Guild Wars 2

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Returned to gw2 a few weeks before soloQ and teamQ was ’’combined’’
(also known as when Anet catered to the wannabie tryhard teams who can’t compete on a high level and thus needs unorganized randoms to farm).

I had not played gw2 for nearly 2 years (give or take a few months), but i was enjoying how it all was.

That is, untill ofcourse, Anet took a giant kitten on everyone who enjoyed soloQ, for whatever reason.
My own being that i can’t play with a TEAM, because i can’t let go of the game if i do, i take it too seriously.

The difference between how gw2 pvp was running back when i played actively – and how i was when i returned before the update hit, was night and day. It felt fun.
i didnt understand the meta, but hey – thats what 14+ months away from the game does.

but now?, I’ve kept track of my matches since december 26th.

out of 10 games, it’s almost on-point the same every day.
4-5 games are me, matched with 4 other soloQ’ers. against a pug team, using voice coms.

5-6 games are complete blowouts, usually not in my favor. and even if they are, they are still blowouts – wich ARE NOT FUN…..

and on the offchance that i get LUCKY… LUCKY….. 1 game is even, sometimes my team wins, sometimes it doesnt. THATS fun..

When are you guys at arenanet. gonna wake up and realise that your little stunt does NOT WORK…

sure, it equals out after 150+ matches… really?!.. you expect people . casual or not casual. to power through 150+ matches to ‘’have fun’’ ?. i think i remember something in your manifesto video… how did it go? oh right ‘’we don’t want you to have to grind!’’

REALLY?!?!?!…. wake the F up and seperate these queue’s… its NOT WORKING….

You only have to grind if you want to be on the leaderboards…. if you call yourself casual then you probably shouldn’t worry about them.

It is possible you had your old mmr still? That’s why you had some unfair games.

I must be the luckiest person in gw2 ever this matchmaking has been ok even if I haven’t been able to play much. These are all soloq games as a power necro.

87% 21 NeXeD.3042 S P E E D Starr 16 1 94.12%

@ NeXeD.

I transferred to EU from US a day or two before newyears, before the update i had 1525 paid tournaments played with 1178 of them being wins, for some people these old games carried over to the pvp stats page. However mine didn’t, and having not played for so long. i don’t see how my old MMR would’ve carried over anywhere?.

I mean, i get games where all 5 on my team myself included, are being pitted against a full team with voice coms – who are highly ranked.

I would rather wait 10-50 minutes in a Solo/Duo Q. than get a game somewhere between 30seconds and 50 minutes, and have only 1 game be good in 2 hours.

I get that luck plays its part, but being pitted against people who have partied up and are using voice com, is just not okay in any way shape or form.

I could accept if 5 people who hapen to be good, and know OF eachother. got teamed up and decided to jump on a ts or something that they all know of. thats bad luck!.

but continuesly getting terribad matchups. is NOT funny.. after i returned i was considering getting back into the game eventho theres an upcoming game that im really psyched about… i played gw1 for 5 and a half years.. and have always been a fan of gw2 pvp, but at the time i quit it was too unstable. and there were only 4 teams that was even remotely worth a challenge….

now theres lots of teams.. but instead of them having a queue for themselves. or soloQ’ers having an option to check – that they are fine with being matched with teams. we have randoms who are barely ON the leaderboards.. or barely HAS MMR. being pitted against full teams……

I’ve had the same experience as Wakani. The matchmaking system continually matches pugs against pre-mades without any consideration to the type of advantage that gives the pre-made team. I vote that pug vs pre-made should not exist at all but another option would be to artificially inflate the mmr of the pre-made for matchmaking purposes. At least when they face another pug it’ll be a pug of superior players and the match might actually be even at that point.

I like joining solo and while I could eak out a 60% win rate in the old solo queue system, I’m stuck around 35% in the new system. I played enough games in both systems for it to be statistically valid to look at the ratios and see something is really messed up…