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Arkantos · Mar 18, 2006, 02:51 AM // 02:51

Over 50% of the time I go to RA as W/Mo, im wit 2 other warriors and a ranger or ele.

Warcheif_Jonval · Mar 18, 2006, 02:59 AM // 02:59

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All I've noticed is that the Asian teams are always balanced with one monk, a warrior and two others. Every freakin' time.

there are 3 logical explenations of your plight.

1) Anet has you tagged as to never get very far in the RA, so they pit you, and your unfortunte team, against a fully organized asian team in the Team Arenas instead of the random ones. (If by some freak accident, divine intervention, or power outage, you win... they will all be rezzed, replaced by superpowered AI, and will procede to virtualy rape you O_o) If this is your situation, quit random arenas. Your blood pressure, and not-smashed keyboards, will thank you.

2) like me, one event that pisses you off to the very core sticks in your mind to the point that it multiplies in your memory and instead of one single event, you remember a whole series of the same event. If this is the situation, just forget everything you know, its probobly a lie.

3) Lastly, Murphey's law hates you. If this is the case, make all negitive things that happen to you seem positive. This will confuse Murpheys law, and either good things will happen to you, or you will die in a freak leemur accident.

The Real Roy Keane · Mar 18, 2006, 03:01 AM // 03:01

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Originally Posted by MSecorsky

All I've noticed is that the Asian teams are always balanced with one monk, a warrior and two others. Every freakin' time.

You just have to laugh when the opposing team somehow ends up with a Boon prot, a Shock Warrior, an E-surger and an SS Necro; only for you to be teamed up with a Minion Master, a Heal Area wammo*shudders*,and a Frenzy using Monk..while you're testing out a Hamstormer.

alchohol · Mar 18, 2006, 09:13 AM // 09:13

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Originally Posted by seifer402

haha alcohol is your IGN L Plate or something? you were in random arena for like 3 hours today talking about this XD

ive noticed that sometimes the team aren't really random, but a lot of the time it seems ok for me.

Drat, drat...and double drat! caught out again! Yes that was me.

One of the reasons for the asian teams being more balanced...this might be a reason...I believe sometimes we might be playing against a TA team. I don't know if that's possible.

Anyway...this morning... I jumped into my monk outfit...joined ra...can you believe it...my first game is with another monk.

I am now certain there is pairing going on.

alchohol · Mar 18, 2006, 09:16 AM // 09:16

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Originally Posted by Warcheif_Jonval

there are 3 logical explenations of your plight.

1) Anet has you tagged as to never get very far in the RA, so they pit you, and your unfortunte team, against a fully organized asian team in the Team Arenas instead of the random ones. (If by some freak accident, divine intervention, or power outage, you win... they will all be rezzed, replaced by superpowered AI, and will procede to virtualy rape you O_o) If this is your situation, quit random arenas. Your blood pressure, and not-smashed keyboards, will thank you.

2) like me, one event that pisses you off to the very core sticks in your mind to the point that it multiplies in your memory and instead of one single event, you remember a whole series of the same event. If this is the situation, just forget everything you know, its probobly a lie.

3) Lastly, Murphey's law hates you. If this is the case, make all negitive things that happen to you seem positive. This will confuse Murpheys law, and either good things will happen to you, or you will die in a freak leemur accident.

Haha!

I think it's a case of all three.

The asians make us die like doofs.

alchohol · Mar 18, 2006, 09:27 AM // 09:27

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Originally Posted by Dzan

As far as monks who seem to "always" end up with another monk, thats because its noticable. Its just as common for there to be two monks on a random arena team as two mesmers or two warriors, it's just that when you get a two warrior team you it doesn't stick out in your mind. If you don't believe me, play in 100 different RA teams and keep track of every team and see what the statistics say.

If I play a warrior the chances are there will be other warriors on my team.

The point I'm making is if I play a warrior I rarely have a monk on my team. It does happen but not often. Play a monk and see how often another monk or two appears.

I've spent the last month or so in RA unlocking every skill etc. The pattern is noticeable.

Charqus · Mar 18, 2006, 09:59 AM // 09:59

Monks are getting more and more frequent that wammos build in hope to get ranks....
I had it the other day...
we won loadsa battles but we all left in end cos it took like 10 mins for each win

alchohol · Mar 18, 2006, 06:59 PM // 18:59

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Originally Posted by Charqus

Monks are getting more and more frequent that wammos build in hope to get ranks....
I had it the other day...
we won loadsa battles but we all left in end cos it took like 10 mins for each win

Oo Pardon?

tekeen · Mar 18, 2006, 07:06 PM // 19:06

Anyone ever notice how most of the time when you come up against an asian team in RA they have seemingly gotten to choose their groupmates and the team builds they end up with are incredibly balanced and effective?

I mean RA for americans is lop-sided as hell most of the time but for asians it does not seem that way.

I call BS

Zaxan Razor · Mar 18, 2006, 07:21 PM // 19:21

I call that you are just facing a team from the team arenas.

Either that or most Asian players are better than American players.

Either is perfectly possible

Fluffyx · Mar 18, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24

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Originally Posted by tekeen

Anyone ever notice how most of the time when you come up against an asian team in RA they have seemingly gotten to choose their groupmates and the team builds they end up with are incredibly balanced and effective?

I mean RA for americans is lop-sided as hell most of the time but for asians it does not seem that way.

I call BS

I've noticed this too. Its been awhile since I've ran into an unorganized asian team. I've always thought myself that their TA fight in our RA, now seeing someone else that thinks it maybe I'm not so crazy. :P

drowningfish999 · Mar 18, 2006, 07:24 PM // 19:24

A team from team arenas can't go to random arenas.

Zaxan Razor · Mar 18, 2006, 07:27 PM // 19:27

After your team has one so many consecutive matches, they play teams from the team arena.

Fred Kiwi · Mar 18, 2006, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Happened to me too, I think I've only gone against them once or twice, but I didn't win either. (and one of them definately was organized)

Metanoia · Mar 18, 2006, 07:34 PM // 19:34

I have a theory... It covers the "Why asians seem to have better teams" and "Why do I always seem to get less monks than my opponents".

In a winner-stays-on type of system, unless there are enough people playing for winning teams to keep facing off against others with an equal number of wins they're going to start being matched up against the newer teams.

So, this is why on a slow night/morning... whenever, you seem to be really unlucky in the team matchups and being pit against a lot of well balanced teams with nothing but W/Mo's for company.

Perhaps the same kind of thing happens with teams in all realms, when they run out of people to fight from their area they get matched up against foreign teams. This could explain why every asian team you come up against seem to be really well organised, they've probably won 6+ games already.

nirhan shadowmauler · Mar 18, 2006, 07:35 PM // 19:35

all i know is that lately every team i see that asian is an air ele, a warrior, a monk, AND a mesmer. in the random arenas. their random is NOT as random as ours.

Fluffyx · Mar 18, 2006, 07:39 PM // 19:39

Yes, I'm sure we all know that 10 wins switches you from RA to TA. But this is after 4 or 5 wins that we run into a team. They use TA builds in RA call that coincidence if you want, my theory is that the asian players dont have as many as the US. So maybe they have to match them with our teams. It could even happen with europe but since their names dont stand out we would probably just think they got a good random team.

halbatross · Mar 18, 2006, 07:45 PM // 19:45

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Originally Posted by tekeen

Anyone ever notice how most of the time when you come up against an asian team in RA they have seemingly gotten to choose their groupmates and the team builds they end up with are incredibly balanced and effective?

Nope, Asian teams never felt harder to beat in RA for me. If anything (on a european server) they seemed weaker than most teams.

TheMosesPHD · Mar 18, 2006, 07:53 PM // 19:53

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Originally Posted by swordfisher

Oh yeah, that's the other thing. You can synchronize with your entrance with your buddies, and have a good chance of landing on the same team. I've never tried it myself, but I assume you do it by going to a low population district, noting the time when the next match begins, and all hitting enter at 00:00

Ya I do this sometimes with my guildies. You just all count down on vent or something and hit enter mission at the same time. If all your countdown timers are the same, and the timer is above 20 seconds, you've got a good chance to be matched up with your buddies. If not, you just cancel and countdown again.

Anarki · Mar 18, 2006, 11:35 PM // 23:35

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Originally Posted by halbatross

Nope, Asian teams never felt harder to beat in RA for me. If anything (on a european server) they seemed weaker than most teams.

Yea, I bet ANet lets their TA join our RA since they suck at PvP anyway