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I mean, if it's a cornerstone gamemode it should at least get some development right? kekw

why not just revert the nerfs to BOONRIP that got us here? seems like an easy way to go about it

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my guy, watching a video is a substitute for a teacher or peer with more knowledge. it's literally in the wiki article. you will move from the small circle in the diagram into the next circle. you will honestly be surprised by the amount of people running meta builds, or YouTube builds even in unranked. many people have done this, and it gives them a big edge over people who don't. PvP in games is way harder than PvE, and in old games it's usually full of old players so getting outside knowledge is a must, especially when the population is small and it is for PvP. as for ad hominem, nope. low gold players are pretty terrible at the game. the gap between gold and actual plat AT players is massive. the average gold player has just learnt a build and is semi spamming skills. like, how hard are the npcs in the lobby for you? can you 1v1 svanir consistently? does the bear kill u? I can ask you these questions and you will I bet become offended, why because I'm saying you are terrible at the game? but your whole thread is about being unable to fight anyone in unranked who knows how to play their class as bad as you do. yet you don't want to watch videos or learn about your class to make your experience easier and more fun. well, I guess your only option then is to lose matches constantly until your account MMR gets low enough that the matchmaker can find you those players. however with the game being as old as it is, and the fact people learn about their classes in other gamemodes you gotta know that there are not a lot of those players. also I would suggest only playing stronghold because the player skill level there is much lower, although the Q times are long.

if you're extending it to even low gold, it seems like you just don't want to fight players who know what all their skills do and use them somewhat efficiently. you learn this in both endgame PvE and WvW, and also the game is over 10+ years old so most players have been playing their character for over a year. you might just want to fight 'my first PvP game Andy' every game, but honestly there aren't a lot of those players. usually they peepo die and go back to PvE to 11111 npcs and get ressed by Braham in the story. look, I commend you for trying, but if low gold feels like a god, I suggest you look up a YouTube guide for a build for the class of your choice and try and learn it's buttons. you'll have more fun and success than waiting for the matchmaker to give you a team of people who can't move and click their skills at the same time. you'll probably find out those players you've been fighting arnt as good as you thought either. most of them will just be spamming buttons.

one day two of the forum gods crying about duo Q will duo Q together and get the two top spots on the leaderboard... just you wait... any day now... any second... 🫠

how do you even know the players you are fighting in unranked are plat (top 100 players for NA btw there are like 90 plats in the region so running into a team of them is unlikely)? are you sure you aren't just running into WvW or low gold players? because both are going to look pretty scary to a new player. I mean, I've killed an entire team on rifle mecha before... I know I get all my WvW buddies into unranked as a team and farm noobs for the wizard vault dailies, because it's the only mode where we can play together in PvP and those dailies are easy. many WvW players I know aren't even playing ranked this season at all, so definitely aren't plat, but they do drop into unranked for wizard vault things, or when the content is dead. so yeah? are you even sure these people are top 100 gods of PvP? or just people who know what all their buttons do and have a good build and some practice?

BRING BACK BOONRIP IN WVW MAKE SPELLBREAKER GREAT AGAIN

we are so close to achieving peak pvp forum the bolas complaints were really the herald of things to come the treb evangelists are here now, treb is a real class and actually OP so your stupid not to reroll to it when kylo come up. yep in all seriousness tho, I have encountered players, often thieves who would actually be more useful on the treb all game. so the lower down the ladder you go the better the treb becomes, and it does become worth using. once when I was getting an account to bronze (actually harder than getting plat honestly) I got so low in the ranking that just auto attacking people with warrior rifle would farm people. using a treb would probably uninstall their game

post your high sustain mace/axe shortbow build that apparently is the new big rev sustain build everyone is moving too. good power revs dying to DH also sounds like an oxymoron kekekekekekeke. EDIT: just noticed you said necro can facetank power rev... my friend in my wvw mains rev & I pvp with him, & I don't believe u. I actually don't think this is possible if the rev knows how to play. Huh? you want to see how a player would handle hammer cata, because u think they would miss blocks? https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Catalyst_-_Power_Hammer_Cata it has both earth shield, fortified earth, & stone on hammer. all blocks. the build has as many if not more blocks than spellbreaker. I doubt I would miss anything at all. considering cata is played in the MAT meta, & spellbreaker isn't I dare say I might be even easier to find success on cata. so for your other point are blocks low skill compared to a dodge? honestly, both are pressing a button to avoid dmg. if you reactively cast the skill it's the same reaction time regardless of if it's evade block or a dodge. dodge is shorter, so you have to be more precise and with timing, but also has a far shorter cool down so you arnt punished as much as you are if you waste a 50sec cd invun. it's kinda swings & roundabouts honestly, & actually doesn't matter at all. handicapping yourself by not running any blocks, evades, or invuns on your build actually doesn't make you a better player or more skilled at all. does it mean you have less tools to avoid dmg, yeah it does, and that does make it harder to play. one could say that playing a bad build against meta builds & farming them takes a lot of skill & is a good way to practice, but that's not what you're doing at all. you are playing a 2/10 handicapped both hands tied behind your back build and spending your time in a constant state of frustration that everyone else hasn't chosen to tie their hands behind their back too. according to your take the act or taking shield over offhand axe on warrior actually makes you a less skilled player. this is up there with some of the worst pvp takes I have ever heard. if you equip sustain skills on your bar you just suck at the game, ahahah and then u say they should play hammer cata which had multiple blocks, ahahaha what on earth. I wanna see a vod of the only good rev in pvp, none of those low skill glint heal, sword evading, gs blocking scrubs- just pure centaur shortbow power 🥳

my guy everything isn't going to get nerfed down to core centaur tier just because u don't want to play a good build. like, warrior isn't skillful because it takes a bar full of stances and a shield, but it would be skillful if it just had dodges. yeah, like centaur rev with no blocks or glint, wait I think I'm noticing a trend here. if you don't equip blocks and dmg immune no one else should? kekw

hot join is good for getting people into the game it's also good for them getting more used to pvp also, they get to avoid the experience of being farmed at spawn for a whole game by my guild team while I heal them 🫠 every week I make more unranked players quit pvp, but what am I supposed to do ArenaNet????? cmon

conversely I think hot join is so uncompetitive and casual it was a great place for people to practice and play in a stress free environment. I believe pop would be more alive if it existed still.

well they did that, and nerfed true shot and ToF. wonder if the complaints will stop? I doubt it

unironically, yes the actual endgame is fighting naru and his duo basically every match. there are 130 plat accounts in NA. this is the game now. the skill gaps are massive now. there are very few actually good players playing pvp, so if you want to be basically top 100 you need to be able to beat other plat players and not just cry when their duo is on the other team.