Dear anet, matchmaking is a bad joke...
#1 of all #1 players as ranked by a fair and unbiased committee
guildless and toxic
(edited by Mightybird.6034)
Same kitten. It’s a dice roll. 3 kinda of matches: you get all the bad mmr players, you get your (medium most of time) mmr player in team (good/ok chance to win), you get best mmr players in your team (almost certainly win).
Like one time, I personally did almost everything good i could do on thief. I decapped 7x, capped 2x (that had good use cause the point stayed capped for a while), won 3 duels concerning those cap points, +1 4x mid to make the fight go from loosing it to winning it, saved the lord kill. At the end, the ppl decided (with a double cap on our side), to suicide on the point that had 5 enemy players. Score was very close (440 vers 450 from us). The zerg won very quickly, got the points from kills, decapped fast, then zerged me down. Even the boss i stole last second, (25 pointsn for enemy but for my team cause my actions), was not enough to win the match.
After that match i started to think different. Usually i’m between ‘Did i make tons of mistake, could I improve’? and ‘what mistakes did my teammates make’. Now i knew for certain I did (almost) make no mistakes.
With that in mind, Arenanets system is basically at fault for this matchup.
But there’s even worse matchups: afk ppl, leeching ppl, or other ‘worse ppl’ in your team versus slightly higher mmr (to my feeling) enemies. blowout for enmey. The ‘worse ppl’ i mean ppl like a necromancer i met. He litteraly said ‘i have more points then you (pvp score) so i did my job, you are all loosers. You know what he did? He camped close all the game, lost all fights concerning it (he just recapped it on reswpawn). Because of his lack of strategy, the enemy did perfect splits 5 mid (to zerg us) then one player to our necro (who lost all duels), then back to mid, etc, they had 2-3 cap all game because of it. And our team really fought well, at some point we almost won a 3 vs 4 at mid, but a player just in time had a strong cooldown back, wich costed us the battle. The 4 players at the end agree’d, that necromancer costed us the chance to win (not saying we would have won, but we might have been close to win at least (400-500 or closer).
Then suddenly i get 8 wins. 3 first was like the game was trying to compensate for my loss streak (finally) (good mmr ppl in my team). The next 2, were incredible close games, i fought at my edges as thief to mathematically get the most points out of it’s capabilities. I think the game expected us to loss but we beat the system
Then we were 3 points behind in foefire all the time. I moved so fast to 1 to prevent us from a wipe (at start we had wipe at mid). I barely had time to cap/decap. Then they rushed our lord. I first capped a point ( decap of them) to give us a slight score adventage, then run like mad to the lord. I used my best rotations i could to interrupt the enemies (luckely they didnt have much strong cooldowns left), and just before lord died, we stomped them all. Result, the point tick that i realized during the lord defence, gave us the win at that time of the lord defence. A game i think that was meant to be lost.
Then i had two games wich (one) weak enemy player, either afk, or not doing what he has to do for his team. Those were free wins. Then I had the usual win, loss win loss, win loss again for about 8 matches. After that I got 3 loss in row (the enemies i beat a few matches ago in my team now, felt like it was meant to be lost).
A few theories:
Players with medium mmr are in bad spot (system doesn’t cope well for them). Why? The game seems to favor large groups of ‘bad mmr players’ and large groups of ‘good mmr ppl’ (to have them raise faster). Medium mmr is a toss up what the game does with you. Sometimes you get a great medium versus medium match but those seem rare. The game seems to use the medium queue’ers, to fill in the blanks of ‘good mmr /bad mmr) teams. And this plays in disadvantage for fair matches for those players. I had other players like this too, just above average (55-60% win rate if it’s fair matches) sort of players, that get pulled in this kind of way down. Wich raises my suspician this is correct.
The game wants ‘better mmr’ player quicker in higher divisions, using the medium/low mmr brackets as a punishment group at first, to get this action done, rather then let even from start have high lvl ESL players or just below meet each other yet already.
The ‘filler matches’ (aka to much ppl queue, it fills both the ‘good mmr’ and the ‘bad mmr brackets’, but then there’s 2 left overs (a good and a bad team, with nobody else queueing). So it pulls those two together in an unbalanced match. It seems these matches do not count towards the 50/50 ratio the game is striving for. It’s ‘necessary evil’, and in such won’t be compensated cause it would make things even more complex. That is my feel at least.
The best thing is class balance. Though certain setups still have huge advantage over others. I found now a good way to rotate mostly between 2 professions to keep a good rate to be flexible enough in the team yet have good enough profession knowledge to use it in high level pvp. But most profession can now do great things.
Legendary weapons can be hidden now!
No excuse anymore for not giving ‘hide mounts’-option
No thanks to unidentified weapons.
No excuse anymore for not giving ‘hide mounts’-option
No thanks to unidentified weapons.
Your typical average gamer -
“Buff my main class, nerf everything else. "
“Buff my main class, nerf everything else. "
Pacific Islander Legion [NoyP]
Black Gate
Ruthless Legend
Black Gate
Ruthless Legend
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Some must fight so that all may be free.
FOR THE GREEEEEEEEEEEEN
Some must fight so that all may be free.
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All is Vain~
[Teef] guild :>
[Teef] guild :>
(edited by Cynz.9437)