Guild Wars 2

I understand now why people only pvp in groups. trying to pvp in a pug is an absolute kittening nightmare of people not having a clue what direction to go in, only focusing on kills and just generally having no tactical sense at all.

Does this improve as I rank up, or will I just always have to be grouped to do well in pvp and have a team with some level of brain power?

It improves a bit, but your personal skill increases as well, so it’s always a bit frustrating. Group play is always more fun and more competitive, plus you can talk with your friends, which is always cool. If you ever play solo, just know the following rules:

1) Never care too much about winning. It’s more about who you’re with and who you’re fighting than your personal skill.

2) Never expect your team mates to win a balanced team fight that you’re not part of.

3) Always say hi and discuss some kind of strat in the beginning. Be friendly and encouraging: a lot of winnable games are lost because someone in your team lost hope. Furthermore, you could make friends you can teamq with later.

4) Never expect your downed team mates to not use their downed abilities when you stealth them. It never works.

5) If you do lose, don’t rage on the noob you had on your team. He’s not responsible for the matchmaking.

Idk how you rank up when with pugs 90% are lost games.

it’s pretty bad at times. speaking from my own experience as I got better I try to carry the bad teams. Most o the time it doesn’t work out but it’s pretty cool when it does.
My advice is when you are in a bad match still try to play the best you can just ignore the score. 50% win rate is doable solo que 100% of the time. Maybe better than at as you get better yourself.

I have nearly 1.5k games on my account and this still occurs.

Sometimes you have to be the one to put your team in a position to win. Without voice comms it is hard to get a team focused on priorities.

I think that was the biggest problem, alot of solo ques who were on a solo leader board now have to que with teams and cant roam around. Also mostly solo que and i still win around 50% of my games. Also i saw onstrich eggs solo queing a few days ago and im pretty sure my team lost to his everytime even though the people he was with were average to say the least. It will take the community to get used to the ques but i for one dont miss solo que and i only hope the people get better at pvp or team up with 1-2 friends and quit being toxic if things dont go your way.