Guild Wars 2

This is not meant to be a rant but (hopefully) a collection of inspiring victories soloQers are having in-game. Feel free to share your stories or screenshots.

well i just got my first win earlier.
plus one pip yay!

i haven’t played much games yet.

Haven’t teamed up a single time as of yet.

I’ve moved up a tier to Amber-2 plus 1 unranked win, so 6 wins. Then again it is 6-12 and I played a warrior. Warrior struggles a LOT today. Still, I’ve adapted. Plus, some of those losses were pretty close.

I’m guessing most will struggle since everybody is in the same beginner tier. Some will move up faster than others. I think it will settle soon.

Keep it up. +1 to all that share

4 wins, 3 losses All soloQ

I guess that’s sorta successful considering going against full premades.

I’m 3 n 3 so far, so 50/50 rate lol. Played my war n ranger. My war actually did pretty solidly generally, until I ran into a team of 2 condi mes n another condi war lol.

earlier this morning i was playing my 5 first ranked games over the course of about.. 2 hours.. and i won 4 out of 5 so thats pretty good. played power ranger/druid lol

Got into Emerald exclusively on Thief – 15 wins 17 loses =(

Collero should post his. You may not like him, but he’s basically always solo queing and not a complete random. Should give you an idea how far solo quing gets you. On EU that is.

I always play solo, I played about 20 games so far, it seem to be around 50/50 , you get the good matches and the awful matches

Guess for ppl with loads of wins there are poor souls like me…
Edit: another 3 lost ones, getting teamed with ppl without any clue vs tryhards…

Pretty frustrating atm, hopefully it gets better over time. Probably not.

I’d rather play Room 3 on my ipad than participate in this mess

Out of 9 games, I won 3. So 33% win rate. The first game I played 4 Rev’s and 1 engi (me) against 4 rangers and 1 necro. So the party composition was not so great. The last team I was on had a trio queu, me, and another solo q (necro). The necro died…alot.

My best fight was against a support mesmer and a thief. I lasted awhile holding home.

EDIT: Of the 9 matches I played, only 3 were competitive where the score was 100 points difference or less.

Yday had 6-1, today 2-3…

My experience has been anytime I’m on a full solo team we do ok. If 3+ guild members on my team I expect a loss because all of the ones I’ve been with or against were clueless.

Should play sh. Easier for a pug team to beat a premade imo. Sitting at 75% wr on sh. A few of the losses were to a 3/5 que APeX so meh.

Yeah I’ve been dominating today and yesterday.. So far I’ve won 5/5 today in solo Q. Most of those games were against other pugs though.

dank.3680:

My experience has been anytime I’m on a full solo team we do ok. If 3+ guild members on my team I expect a loss because all of the ones I’ve been with or against were clueless.

Ya I second this sentiment for sure. If I dont recognize the guild name as one of the real top tier pvp guilds then I know I am in for an easy match if they are opponents or nightmare if they are on my team.

Didn’t have too much time to play last night but went 4-1 in Ranked SoloQ. The loss was the first match and it was within 100 points and I didn’t play optimally as I made a stupid build mistake. Overall matches have seemed rather solid- I’ll know more as I get more games played.

hotcarl.8621:

Yeah I’ve been dominating today and yesterday.. So far I’ve won 5/5 today in solo Q. Most of those games were against other pugs though.

You mean your 4 other team members, and you, have been dominating.

My best in ranked arena since yesterday 8 win, 2 losses. ( when I/my team lost, we were about 10 points behind, and the second they’ve killed faster then us..literally… the fortress boss).
I play DH, who is interested to join/group up, or invite me in PvP guild message me!

Otto

I usually queue solo, and this hasn’t been much different from the norm. I win more than I lose, with final scores this season so far as tight as 13 points and as silly as 440 points apart (average margin of victory is a little over 200, although I might have missed a game or two in the calculations). I reached Emerald in around 21 or 22 games (I think? Somewhere around there). I had one awful losing streak (4 or 5 matches) where my team always featured at least three people who spent the majority of the match in downstate or dead, but, again, that just happens sometimes.

I’ve found that facing a premade (or having one on my side) doesn’t factor into the outcome much, but as with a lot of people, sometimes they’re PvP guilds and sometimes they’re not. I hadn’t been doing a lot of Ranked play leading up to the expansion (got sick of the 9-minute queue for a 4v5), so my mmr was probably on the low side.

I faced 2 premades last night. I beat them both by at least 300 pts.

abc.5790:

This is not meant to be a rant but (hopefully) a collection of inspiring victories soloQers are having in-game. Feel free to share your stories or screenshots.

Yes, it can happen. If you queue up and thee is a 3 or 4 party premade that you happen to get paired you have a fighting chance. I’m about done with Amber and have been doing mostly solo queue. But my account rank has taken a huge hit from it

Here are common the possible negative possibilities when you solo queue for ranked.

• Placed in 100% pug group vs partial pre-made

• You get some kitten in party chat trying to run the pug like a pre-made (if you land as an extra for a pre-made do listen to them, otherwise these kind of dictators often are the demise of the team)

• Chances are you’ll get 2-3 running their own thing or running outdated meta builds that aren’t applicable.

• Really good teams are still moving up the ranked and are in Amber division so your pug are just pigs for the slaughter to feed the mediocre pre-made you’re up against. The entire 5-10 minute matches only servers to feed the pre-made a ranked win.

I played solo all my games so far and I am on emerald division.

Important to add that got matched against a guild team once, but I think they are beginners or trying new builds since we had an easy victory.

Besides that, got matched against a couple of 3-man guild groups, one of them was the big defeat at Legacy of Foefire, my team couldn’t connect and that gave a higher edge to the other.

As well, if my memory don’t fail me, the only time had a pre-made on team, I found myself sided with an ESL competitor 3-man team.

I am wondering about higher divisions though. I have the nag feeling as you advance, higher could be the chance of getting matched against full pre-mades.

Edit: If you look at the scores, it is pretty much loopsided….

I got placed against More Guns Than Roses, Car Crashed then Car Crashed again within 2 hours at peak time. I was queueing solo and had a few randoms on my team each time.

Thanks ANET – I can’t believe you get paid for what you do.