Azure The Heartless.3261 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Huh. Color me surprised. Let's hope the metrics from this are useful~ 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanAlcedo.3281 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) I imagined much Much more salt by now. But I guess the new special task in the vault has more attention from the whiners. Edited January 24 by DanAlcedo.3281 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie.9143 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 actually insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Paladin.3871 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) Wait till players like me who never pvp'd / not good at pvp , take this opportunity to try it out and get bad experience either in terms of unfair matchmaking or chat box get flooded with toxic goo .... Then playerbase get emptied again.... Hope there's no toxic goo in unranked atleast... "Hope the metrics are useful" X) Edited January 24 by Crystal Paladin.3871 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalisto.5780 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Surely only playing this week till i get my weekly tasks done. 6 games 4 of those ppl afk, one game i played 2 min till the first guy afkd, it was the last of those 6 matches and the moment i saw we had an afk i gave up, i played 2 min, the other 3 players kept playing and still i was top dmg with 39% team dmg lol. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 It got me to play PvP for the first time since 2016, my 24th match overall, apparently. (Although Elder Scrolls Online deserves some credit as well, doing Battlegrounds in that game made me think I should give GW2's PvP another go, but the rush got me to actually do it.) I only had time to do 1 match last night, but it was ok. One guy stopped for a bit to swear at us all in chat because apparently we'd do better if we stayed together, but we were almost 200 points ahead when he started his rant and over 210 points ahead by the time he finished so I'm not sure what he was expecting. But I knew to expect people blowing up over every little thing because the majority of what I've heard about PvP in this game over the years is how terrible chat is. I won't ever do it regularly (there's only so many times I can run around a little pen killing/being killed by the same people over and over before I need to do something else), but maybe I'll end up doing it more often than a handful of matches every 7 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie.9143 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 they really should have made ranked solo queue before this rush. people are going to get so discouraged by the impending clappings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotejjeken.1267 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 11 hours ago, Crystal Paladin.3871 said: Hope there's no toxic goo in unranked atleast... About the same amount as your average open world meta gone bad / public fractal and less than your average strike/raid. Shouldn't have to worry about bad matchmaking as if you've never played PvP you won't know enough yet to be useful in PvP...so my advice is just enjoy it for what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxx.5021 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 On NA its just a s h i t show. 2 of 3 matches with AFK/DC from start. This has nothing to do with PvP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny.7260 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I've already gotten two more death threats than normal. We love our PvP community. :3c 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special.4570 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) a lot of people queueing with 0 to little experience matches are a lot shorter somewhat a lot of anger because of "losing streaks" everything , you either burst down , or you get bursted if they cant kill you , they accuse you of hacking , cause in pve they are doing like 40k deeps a lot of disconnects following 1 player and 5 players at 1 capture point and they cant take it usually no roamers anymore cause thieves just go with team and fight as team players matches queue a lot faster , overall great event much fun : setting up premade teams - Edited January 24 by Permanently banned.7534 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure The Heartless.3261 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 If nothing else, this proves that even cursory acknowledgement of PVP as a space will get people to try it. How many people stick remains to be seen but if the balancing direction is good between these, the answer will probably be "more than the last time" consistently. Wishful thinking though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthan.5236 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Playing it more since I stopped down to only 1 match each day with the introduction of the Wizard's Vault. (Before that I played 3-4 matches each main season until I finished the seasonal track. Then 1 daily.) I guess they really plan (now with the events calender in the forums) to more regularly bring back such stuff. In addition to the World Boss and Champ Rushes (they might appear again soon?) and the Fractal Rush ... we got Dungeon Rush, WvW and PvP Rush now. Could easily get an automated schedule where it switches between those every week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxwelgm.4315 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 14 minutes ago, Luthan.5236 said: Playing it more since I stopped down to only 1 match each day with the introduction of the Wizard's Vault. (Before that I played 3-4 matches each main season until I finished the seasonal track. Then 1 daily.) I guess they really plan (now with the events calender in the forums) to more regularly bring back such stuff. In addition to the World Boss and Champ Rushes (they might appear again soon?) and the Fractal Rush ... we got Dungeon Rush, WvW and PvP Rush now. Could easily get an automated schedule where it switches between those every week. This sounds awesome while at the same time a sort of introduction of maintenance state to the game (such as Zaishen bounties in GW1 coming as a permanent fixture of the maintenance period sometime before they stopped updating content altogether). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) 29 minutes ago, maxwelgm.4315 said: This sounds awesome while at the same time a sort of introduction of maintenance state to the game (such as Zaishen bounties in GW1 coming as a permanent fixture of the maintenance period sometime before they stopped updating content altogether). That's a lose/lose situation for Anet. If they don't have something going on regularly it's taken as a sign they're struggling to do any updates and the game is either in maintenance mode or about to be. If doing events regularly is also a sign the game is going into maintenance mode there's nothing they can do to avoid that assumption. I'm not saying you can't think that, just that it's pointless for Anet to try and do anything about it, because anything they do will also be a bad sign for someone. Edited January 24 by Danikat.8537 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthan.5236 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) They have - afaik - at least announced some other expansion. (With them planning to do expansions yearly.) On the other hand: Content-wise the game has a lot already. They can't just bring more and more mechanics. It is not a bad idea to keep older stuff replayable. (Though they'd need to change the reward structure a bit for those rushes. Maybe offering some universal currency - for the start adding Astral Acclaim to the highest tiers would not be bad.) Otherwise only new players will be left doing that stuff ... (which probably is not the intention - I guess they also want older players to populate it so new players get "help" if more people are doing certain stuff.) Edit: I mean ... this could give them more time to actually work on "better" content for expansions. I'd prefer a bit more story focus. But gameplay and maybe additions for WvW and PvP could be nice. (PvP needs mid sized game modes. A 10 vs 10. Would be fun to try.) The major festivals also seem ready to be "finalized". (Except maybe SAB.) Not really needed to even add more and more rewards on Top. But we'll see with SAB. (I think SAB started the new stuff with the weekly weapon chest for festivals.) They are somewhat finished in a way that just small rewards get added. (To keep people that already have everything ... still playing it.) With the small rushes in between they can satisfy the people that constantly want some event or other new stuff running. Focusing on real content. Edited January 24 by Luthan.5236 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I haven't pvped since 2016. I thoroughly enjoyed my 10 matches. I got my Decade of Dragon finished, 80 odd ap and about 20 billion bouncy chests from reward tracks, rush and other things pinging at once! And I think I only saw 2 people get stressed in chat! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Crab.6054 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 6 hours ago, Luthan.5236 said: They have - afaik - at least announced some other expansion. (With them planning to do expansions yearly.) On the other hand: Content-wise the game has a lot already. They can't just bring more and more mechanics. It is not a bad idea to keep older stuff replayable. (Though they'd need to change the reward structure a bit for those rushes. Maybe offering some universal currency - for the start adding Astral Acclaim to the highest tiers would not be bad.) Otherwise only new players will be left doing that stuff ... (which probably is not the intention - I guess they also want older players to populate it so new players get "help" if more people are doing certain stuff.) Edit: I mean ... this could give them more time to actually work on "better" content for expansions. I'd prefer a bit more story focus. But gameplay and maybe additions for WvW and PvP could be nice. (PvP needs mid sized game modes. A 10 vs 10. Would be fun to try.) The major festivals also seem ready to be "finalized". (Except maybe SAB.) Not really needed to even add more and more rewards on Top. But we'll see with SAB. (I think SAB started the new stuff with the weekly weapon chest for festivals.) They are somewhat finished in a way that just small rewards get added. (To keep people that already have everything ... still playing it.) With the small rushes in between they can satisfy the people that constantly want some event or other new stuff running. Focusing on real content. Living story is gone, so an xpac yearly is easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draxynnic.3719 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 I stopped with the Wizard's Vault introduction - I'd been increasingly dissatisfied with the 'games decided by matchmaker' nature of sPvP for a year or so beforehand, and the choice between having to do at least one PvP daily versus not even seeing them was the final push. Still keeping my Wizard's Vault strictly PvE-only, but figured it was an opportunity to get some statistics on how bad it is now. 3 wins and 2 losses thus far. None of them had the losing team reach 200 points. I've seen at least one top-ten player, despite generally being a gold-rank player myself. I'll keep taking notes, but thus far it feels like soloqueuing is basically a coin toss with extra steps. Either your team will be so overmatched that you'd have to be one of the game's best players to carry them, or the enemy team will be so overmatched that it feels like all you really need to do is be better than a bot. I'm planning to complete the rush (two games a day should do it) and maybe finish the chest afterwards if it's close enough, but after that I'll probably quit sPvP again. But hey, getting some more shards of glory before I have to resort to buying them from the trading post will be nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith.4650 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Everybody's having fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waffles.5632 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 21 hours ago, Vinny.7260 said: I've already gotten two more death threats than normal. We love our PvP community. :3c It's because Mesmers are the only class that can CC the player, not just their character. We reach into their minds and they don't like it. 😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure The Heartless.3261 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Waffles.5632 said: It's because Mesmers are the only class that can CC the player, not just their character. We reach into their minds and they don't like it. 😂 True unironically. Nerf Mantra of Distraction and Power Block. @Terrorhuz.4695 Edited January 25 by Azure The Heartless.3261 Cmc its a joke please 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny.7260 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 22 minutes ago, Azure The Heartless.3261 said: True unironically. Nerf Mantra of Distraction and Power Block. @Terrorhuz.4695 I will never forgive you if they nerf Power Block.... Mantra of Distraction can go though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asha.4159 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 What an amazing time unironically! THANK YOU for bringing back the chance to get EU/NA/Chinese World tournament perma finishers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzbugs.1236 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) Is Rush a failure? I just had 4 ranked matches in a row and had the same team and opponents every time, and each and every time the matches played out the same way. This low population really sucks.. Edited January 26 by Buzzbugs.1236 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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