Guild Wars 2

Generally, when looking for experienced people on LFG system, one can’t tell how experienced his party mates actually are until they screw something up. Of course there are gear checks, AP checks, Dungeon Master title checks, AP checks etc., but i’m sure you would agree that they are just inconvinient and unreliable. In my opinion, some sort of rating system similiar to PvP leagues would solve the problem and help to improve matchmaking process in PvE.

There’s simple framework. Each player has an associated rating for each section of group content (each dungeon and fractals tier). All ratings degrade on daily basis down to 0. If said player manages to successfully complete some group content (e.g. a path in a dungeon), his corresponding rating increases.

Now, some details to speed up progression in the system:
1. By doing group content player acquires common sense, so it would be reasonable to simultaneously rise all the ratings up to some level;
2. Players should be able to (or even forced to) grant each other additional portions of rating via recommendations (each player can grant one recommendation after group content is completed);
3. Amount of rating gained upon completion of group content can be defined by time spent on it;
4. There also should be a room for individual evaluation, similiar to that in sPvP matches (amount of damage\healing dealt, conditions applied, etc.). Based on that evaluation, bonus rating is allocated to the player;
5. Finally, ratings are divided into leagues and leagues can be selected when making LFG post. Only same or lower leagues can be selected at this time. Only players with same or higher league can join the party.

And that’s that. #puglife

I’d be a constant 0 >.<, The problem with your idea is that there are a lot of good players that simply don’t play that often anymore. And, there are a lot of bad players that play a lot. So you’d be getting the devoted, not the good.

Life Pro Tip: Join lfg PUGs, find someone you think is good and around your level, add them to your friends list, keep doing that until you don’t need to use lfg anymore.

Lar.1947:

1. By doing group content player acquires common sense, so it would be reasonable to simultaneously rise all the ratings up to some level

This genuinely made me laugh, thank you.

There’s more to being good than successfully completing a path and there’s really to way to measure it as it would be vastly different depending on the class. Guardians need to time reflects and blocks well and stability for the team in some areas, warriors need banners and ps build most of the time, Ele’s need to be able to prestack might before fights, thieves need to stealth for long skips, mesmers for reflects, so same as guardian. rangers need to use spotter and frost spirit as well as the right pets and then sometimes pets on passive.

There are multiple factors to consider here.

The one to Rule.2593:

Ele’s need to be able to prestack fury before fights

Might stacking doesn’t really do much, especially if you have a skilled ps war. At most you throw 2-3 quick blasts into a field just before lightning storm.

SlyDevil.3952:

The one to Rule.2593:

Ele’s need to be able to prestack fury before fights

Might stacking doesn’t really do much, especially if you have a skilled ps war. At most you throw 2-3 quick blasts into a field just before lightning storm.

Yeah, too many people think the ele is prestacking might. It hits 25 and they start running. It’s the minute of fury we want.

If you have 2 eles you really shouldn’t be prestacking, you can go eruption dragon tooth pheonix lava font and put all the fury stack into your opening rotation. If you don’t need deep freeze you can pick up arcane wave for in-fight fury/might, plus arcane brilliance if you need.

SlyDevil.3952:

If you have 2 eles you really shouldn’t be prestacking, you can go eruption dragon tooth pheonix lava font and put all the fury stack into your opening rotation. If you don’t need deep freeze you can pick up arcane wave for in-fight fury/might, plus arcane brilliance if you need.

I guess I am more so thinking about pugs. But for extended fights where the group tends to break up, such as mai and diviner, I’d rather get the 1 minute of starting fury. Blasting in combat works for the ele, but if people aren’t clustered together your losing the benefits.

actually it is pre stacking might that’s important as well, it helps with the initial burst of damage before the Ps warrior is able to build up 25 stacks of might, It’s used this way for speed clears all the time.

Either way, you picked out one small section of that to complain about, which wasn’t even the point of my comment.