Guild Wars 2

We all know that MM, rankings, and stats are being worked on and will hopefully be coming within the next few months. That’s awesome, and I can’t wait for them to be out. That said, I really hope the stat system is team-based and not individual based.

Right now, paid tournaments are difficult to break into for new teams, and there aren’t enough of them going on even at prime time. Even assuming you get in, it’s rather expensive to keep playing. Other people have already done the math so I won’t do it again, but in order to keep playing paids without running out of tickets, you need to be doing quite well consistently. By definition, only a minority of teams can be meeting that requirement.

Now one thing that I’ve seen top-tier players doing, and I’ve been doing myself a lot recently, is joining up with PUG groups or newer teams for paid tournaments. Since we can generally turn a profit running paids, it’s not a big deal to lose some tickets here and there, and it’s fun to play and help other teams figure out strats etc.

But if stats are individual, and playing with a random team is going to end up lowering your rating and racking up a loss count… we’re going to see less of good players helping out newer teams. This will make it even harder to break into the paids scene.