as dishonor is off, and as long as no one reports them. Anet needs to goto dishonor, and flip tha switch, dishonor needs to be set to “ON”.

That’s why you gotta use report. Maybe they have bots, and those guys did silly stuff and acted like bad players but they do it on purpose so that team wins game easy since boxed accounts botting doing silly things.

Seriously, if you don’t score a point, or see someone doing silly stuff, report them.

I doubt anet ‘actively’ monitors matches, also doubt they have programs that try and catch people doing silly and odd things as well. Only identification to get those kind of people are those that have massive losing streaks and not win a single game. Like 0 – 100 losses.

Seriously tho, if they aint bots, that’s just sad, 0 points. cant even gang bang someone or let alone decap a node?

This post needs more details, not just a simple pic and say ‘my team sucked’. Like what did they do???

0 points, pretty sad. Yes terrible matchmaking if it wasn’t a rigged game.

You should get a penalty for not scoring a point too, should receive dishonor for that.
Obviously rigged match by judging it with what information you gave.

People should be fearful of not scoring a single point. Dishonor is what can make people fearful of not scoring a single point. Entire game and not a point. Shameful.

Scoreboard does matter,
if your team is around 100-150 and your at like 20, than obviously you been sucking the whole game.

Doesn’t matter if you sat at home all game long and did nothing… The keyword, is…. You did nothing.

Hence why you score so low compared to the team.

Now obviously it can work in reverse. If your team is at 100-150 and your at 250, obviously you did a lot of work and obviously main reason why you didn’t lose so bad or why you won the game, or even if you lost bad, your defiantly not the reason why your team lost and its pretty obvious you had a crap team.

Speaking of PvP youtube videos, it boggles my mind how ESL gives $400 weekly… Yet they don’t post there videos on the forums or to youtube, and if they do, its not very good advertising because I’m not and if I’m not than most people aren’t aware of it.

If some team became really good all of a sudden, it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t know jack squat about the ESL tournaments. I was around when ESL was being hyped so that’s the only reason why I know of it.

Anyways if I was to critique your video, I’d give it a 4/10. You don’t show whole matches, and really wasn’t any epic moments in it. Dislike the music you play too. Good to see people show there support for the game though.

GASM is probably as casual as youll get.

Sadly the casual teams was ruined by the implementation of solo que system a long time ago.
Takes time for people to get out of the “don’t play with anyone else, just solo que it” type mindset.

This game needs something to make people want to team again. It use to be tournament tickets, that to play in tournament you needed a ticket and you’d be stupid to waste it trying to solo que it, so you’d look for teams. Also, it felt pretty awesome to do tournaments back then. Now its just the norm, no special feeling anymore.

I liked the PvP atmosphere back in the tournament ticket days.

Best advice for you though, join a 490+ guild and try stir up some people to play PvP. That’s what I did like 5 months ago, and had 2 people dedicated to it and like 3 people on/off about pvp. You get guild comms too, one of the currencies I value in this game.

Have you guys seen the new finisher they just made? I think it was available for preview in game since Jan 13, 2015, not sure when it will be released.

Pact Fleet Finisher
Looks pretty kitten!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTNP0-X3aOs

In team fights the longbow ranger is very effective against the condi engy, because he cannot see the longbow ranger setting himself up and bursting the condi engy hp to critical.

Longbow ranger has a pretty nasty burst and classes that can land nasty bursts is what the counter to a condi engy is.

The thing about 100b and the longbow ranger is, the longbow ranger attacks will land unlike the 100b warrior where the enemy can move out of the way, also the 100b takes a long time to complete unlike the longbow ranger quick and nasty burst.

Lastly, those engineers in those pictures are scrubs, hence why the people that showed those pictures showed the start of the game because at the end of the game, the engi’s lost.

Its only a small handful amount of engineers that can be annoying. The kind that will let you decap as long as they get to kill you kind.
Players who leave node to reset themselves I find are very good, bad players will try to keep the node from decap and die in the process. At end of day, its all about who dies and who lives.

Its just a few people that play ele and engy.

Yes those players that are good at them… Extremely annoying.

Rather face a 100b or heartseeker or clone damage meta than this stupid meta.
Rather have someone be able to kitten someone up super hard than this ae gets everybody and everybody drops.

Its more fun to watch someone get bullrushed and 100b than it is to watch someone drop due to a bunch of condi’s knocking him down. Or some lich doing stuff you cant really see and you drop dead. I’d much prefer to see bull rush and 100b animation on someone.

Game is boring to watch because its mostly an arrow that hits ground and hits everybody and they all die (thief), or lay a mark on a ground and they all die (necro) or toss a grenade and people die (engineer).

Lacks good animations. Seriously shoot 1 arrow and it does ae damage, you couldn’t have made the animations any better?

Like laying a trap down, its just a bunch of lines, seriously couldn’t have made it better animated?

But again, stupid splish splash never die because I cure condi’s too fast and this meta is all about condi’s is pretty lame and dull.

Bring back in your face type fighting. People enjoy that more.

Sorel.4870:

Just a question, why do you want to get your profession specific daily done? The rewards are not great, and do you really need the 10AP? I’m genuinely interested because I like these dailies, but if I really don’t feel like playing the daily professions I just don’t, and I don’t know why you’d force yourself.

The reward isn’t too bad its gives you good amount of reward track increase.

Thing is, people don’t want to do hotjoin for that easy win.
Winning on a certain class is so easy to do, just requires you go and join a hotjoin.

Its not like its a win a ranked game as a thief.

But yes I’m pretty bored of this as well.

This game is lacking community. There should be rewards like daily 5 man group que in ranked.

Rather than kittening people off, you should get people together and make friends.

So I was browsing around, I saw the GoDecember scoreboards. Looks like some teams just lost by default? No shows?
I mean really, elusive beats radioactive and academy gaming. That’s funny.
Than I look at DoD, lost 400+ to 0. Are you guys serious? Is that guy Your boy the boy Zoose? Hman as an ele, serious?
And you talking smack about darth and Iuck playing different profession.
Hman is one of those get in your face bursty burst, you cant force someone like that to go bunker ele, it just doesn’t work.

Believe it or not, longbow ranger is a hard counter to ele, if they are sending an ele to attack your far point have that ranger there to kitten him up. Get raplion on your team I know he plays. If noscoc is seriously the problem, get a freaking medi guard, eat that guy alive. Also, good against toker. So, recap, to beat there ele’s get a ranger. To beat there necro and thief, get a medi guard. Now the engineer, I don’t know how to kitten with them. Doesn’t hurt to have another engy yourself. There comp doesn’t look like they can counter an engy so get Dolomite Jones, Thee Faux or Eva Vermillion. Get raplion or one of those rangers on AG, like Mila Storm, and sadly I don’t know of any recognizable medi guards.

Your team right now, looks like it has no dps. With team comp I just made up, it has dps and good counter.

That is just sad how you lost 436 to 0.
How sad it is that one team is winning so much because the other teams too stubborn to take advice and get other strong players to join them.
Back in days, the top team would lose a few, but today, they win all the games, and its very obvious why they do. The other teams have lots of dead weight.

You know this thread is about leaderboards and like I said before, put in a weekly in game tournament at a reasonable time, give the winners of the tournament 50 points towards the leaderboard and 100g incentive for people besides PvP’ers to come in and play it. Make it a build your team type tournament, and give everyone who participates 5 gold. So everyone has something to benefit from it and therefore it is an incentive to actually try or take notice of it.

They really need to be getting spectate mode unlimited spectators and be able to view tournament games as well.
In all sporting games you have live spectators, don’t make it seem like they will help the opposing team be a big deal because it wont and if anything it brings to the game coaches. Just like wrestling, you have a coach telling you, go go go, you gotta go! he’s tired he’s tired, finish it, etc.

But again, fact that one team is ‘unbeatable’ and makes top players lose games 0 to 500, that is just sad. Time to throw ego out of window and change and adapt. Not scoring a point and being a top player is an embarrassment. Time for team mergers, if you want to win, you have to start thinking about that. Time to get those street players and get them into tournament lifestyle.

You don’t look at someone and consider them bad because you bullied someone solo queing with your premade. Theres good people out there that solo que and I’m sure would love to team or feel apart of a team.

Sad how Ostrich Eggs made a video how to play engineer and it was very well received, but you got someone like Backpack saying he taught a good engineer like Darth Vanquisher all his tricks. Like no good engineers came out of Ostrich Eggs how to be a beast engineer video. Only Backpack teaches everyone.

Zoose video and Caed video, but lemme guess, no good players came from those, only the good ones were taught by the Abjured eles and thieves.

Good thing I don’t go with NA builds, I go with EU builds, especially with the EU youtube video of good player builds. I mean all those NA videos have to be fake unless its someone like Backpack showing you how to play engineer.

Lol

Good luck finding a guild tho.

Lux.7169:

uberkingkong.8041:

You should be getting constant matches against Lux, Drunknpozzum and other top 25 leaderboard players, those guys are considered ‘always online, grinding’…. Well the system should make you stop letting them win and getting so far ahead in the leaderboards so you collect points and get ahead and they lose points and fall behind.

Oh trust me we get them (and others) a lot. I think the other day we played Backpacks group ~7-8 times in a row during prime-time (and lost each time).

About 95% of my losses in team Q (from this past ladder test season) came from the same ~30 players.

Whats your team comp? Are you duo or trio queing? Is Abjured playing the comp I showed? Or is it there full fledge team?

See I been seeing Zoose and Ostrich in my games in past month, but they solo queing. If those guys go full fledge teammode, they would be knocking out teams or put up a really good fight and eventually get lucky.

What needs to happen is DoD and dK need to merge. AG Gerudo and Paradox needs to merge.

They need to look at the players I mentioned too.

Play to kittening win, those teams I mentioned I feel they compatible with each other. If you got whiners, make a Varsity team and a Junior team.

Too many teams, not enough good players playing together without weak links. Build a community.

That’s one thing I miss about the old days of GW2, seeing community type guilds. Like OP. GASM is the only community type guild we have and people give them bad rap for what they do for the community, like keeping the 1v1 community strong with there GASM 1v1 dueling server. Funny how they not even in the ESL. I’d love to see GASM come outta nowhere and be #1 NA.

If you been losing lately Caed, maybe you should take my advice, get OPN and /\/\oobs and test the theory against them. You don’t keep going with what you have if you been losing, (10 times). You change it up. I find it hard to believe Abjured is unbeatable comp (that comp I showed a pic of, is totally beatable). 99 wins unbeatable, there had to be factors like, deserting, which leads to unfair games.
That is something anet developers need to address, which they have been lacking.
Dishonor, turned on like 2 months ago… BROKE. Remains OFF 2 months later. That coding must be insanely hard.

I’m going to watch ESL this sunday, and I’ll let you know what I think. You should really weed out the bad players though, I know its tough to tell some people they no good, but if you want to win you gotta play with only the best. You cant be the best with weak links.

Narcarsis.5739:

@Uber

One day you say I’m bad the next you say this. Please make up your mind.
Let’s be honest – I’ve been more preoccupied with school in the past 5 months than I have with this game. I’ve played like garbage recently.

Well, Jumper X did beat you, and its all over youtube.
Everytime I get a game with Cruuk I like to rile him up and he always mentions Caed scared to 1v1 me, and that he’s the best thief NA.

I secretly want Cruuk to join GASM and GASM get some really good players and just beat the crap out of everyone.

But one thing you mentioned is what I think is why theres not much competition, and that’s because of college. I too haven’t played any games that much. Cant really tell whose the players to be watching out for right now.

From my games in past month, the only players I take note of are Thee Faux, Tron Jeremy, Tamamba Blackmorrow, Pink Puma, Kirin Xin, Max the Drnk Champ, Dolomite Jones, Raplion. I don’t like it when these guys are on the opposing team because it means I have to play really good and I normally lose to these guys so they good. If any teams are hiring I’d recommend these guys, and Eva Vermillion that person really underrated and really good.

If you had a full team of those guys, I bet they’d beat Abjured a few times out of 99 games.

But again, matchmaking, putting a couple weak links in a strong team and than having them face abjured is dumb. I wish I could see the data of the games Abjured played too, just to see who they playing against. I’ll tune in on sunday, so you guys better beat them and they better be playing. Better get rid of your weak links and get more strong link players. Theres plenty of them out there, they just be playing with a bunch of scrubs so it makes them appear to be scrubs but those I mentioned aint no scrubs.

Also, is this Abjured team comp? I’m assuming this is 3 of them with 2 randoms? When I was in this game, neither of those necromancers were that strong that I stood no chance against them. I remember that match very well, very kittened at deserters on my team, and I remember getting into 1v1 scenarios with the necro’s and owning them and outta the blue Toker pops up. Always Toker to the rescue, I really wanted to screenshot a finisher on one of those necro’s too. Don’t matter if Medi guard counters necro, don’t matter if Medi guard counters thief. Someone already told me I’m jack of trades master of none, I don’t main Medi guard and you’re supposedly the best necro and thief, I should be child’s play, but for those necros, he had a run for his money.

If you go with the comp I told you guys to go with, you’ll beat that comp in that screenshot.

One last thing, I think maybe one reason if any Abjured has 99 wins (so stupid) is because people quit right away when they see really good players on the other team.

I’ve had teams that I thought we’d win because we had good players, but somehow the bad team beat us, and if that’s possible than its possible to beat Abjured once out of 99 games with a solo que pug. I don’t believe anyone is that good to win 99 games, they have to had people leave right away.

Hence why these developers need to turn on that dishonor if they haven’t already. It’s been turned off long enough, time to turn that kitten “ON”. Make people force to fight and pull out a win out of there kitten .

Aaron.2413:

Uber… I don’t even no where to start… A. I tought darth engineer… Ask him how he learned and ask him if backpack is 10x better. You will get a yes to both….

And OMG luck can carry hot join 8v8s??? That’s crazy! That is even too hard for me many.. If you could get some sick nasty videos of him doing that I’d love to learn how!! And luck is probably the best necro ever ;D

Well its a good thing ‘they don’t play anymore’ (according to someone)

Because concidence of me looking at rosters and seeing new candidates to fulfill same roles. OPN and /\/\oobs.

Ya’ll should just be thankful all the good players quit so you guys can be considered the good players. Like Zombify and Shan, Supcutie play anymore? The OG of GW2/ Absolute Legends of NA. Remember Saatar? All good players quit, nothing but pve scrubs and bad team comps left. Another good player Deku God, he still play?

But as to point of this thread, should you be top 5? Nope, I’d rather have an active top 5 than a never playing top 5. Should they have something to help you get to top 5? Yes, they should have weekly in game tournaments anyone can join and give out 50 points to the people who won. An official GW2 tournament, not none of this third party bullkitten. Those developers need to stop relying everything on third parties. Those other sites do more work than GW2 developers do themselves to make this game more competitive.

Booms.2594:

Im glad you think Im such a good player LMAO but dude lets be real each person for abjured is either the best player for their respective classes or like the top 3 for their classes.

ya top 3, so ya know what, get the top 2 in those classes and beat them.

Anyways, not too long ago you or I’m assuming you was with OPN when he started making posts about “22 wins 0 losses, too many newbs, yada yada yada”. Aint no different than this thread. They just went ahead and owned more games than just 22.

know, what, why don’t u two go join zoose caed and ostrich.
EXACT same comp as I was suggesting to them, that’s considering you play engy.

As to Darth Vanquisher maining a ranger, that’s bunch of bullkitten, he may main a ranger like I do an ele, but he’s a powerful engineer. I don’t know of whatever his ranger or warrior main is, all I know is Darth Vanquisher, engineer, don’t kitten with him.

Also Iuck, I don’t know his ranger or warrior, all I know is that necro is kitteny mofo and always getting lucky, so it has to be skills. Back in hotjoin days, he carried 8v8 games, this was when it was completely random too. He lead those games where one team would have like 300+ points from tagging everybody for rank back in those grinding days. I’ve seen him recently too, like within the last month or two.

Lastly, that website, still sucks, I bet you just added those timers because I really don’t remember seeing them. Also, I just want to watch the good games, how is brackets not set up yet? Speaking of teams, if people quit why do they still have them listed on teams? I don’t know who those teams are, I just looked at the roster. That websites seriously though, needs to stop it with the links to another link, its just annoying. Like link to the game, link to the bracket, link to the team, link to the players on the team, link to figure out what a player play as. omg so many links. Yet it still doesn’t show what they play as. I haven’t seen stunningstyles lately, did he quit too? Same with davinci. Whats up with all these people quitting? Especially when you got some pretty decent incentives, like $500 by winning a random tournament, that’s pretty good.

There really should be in game tournaments, that give you a big boost to leaderboard points. Like 50 points for 1st place finishers, that way those guys stop there yapping.. Example, weekly tournament some day, some hours, unlimited amount of people can join, give incentives for everyone like 10 gold participation. Let them be spectated. 1st place finishers get a 100 gold and 50 leaderboard points.

The community here is strong, but the developer is what I see is lacking in making it competitive and fun to play. Leaderboards is fine, balance use to be fine, get out of this engy meta, matchmaking isn’t too shabby, but in game tournaments like from the game and not the community, seriously lacking there. Being able to spectate tournament games, seriously lacking there as well. Able to swap builds with a push of a button, lacking there too. Developers need to start working on the competitive side of this, needs to stop trying to make something picture perfect, aka the leaderboards.

I’m computer literate and to be honest I checked out that link. Okay its sunday, but WHEN? I went to the more information link http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/ just shows me pile of bullkitten, GoGuild…December? That some old kitten and its recent Jan 14th?

I want to know when the sunday ESL game is, what twitch its on. Doesn’t show that on that site, that site kittenes me off if anything. That’s why ESL doesn’t get more than 2k viewers (that’s the limit I see all the time for NA GW2 games, they cant get pass 3k). Whoever owns that site needs to make it perfectly plain and easy to notice that game x and date and time. Not a link to another link to another link to another link. That’s pile bullkitten I don’t have time for and if I don’t have time for it… Think to yourselves does anyone else have time for it??

I looked at the teams, only teams I see that I think put up good fights would be AG and DoD, other teams have like 1 or 2 good players but rest are bunch of mediocre players. Like I said before a lot of good players out there, but they have 1-2 in this case 3 weak links on there team.

DoD has better chance than AG because its an engy meta.
Reason why Abjured beats DoD, because engy meta.

Like I said, get my boy Darth Vanquisher and Iuck and wreck the Abjured win streak.

Yall should know by now you gotta play with whats OP.
This game aint balanced, they balanced the balance too much that it got unbalanced.

One other thing, is DoD playing at what they are good at?
I really hate it when I’m playing with Zoose or Ostrich and they go play as Zzoose or ostrich egggs. I feel more comfortable with Darth Vanquisher on my team rather than zoose or ostrich that’s how good he carries. Not saying hes better, but he’s good at carrying. If you good at carrying you a good player and should be on a team, a legit team with no weak links. DoD playing with another engineer will have better results than going with one of there warriors, all due to whats the meta. Zombify is good so he ok to have on that team too.

As for AG I see a lot of good rangers on that team, and a good guardian. Bunch of good players but terrible comp. /\/\oobs OPN, Stunning, and one of those rangers + someone else would be a better comp. If /\/\oobs is an engineer I’d get a thief like Tron Jeremy or Karmy. If /\/\oobs is a thief, believe it or not, Thee Faux is actually pretty good engineer too, didn’t pay attention to him until this leaderboard and noticed he’s one of those people that can pull wins.

But again, lots of good players out there, they just in bad comps, and have weak links on there teams.

Should be zero reason why ANY team in this game has 100% win rate. This isn’t no first person shooter game where your skills is a huge factor. This is more of a chess like game, and people do make mistakes, and going 99 times without a mistake, I laugh at that.

Solstice.1097:

If that isn’t a troll then I don’t even…..

No team can beat Abjured in NA right now. You mentioned Zoose, Ostrich, and Caed? They are on a team together already who has been losing consistently to Abjured. (but they are getting better every week and will most likely be the first team to really threaten Abjured’s current domination).

That’s from my point of view based on what I’ve seen, which since part of your post complains about not knowing when WTS is because it’s not advertised well enough (neither are these forums, but you found them anyway) is more than what you have.

Never said I didn’t know what WTS is, I said I don’t know when ESL games are going on.. You must learn to read.

Also, is Iuck and Darth Vanquisher on the team with Zoose, Caed, and Ostrich? Nope that’s were you lack too.

Also, that Abjured team isn’t the same Abjured team that won WTS as well. Only phataram, wakkey and toker were in the one that went to WTS. Backpack, Noscoc didn’t win the WTS.

There’s so many good players out there, the problem is, they have 1 or 2 weak links on there teams, that’s most likely why they lose to Abjured. Darth Vanquisher carries hard in solo que, and Iuck I remember that guy destroying everyone back in the hotjoin days. I’m sure them coupled with Zoose Caed and Ostrich they’d tear up Abjured 99 wins 0 losses, and turn that into a 99 wins 1 loss for Abjured.

Go ahead and test it, tell me when you guys gonna fight too, because I wanna see it, giggle, and tell all yall told ya so.

You should go beast right away if playing against other solo que players.

Because dumb solo que players after they cap keep they leave mid open and rush far.
Normally lose far too.

So let dumb solo que players get the keep and rush far and lose and that’ll result in a bad rotation for them and they’ll lose the game because of it.

Only do this is if everyone is going beast, or everyone but 1 person. If 2 persons go keep than your going to be out of rotation by going beast.

When playing solo que its like playing chess. You try and figure out what your team is doing and play to what your team does.

But best strategy if your team complies, is to rush beast and watch out for someone crossing to steal too. Let enemy team rush your home node while you have some bunker dude there and then you take mid and play to your advantage of home and mid and eventually get enemy out of rotation. But that’s the best scenario, normally people will go keep and you gotta adapt to the situation.

masskillerxploit.2165:

Booms.2594:

uberkingkong.8041:

OzarcTheDefialer.5346:

uberkingkong.8041:

MystikaLsmuRF.7150:

brb talking in 3rd person on another account

Lol +1,

If anything he played at odd hours, avoided all the good players and won 99 times against scrubs.

Just think about it, do you really think your that good that you don’t lose any games 99 times?

Maybe if your playing scrubs yes, but theres a lot of good players out there to knock you the kitten out.

Backpack plays only during prime time, and then all day on the weekends….
He qs with the Abjured….
If Backpack Phantaram Noscoc Wakkey and Toker are quing…. name 5 players that will beat them…. there are no good players that can knock them out

Zoose, Iuck, Ostrich Eggs, Caed, Darth Vanquisher.

Theres more people out there than that, that can own the people you mentioned.

I read this during class and literally laughed out loud and got a bunch of funny looks. If you’re serious I feel sorry for you LOL.

LOL

Put those guys together, and they’ll destroy Abjured.
I never see any ESL promotions on the forums so I have no idea when those games go on. ESL people need to learn how to advertise because I’m one of those people that would watch those games, but I don’t have any clue when they are going on.

I don’t know who Wakkey is or what he plays, doesn’t sound like a necro, but the team I mention is pretty much same comp as Abjured too. Matter fact I don’t know Noscoc either, sounds like an engineer.

Not too long ago, those guys in Abjured weren’t considered the best. It’s not until recently I been seeing these names thrown around. Like the only person in Abjured I know has been around for awhile and considered good is Phantaram, but someone like Magic Toker. I didn’t even know who he was until WTS. He wasn’t even in the Cruuk, Caed, Jumper X, etc top thieves.

Anyways, 99 wins 0 losses is just a bunch of bullkitten, it takes some luck to pull that off, luck with matchups in your favor, as in a bunch of scrubs. You should be getting constant matches against Lux, Drunknpozzum and other top 25 leaderboard players, those guys are considered ‘always online, grinding’…. Well the system should make you stop letting them win and getting so far ahead in the leaderboards so you collect points and get ahead and they lose points and fall behind.

Leaderboard is very good, its just the matchmaking that’s bad. Theres also mediocore teams, that I’d expect to get lucky on you and put up good fights against you guys too, and break you 100% win streak.. If you had 99 wins 10 losses I’d be like that’s legit, but 99 wins 0 losses… something is fishy. Odd hours gaming, looking at other good players like Caed, Zoose, Ostrich Eggs, Darth Vanquisher, and Iuck to make sure they not online or not in hearts of the mist queing up same time your queing up to ensure you don’t take a loss from going against another strong team.

There is a guild on NA, it ranks you by what the other members of the guild feels about you, like if your certain rank it means your pretty good, and what not. No rep required either, its just based on what rank you are.

It’s sad how the PvP community has barely any strong guilds out there promoting PvP.

I blame this mostly on the developer of PvP, due to lack of reasons why one would do so, the biggest problem I see with PvP is that there really is no community at all, its just a bunch of random people and a few actual parties of players.

The only real PvP guild/community on NA is GASM. They have very popular 1v1 server that’s very active and they have another active server too. However, I do notice they get a lot of negative publicity from people talking in map chat and so on.

If people are hating on the only guild community devoted to PvP, than that’s not really good for the game.

People like Abjured, I don’t consider them a guild or community, I just consider them a team, they don’t let people join, they don’t interact with other people, etc. GASM, that is what a guild and community is that is devoted to PvP. GASM interacts with other people, have popular servers for everyone to play on, hosts try outs, not geared to one elite team but rather towards the PvP community (multiple players, multiple teams), they allow people to join if they are up to there standards, etc. Like it or not, GASM is the best thing going for NA community/guild wise in the PvP scene.
Example, the dueling server, its the GASM dueling server that’s almost always full all the time. Ask yourself why is it the GASM dueling server almost full all the time when theres like 20 other dueling servers?

I know this thread is intended for EU, but just want to let people on NA know of a guild/community that has a strong presence on NA.

kokiman.2364:

First I thought it was weird why so many inexperienced players join ranked PvP, the logical thing, if you are new to the game or the profession would be to start with hotjoin or unranked right? Nope.
I wanted to try out guardian, having never played guardian before in sPvP I decided to learn it by playing some unranked games. First map Courtyard we won with like 500 to 35 spawncamping their team, second map Skyhammer. After that I think I got a decent map but still.. you have these god awful maps where you basically learn next to nothing.

Courtyard, yes that map is terrible, its not the traditional GW2 point capture. Nobody wants Deathmatch style GW2.

Skyhammer, that map is good and great way to test your skills.

OzarcTheDefialer.5346:

uberkingkong.8041:

MystikaLsmuRF.7150:

brb talking in 3rd person on another account

Lol +1,

If anything he played at odd hours, avoided all the good players and won 99 times against scrubs.

Just think about it, do you really think your that good that you don’t lose any games 99 times?

Maybe if your playing scrubs yes, but theres a lot of good players out there to knock you the kitten out.

Backpack plays only during prime time, and then all day on the weekends….
He qs with the Abjured….
If Backpack Phantaram Noscoc Wakkey and Toker are quing…. name 5 players that will beat them…. there are no good players that can knock them out

Zoose, Iuck, Ostrich Eggs, Caed, Darth Vanquisher.

Theres more people out there than that, that can own the people you mentioned.

Um, no he was asking why play the game if the game continuously wants him to ‘lose’.

Desertion has nothing to do with this pal, he only lost 2 points from the 15 games, deserting is up to -3, he didn’t lose 3 points.

But, back to point, yes there is no reason to play if game continuously wants you to lose. They (the developer) needs to do some rethinking.

Justin ODell.9517:

Mindtrick.5190:

Lol holidays are for college kids, most adults worked. People who need breaks from work don’t really love what they do. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath then you will be succesful”.

My employer is very generous when it comes to paid holiday leave. I’ll also remind you that it’s a Sunday and I’m here looking at data and answering questions.

Lol, funny how that guy throws a quote in a lot of motivational videos at you, and you just slap him with that nice reply ’I’m working on sunday, my day off kitten, and you think I don’t care?’ haha.

The only thing I agree with is the ladder, how does a game still not have ladder when simple successful, don’t do balancing every 3 months because we don’t need to game and we self imposed esports game… Yes I’m talking about StarCraft, oldy old every game should take notes from that game.
There ladder was pretty much on point.

Now instead of learning from blizzard, you should be 1 step above blizzard and implement that star rating system I mentioned earlier. Where people rate other players to help you with your matchmaking for better matches.

Let people rate players after a game, if they chose not to rate certain player they just don’t get any rating, but if they hate or think someone is too good for them, obviously they rate them as 1 star (this guy is a newb, que him with other newbs) or 5 star (this guy too kitten good, make him que with other good players because I cant handle this guys skill).

Currently the game cant determine who is good or not. There might be people out there, that hold off 2 3 players never kill them and never die themselves, and that’s why that guy holding off 2 3 players team won because he too good. But he didn’t get points for kills, he didn’t capture anything, he just holded off 2 3 players which is a big deal but didn’t really do anything point wise, game doesn’t recognize this.

Matter of fact a lot of good players are like that, holding off 2 3 players and able to escape. Those guys kitten me off and normally they engineers, probably why people hate engineers but its normally the same select few engineers, and not every engineer player.

What the problem is,
You can easily do a daily x profession win. Via hotjoins.

What thing is,
Nobody wants to do hotjoins. Hotjoins are terrible now, always lopsided, point of the game is to win rather than have fun. Nobody will join the losing team, which makes it lopsided.

Back in the days, point was to have fun, you got points based off of performance, it was not a huge deal to join the ‘losing team’, actually you were forced teams which when it was better than allowing you to pick your team.

There should be 5 servers in hotjoins, 8v8, FORCED teams ON. If people like them, make more servers like it. This way it prevents lopsided teams and people waiting to join the winning team in spectate mode.

But again, you can easily do your daily via hotjoins, but nobody does hotjoins. ranked gives you just as much points losing as a hotjoin win gives you. No incentive for hotjoin. Thus people doing daily on ranked and losing because they haven’t played particular profession lately and not as good as they once was.

Is it really ‘safe’ to leave?
As in, did they flip the switch on the dishonor button and turn it on?

They talk and talk about that feature but never implement it.
Its like the developers talking about how they gave you a new zone, but they don’t allow you to enter it. Such tease!

MystikaLsmuRF.7150:

brb talking in 3rd person on another account

Lol +1,

If anything he played at odd hours, avoided all the good players and won 99 times against scrubs.

Just think about it, do you really think your that good that you don’t lose any games 99 times?

Maybe if your playing scrubs yes, but theres a lot of good players out there to knock you the kitten out.