Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

We have the rules for ESL Pro legues with 0 class stacking – why cant this be extended to leagues?

The match making works out that people are a certain level of MMR on a profession and matches people around that bracket. If they swap toons from a low MMR -> high MMR it skews the teaming and match up.

We all know people can swap classes mid-match and at the start but getting 3 wars, 3 thiefs or 3 necros on your team can be a bit depressing.

Now that Que times are short (in most cases) – do we know how much longer they would be or an estimate if this change was put in place?

Thanks

The class stacking restriction (along with forced amulet builds) is a mediocre and lazy attempt to balance PvP because it merely sets hard restrictions on professions and builds. It demonstrates the severity of the game’s balance flaws.

A better solution would be to critically analyze every trait and skill for all professions- and perform an interprofessional and intraprofessional minded balance rework; but that seems like it’ll never happen.

just make it so necros and thieves can’t uddy up with each other into my bloody matches… 2 necros on 1 capture point is pretty cancer and ebola to try and contest

You guys do realize that all this would come with a huge drawback: longer wait-times. It’s simply not possible in ranked, since ppl can switch the class before the Match anyways, so they’d have to change that as well, which creates more problems since you wouldn’t be able to react to your opponents comp anymore (which is IMHO a good thing for sth. like leagues).

I’m happy about that.. at least this way MMR can be fixed – and worked out properly.

You gotta disable class swapping of people will just que on a diff class to get into a match the. Swap to what they wanted to play anyway. And that’s not going to happen, so no point asking.

I am happy if we stop people class swapping mid match tbh – or at the start.

Yes please, remove the stacking.
Have the matchmaking make teams with at most 1 player of each class and prevent players from joining back into the game if they switch to a character that is of a class already present in the team, still allowing switches to other classes.
It would be great if the game could be balanced so that each class is equally valuable, but that’s not the case and stack-prevention would automatically help balancing the game and remove cheese.
This would also make timers longer for more desireable classes and timers shorter for less desireable classes and would thus also balance how many plays each class depending on how long they want to wait. A good or a bad thing depending on how you view it.

This is so annoying.. Please fix!