Guild Wars 2

I just read this new article which talked about the new pvp overhaul and it hinted at how team and solo arenas have been combined again. I thought, “surely they misinterpreted the release notes.” So I check the official notes and it seems to confirm the article’s claims. I… just can’t believe it. I just need confirmation. Did they merge the modes into a single queue? Why would they do that?

Yes they did. Apparently they did it to reduce the teamQ time waiting for a match.

Sadly enough they are too clueless to realise what this will cause to the game.

I’m sorry that used the word ‘clueless’ devs, but when this is a major issue in most MMO’s, and you have succesfully avoid it for 2 years now, you don’t just create it without looking at the consequences…

Yes and no…

SoloQ, as in the button, has indeed disappeared… However, the thought behind this was introducing something that is called “Unranked Que” which enables people to “practice in a 5v5 setting without the hassle of finding a team and getting teamstomped”…

The way I personally see it is that “Unranked” replaced Solo Que and “Ranked” replaced Team Que… Difference in “Unranked” is taht it is possible for teams, or 2-4 people to sign up for it…

Now before you freak out about it, I did test it yesterday, though my experience was brief since I had limited time…

I played 3 matches…
One of which I got teamed up with 3 Shatter Mesmers, one Minion Master Necromancer and myself, a Meditation Hammer Guardian… Now I realized that the class system and matchmaking is currently being worked on, so I took no offense in it – though I lost since there was no room for us to freely cap and hold two points…

The other two however were balanced in termms of classes for both the enemy and me (One of which I had two DPS Rangers and two Thieves, which I still considered better than three Mesmers) – and we managed to win those matches…

Overal W/L Ratio is 2/3 – Which is a rough estimate as to what I had in SoloQ…

In short, yes SoloQ is gone, but they are working on it to make the experience the same within the current format they have… As it stands, Unranked gives the same reward progression SoloQ did, and as to my experience the same matchmaking now as well (despite it being wonky)

Edit:

Mape choices were as following:

• Match 1: Skyhammer, Courtyard and Khylo
• Match 2: Forrest, Temple, Spirit Watch
• Match 3: Forrest, Legacy, Courtyard

They simply wanted to defragment the PvP player base in order to optimize queue times.

Sacrificing doves to feed the swine.

The title of Unranked isn’t clear though. What solo queue player wants to play a match that is technically pointless? They solo queued before because they wanted a form of competition without a team…unranked is the same as hot join basically.