What you say is true but not seeing a systemic problem is almost as bad a troll to tell you the truth. The problem of this system is how you are paired with people when you go solo.
In his case, if his friend his of relative equal strength to him I imagine it can be frustrating and puzzling to witness the result he gets.
However, people who only care about the legendary and otherwise never pvp are a pain in my side this season. I wish they had their own special league…
“In his case if his friend is of relative equal strength?” Well you can’t say that now can you? How exactly do you know they have the same skill level? Another question, how do you know for sure it is the system that causes losing streaks?
A couple other factors go into losing streaks:
Are you or anyone else on the team making an average or less than average contribution to the team or are you a legitimate threat on whatever point you are on and are you interfering with their caps. If you are just average then chances are that you will lose a few times in a row because maybe there is someone on the other that is an absolute force.
Are you or people on your team having a bad day? Sometimes you might be a great player but you are just not feeling it or you are playing with people in that position. This is actually a thing especially in a game where you are constantly required to play at your absolute best.
Let’s be honest a second here. If you play enough pvp/wvw roaming with others you have a pretty good idea of how good you are relative to them.
It is also the same in a match when you can instantly tell which players have enough pvp experience or not. Or when they can or not clearly carry their weight.
More importantly, you are a team. You represent 20% of that entity and therefore, all things being equal, 20% of it’s success or failure. Yet, you inherit 100% of the burden or the boon of the victory in the form of the TEAM MMR. That MMR is actually not really your MMR. Its the team.
If you fall under a certain threshold for a reason or another you will get, all things being equal, a worse team than you previously had meaning you will have to carry even more on your shoulder to break out of the death spiral.
The idea that a player with 5k+ hours on his profession and thousands of pvp matches get to be paired with someone with f2p or the like as if they were equal is ludicrous. Sometimes you just happen to play at a bad time and the available pool of players is your doom. A bad luck you might pay for a very long time. There is absolutely no questions a lot of the people I had on my teams were FAR below my skill both in profession mastery and pvp 101 (what to go for, rotation, etc.).
I had loosing streaks I could eventually break out of and, suddenly, I got partners that didn’t need to be babysit and ended up winning 20 matches in a row only for the day after to try my luck beyond what I should have and get 7-8 lost matches, 2 wins and then more losses. 95% of the time I can easily say that it’s the ppl I get that make all the difference. It is obvious when you do not need to say anything and when you have to beg ppl to do or not to do something very stupid or important..
You also have the example of the people that pvp on 2 accounts and have spectacularly different experiences in how difficult their road are. If they are supposed to be the main problem then how is it they don’t get a similar experience? The system and how it pair you with others will pampered you or doomed you. If you have it easy it will get easier. If you had it hard too often it will be a long road.
I’ve seen both sides of the medal so far and from my POV the system does play a big role in how hard or easy you surf the wave. You better be well placed when the wave comes for you or be prepared to hold your breath a long time.
