Guild Wars 2

I’m in T6 diamond. Since starting T4, I have had 30 min long queues or more (besides games where the 10 people re-queue at the same time).

The only way for me to reliably get a queue pop is to party with people who are below my division, which makes it easier for matchmaking to find the rest of the 10 players. But that obviously puts me at a disadvantage, because I have to queue with a lower ranked player, who is also not benefiting himself by helping me.

Its pretty clear this is bullkitten. Am I THAT much better than the division lower than me that I cannot be queued with Ruby players if there are not enough diamonds?

Please fix this, I have easily spent 2x my actual playtime in queues this season. Yes, I’ve tried re-queuing, and I’ve tried letting it run. There just aren’t enough players for me to queue with. I honestly have never been this frustrated at Anet, or matchmaking in general, than I am in these 1 hour+ queues.

Dude you no lifed to diamond. There’s barely enough ruby players on to que unless it’s prime time. You’re gonna have to wait for people to catch up.

claytonmorby.3751:

Dude you no lifed to diamond. There’s barely enough ruby players on to que unless it’s prime time. You’re gonna have to wait for people to catch up.

No lifed? ? Dude, that’s uncalled for. The OP is obviously a high skilled player who is where he should be. OP, I hope it will get better for you by the end of this week.

I know he’s a skilled player, but that still means he’s played close to 150-200 games in less than a week.

I played 2 hours a day and 1 weekend lol. Prolly around 5 losses total before I got to where I am now.

I’ve played with you clayton, you’re a necro right?

Edit: maybe 3 hours a day

I play several classes. And how long did you play on the weekend?

claytonmorby.3751:

I play several classes. And how long did you play on the weekend?

I dont really want to make this just about me because its been happening to other players in my division too, but I probably played around 16 hours total on the weekend.

Torafugu.1087:

yes. got free win streaked up, and then have no one to play against.
S2 at its finest.

This was in no way a free ride. I kept a roughly 80% win rate all through diamond against esports players like Eurantian and Esportacus, etc.

The simple fix is to match me up with the tier below if there is a shortage of players online in my division. Like I said, the skill level can’t be and isn’t too large

Yeah in no way did aether get up there for free. If anet took gold from me everytime I got him on my team I would still take him.

That being said your argument is kinda self defeating man. You are clearly one of the top players in the game and if you’re playing more than euratien, Chaith, etc. there’s not gonna be that many people left for you to play. I mean unless the game pulls people like that from ruby you’re just going to slaughter them.

I appreciate the compliment, and point taken. I guess I’ll practice in dueling servers until people catch up, but it just seems like Anet could come up with a better system than to leave their more competitive players in insane queues, waiting for enough of them to show up.

I mean, sure it only affects like 30 players in NA (idk about EU), but they’re the 30 players who played the most and put in the most effort. There has to be a better way than to basically give us the middle finger and tell us to wait for others to hit our division.

That being said, I do like the rest of the matchmaking this season, and it does look like a complicated (and perhaps small) issue to fix.

No I completely agree that it sucks and needs a solution, sorry for being a kitten just my natural state.

I took a break for a day and because it was the same exact 10-12 people for like 12 straight matches in ruby. I think what this season clearly shows is that the divisions themselves need to be reworked. The population can’t support the number of divisions and tiers to have good matchmaking. Also if people like us are on a 12+ game win streak, then kitten maybe we should skip emerald and sapphire. But oh wait that can’t happen cause anet made a hybrid reward track/league instead of a true competitive ladder :p

I feel your struggles bro because I’m in the same boat haha.

It’s especially unfortunate because I’d love to stream, but I don’t want people waiting 30+ minutes for me to idle in the mists.

The solution that I do is just take a break and duel people or practice other things and scrim other teams, but I understand solo Qers don’t always have the option to do these things, so it’s unfortunate.

Aether the Nob.9172:

I’m in T6 diamond. Since starting T4, I have had 30 min long queues or more (besides games where the 10 people re-queue at the same time).

The only way for me to reliably get a queue pop is to party with people who are below my division, which makes it easier for matchmaking to find the rest of the 10 players. But that obviously puts me at a disadvantage, because I have to queue with a lower ranked player, who is also not benefiting himself by helping me.

Its pretty clear this is bullkitten. Am I THAT much better than the division lower than me that I cannot be queued with Ruby players if there are not enough diamonds?

Please fix this, I have easily spent 2x my actual playtime in queues this season. Yes, I’ve tried re-queuing, and I’ve tried letting it run. There just aren’t enough players for me to queue with. I honestly have never been this frustrated at Anet, or matchmaking in general, than I am in these 1 hour+ queues.

We are all rooted on the same problem, you for one will have no people to que with, hell even sapphire people have trouble getting out of sapphire because of the abyssmal matchmaking. Blame it on the matchmaking, the longer people are stuck in lower divisions not because of being unskilled, but the ques being mostly dependent on luck, the longer time it will take for your situation to go on and on and on.

So literally like once you hit diamond this happens? Cause I’m like a match away :/

Hate to brake this to you, but match times are getting longer in each division, Emerald was between 5-10 minuets last night.

Sometimes my ruby queues are like 30 minutes.

I guess I’ve been lucky, ruby has never been longer than 8 for me.

meanwhile everybody is climbing on top of each other, and kittening in the lower tiers. XD

Lot of player have stop ranked pvp do the MM system,long queue only happens to games with low player base.

Killface.1896:

Lot of player have stop ranked pvp do the MM system,long queue only happens to games with low player base.

This. After days of losing streaks without any way or method to get out of it I’ve thrown in the towel and honestly wouldn’t blame any other player(s) in a similar position doing the same. Anet really done kittened this one up.

I got legend yesterday and I could write my thesis,travel to Australia and build my own home between the ques

How have you not gone insane? O.o

When I reached Diamond T5 I just did some university stuff during the queue-times, so it was fine

these is what pro player want…and not you cannot be grouped with more then less of 7 pips from you.(or over if some one exist…)

There are not ever going to be all that many players in the diamond or Legendary ranks. The GW2 PvP player base is not large enough.

And with the guaranteed loss blowout problem in amber/emerald, people seem to be leaving ranked.

Most likely because of the matchmaking system is super dumb for a lot of times, a lot of average to lower tier players simply quit. Even high tier sapphire and ruby games are taking 30 minutes to find sometimes.

The longer the queue timer, the less people will play, the less people play the longer it gets.
Does this remind you of the matchmaker ?

No way! This is a healthy, populated, competitive environment its………your bad.

but yeah most people don’t play ranked anymore (including myself), that’s what happens when you screw the majority in favor of the minority. The system is WAI.

The long que times is probably a direct result from the pvp population. Many have quit since the new stellar match making. The lobbies arent nearly as filled as last season. Maybe this is where they wanted pvp to be. This is probably why most are paired with the same player as well. You cant mix it up when noone is there.

lol im at diamond and queues are fine, and i pretty much 9/10 soloed my way there, didnt even try to get diamond i ws just doing the acheivements 10 wins per class and 60 wins :P

Wow that sux man…(Gratz on your high position BTW)

But let me play devil’s advocate. Im not sure the ruby guys on your enemy team will be happy to see on the opposing team if they widen the MM range to reduce your queue times.

As more people progress up the ranks hopefully your q times will get better.

S2 is punishing your win streaks.

Aether the Nob.9172:

I’m in T6 diamond. Since starting T4, I have had 30 min long queues or more (besides games where the 10 people re-queue at the same time).

The only way for me to reliably get a queue pop is to party with people who are below my division, which makes it easier for matchmaking to find the rest of the 10 players. But that obviously puts me at a disadvantage, because I have to queue with a lower ranked player, who is also not benefiting himself by helping me.

Its pretty clear this is bullkitten. Am I THAT much better than the division lower than me that I cannot be queued with Ruby players if there are not enough diamonds?

Please fix this, I have easily spent 2x my actual playtime in queues this season. Yes, I’ve tried re-queuing, and I’ve tried letting it run. There just aren’t enough players for me to queue with. I honestly have never been this frustrated at Anet, or matchmaking in general, than I am in these 1 hour+ queues.

Division system is flawed because it’s based on GRINDING wins.

They need to revert all the division and league stuff, GRINDING is bad for a skill based games.

They should do something like:

Remove PIPS from the LEAGUE.

Put back the OLd MMR 2014 skill based system.

Give Legendary to the top 1 to 200, Diamond to 201 to 400, Ruby to 401 to 600, Sapphire from 601 to 800, Emerald from 801 to 1000 and Amber are unranked.

So, you will get your BADGE and Legendary stuff REALLY for your SKILLS and not because you GRIND the SLOT MACHINE.

Anet will need to change some of the achievement because obviously people will go DOWN from one Division to the others and goes UP way more. But it was really feeling good to get WINS versus Rank 200 or less players.

That way, you will not have to wait for people to grind wins into your DIVISION.