Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Guild Team MMR Workaround

Today we fixed an issue that allowed high-skilled players to constantly spin up new guild teams and have themselves matched with lower-skilled players because of how personal MMR and team MMR worked together. This gave them faster queue times, faster league progression, and allowed them to climb the Guild Challenger League more quickly than intended for each team created.

What really puzzles me is why top tournament players commit to doing this in the first place.

You’d expect shady, unscrupulous hacker types to do this sorta thing. But seeing WTS winners that your company support, shamelessly exploit in front of our faces reflects poorly on the image of your company.

When your colleagues communicate with these “top” teams behind closed doors it rubs off as being extremely unprofessional to us. Even more so than ever after seeing that they lack maturity and integrity for not resisting the exploits.

I’m sure your colleagues will continue their private, intimate discussions with these teams. But when doing so, please don’t make it look so obvert. Your colleagues even use their guild tags. That to us, screams conflict of interest and lacking in business ethics.

Not all tournament level teams have sunk to the level of the exploiters.

Remember how Chaith was so anti bunker, anti Minstrel amulet that he helped to get it removed? That really screwed over bunker ele and guard builds btw.

Now they realized that they cant beat the bunker meta and will now embrace it, moving forward.

Sorry I cant provide screenies or other reference with his comments on Minstrel amulet because he got those threads removed as well.

But here’s a recent one you might enjoy

Are you like, 8 years old?

You are asking the former cheese double ele team to not run the most powerful meta?

I’m pretty sure you’re 8 years old. People don’t do “heroic” things like you dream for them to do. They’re not heroes. In fact, they are anti-heroes seeing how they manipulate and exploit NA’s pvp community.

Eurantien is an idiot ranger. Kinda shocking a tournament level player is unaware how warriors counter necros. What a scrub.

When faced with a team with multiple necros/reapers, I always swap to warrior. Back in the day I had a mace/shield and hammer build just for necros.

Thank you necros for giving my warrior purpose. But it does kinda suck that there are other classes/builds aside from warriors that hard counter necros.

Edit: Also a LOT of veteran warriors have rerolled or quit the game entirely. Once we get a buff, I guarantee a drop in reaper representation.

LMAO, word spread fast on holidays. Here is my original text:
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I’ll spill everything I did and spare the generic details about conquest that everyone SHOULD already know about.

If not, then refer to this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Most-Common-Mistakes-Made-by-SoloQers/

The OP may sound like a whiny little cry baby but the stuff he and others have shared might help. He has been on my team a few times and all I can say is that he at least knows what he’s talking about and play rotations well.

I will share exactly what I did without disguising myself as someone better than I really am. Honesty isn’t preferred in these forums but w/e

I. Don’t be a noob. Have good mechanics and control of your character. Don’t be a useless scumbag that dies quickly. Dying quickly will make you burden

II. If you soloQ, do it upto sapphire and ruby.

III. Once you are in sapphire or ruby. YOU MUST DUO QUEUE WITH SOMEONE AS GOOD AS YOU OR BETTER WHO ARE TWO DIVISIONS BELOW YOU. THIS IS A MUST IF YOU WANT TO GET TO LEGENDARY

Why? Because the matchmaking and reward algorithm is broken. Having a lower division person in the team offers a TREMENDOUS OUT OF THIS WORLD UNFAIR ADVANTAGE of rewarding you 2-3 pips per win and a much reduced penalty of only losing 1 pip for every loss. This alone is all you really need to breeze through the divisions. This alone is something none of the other legendaries will tell you.

IV. The second half of diamond may be overwhelming for duo queue and it will help if you team queue as a full pre.

I’m generally seen as a bitter person but that’s because I’m just being honest.

My intent is to expose how ridiculous the league is designed.

My intent is for people to not associate division with skill.

No Legendary will ever tell you how they breezed through divisions by manipulating except me because I don’t want this implemented next season.

LMAO

coz it hurt Abjured feelings. They want to be known as great pvpers but minstrel amulet exposed how they suck and avoid fair fights. How they win is out-rotate their competition. They WILL struggle out rotating opponents equipped with minstrels.

Easy as pie to read the intent of children and the dummy developers that play fanboi.

OE > Abjured

I don’t think this thread is about NA as a whole but a kitten Abjured fanboi

Defending a brainless spec that is DH and passing the OP card to reaper is laughable when there have been 3 “I’m so proh look at my DH video” threads on this subforum alone. One of the threads either got deleted by the poster or removed by mods.

And comments by some DH were overly arrogant as if they believe they really are that good.

I haven’t seen a single arrogant Reaper show-off with a video showing how great they are.

Can I be his friend too?

You cant deny one region is far more abusive to their community than the other.

Zoltreez.6435:

i usualy don’t call for nerfs im more a buff the weak weapons guys but HOLY MOTHER OF…………………………..

Too many DEFENSE compared to the dmg and cc they can doo

too many immunes
too many bubbles
too many 0 0 0 0
too many CC
and ALL of this with a crapload of dmg.

wtf seriously i kill a bunker guard easier then a chrono and they also don’t nuke my healtbar down while cc ing me to oblivion……..

Cele dd eles feel balanced compared to this.im not joking.

It’s hard to take someone who PVPs to farm tomes seriously. I want to tell you to L2P but I don’t think you PVP because you enjoy it.

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin’ all around
“He’s an outlaw, loose and running,” came the whisper from each lip
“And he’s here to do some business with the big iron on his hip”
Big iron on his hip

In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer, though a youth of twenty four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more
One and nineteen more

Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn’t be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn’t matter – he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red

Wasn’t long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn’t worry; men that tried before were dead
Twenty men had tried to take him, twenty men had made a slip
Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows; everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death

There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather ‘fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger’s aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh he might have went on livin’, but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

Big iron, big iron
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

Browrain.7346:

cakeonroof.7385:

Teutos.8620:

trytonianYeti.4389:

Yeah they get faster queue times so they can GO AGAINST SOLOQERS WITH NO CHANCE OF WINNING VS THEM.

Maybe they just didn’t knew, they are playing with a new MMR. Maybe farming the other team is just normal for them because on NA there is no difference between playing on new MMR and on top MMR xD shots fired

lmao

Browrain.7346:

EU fanbois rise up! Continue to stroke each others egos.

how are we fan bois? we don’t just love a particular team, we love our entire community. And for the most part, our community respects us back. Sorry you cant say the same about NA and top teams exploiting guys like you.

That’s why helseth calls 95% of his soloq teammates trash. Because he respects all of you so much

Youre like the media, you take things out of context to convey your message. He said soloQ is trash when it comes to going against teams (car crashed). That was pretty obvious to everyone except you.

Still, I’d rather have guys like him than guys farming our community. Have you seen how filthy disgusting the NA roster is? And you defend that?

I no longer want to respond to you. Stupidity is contagious.

What they do is similar to school bullying.

Morwath.9817:

trytonianYeti.4389:

You cant deny one region is far more abusive to their community than the other.

Not whole NA community is like this, but a few guys who got really big shadows.

I commented on your thread about Olrun being one of the few honorable Pro league pvpers. I think individual members of most pro league teams have participated in the exploit pip farming scheme. But it’s not obvious because they would be under one of two guilds.

Drennon.7190:

Not to mention they are also using the top ten spots to advertise the name of their twitch channels. I really doubt anything will be done though. The PvP Dev team and The Abjured are so far in bed together. It’s really unprofessional the way they do business together. Personal skypes, leaked balanced doc, minstrels amulet..

OMFG, that’s what I’ve been trying to say for the longest time that started with Abjured getting the Minstrel amulet removed.

Absolutely unprofessional. The idiot employees that conduct this behavior is destroying Anet, the company. I wonder if the bosses in Korea even know what’s going on here.

Whenever I call this out, yes-man fan bois of the abjured who lack the intelligence to think for themselves would lash at me with dumb “insults” on a personal level.

Can anyone be any lamer than this OP.

There are people that used to love pvp that hate it now. You never liked it so why even care to create this joke of a thread

Just saying you were cowardly for agreeing and being a yes man to your alleged opponents Abjured.

Its funny watching cowardly people waste their time pretending to be competitive yet cant stand up for their best interests.

For the amount of attention this replay has gotten, one would think red would win for a more epic ending. Was rooting for Red team, tbh. I like their comp more. No stacking eles plus they were the only ones that had a point and none were downed.

Too much of a big deal was made for the team already in the lead with 2 eles plus that 20 burn stacks that killed Red Lord

Interesting. The same guy boasting about farming soloQuers now demanding for a shortcut. Guess it’s not going to be easy to weasel yourself out of this one.

The video made me realize about something off topic – NA doesn’t have an admired pvp personality like EU does with Helseth.

Folks with no sense of humor may dislike him but that guy is one charming mofo.

They could get more out of their money if they invested it in growing the grassroots level by making an awesome balanced addicting game that everyone ends up talking about positively.

Now there are ppl who are afraid to queue due to bad matchmaking and/or going against a premade