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I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
….. And Elementalist.
Dear Anet: Please say anything.
Things aren’t as bad as they were last season. Now that’s a step forward. The placement tiers need more but but sure are way better than what we’ve had. The classes are more balanced. You can’t really make this game perfectly balanced. Matchmaking is better but needs solution to pick right class mix.
The big negatives I see are around d HoT. Elite spec is poorly designed in general. We accept it as we don’t have much options ; at least till next expansion. Build diversity may return one day with signification changes.
I quite like the ascended rewards. No harm pipe guys farming it. Even in raked. I’d rather have a wider community than the niche pvp elites alone. Let them learn. Not having to get gear from pve is surely a bonus.
Things aren’t as bad as they were last season. Now that’s a step forward. The placement tiers need more but but sure are way better than what we’ve had. The classes are more balanced. You can’t really make this game perfectly balanced. Matchmaking is better but needs solution to pick right class mix.
The big negatives I see are around d HoT. Elite spec is poorly designed in general. We accept it as we don’t have much options ; at least till next expansion. Build diversity may return one day with signification changes.
I quite like the ascended rewards. No harm pipe guys farming it. Even in raked. I’d rather have a wider community than the niche pvp elites alone. Let them learn. Not having to get gear from pve is surely a bonus.
The league system is garbage right now. You have people that where division 6 for the past 4 seasons and now they’re pulling 1300-1500 ratings. You have players who are ranking into 1500-1600s after 10 games when their skill doesn’t reflect that and it costs people the games they’re playing and snowballs from there. Playing this season makes me want to spoon my eyes out.
Leafmender, Leader of Lion Knight.
Zoe Nightmare (Necro)
Zoe Nightmare (Necro)
Things aren’t as bad as they were last season. Now that’s a step forward. The placement tiers need more but but sure are way better than what we’ve had. The classes are more balanced. You can’t really make this game perfectly balanced. Matchmaking is better but needs solution to pick right class mix.
The big negatives I see are around d HoT. Elite spec is poorly designed in general. We accept it as we don’t have much options ; at least till next expansion. Build diversity may return one day with signification changes.
I quite like the ascended rewards. No harm pipe guys farming it. Even in raked. I’d rather have a wider community than the niche pvp elites alone. Let them learn. Not having to get gear from pve is surely a bonus.The league system is garbage right now. You have people that where division 6 for the past 4 seasons and now they’re pulling 1300-1500 ratings. You have players who are ranking into 1500-1600s after 10 games when their skill doesn’t reflect that and it costs people the games they’re playing and snowballs from there. Playing this season makes me want to spoon my eyes out.
Previous season divisions mean nothing at all since they were just a grind. People that rank high with only a few games do so because in theory they faced higher rated teams. It’s not just about win/loss rate, it matters who you win/lose to. As for placing in top 250 on the leaderboard with so few games played, it appears to be a mutually agreed on point that it needs to be addressed.
Things aren’t as bad as they were last season. Now that’s a step forward. The placement tiers need more but but sure are way better than what we’ve had. The classes are more balanced. You can’t really make this game perfectly balanced. Matchmaking is better but needs solution to pick right class mix.
The big negatives I see are around d HoT. Elite spec is poorly designed in general. We accept it as we don’t have much options ; at least till next expansion. Build diversity may return one day with signification changes.
I quite like the ascended rewards. No harm pipe guys farming it. Even in raked. I’d rather have a wider community than the niche pvp elites alone. Let them learn. Not having to get gear from pve is surely a bonus.The league system is garbage right now. You have people that where division 6 for the past 4 seasons and now they’re pulling 1300-1500 ratings. You have players who are ranking into 1500-1600s after 10 games when their skill doesn’t reflect that and it costs people the games they’re playing and snowballs from there. Playing this season makes me want to spoon my eyes out.
Well the reason that people from legendary in previous seasons are landing in platinum or less is because they weren’t really legendary. It just proved you knew how to grind matches until you went on a win or lose streak, and it didn’t help that there was no backwards progression.
This season people actually have to win their matches consistently to be placed in legendary, and you have to admit, most of the names you see in the top 5, 10, or 25 are recognizable if you’ve been around for a while. That means that the league system is working as it should.
However, having 10 matches to be placed in top 100 is NOT okay or representative of skill as you said. Maybe if they did something like…. Need 10 games to place, need 20 games to be top 250, 50 games to be top 100, and 100 games to be anything else. That would prevent people from getting perfect placement matches, getting top 100 or less, and playing one game for the rest of the season.
If you can’t beat it, it is, needless to say, OP
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Things aren’t as bad as they were last season. Now that’s a step forward. The placement tiers need more but but sure are way better than what we’ve had. The classes are more balanced. You can’t really make this game perfectly balanced. Matchmaking is better but needs solution to pick right class mix.
The big negatives I see are around d HoT. Elite spec is poorly designed in general. We accept it as we don’t have much options ; at least till next expansion. Build diversity may return one day with signification changes.
I quite like the ascended rewards. No harm pipe guys farming it. Even in raked. I’d rather have a wider community than the niche pvp elites alone. Let them learn. Not having to get gear from pve is surely a bonus.
The set up of this season is much better…. But I feel there are too many factors that contributing to unfair games.
My perspective is this:
1. Placement games too volatile. Puts people all over the place, including the leaderboards.
2. Starting MMR is that of an Average player. Obviously there is huge skill difference between average players and new players just like there is between ESL levels and average players.
3. Matchmaking appears broken, I’m not a fan of 500-200 games. Also it appears I get fresh players in my games, I’m Silver and many times have people comment about the status of thier Bronze games, how are they even in my games I don’t know but I’m expected to carry that or drop to “where I belong”.
4. Being rewarded for losing – To me this has encouraged the AFK farm, it would be nice if all 5 players on a team were there for the win.
5. Class stacking – Although this one is always on the player to change class, the matchmaking needs to stop putting 3 classes on one side and none on the other, people often play the class they’re best at for PvP and dislike having to switch to something they are less effective with for the sake of the team.
6. Duo stacking – Putting 2 Duo’s on a team but none on the other team.
7. Back to point 3 – Too large of a gap in the matchmaking, Platinum shouldn’t get Gold in their team, just like I, in Silver should not be getting Bronze and same again for Gold, they should not be getting me on their team – Something so volatile has caused so many people to unrightfully lose rating points and IF they were good enough to carry 4 players up, then those 4 players suffer as well in the next match when they lose 500-12. Very demoralizing for that team, very boring for the winning team.
Reasons for wanting to leave the game and rising frustration:
8. The forums – Despite having all these issues and more, some adamant forum users will tell you this is all a perfect system and you are where you belong, completely dismissing the fact that no one is complaining about where they are but more so towards the match making and previous points I’ve put above this one.
9. Silence from the Devs. It would give myself and I guess some others some sort of hope or reason to play into Season 6 if we knew anything at all about the current situation from a Devs point of view. WIll they scrap rating next season? will they improve on it? what are they going to look into? anything at all would be nice.
I mostly play for the new Free-For-All arena in PvP lobby.
….. And Elementalist.
….. And Elementalist.
Honestly, none of these issues are big deal to me. Sure, matchmaking still needs improvement, but it’s way better than last season. Previous Season systems were garbage, that’s why noone cares who was what division then.