Guild Wars 2

This is not an issue at all, even though it is probably unintended.

If someone is just standing under the point using aoe, then they are contributing almost nothing to the fight. It is basically a 100% loss fight if someone in your team is doing this.
Tbh I don’t think this should be changed, it is just not worth the effort and no one really does this anyway.

Just by looking at the score, I can see that at least half of those games could have been won.

Yes, I know loss streaks are a thing but a lot of those games we far from impossible if you just played a bit better.

Now, if u didn’t even reach 300 points in those 10 games, then you would know matchmaking hated you for a while (it does that with everyone occasionally).

Meteor.3720:

Considered worse than vingador
feelsbad

It’s ok. You are the best necro EU in my opinion!

Me only 7th best ranger in eu… I guess I need to work more on my gameplay lololol.

In all seriousness though this list actually is not too far from my opinion and is actually a pretty nice thing to have if this kind of thing is going to carry on in future.

Bad players should not be able to get far in tournaments at all. They should be kept as they are. If people really want to start winning ATs then they need to get better at the game and practice as a team. If Anet starts rewarding bad players by allowing them to get to the final rounds of tournaments, then it is a MASSIVE step back for the little competition that this game has left.

Competition and improving should be encouraged at every opportunity.

Yeah if this is intended it is a very bad decision indeed. I would love to see them changed back. The old designs were great.

Agree 100%. This is unplayable right now. The balance changes looked great for ranger (especially the change to signet of renewal opening up new rune options) but I can’t do anything right now with pets being the way they are. I trust that Anet will fix this very soon though!

Another thing I have to add is that using staff 3 in the smoke field from a pet smoke scale no longer gives stealth. This needs looking at too.

To answer the OP, I agree entirely. Why do I want to fight anything other than massive, awesome looking dragons? That is why the Zhaitan fight is by far the best fight in game for me right now. Nothing else even comes close. Boring mechanics? Who cares? If I wanted a difficult fight I would go to pvp. Story should stop focusing so much on interesting mechanics and just make the fights look awesome. I don’t care how easy it is to kill the elder dragons, I just want the fight and the instance to look amazing.

As for abandoning the elder dragons, I am not entirely convinced that is what they have done. But we will definitely not be fighting an ED in the next expansion and that is a real issue imo. Look at primordus when we saw him in flashpoint. Would you really prefer to fight Balthazar than him as the final boss in the next expansion? I know I wouldn’t.

You lose no rating if they are gone more than 2 minutes. However I agree that this amount of time is way too long. In my opinion, the time before you lose no rating should be 30 seconds- the equivalent of dying with a pretty long bleed out too. Any more than this and the game will become impossible for the team with the dc if the teams are evenly matched. It needs to have a minimum time though to prevent people going to char select for 1 second to save the rating of their friend (who they are not duo with) if they do not care about their rating themselves.

With the current system, if a player is gone for 1 minute 59 seconds, the game acts like they were there the whole time even though it more than likely threw the entire game. The ONLY time you can win after that is if you are in an extremely unbalanced game.

right now if you have a dc, the best thing to do is just stay logged off until the game finishes to save your team’s rating. I have had 2 dc since the start of season 6 and I did this both times. If everyone did this (which they should) then the timer would not be a problem. Unfortunately though, people come back after a dc for some reason which is why the current system needs to change.

You can actually get in to the base for both teams.

I mean I know this is unintended but I really don’t want this to be removed. It gives absolutely no advantage to the team doing this in normal play. Quite the opposite infact. And it can lead to some hilarious play.

Just this moning I was doing unranked with troll builds for fun and I got a game on kyhlo on Mesmer where we killed the entire enemy team so I jumped into their base, put a portal and told everyone to take the portal, which they did. None of the enemy team even got out of base again! I was laughing so hard.

Seriously though I know this will get fixed eventually, but there is really nothing to gain by doing this in ranked or any other time for that matter.

Oh where do I start? Most games are like horror stories for me this season, lol.

People dying 2v1
Playing trash builds (e.g. condi Druid, condi engi, p/p thief)
People going for boss all game in forest
Thieves who never +1 or decap and just die in teamfights all game.
People who die 6+ times in one game
People from gold getting in my teams in legend division.
People dying to boss in forest (this one I really don’t understand how this is possible)
People having no clue how to disengage or kite

And THE WORST one of all...
People who are actually useless acting like it was my/my duo’s fault that we lost the game, even though we are the ones carrying almost all the time.

This annoys me so much, and the people who do this will never improve because they can’t accept that they are bad.

I wish I could remember more specifics but this should give you an idea of what a lot of my games are like, hahaha.

You do know that top duos never, ever use any kind of communication not available to everyone in game. They only use party chat and most of that is just talking about random stuff, not planning strategies or anything. I know because I am one of these players.

The ONLY advantage duo gives is assuring that you will have one other good player on your team. There is no communication advantage at all. Solo players can plan strategy just as well in the time before the game starts.

There are even some situations where being solo is an advantage. For example, there are only 2 top rated duos playing as well as one top solo player. The team that gets that solo player is going to win pretty much all the time.

I accept that duo does help a lot but it is not some super-OP exploit that gives a massive advantage over solo q. If duo was removed the leaderboard would stay pretty much the same.

In legendary it is always this low or lower. In morning queues you can get +2 or even +1 for wins. This is not even that rare.

Is it supposed to be THIS low? I doubt it because there was never supposed to be such a big difference in rating of players in the same game. But +8? There is no way that kind of gain is not intentional. I see +8 as an average gain for me.

In terms of solo carry in ranked:
Top tier: Druid, engi, thief
Mid tier: Rev, Mesmer
Bottom tier: Guard, warr, necro, ele

However, when in duo q this changes massively. Necro and ele, although they are very weak for solo carry, become absolute top tier for carrying when in duo. Probably the strongest duo for carry is ele/nec followed by Mesmer/thief. Engi/Druid is a very strong duo too.

Really, for winning in ranked you need to be running with a classes that work well together in duo and making sure the people you duo with are at least on the same skill tier as you.

I think the next season should be great. I think a lot of people will be brought back for the automated tournaments, meaning that we will also get more people in ranked. I am aiming for a top 10 position in season 7.

Sorry OP, but this idea makes absolutely 0 sense. If something like this was brought in I would seriously consider becoming a pve-only player. Seeing the score of a game is 100% necessary to decide what to do. So many of my rotations and decisions about positioning and how safe to play are based on the score of the game. If we are 200 points in the lead, I am not gonna take a big risk or try to hold a point in a 1v2- just play safe and we would win. If the score is 450-430 to my team and the enemy team has a 2-cap, I am absolutely going to try to hold a point outnumbered as long as possible or push into a fairly high-risk 1v1 because if I don’t, we lose.

Basically, the scoreboard gives so much important information that playing pvp without it in the proper way is practically impossible. I only get afkers maybe one in 10 games at an absolute maximum, but I honestly would prefer to have an afk in my team every 2 games than have something like this introduced. At least I would get 50% decent games.

In general, meta Druid absolutely destroys guardians of any type. You can mess up multiple times and still win comfortably. ESPECIALLY burn guard (which is just a useless build in my opinion) because it is just so easy for you to dodge the burst and even if you mess up, CA will clear that burn immediately. The same should go for shoutbow because you have just as much condi cleanse and still plenty of dodges and sustain. If you have problems as shoutbow, just go for meta s/d and then if you die to anything at all on that build 1v1 then it truly is your own fault.

As for GS/lb zerker Druid, meta DH is a very tough matchup, but it definitely can be won if you play it right. The key is to stay at range (just completely ignore the capture point in this 1v1, if you don’t do this you will die) and do not swap off longbow until you baited out all of the blocks/invulns and you are going for the final burst to kill the DH. You really need to make sure you time your skills right. It is vital that you do not waste cooldowns when the DH is blocking.

In general, you just need to time all your skills correctly and stay at range to beat meta DH on zerk druid.

The bosses in forest are perfectly balanced. If something like what the OP suggests was brought in, I would start hating the mechanic. Why change something that is not broken?

And yes, as others have said, if you go for boss at all unless it is near the end of the game and you need it to win, or if the enemy team just wiped on your close, then you are just putting your team at a disadvantage. Going for boss is what causes your team to lose the teamfight because they are outnumbered and then you end up losing 100+ points to the enemy team because of this. The extra 25 points you get means practically nothing in this case.

In addition, stealing bosses is not unfair or unbalanced at all. It takes skill and timing to successfully steal a boss and most of the time, the boss kill is decided by whoever times their burst skill correctly at the end. Yes, sometimes it truly is random chance (for example I got a boss kill with a staff auto attack vs a Rev, thief and 1 other. This was on stream too and it won me the game, hahaha). But the vast majority of times it is down to timing your skills correctly and this is an element of skill that should absolutely not be removed from the game.

I agree almost entirely with the OP. Balance was very close to perfection before the patch and now this has been a huge step backwards in balance.

I do not even think we needed as much as what was suggested in the OP. The only thing we needed was slight buffs to DH and then absolutely everything was 100% viable at top level play (we were very close to that anyway).

Honestly, I would have been happy if there was never another balance patch for pvp again until the next expansion because we had as close to perfection as we ever had and now this patch has moved us away from that.

And no, I am not saying this because my class got nerfed. I don’t even feel the changes to druid, lol.

There is no way I would want to waste my time running around the map for hours on end looking for some things for an achievement. Videos for this help me so much and really help me enjoy the new zones. After all, the only reason I do the scavenger hunts is for the AP because I would not enjoy looking for that last item for hours when I could be doing something else. The scavenger hunt achievements really help me find new areas in maps that I would not normally go to which is the good part of having achievements like this but the actual searching for the items I do not like.

Because of this, I think these achievements should stay exactly how hard they are right now or maybe even harder. People who like doing these hard achievements should be able to do so and have their enjoyment. People like me who do not care for that stuff can just follow a guide. Exactly how it should be in my opinion.

It is absolutely skill based. The only people saying otherwise must be the ones who think they are better than they really are. Look at the leaderboard (in EU at least). Where are all the good players? Yeah, that’s right, they are at the top of the leaderboard. Top 25 in EU contains pretty much entirely the very top tier of people who still play (including myself) who still care enough to go for a good spot on the leaderboard. There is not a single good player who is stuck at a low rating that they should be above. I can guarantee that.

Yes, the fact that you can drop a lot of rating by getting unlucky and it takes a long time to get back DOES NOT MAKE IT A GRIND BASED SYSTEM. It just makes it a system where you have to play regularly to get an accurate rating. if you are better than your rating, you WILL progress eventually. That is 100% certain.

All 4 of the new maps are extremely boring when it comes to gameplay. I have no interest in playing any of the after experiencing all new events. It’s a bit of a shame really because the HoT maps are amazing for this. I don’t think it would be hard for them to make a map that has a big boss event for the whole map to do like the HoT maps do. That is all the maps need to be fun for me to play.

Because of this, I rank the maps on the looks of them and how interesting they were to explore for me when their respective episode first came out.

1) Ember bay. Best looking map off them all imo. I love the JP and the big leyline around the entire zone is a great idea to have for moving around the zone.
2) Bloodstone fen. Another great looking map with great ability to use the glider skills and easy to navigate. Was fun to play for a while.
3) Bitterfrost frontier. Great looking zone with decent events. I love the central area of the map with the kodan and quaggan area.
4) Lake Doric. Really don’t like this map at all. Bad looks. Bad events. Extremely boring after first play through. I hope the next 2 maps are better than this.

Although it would be nice to have a way to measure individual skill, there is absolutely no way the game can accurately do that. The top stats are the bets things we are ever going to have to show skill, and they are not exactly any good at that.

Individual skill is a massive part of what your rating will be. Yes, useless teams can drag you down for a few games and make you lose a bit of rating, but, if you are 100% stuck at your rating and cannot progress, YOUR TEAMS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. You are. Why do you think that all the good players are at the top of the leaderboard? Because their individual skill is enough to carry games.

Yes, some games truly are impossible and I accept that. But the vast majority of games (as in 90% or so) can indeed be carried with enough skill, showing that you absolutely do not have to rely on your team to get highly on the leaderboards.

So yeah, the system we have now is as good as we are ever going to get to measure skill. But you certainly can show your individual skill by getting high on the leaderboards. Trash teams can make you lose rating, but you will always get to where you belong eventually based on your own skill.

I really don’t see an issue here. Burn guard is such a bad class. It has very low sustain and it easily focuses down and it only has one damaging condition which means it can always be cleansed easily. In addition, burn guard can only burst you like that one time and then it is stuck on low dps until it gets its cooldowns back.

I understand entirely that if you get bursts by a burn guard with no condi clear available, you are dead. However, this is completely your fault- why are you engaging a burn guard without condi clear? That is a move that makes no sense because one mess up and you are dead. Not even I would engage a burn guard if I didn’t have signet of renewal or celestial avatar unless absolutely necessary. If yo have any condi clear though, burn guards are a pretty easy kill especially when in teamfights.

And no, other guard builds are not a problem either, DH is possibly the weakest class in the game right now even though it is still viable.

Ok, I know this has been said by many people, it the matchmaking does not ‘give’ you losses. With enough skill, I would say that maybe only 10% of games are totally unwinnable with any amount of skill (look at the win rate of sindrener and misha and you will see what I mean).

My advice to you, OP would be to stop being scared to play because you might lose and most importantly of all, do NOT blame the matchmaking for your loss streaks. You will never improve if you do that. Just focus on learning what you can from your losses and try to carry your team as hard as you can. The matchmaking most definitely does not force you into a 50% win rate. Over 250 games this season mostly at prime time and I have twice as many wins as losses.

So yeah, sometimes it is the matchmaking. But the vast majority of the time, you could have won every game if you played it better. Maybe you are where you belong in divisions.

Prince Vingador.8067:

With 30k pvp games

I always wondered how many games you had. Wow that is a ridiculous amount of games.

As for the topic, with 9k pvp games, I agree with certain parts of what you are saying, but I still think pvp is so much fun and I love playing it. Matchmaking is good (generally) when it comes to creating even games and it usually puts me and my duo partner against another top 10 or at least top 25 duo which is of course what I want. I rarely get put on a completely stacked team against people I do not recognise. I do not agree with adding back team q. Duo is more than enough to play with friends and team q would just not add anything in my opinion. No it would NOT encourage new teams to be formed. As someone who regularly speaks to and queues with the top competitive players who still play, being able to 5-man queue will not help form teams. We all know each other anyway.

As for build diversity being nonexistent, I agree completely and this is a problem. The only classes that have multiple viable builds (by multiple I mean 2) are warrior, necro, theif and guard. And even then, most of the builds for those classes all perform the same role. I really would like this to change but I can’t see it happening before new elite specs are released.

Finally, I rarely see rage and insults in map chat. Most of what I see in map chat and team chat are just people saying hi to each other. Making some comment like ‘idiot thief’ or something happens occasionally and I really don’t think anything should be done about that. People get angry if they lose or if their team is bad and make an insult or two but the kind of really angry, offensive rage I have not seen at all since season 5. It does not happen any more.

As someone who is top 20 all the time and top 10 sometimes, I do notice that I am getting matched against gold players a lot. However, this is not really a problem because I am usually WITH gold (or worse) players too. You may disagree with the way it does it, but the matchmaking this season is making good even games most of the time (even games to me are 500-300 or better, because it is quite clear that either team could have won if 1-2 fights went the other way).

I lose count of the amount of times I get beyond terrible players in my team to make up for the low ranked people on the other team, and me and my duo have to carry pretty hard to win the game. It may be frustrating for a gold player to be put against a duo of players who are MUCH better than them, but matchmaking does make teams pretty even across all 5 players. Population this season is too low to have ratings of all 10 players to be close. I am just happy that I am getting close games and fun matches no matter how the matchmaker does that for me. If you are winning/losing 500-100 all the time then you are just really unlucky.

I love playing SAB and I am excited that it is back again! I can’t wait to finish my SAB weapon collections and play through the world again (especially tribulation mode, that is a lot of fun).

I agree that team chat is pretty much useless for all except telling your team mates the opening split for the game. Not much annoys me more than people telling the team what to do in chat all game long instead of just playing the game. Sometimes these people even die while typing, you put yourself at a disadvantage when using team chat and almost always you are telling players who actually pay attention things that they already know. The only type of communication that actually gives an advantage in ranked is pinging. That is a decent way to ask your team for help, but other than that, just focusing on your own gameplay is the best thing to do.

Also, most of the time, people don’t even do what you tell them to when you use team chat. I know I certainly don’t. This is because everyone likes to think they know better than their team (whether they actually do or not makes no difference). For example, if I am 1v2 on far but the enemy team has the cap, sometimes people will say ‘Druid leave far’. Of course I am not going to leave, I am holding back 2 players. It’s not that I am ignoring what you are saying, I am just making my own decisions to help the team and I think it is best to just let people do that.

The only times I use team chat are to say hi to people I know, to say where I am going at the start, to tell my team to lord rush and to tell my team to shut up if they are raging at each other. They are the only helpful things team chat let’s you do.

I know the feeling of carrying bad teams so hard and still barely winning (or even losing). At the weekend, I was in a game when I won a 1v2 AND me and my duo partner won a 2v3 and we still managed to lose the game 500-250. It was a totally impossible game. Nobody could have carried that. However, you all need to acccept that this will happen from time to time and, at least from my experience, they are the exception rather than the rule. Yes, they do happen more often than they did in season 5, but I can confidently say that no more than 10% of games are totally uncarriable.

I understand it can be annoying to be by far the best player on the team and still losing or just barely getting wins, but the majority of games this season (by majority I mean 65% or so, I am not trying to say bad games rarely happen) for me are usually good because in EU there is usually at least one other top-ranked duo that I will keep getting matched against, which always makes fun games.

While I do know the population is not as high as in season 5, you can’t use the fact that you are 1800 rated and being matched with 1400 people as a way to show that. At least not this early in the season. You need to remember that rating was reset at the start of the season is of course you will go against low rated people. As for me, match quality has been pretty good for me. Yes, there are a lot of useless players, but there was a lot of them last season too. There is nothing Anet can do about this because a very large portion of the player base is really bad. There is no way to avoid getting matched with these people. However, I have been seeing a lot of good players too that I saw last season and many of my friends are playing too who are all very high rated and I have great games with and against them. Blowouts are no more common than last season for me.

I do think the complaints about season 6 are quite exaggerated.

What people are saying about Druid having no chance against condi warr is not true at all. I can stalemate almost every condi warr in the game on druid when I don’t mess up and tank a mace f1 or a pin down (which you should never need to do on Druid if you play it well). Of course, you are not going to kill the warr unless you outskill them significantly, but you can definitely hold the matchup for as long as you need to if you don’t mess up.

As for what counters condi warrior, I think Mesmer is probably the best counter for it. Try to rotate into that matchup as much as you can as a Mesmer if you can. I think DH is also good against condi warr so you would be able to take the matchup on that too.

Floodi.5961:

TalleFjanten.7159:

Brockolosso.8316:

TalleFjanten.7159:

mrauls.6519:

The only good thing about this season is that it started off with a requirement of a minimum # of games played to be on the leaderboard

1. and #2 on EU is a duoq who only plays together with 20 matches and 20 wins atm, what a joke

How is this a joke? Oh I forgot, youd easily rek them if theyd soloqueue

Its a joke because you are at a advantage duoq and they prolly queueing at offtime for easy matches. So much of a leaderboard when u have duoqeuers playing daily matches to prevent decay to stay top of leaderboard. Why even have a leaderboard when soloq and duoq gets matched together.

do you even know anything about pvp? #1 and #2 are misha and sindrener.. they are the best players in the game, ofc they are 20/0.. why do you accuse someone of playing offtime because they are higher palced than you are? what the actual hell

I agree 100%. Those 2 are BY FAR the best players in pvp right now. Nobody even comes close to them and their 20/0 is totally deserved. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get to 50+ games without losing, and that is not because of when they play. People need to accept that just because people have good winrates and high rating doesn’t mean that they are cheating the system in any way.

As for the season itself and my opinion of it, I am enjoying it. But of course I would say that because I love pvp and played over 800 games last season because of that. The quality of games has been decent and I am seeing a fair amount of good players in my games, but the problem is that there are a LOT of useless players mixed in with them. I really don’t think the reset of MMR helped with this either. I am seeing a lot of the players in my guild (Almost all of who were legendary last season) playing less which isn’t great, because I would love to have the kind of games I had at the start of season 5 again.

Oh well. This season is decent enough for me. I guess I will just keep farming games in duo and hopefully get into the top 10.

I am going to try my absolute hardest, like I do every single season I play in. In season 5 I got 97 on the leaderboard which means I also got legendary division. Although I may solo early in the season, as a rule I am not going to solo queue so I will only be playing in a duo with other top-level players in EU (by that I don’t mean world champion quality, but the type of people that are easily good enough for legendary and maybe good enough for pro league).

Any less than legendary division and top 100 is absolutely awful for me. I will be extremely disappointed with even number 120 or so. This season I am aiming for top 25 but if I don’t get that I will not be too upset.

As for platinum being the ‘I did well’ division, I disagree. Anyone can get into platinum, and I mean anyone with enough effort. As long as you try your hardest and play decent builds and ACTUALLY TRY TO IMPROVE, anyone can get there. The only real ‘good division’ in my opinion is legendary because you can safely assume that every player there is pretty good, with only a few exceptions. Platinum players can be as bad as a 4v5 in some cases.

To give you some advice, OP, I suggest that you use kiting spots more often. There are so many places to jump to to get away from enemies on henge and I didn’t see you use any of them. Your deaths could have been avoided entirely if you used them correctly.

Second thing is, if you are 1v2 on an enemy point, just ignore the capture point entirely. Pretend it isn’t even there. You are not going to get a decap against 2 people and standing on node rather than off node and out of LoS of your enemies is just exposing yourself to more damage than you need to. In general, when outnumbered, paying less attention to the point itself would help you survive longer and get better.

It was a pretty good video though and I enjoyed watching it.

I don’t know if there truly is a best composition but if I was in an organised team I would want something like this:
- Ele
- Necro
- Druid
- Mesmer
- Rev

Leaderboards can’t always be on because I need some time after a season where I can relax, not worry about winning or losing and have fun when I play pvp. It is nice to have some time when I don’t feel like smashing up my computer after every loss, having to use every bit of willpower I possess to not rage at my bad team mates every game and stopping my play session in a terrible mood if I lost a lot of rating.

That is only a slight exaggeration as there really were some times I felt like that. I need some time where I can relax and not worry about losing a game and having that disgusting platinum badge next to my name.

Right now I enjoy pvp a lot and I love doing inhouse scrims with my guild without feeling like I have to play ranked to gain leaderboard positions. I think it would hurt the community to not give them some time where they can get used to new balance, test builds and just have fun.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It seems odd, to me, to voluntarily do something one hates, when one does not have to.

Each to their own, I suppose.

Yeah it is hard to explain, but when I have a target in the game (such as getting legendary division last pvp season) I will do whatever I have to and commit as much time as it takes to get it done, whether I enjoy it or not. I play content that I don’t like to get achievements and rewards or content that I do like but I have done so much that I get sick of it (such as doing tarir 100 times, after 70 times even I had a hard time forcing myself to do it).

I guess a lot of people have different views on this kind of thing.

Danikat.8537:

It’s a game, which means the only reason to play it is to have fun and if you’re not having fun you should stop.

It really annoys me when people say this. Not that I have anything against you or others who think in this way, but you need to realise that myself and plenty of other people will play this game every day whether we are having fun or not. When I have certain targets to achieve in this game, I will keep grinding and keep grinding and keep grinding until I get them. More often than not when I am doing this I quite literally hate my time playing this game but I still do it anyway. Maybe Anet doesn’t care because they still get money but I like to think they want people to enjoy the time playing the game, even if they would be playing it anyway. This is why people will keep playing while complaining how boring the game is or how much they dislike it. Taking a break is not an option for me.

It is the same for the new living world episodes for me right now. They are really short as far as story goes and the maps are just so uninteresting compared to the core Heart of Thorns maps (VB, AB, TD, DS). Those maps are so much fun but all the maps released in season 3 except bloodstone fen have been extremely boring after the first couple of hours of exploring the zone. Mainly due to the lack of a map-wide meta event. I just cannot get interested in a map without a big meta event outside of exploration. I have to agree with you, OP, living world maps are becoming more and more boring and in my opinion Lake Doric is the worst yet.

So yeah, the story is great, the scenery is great but the new content only keeps me interested for a couple of hours with the events being designed in the way they are, rather than the core-HoT maps which keep me interested for a couple hundred hours.

I voted no. People do not seem to realise that team composition is not the problem. Balance is as close as we will ever get to perfect right now because every single profession is viable at top level. Changing class to counter the other team is an important part of the game and locking professions could lead to getting a trash comp and the other team getting a good one and you will not be able to do anything about it.

All voting ‘yes’ to this poll will do is make matches more unbalanced. People need to see that it will only harm the game if profession locking is brought in.

Rickster.8752:

suffish.4150:

No, there is never going to be pro league ever again. If there was going to be, it would already have started by now. It is a real shame because I loved watching it and playing against the pros in ranked was great. All taking away pro league does is cause the best players to leave the game (like Helseth’s team already has) and kill and kind of competitive aspect of the game. It was a terrible decision for Anet to make, but it has already been made now and there is nothing to do about it. The worst part is that there are a lot of people who are actually happy about this decision who have no idea about how if affects the top level of ranked. Before the end of the year every single player who has played in pro league will be gone. I am pretty sure of that.

They will only be gone if they hate the game honestly. Do you really think these players are going to go to DOTA 2 and make millions? Come on. GW2 “esports” is a joke, there are no talented esports players in it.

There are plenty of very talented players in this game. Saying otherwise just shows you have very little knowledge of ESL-level play because they are all much, much better than all the randoms we see in ranked.

It is not because they hate the game that they will leave. They are competitive players. What they want is to compete. There is no way for them to do that in game so it is no surprise that they will look for a new game if this one doesn’t offer them what they want.

There really needs to be a vote. I hate the new version. I absolutely hate it. Clock tower used to be one of the best nodes in the game for kiting and LoS (the only ones with more are the sides on forest) which just adds another layer of skill to the map. Whatever you say about it not being real pvp, knowing the kiting spots gives you a HUGE advantage just as it should do. Now that I know all the kiting spots in the game (many of which I have never seen anyone else use), my survivability has increased so much and it makes surviving bad situations so much more interesting. This is why foefire mid is such a boring node and now clock tower has become just the same.

No, there is never going to be pro league ever again. If there was going to be, it would already have started by now. It is a real shame because I loved watching it and playing against the pros in ranked was great. All taking away pro league does is cause the best players to leave the game (like Helseth’s team already has) and kill and kind of competitive aspect of the game. It was a terrible decision for Anet to make, but it has already been made now and there is nothing to do about it. The worst part is that there are a lot of people who are actually happy about this decision who have no idea about how if affects the top level of ranked. Before the end of the year every single player who has played in pro league will be gone. I am pretty sure of that.

Mesmer is a great solo q carry. It has great 1v1 potential and can set up kills in teamfights with well times moas. It has the best rotation potential with portal (more useful if u are with a friend who knows when to portal with you) and good disengage for when under pressure. However, it is very high skill cap and a bad mesmer will contribute basically nothing to a team whereas a good one can carry a whole game.

Necro is, alongside ele, the very worst solo q carry in the game. You have almost zero active defence, no 1v1 potential and low mobility. I am not saying necro is a bad class, because I think it is a mandatory class for top level competitive play due to its ridiculous teamfight pressure and strength when with an ele to support. But for SOLO Q it is impossible to carry unless your team is good at supporting you. With no support, even the best necros in the game will melt when focused.

Personally, I think the best classes in the game to carry are Mesmer, Druid, engi and thief. Mesmer and thief due to their amazing ability to set up quick kills and turn fights around into their favour. Druid and engi because when played well they can survive 1v2 for several minutes, sometimes without even giving up the cap and are very, very hard to kill even when focused. Against players who leave you 1v1, they are less good at carrying however.

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They shouldn’t have given any titles for this season because it was a farce quite frankly so if I had my way there wouldn’t be badges of any type because the whole system was flawed. I laugh every time I look at the top 250 N/A and see about 20% or more of them are 40-41 games played.

This is just absolutely not true. Maybe on NA it is like this but on EU, the vast, vast majority of top 250 players are legit people who played all season.

OP, I would agree with you. What you said is the exact reason I pushed so hard to get legendary this season- there is no way for anyone to see the difference between someone like you (who I know is good) and some 1650 rated player who is not even close to that standard of play. A badge for top 250/any rank that gives you a title would be great and I would certainly use it.

Maybe Anet could just change these legend titles from ones that non-PvPers have no idea what they mean. Why not just give the title as ‘top 250’ instead of ‘merciless legend’. At least everyone would know what that title means.

I only play ranger so I only know the full list for that, so here is it:
-Beats guardian
-Beats revenant
-Beats power warrior
-Loses to condi warrior
-Beats thief
-Stalemates ranger
-Stalemates engi
-Stalemates ele
-Beats Mesmer
-Beats necro

I hope this helped

I can’t do screenshots but I hit 8k games a couple weeks ago.

3.6k on ranger

So sad to hear this. I guess the new rank 55 vs. Denial is never gonna happen. That was something I was really looking forward to. It’s a real shame, and I am just as sad as Helseth is about no esports events. I would say Anet brought this on themselves and they got what they deserved, but to be honest I doubt they even care. Guild wars 2 esports is over and I have known this ever since the world championship (however much I have tried to make myself believe more events would come) and this only confirmed that to me.

Yeah, awful news to hear. Competitive things in gw2 are just going to become less and less now.

Whatever, I guess I can just go back to playing and give up on hoping for more competitive events.

I agree, DH does need to be balanced. It needs some more buffs to be viable at top level.

I seriously don’t know what the problem people have with DH is. It’s attacks are easy to dodge (longbow 2, longbow 3, longbow 5, sword 3) so you should never really get hit by them. The pull is easy enough to dodge when at max range and is very easy to predict even when you are not (they usually do it at the same time as when they place their trap) so it is very possible to counter play. Dodging the pull is a massive thing when fighting a DH so try to focus on doing that and you will do much better.

And another thing I want to say is that DH is not a low skill class at all. The difference between the actually good DH I see who are in legendary with me and the bad ones is just huge. A few weeks ago I was in ranked and I was 1v2 against 2 DH and one of them was so bad that he died to me 4 times in that 2v1 and got revived by the other DH until another player came in to make it a 3v1 when I disengaged. If things like this happen when the best DH in the game can sustain against me for a really long time, then it shows that it does take a lot of skill to play the class well (and no, gold/low platinum level is not playing well in my opinion).

There really is nothing wrong with DH when you know how to correctly manage your cooldowns against it.

There is nothing wrong with that game at all. Look at the score- it is much more balanced than most games with sind/misha in. It was an even game and you had good players on your team too that I recognise. That game is more balanced than 65% of my games by the look of the score.

Being is a duo gives you absolutely no advantage. It was probably a duo of low ranked (or at least not so good) players which is exactly the same as putting 2 random low ranked players on that team. You need to realise that the amount of duos on a team means nothing when none of them use any kind of communication outside of party chat- they might as well have both been solo and randomly got put on the same team.

I am in the same position as you, OP! Lol!

But I played one this morning (5th February) and I guess I am 100% safe now? PLEASE can I have confirmation on this? Because the end of the season is less than 3 days after that right?

OP, the best thing to do is to play just one more game in a duo with one of your legendary friends very early or very late so no good people are online and beat low ranked players. There is no need to worry about decay then.