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Having this information would definietly be a match changer. Another way to suck the life out of the mode. Not that anet will sensibly improve it. So whatever go for it.

Picking up on the word "slightly" there. You'd need to even more with this idea so your opponents don't get savvy. You'd go into a match knowing exactly who to target. Who is light on condi cleanse. Who has poor defense. Now youd have to read everyone's build before match because that information is powerful. Rather than just daydreaming or google some random siht. It's just making more work for everyone.

If you can see it you can copy it anyway. Maybe if you went to the trouble of creating your own build you don't want other people just copying it. Also next game your team mates are on the opposition. They have your build and know all your strengths and weaknesses.

"The point wasnt to get their build to use" "option to "Copy" their build via a template link. So that we can add it to our own templates should we wish to try it" I read just fine

Make your own build or if you are too lazy find one on google. But it's just the kind of ridiculous crap anet would do. So why the hell not?

You nerfed the damage classes but left the tank classes alone. Gonna be a constant drag dealing with the FB and eles now. No more pvp for a while. GG

Partly right. If the game was more popular, newbs would have other newbs to play against, instead of players with 12 months experience demolishing them. And as someone pointed out popular games do more to discourage people trolling like this. And as you pointed out imbalance doesn't help the situation at all.

in conclusion: trolling culture = low population And Anet caters to it

What's with DCing just before the match starts? I've noticed this for a long time. I never disconnect from the internet or server during a game. It only happens before the game which is statistically unlikely to be random. I just came up with a theory that it is disconnect due to inactivity. Sometimes I'm not using skills or moving while waiting for a new game. But I don't get any warnings about that. If it is someone doing it idk how they have my isp. I play to have fun not socialize. I don't use teamspeak or join guilds. What do you reckon?

Power classes don't use long ranged weapons in melee because they aren't effective. Like you don't have a ranger standing next to you with a long bow. Yes you can go out of range but it's a slow way to fight when they have long range and shields too and you just lost the point. You have to get in close and cc-aoe-burst. But you can dodge out of range of melee weapons on point. You don't even need toughness. Condi builds sit on point with autospam scepters so you can't dodge out of range. You can't go defensive and kite or tank like you would a power build. There isn't enough condi cleanse in the game and even if you could you'd have no dps. Maybe eles idk. Only thing you can do is pressure and kill quickly or leave.. or get spammed to death.

Condi is button spam with ranged weapons. Power is a mixture of range and melee. It's much more dynamic.

It's worse than that. The matchmaker creates one team, then attempts to create a second team as best, or worst depending on availability, as possible. Rather than the sensical method you described of selecting 10 players and then creating two roughly equal teams.

I don't think most people want to play condi. When the patch came it was almost all power classes. But then it was double holo every second game so you needed condi to beat them. When the condi stops the holos come back. Its an endless loop. Just fix holo and everyone can play the class they want.

That rampant. I remember from season 2 they had about 5 alts. I now realize there is one silver lining. Time spent match fixing is time they aren't spending out stealing handbags from old ladies or similar misdeeds. At least they have a somewhat harmless outlet.

It's sad for the mesmersWho live a pointless existence.Well they can hold one pointOnly with the smallest resistance. Anything more and..They run like the windGiving away the illusionTheir heads quickly abscind But who cares of PVP imbalanceWhen Wintersday is comingSnowball MayhemIs the real reason for playing The creator of whichWas truly a geniusBut the warrior skillHis brain was in his... Peanut butter and jellyThe awesome battle advancesUntil some smart assTakes full advantage In a game that requiresSpeed and agilityYou gave only one classThat freaking ability I know what you'd say"Just roll a warrior"Yes, I have to of courseOr else I'd be sorrier An alternate solutionOf which there's only oneAnet fix your gameAnd stop killing the fun

You misunderstand. I am not saying you are crazy. I haven't played in 14 seasons hence why this is a complete shock to me. To spend everyday stalking the top 200 or so players online status and creating new accounts to mess with their matches. Which would require a lot of the top 200 players to achieve this. Yes, so insane it sounds unbelievable for the uninitiated. That's also why I am asking if there is a monetary incentive. People do crazy things for money. At least that's a somewhat understandable motive. Sorry about the jibe about your peers. After reading your post I have a lot more respect for you having spoken out and gotten people banned. I can see how the response wouldn't have been fun for you and understand your reluctance to go through it again with the antisocial effers.

Oh I've learned my lesson with talking about that publicly. If you kitten enough of them off, you'll find yourself riding gold 2 for awhile until they get bored. And besides that, it's not so much about who to avoid, as much as it is how to avoid all of it in general.Never play above the required game limit if you're serious about playing high in rating. Wait until the last week to actually appear on the leaderboards. If you don't do this, it is likely you will be targeted by alt throw phases, if your leaderboard position is even in the top 100 nowadays. You could be lightly prioritized or heavily prioritized vs. throws depending on if they like you or not. Sometimes they may let you past the gate because they believe you deserve it.Always que offline and only ever que 1 game at a time, if you are already above the 120 limit and visible on the leaderboards. If your rating is significantly high, say around 1600-1650ish, If you sneak in offline before people realize you are online, and only que 1 game and then stop, your chances of avoiding all of the kitten listed in 1. is much greater.NEVER que early morning NA time zone off peak hours. Only ever que prime time. Lately as of this season, early morning off peak hours have been a ridiculous rating loss trap. There are people who camp these hours of play on alts, and they just throw vs. main accounts who try to play at this time, to knock people out of leaderboard positions. Sometimes they try to win if they are against the main. Most of the match manipulations that are happening lately, are simply alt phase throwing. It isn't even win trading anymore usually. This is because the population is so low, that alt throwing is extremely easy to do and very effective. A top gold 3 or bottom plat 1 account will still be able to get in matches with 1800s nowadays. So the people who actually organize win trading, will play the desired mains into the top 10 or top 20, and then spend the rest of the week defending those ratings by alt phasing and throwing against any competitors who may actually be good enough to sneak past the gate. This is a much stronger tactic to defending those high positions than straight win trading, because people don't know to que dodge those rando alt accounts, and a truly plat 3 player can appear in a game against you while he's being placed as a gold 2, which is an incredibly smurfed up situation that will make a match feel like a win trade it will be so lopsided.That is batshit crazy. There's only 200 or so people in top plat+ yeah? If someone knows you are online they still wouldn't know when you are going to queue. Could be 10 minutes or 3 hours. Unless the queue times are like an hour. Having gold 2 players on a team suggests they are added for speedier queues. So to do this there would need to be a lot of those 200 people involved. Makes it sound like there is an underground mafia betting syndicate involved. The supposed 'gate keepers'. What exactly is the reward besides a snipet of text above your head? Win a Ferrari? Money? Must be something for anyone to go through that much effort. Otherwise, if what you are saying is true (which I'm not doubting based on past seasons and the volume of complaints), this is complete batshit. Not to mention your peers in this strange subculture who are associates. Community standards low as can be.

Maybe some people don't understand the points system. I don't know myself but I'd assume the rating points deducted from the losing side depends on the match score difference compared to the match maker's expected score. Correct me if I am wrong. Perhaps players who don't understand it, when encountering a match that is potentially or likely unwinnable, don't feel there is any benefit to finishing the match. If they realized there is an incentive to scoring as many points as possible regardless of losing the match they might not stay at base. When it does occur I have tried to explain, not with much success as they weren't in the best mood at the time. They haven't replied with an answer that suggested they were already aware of this. Perhaps if more people pointed this out it would happen less that someone independently decides to afk without the opposition compensating them. Thereby making it easier to tell a genuine match manipulator from a quitter. AFK hasn't happened as much to me in ranked at the humble mid gold level. About 3 times in 100 games that I have noticed. Which is about the same frequency as dcs resulting in 0 point loss games. The players who afk for up to 20 seconds at the starting bell is annoyingly a bit more common.

I thought least deaths badge would be good

I'm not stuck in queue but last game the map results was stuck on screen all match. Please put a minimize. Maybe a timer on the minimize if you don't want people wasting the full 30 seconds.

Stuck in map selection screen Edit: Couldn't you at least put a minimize on the selection window so its possible to do something else in the meantime?

Everytime I lose the goggles midway down and the frozen pond never breaks. I made my character supertough so I dont die and ran back up many times.