Guild Wars 2

So this patch introduced a mechanic by which, if the match is close and you’ve scored higher than 80% of the enemy team, you can gain rating even if your team lost. Now that’s something, it’s a step in the right direction but…

I feel more could be done, if you’re consistently scoring higher or lower than your teammates, that says something, regardless of win or loss. I feel that should be reflected on your rank gain/loss somehow even if it doesn’t invert it (negative to positive or viceversa). That’s besides the point of this thread but inextricably tied. Since there is little to no personal performance impact on your rating the next point is admittedly mute, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

I was amazed that the one stat that was wiped with the second to last patch was deaths. It’s the single most important stat. When you die, you leave your team in a bad state and that’s the best opportunity the enemy team has to take control of the map. 5v5 and one goes down? It’s a domino from there unless someone else on the enemy team was awfully close to being dead himself. If some dies consistently and quickly, there’s little that team can do to catch up.

Granted, deaths alone shouldn’t be a counter since you can afk and get zero death, but in combination with time spent in combat, time spent defending, etc., it’s the single more valuable statistic and the single most valuable contribution you can make to your team.

umm as a thief I can tell you that not dying stat would be easily abused.

Unless I let myself die, I would never die as a thief. And it in essence would take away incentive to get in a fight for all roamer classes.