Sampson.2403

Yeah I don't understand this 2 week break either. I would be curious to hear their reasoning for it as well.

DuoQ would be more competitive in the context of a 2v2 arena, but when you merge high-ranked DuoQs with SoloQ players you remove a lot of competition in general by giving them an inherent advantage over SoloQ players in both matchmaking and coordination. Climbing SoloQ is definitely doable. I've always done it, and you just said you do as well. I don't think it being harder is necessarily a bad thing, as ranked isn't meant to be easy. In the context of a slot machine, merged queues make ranked easy mode; akin to a PvE farm. It's like playing a slot machine where the first two reels are already fixed in place to the jackpot symbol. Here's the thing though. You SHOULD have an advantage for duoquing. The game mode SHOULD ENCOURAGE people to want to make friends, organize/practice as a group and progress TOGETHER. The name of this game is guildwars, not solowars. Right now ranked is such a toxic environment right now because you're forced to competete for a ranking that heavily relies on the performance of your teammates, whom every game, are complete strangers. Hehe, i can tell that at this point that you're not going to be convinced otherwise, and it's all good, i really have no dog in this fight, except that i think whatever chance this game mode has left of growing relies on promoting team play, not solo queing with 4 strangers.

Not being able to make teams or ATLEAST duo Q in a "competitive ranked" environment doesn't make any sense at all. Why this is even debatable baffles me. Like, you gotta be crazy to solo que and try to climb rank. You're leaving so much up to chance of the match maker. It's like playing a slot machine (without the free booze). I mean, i always solo que, but that's because i just like to play the game. But i totally understand why anyone whose competitive wants to team with AT LEAST one other person. (I think they should just allow 5 man que tho). The reason that i push for duo/team que as a solo player is because i think it's the only way this game mode will ever grow 9n population. Hell, if there were actually a competitive scene here other than the few top guys id probably get more serious about this game and pwn all you fools ?

Ohhhhh i just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Yeah, yeah, oh-Yeah, WHAT condition my condition was in!!!

Well, it's human nature. You wanna be at the top, you gotta get a little dirty. Bernie Sanders n Hillary Clinton will never understand this and thats why they'll always be 2nd place at best while some nut like Trump takes the god of pvp title. (BILL CLINTON WASNT AFRAID TO GET A LITTLE DIRTY THO AMIRITE [monica where u attttt])

I don't think you understand man The alt accounts are used to manipulate games so the main accounts can climb without worry. Duoq+1 solo on an alt. All three in comms. Only accept games that pop for all 3 of you at the same time. If alt is on the enemy team they can throw making the game a 4v5 If alt is on your team you try hard with 3 in comms. If the game is a loss, alt logs so the main accounts don't lose rating. Skill has nothing to do with it. Ever see a core ele or mes in a p2 game? Guess which team wins or how that match was rigged. I don't think anyone does this, havent experienced or heard of it. What does happen is people only queue on their main with their optimal duo partner. Said duo partner plays on an alt with a low rating. This causes their other 3 teammates average MMR to be higher in rating than it would be if they both queued on their high ranking mains. This makes those games easier to win. Queue on the 2 same class you want to see on the other team. If 2 duos queue necro, the matchmaking makes sure at least one necro is on the other team. And then the 2 duos swap off necro and now have something easy to kill (and create a snowball) while their team probably has no necros now.When not able to duo they queue on alt accounts to snipe other players trying out climb the ladder. Since the alt account is lower than their main account, just like number 1, this means their teammates have higher MMRs than they would if the player had queued on their main account. Therefore, the person trying to climb has a harder time. And they can do this with no risk to their main account.Duos trying to climb will queue dodge other Duos by waiting until they're in a match. Then Duo 1 will queue knowing most of the good players are in Duo 2's game. Allowing for both duos to climb easier than just constantly taking rating from each other.^ that is what i call some respectable strategy. You're fighting for an individual rank in a 5 man team game, so if you really wanna be at the top, you should be trying your best to massage the environment of your matches. That's some ninja thinking there. If you just keep hitting the que button randomly without any strategy as to with whom and when, then may i also recommend slot machines in vegas. There are plenty of them waiting for you. I hear they give out free booze too! EDIT: i mean you should be doing this if you really care about being at the top. I randomly que without thought of with whom or when, but that's justified by the fact that i don't give a shit

I don't think you understand man The alt accounts are used to manipulate games so the main accounts can climb without worry. Duoq+1 solo on an alt. All three in comms. Only accept games that pop for all 3 of you at the same time. If alt is on the enemy team they can throw making the game a 4v5 If alt is on your team you try hard with 3 in comms. If the game is a loss, alt logs so the main accounts don't lose rating. Skill has nothing to do with it. Ever see a core ele or mes in a p2 game? Guess which team wins or how that match was rigged. If that theory is true then yeah, for sure its all kitten, but how much of that is overyhped? I've played games with all of the players in the top 10 and they are lightyears ahead of everyone else in skill.

It's sincere. Arena net did get rid of the engineers passive elixer trait that made them shrink at x health threshold. But for some reason, other classes still have this passive mechanic.

I actually think it's hilarious that someone would do that. And i even have more respect for them because they can. If u dont like it then get better at the game than them and it won't matter how many alt accounts they have.

Well, as long as they got their rating legitmtely, there's no foul there.

Then you are a kitten. Everyone needs to be one shot able.

If i can't one shot you with zerker scholar shatter mesmer while you're afk (because of passives), do understand, that you're a little kitten.

It's still an effective build but it loses a lot of its value without CI. The other two grandmasters in chaos aren't very good for this build.

Bro, i no longer have a brain. Somewhere in college they took that away from me and now im just left with a white picket quest map. Please, let us plebs have our precious CI mirage type builds. K?thxbai

Man i just switched back to one shot power. Nothing else hits the spot. Oh how i loved CI mirage. Oh how i miss it. Why did you leave meee CI MIRAGE