<<*Separation of PvP Player Base*>> Please read this GGG

I was saying that your claims in terms of viper strike and bear traps being the best build up to the present day is outdated in my opinion.

Also, I'm too lazy to read all that, because you just seem to be ranting on and on.

You are entitled to your own opinions, and if you dislike the game, go code for the other games you play or whatever.

I enjoy PoE and would just like some more patches to update the PvP so matchmaking can be easier, not a whole remodeling of the game.

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LePvPMaster wrote:

Also, I'm too lazy to read all that, because you just seem to be ranting on and on.

Welcome to Hilbert.

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LePvPMaster wrote:

1. Please make it possible for the players in different Gateway queues to be queued up against each other. As of right now, you can only be matched up against those who are in the same Gateway as you. The PvP would greatly appreciate if you could somehow make it possible for all the Gateways to be queued up against each other, much like how a person in the American Gateway can trade/party with someone from another Gateway.

Your are wrong. You can queue only with player in same town instace not the whole gateway.

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Chris wrote:

These are completely valid points. I'm trying to schedule time in the coming months to really improve PvP and add decent support for tournaments and such!

In the meantime, I'll discuss these points with the team.

Please just add a hostile button where we can go pvp eachother outside of town like in d2. Thats all we need. If you get extra time, please add the battlegrounds you guys were talking about.

@Zittra
I am almost 100% certain that it is the same Gateway as the requirement to queue up against players : )

@h3rp3s
Diablo 2 worked because you could see from the bridge who was outside and usually people just chilled around the bridge.
I think the hostile button wouldn't work as well in PoE because you receive the loading screen when entering an instance, and even with the grace period, I feel that having to stand still won't allow you to look for enemy players : (
The only way that hostile button will work well is if they somehow designate a safe area within the instances, otherwise, I think it will have complications.

I've been lld'ing pretty consistently since pvp was first introduced last fall in CB, and it certainly has evolved a lot in the last 6 months alone.

At the end of closed beta, arguably the top builds in default lld were Counterlogic (a viper strike/bear trapper), Robot (a low life bear trapper), Hexaste (an ele crit dualstrike shadow), and Invalesco (a phys dualstrike shadow I think it was).

Currently there's none of the above builds in the top ten, save Hexaste maybe but he hasn't played for quite a few months.

The top builds now probably are Soggypocket (an ele sword/reduced block chance and shield marauder), and Slowandsteadyfisting (a facebreaker infernal blow marauder). These two guys have probably also done the most farming/have the best gear as well. Not downplaying their skill or builds at all though.

The rest of the top ten probably rounds out with 2 or 3 cold casters (Dr.Dankins, Counterideology, Phantasm), an ele bow dude (__PvP__), a summoner (Zombie_Apocalypse), a firetrap/arc EE build (Needonemoretrap), an hp RF dude (Three_Sixty_No_Scope) and a number of melee builds too long to list (Milkbeard, Opsec, Cyma, plus many others I'm surely forgetting/don't know about).

My apologies that I missed a lot of people here. There's probably 10 or 20 others that could easily vie for the top 10. Regardless, it's pretty up for grabs and reasonably well balanced for the most part. Most of the differences in players are due to gear checks.

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Zittra wrote:

Your are wrong. You can queue only with player in same town instace not the whole gateway.

Sorry buddy. You're wrong. In the 9 months or so I've been pvp'ing here it's always been a gateway thing. Never failed otherwise.

He isn't entirely wrong. When I play on US I have to be in the same town as my opponent, otherwise we can't queue up against each other. I don't know if the server logs me to an EU town instance regardless of the fact I've chosen US at the login screen or what is going on but this is definitely not working flawlessly.

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Firebrand76 wrote:

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Zittra wrote:

Your are wrong. You can queue only with player in same town instace not the whole gateway.

Sorry buddy. You're wrong. In the 9 months or so I've been pvp'ing here it's always been a gateway thing. Never failed otherwise.

Sorry body but you are wrong. I tried to join to my friend's pvp arena on the same gateway and we could join only if we were in the same town. We saw nothing if we were not. That is why pvp seems empty, not because almost always 0 people want to join pvp arenas. Of course a GGG comment would be useful on this, but as I said we tried it so...that is the way the system is.

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Zittra wrote:

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Firebrand76 wrote:

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Zittra wrote:

Your are wrong. You can queue only with player in same town instace not the whole gateway.

Sorry buddy. You're wrong. In the 9 months or so I've been pvp'ing here it's always been a gateway thing. Never failed otherwise.

Sorry body but you are wrong. I tried to join to my friend's pvp arena on the same gateway and we could join only if we were in the same town. We saw nothing if we were not. That is why pvp seems empty, not because almost always 0 people want to join pvp arenas. Of course a GGG comment would be useful on this, but as I said we tried it so...that is the way the system is.

I dont know how often this occurs for you zittra but I have had the same experience, both me and a friend were in the same gateway and queued but couldnt be matched together. We usually have to be in the same town. Unless, even tho u have an american gateway selected and u are put into a alternate gateway by default without manually joining one, I dont know how this could occur. I know u can join different instances and those instances can be other gateways even though they dont always show it in the instance selection. It doesnt always happen to me but once in awhile it either gets bugged or putting me into random gateways without me selecting them.