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🥳 I swear all balance threads should require a vod. I see centaur revs and threads about warrior bolas these days. Just delete the pvp section honestly

where do you think average and veteran player come from? they are just newbie players who have been retained. the focus should always be new players and keeping them around. you already have the same team USA people winning gizmos and filling the leaderboard with alts. I mean sure add more titles and more of them will play more alts for more leaderboard spots. I guess maybe a few players will stick around to grind them, but like I really feel like the title grinders aren't going to dramatically grow the population. feel like another gamemode would be big. something to break up the monotonous same old same old. anet promoting daily AT could even be big. idk, feel like there are more appealing things than titles for Humperdinks alts, but w/e

the actual issue with PvP is a shrinking population, I can't see how this does anything at all to address that so nope. I shouldn't have the same players shuffled around for 10 games in a row.... that's actually a dead game experience. realistically, anet need to make new players not start with 1200 rating, buff rewards in unranked, and actually advertise the gamemode on steam and with streamers. the system needs to not feed people to gold and plat players on their first games of ranked, then it needs to try an actually get more players. no one will be retained by the current state so not even worth advertising until it's sorted. the game needs a large injection of low skill players, but it also needs to match them with other low skill players and give them peepo happy rewards to keep em happy. new title bling for top 250, while cool really does nothing for the growth of the scene...

[IN THE END PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]

get ready for my off meta builds are so good I'm crying on the forum

no GS, no Staff, no Shield, Centaur Stance Food Build your role is giving the enemy team kills

I love it. everyone self expose and post your builds too what are yall playing when DH is giving you trouble? in the context of core centaur rev with no blocks on weapon sets, yeah ofc DH is gonna give this build trouble. no block, no stunbreak on centaur, no invuns. yeah yep sounds like DH is gonna farm it, makes sense actually. the builds role is basically food for the enemy DPS.... what about the rest of yall, what yall dying to DH on?

im just picturing the 12k DH using the aegis to skillfully block critical skills while their opponent just Ws into traps dodging nothing with a full bar of cooldowns not hitting a single skill 🤣🤣🤣 no wonder its a lot of tears 3 skills from holo forge would kill that DH, hammer 2 & an auto attack on core warrior kills them... but nope people in this forum can't land anything at all... if you wanna reply & debate me on this, post vod or i will just mock u 😇

yeah. NA pop is a dead and sometimes it feels like wading thru a septic tank in ranked you have 10 games in a row with the same players. it's putrid I actually farmed someone for 4 games in a row on meme rifle mecha what is this

I'm playing a lot of support with my new friends (on warrior of all things kekekeek, staff when plz) and it works OK in duo. support gets stronger with more coordination, that's just the nature of the thing. however running something like reaper+ support in duo can get you a ton of wins. it's all perspective I guess. sidenode dualist or rotational damage are the best carry roles. you basically have to play them solo to climb. but anyone trying to climb just has to fight top 50 players constantly because the pop is dead above gold 3 so like you're just doomed (last time me and my duo partner did this we got into top 50 but it was so boring constantly fighting the same people my god). as far as fun to fight? idk man. that's perspective I think, and often about what counters your build. new players will always hate any high dmg build too, because avoiding dmg is harder than doing it. so they will still be learning how to not die, and will get constantly killed. my friend keeps on holo leaping into DH traps and hard feeding. people need to learn good habits, and it sucks when you're learning them. like I used to hate fighting mesmer, but I had a WvW buddy who made us all duel him so much I can fight mesmer easy now. I see lots of QQ that could be energy put into getting better or tweaking an off meta build, but it goes to waste. skill is low enough that most things are just skill issue most of the time. I swear if they put rewards in unranked too, ranked would just die and become a cess pool of toxic ladder and title obsessed players. good riddance honestly. my dumb kitten just wants a fun game with no one afk on my team kekekeke. why is that so hard?

hammer bonk

often I like to run full support hammer with my friend on willbender. so I'm all CC and support and they have no CC at all, and just spin for big dmg. works really well, we've done 2v8 and things 😇

it's a reaction to the last few patches nerfing all the main BOONRIP builds to the ground. u used to have significantly more counters to a booned up group, now you don't. that's the issue basically.

also, new accounts are ranked at 1200 rating (gold 1), so new players are also expected to get farmed by vets until they drop in rank.... excellent player retention strategy there anet I feel like a lot of the current complaints are just skill mismatch issues, not even balance a lot of the time 😅

if NA population is dead and doesn't have enough players for the matchmaker.... how well do you think an OCX server would do?

real talk tho... how is DH an issue in FFA with no node, cos traps are a joke in WvW roaming 🤔

if the issue is anet have overnerfed boonrip, which looking at the last few WvW patches... clearly did happen why then do I see any solutions that are not reverting those nerfs? it's pretty obvious nerfs to classes like, mesmer, warrior and necro are why we are in a a boonball meta. heck, I think even throw mine could use with some nerf reversions too. BRING BACK THE BOONRIP

FIGHT ON POINT NOOBS WHY ARE THERE TRAPS ON POINT IM DYYYIIIINNNGGGG REEEEE FIGHT ON POINT NOOBS DUMB DH OP OP

2 sec of reflect gang it's 2 seconds of aegis. if this is cucking your build and you legit think it's the only reason you are losing... I would hate to see what happens if you get support tempest on the other team, because 2 seconds of projectile hate is nothing compared to what they can put out.

prolly gonna happen after they fix rush on warrior I guess but idk, I can just enjoy going the opposite direction to my target. it's pretty sick

goodness if floki gets on the balance team I'm done for... I like to play core zerk amulet hambow... not only do I even have less buttons than berserker, but I just spam hammer cc and bow AoEs... I probably only deserve to win a single game each year 🤣🤣🤣

but I guess core warrior with shield block and endure pain is less skilled right? because you know... few buttons??? 🤣🤣🤣

I'm watching someone with fortified earth and obsidian flesh qq about blocks and invuns like wut even... 🙃 this a wild one even for floki, like why can't the other guy block kekeke 🙃

talk to me about a legit hard build rn. tell me what's hard about it. I keep hearing mecha is easier than holo, this seems wild to me. mecha is so bad you can't win against good players, and holo was played in the last AT by top players in EU. feel like mecha may seem easier if they player is unable to use their brain to learn, but if they can they will top out on the build quickly and be unable to win. whereas holo has the tools to win, so despite having more buttons to press, the fact you have all these buttons to press to make you win makes it easier. ofc just speaking from my experience, and experience of members of the discord gang who've picked up the game.