Guild Wars 2

Hello,

so how is it generated? Its definatley not simply arranged by pvp rank. Do all characters/accounts have a hidden score too, by which the order is determinded? How is that hidden score calculated? If I kill a high-ranked player or defeat a team that consists of high ranked-players does that increase this hidden score more than if I kill a newbie? I’m totally lost, and dont know how to evaluate my 62% that the leaderboard says I have.

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I don’t know the specifics of the leaderboard however i do know a couple of things.

firstly the percentage refers to what percentage of players you are higher rank than. So at 62% you are “better” or higher rank say than 62% of all the players that have ever played pvp. Thus there are 38% of players a higher rank than you. When you hit greater than 97%, i think it is now, you get a number (which i can only assume based on my experience in this starts at 1000) and this number then tells you your specific rank i.e 1 is top rank and 1000 lowest. Basically higher percentages is better.

In terms of how it increases or decreases this is based on the leaderboard rankings of your opponents, this i can only assume is based on the average rank of the 5 members in the opposing team.

So using your rank of 62%;

- Beating a team of rank greater than 62% you go up the leaderboards a lot (system thinks you are a higher rank than you currently are).

- Beating a team of lower rank you go up a tiny amount (you need to be rewarded for the play however beating a team of lower rank says nothing about how far up the leaderboards you deserve to go).

- Losing to a team of lower rank you drop a large amount amount (as the system assumes you have no place this high up).

- Losing to a team of higher rank you drop a small amount (system says “well it happens, what did you expect? you are a lower rank and thus can’t go up or down”)

Now this is the bit i am slightly unsure about, i was playing at around the rank 350 mark and my friend was down in the percentages. Before the reset (the leaderboards “refresh” every hour) we had only played together in the same party with no differences in the team. we won the majority of games in the hour and i went up about 50 places to around 300 rank. Now my friend at like 95% he went up to 250 rank all of a sudden overtaking me.

Thus based on this i can only assume that, as i have phrased it, going up/down a lot/little is also based on the magnitude of the difference of ranks between your team and of your opponents.

this has also happened to me in the soloQ, generally i do not play it but once in a while I do a game, and I jumped from 86% once to rank 63 after one game. so if someone can verify this last remark that would be appreciated.

Note when i say “rank” i always mean leaderboard ranking and not in-game rank. Think of in-game rank as stating how much time the player has placed into pvp.

If I remember correctly the devs mentioned that there is a degen( if that’s the right term to use) in the ranks as well. Where if you don’t play/earn ranks in a period of time you slowly start to lose rank. I think the interval was 2 hours?

yes i believe that to be true too then you have to work to remain top rank not just play a few games and sit there. i always thought it was due to the fact that other players would occasionally overtake you in the rankings pushing you down and since you are not active you cannot go up.

There’s one more question I’d like to ask:

Does the margin of a win/loss also matter? So winning 500-100 moves you higher on the leaderboard than winning 500-490?

The PVP leaderboards are garbage and mean nothing if thats the ones you are talking about. For a while the top player had 14 games and 13 wins, and that pushed them to the top of the leaderboard. ANet have said themselves it needs a serious re-work as its not really worthy at the moment.