Guild Wars 2

Not sure if matchmaking has placed me in a losing streak but I’ve been getting teamed with the worst possible teammates you could think of. I seldom complain and this isn’t personal. But losing 10 or so matches in a row makes me uneasy due to how uncommon it is.

I’ve been getting teamed with a lot of new names where they do one or more of the following:
1. zerg
2. chasing enemies without having the nearest point capped
3. can’t last more than a few seconds in team fights of equal numbers. it’s absolutely deflating seeing your teammates hp be either red or black just after winning a 1v1 at home
4. running away from an even numbered encounter at a point recently capped. they just run away, not caring nor even bother to see that the point is contested.
5. going for Lord early on with little consideration to capping points
6. doesn’t rez even it is safe to do so. doesn’t understand the disadvantage being outnumbered due to teammates at spawn.
7. so much more anti ranked pvp protocol

Not sure what’s going on really. Did my MMR suddenly take a nose dive? Or just bad luck?

I haven’t pvp’d on my main account the past 2 days. Having too much fun wiping teams on noob tier from free account.

I’m having the most loses I had in 2 days due 5v4’s and imbalanced matchmaking.

I’m experiencing similar things. The past two days I’ve seen a huge increase in 4v5s, with nearly every game having at least one player drop halfway through.
What’s weird is how it definitely started with the game going free-to-play, despite there definitely not being any super new players in any of these games. Perhaps the influx of new spvp players caused a bizarre shift in everyone’s mmr in relation to overall matchmaking?

My experience has been the opposite – I’ve been winning a lot of matches to the point that I’m scared for the coming eventual losing streak

I wouldn’t mind if I lost to great soloers. My problem is that Anet will now place me with teams, making me lose unfairly rather than fairly.

Matchmaking is horrible as it has been since the new system came out. That said, I’m not sure if the problem these days is more matchmaking or more that there are so many broken specs.

I’m hoping the balance team starts doing their job soon. We really need to see some life out of them.

I had a hilarious match yesterday where I got FOUR members of the opposing team down on our home point at once. And we lost 500 to 330 somehow.

Ive noticed this also ingame, that the match up’s are really stacked, im on an 8 match losing streak now, every match starts the same then suddenly BAM where 200 points down,

Tonight match me and 1 party member had 4 of the enemies at there home, and yet no one else was doing anything, 1 member spent 90% of the match dead, how can that even be possible.

Kinda giving up on the sPvP for now, I just don’t have the patience to get slaughtered match after match because 1 or 2 people would rather run in circles in the base.

For me, it seems to be very scattered result wise.
Unranked: ~5 Games
First couple went rather smoothly…. maybe a little too easy
Last couple was filled with AFK’rs

Ranked:
Got Demolished the first game, couple new players
Barely won the 2nd and 3rd game, same new players but they listened
3 Blow out wins the last games of the night. No new players, full guild runs.

last game 4 ppl on my team got farmed by 2 guys at home….. all i have to say

with 5 DCer on ranked PvP this day… GW2 is still the WORST PvP experience online.

I was thinking ahead, anticipated most of the stuff you guys said with matchmaking.

Just do what im doing now and create a free account to pvp with.

I reached the r20 minimum in no time and am competing in ranked. What’s absolutely hilarious is that despite having a noob MMR, the system is having me teamed up with some of the usual suspects (veteran pvpers)

I’m sure it will take a new person much longer to reach r20.

All I can wish for is to have more pvp participants but temporarily, it will be at the expense of us old timers. It would also be nice if more ppl participate in forum discussions.

Same, a lot of losses lately with a lot of odd teammates (Read as: afk).

Worst part is that it all started with a warrior that announced in map chat that he was going to afk b/c we had two eles… Like a bad omen or somthing.

Also steel has a point. None of the players I’m getting matched with are new/f2p. I am definately not getting matched with the folks I normally do though (I get matched with the same people often enough that I can normally recognize at least one name per game. If not two or more).

It seems like 10 losses to 1 win (not actual figures). I get bad team comps, bad team members. Whether close (rare) or blowouts, they all seem to go the other way. Whatever my MMR is, it’s conspiring against me. Oh, and this is purely in ranked.

WTF is wrong with matchmaking lately? It has been absolutely horrible. Yeah, I know it has been broken since the new system was put in place, but it has been even worse lately. It doesn’t matter which account I play on. It is plain broken.

I seriously hope there will be a HoT announcement soon discussing how matchmaking will be improved. Right now it is embarrassing.

Yesterday was really bad. I went 2 wins and 7 losses in ranked while queuing solo (EU, prime time). Looking at the scores you might think that some of the games were good (400 to 500 losses), but in reality that was not the case at all. The player quality was abysmally poor and the amount of incorrect plays made the matches a throwing contest to see which side could f-up the hardest. The only thing keeping the scores even remotely close was the staggering incompetence found on both teams.

I haven’t trolled around solo in ranked for a while, so it might be my rating volatility that is to blame. I’ll try a few games later today to see if the trend continues.

I have been in very even matches, most of the game come close to 49x to 49x, win by a stomp count these couple days.

I feel like I’ve had a lot of lopsided games lately on both ends.

I deleted one of my characters to create another and name it – I Hate My Teammates

But sadly it was taken.

Why do people queue and accept ranked matches ONLY to logoff/afk before it begins?

If they endured the annoying screen lock-up to accept the match, they could have at least stayed behind to see if the matchmaking gods favored us.

I hate giving away free wins from 4v5 or some idiot RQing after sitting around 5 minutes waiting for queue pop.

20 matches last night in unranked…generally play ranked solo but was with a friend.

Out of these matches at least three people in the whole game had under 200 AP each time. Out of 20 matches we lost two at the end due to low AP people zerging…No idea what they was meant to do with rotation etc so they just followed others around and ended up 3v1 on close and so forth.

The issue that I had was that it wasn’t a tight win we was winning stupid amounts such as 500-15. Don’t get me wrong shouldn’t complain about easy wins but its kinda unfair on these new players when I’m downing them in a few hits, they should at least be put in matches together to learn with the odd experienced player on each team rather than the current set up.

I fear it will push these guys away from PvP if they lose too much.

I guess the only thing we can do as a community is attempt to educate these newer players so we don’t get shafted later on in matches.

For me it’s weird. When I queue I often get matched with ESL players like olrun, phantaram, acandis, and some Mesmer from best team NA. I also get matched with forum people a lot too that tend to be on the higher end side of things.

But then I also get people who look like they’ve hardly ever played the game that do random things and are really rude. I even had someone ragequit and quit the game yesterday because someone ok our team didn’t Rez him while disengaging from a losing fight.

Well I guess those 7-8 minute queues have to be good for something….

absolute crap

On EU we have that one streaming necro that loves to afk and ragequit when things don’t go his way. He also has fairly decent mmr so i see him a lot in matches. Love when he ends up on enemy team, camping him at begin of the game and so forcing into ragequit is garanteed 4v5.

The sad part, he is living proof that reporting doesn’t work.

Im guessing that’s the necro with the guild fan club. I heard he is more lenient to members of that guild. I’m sure the guild was formed out of fear of him but you gotta admire that EU creativity. I get better matches there than my NA main

Good question.

A: Absolutely terrible.

sPvP is basically a team game. Maps are designed so u can not be everywhere. You have to rely on your team mates to help you win.

I am so frustrated at the moment because if I dont join a full group of freinds we get a random number of people who do not seem to be in our league at all. To be fair, I am not a high ranked player, but I would consider my self an intermediate player.

These PuG players who dont know the basics of thier class, the map or have a basic level of situational awareness make the game incredibly frustrating. Add to that, players who do know better, “give up.” They AFK, or ignore tactics just to look for fights. Some even simply exit the game entirely!

Anet gives time at the begining of each map for a team to talk strats, reveal roles to each other etc… and SOOO many people refuse to communicate. So many don’t even bother to hit the ready button, they just let it time out for no reason at all.

I would say that the match-making system is non-existant. A myth, a lie… a dream for those of us who aren’t the best, but aren’t the worst.

I don’t think its actually active right now to be honest/

I see the match making hasn’t improved any, I seem to get 1 great team where players know what there doing, them BAM 15 games where the players might aswell be running around in circles, it cannot be that every team I come up against is randomly made up where every player every time knows what to do, and where to be, and my team has 2 players that stand at look at each other, its actually starting to put me off PvP.

PPl are busing f2p ,by making alts and hoping to improve their main account mmr.
If they get in same match alt will go afk or sudden dc .
If they dont get in same match alt will dc and just play normaly.
Since it need very litle games to get to r20 and very litle gamse to improve mmr when you have 100-200 games this is easyly done.
Further more since beta char will be wiped players are using this the same way.
It was bad before now its just terible

I had 5 afk dc out of my last 8 fights,and in one of them where i wa playing guard i went mid,while 2 went far a nd 2 went close .
I held mid vs4 for about 20-25 sec and when i revived i saw we lost home and far ,just how????
So yeah skip weakends is only solution, let beta and f2p have their fun alone…

… this all day (I can only carry soo much when fighting in a 5 v 3 and watching all 4 of them die in 3 seconds flat cuz they felt the need to stand in aoe)
Not a single res to be had, I watched a dude(ranger… both) run right by me as I was on the ground outside the mid, apparently he’d rather 1 v 5 than res, died when the rev accidently got me with sword 3 (you can literally see me targeting him to get his attention and calling bandage to encourage him to res)

^^^^^

This x1000, its pretty much how all my matches have been going, and im far from the best at pvp, so I know my team is awful when im the top scorer on the team, maybe F2P accounts need locked out of pvp until they are level 80 and know how a class works.

Guess the daily today? And no it didn’t go well.

Utter Garbage.

Loads of my matches are turning into solos against a team of full arranged guild teams. I still don’t see why they cannot just make 2 queues for this and actually return some form of legitimacy into what is effectively a queue of Russian roulette.

Also, BETA CLASSES IN RANKED MODE? See that legitimacy comment? Why on earth do Anet want to go the esport route when they cannot get that down.

I stick mainly to unranked since I’m beta testing, meh win some lose some. The only one that stick out in my mind thou are the games when me and my friend are fighting 4 people on a point and the rest of my team is going full benny hill after a mesmer/thief.

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… this all day (I can only carry soo much when fighting in a 5 v 3 and watching all 4 of them die in 3 seconds flat cuz they felt the need to stand in aoe)
Not a single res to be had, I watched a dude(ranger… both) run right by me as I was on the ground outside the mid, apparently he’d rather 1 v 5 than res, died when the rev accidently got me with sword 3 (you can literally see me targeting him to get his attention and calling bandage to encourage him to res)

I don’t know what it is with people not ressing.. I do a mist form right next to them, and then they just walk away from me and get into a 3vs1 fight. Asking for a res also doesn’t seem to get their attention. It’s nearly every match like this.

Oh thank God it’s not just me! I went from having about a 50-50 win rate to suddenly losing two thirds of my games.

- My win ratio when solo queue existed was shy of 60%

- Win ratio during first test ladder where I solo queued and went against premades were 54% and finished top 100

- I didn’t participate second test ladder because it was too much grinding

- My win ratio during this beta test weekend is 30%

Something is really really fishy with matchmaking. I hate to say this but I’d rather go against full premades as long as my teammates were veteran pvp pugs like I am.

But teaming with clueless people has really degraded the pvp experience.

It’s good that there are new players and since there are many of them, it would be wiser to have them go against one another instead of looping us along.

Edit: Teams with 2 thieves have a 90% fail rate.

4-6 min queue → Ready/Choose Map bugs out → 5-7 min queue → 1.30 ppl not clicking change status
Match begins – 2 dc, 3 vs 5, score 20-300, ppl recconect, score 500-499 epic win

Worst match ups since I play (2.5 years). I never complained about nothing. Now is just bad. I cursed for the first time I play gw2 during a PvP – people insult now on a regular basis in team and map chat. It will become League of Legend very soon. PvP should be not F2P. Too many smurfs and just bad karma. Very wrong decision of Anet.

Every match is pretty much a blowout and you just pray you’re on the side doing the stomping. Just got out of a match today where my team won 4 v 5 by like 150 points. We were the ones with 4 to be clear. Let me say that again. 4 of us beat 5 of them 500 to 350. In what world can someone disconnect and your team STILL blows out the other team? If we had that 5th man it would have been another typical anet 500-100 “balanced” pvp matches.

edit: this was ranked btw

Honestly, i did not have a single f2p player in my team yet, only a firend of mine whichi qeued with together. Altough I play a lot of matches on a daily basis.
But I got the feeling, that matchmaking got worse the last few weeks. Really looking forward for the leagues.

Yep it gets wose every day,last 3 games was:
dc on1st game ,2nd and 3th game we started losing 150-50 and then every1 went afk???
After 1or 2 min if you are not wining you go afk? This happand occasionaly before but now its just comon thing 2 see.
I log out after this ,i usualy play games to stres releve ,not to stres me out:(

I don’t understand how this system is better than no system. It is terrible.

Tired of teaming up with clueless people.

To me, it’s not about winning or losing – It’s about enjoyment.

I love nail biter matches with very close final scores and knowing that your solo queued pug team did their very best and played as a team. I don’t care if I lose those because the overall enjoyment is worth the wait.

Lately, instead of communicating about strategy on teamchat, I’d ask stuff like:

why are you double/triple capping?

why did you run away from a 2v2 on a point we just capped?

why did you run past a downed teammate w/o rezzing him only to run towards a 1v3 and die?

can you please stop zerging? why are 4 ppl chasing 1 thief?

can you please stop dying in 2 seconds?

this is no longer enjoyable. why am i here?

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Tired of teaming up with clueless people.

To me, it’s not about winning or losing – It’s about enjoyment.

I love nail biter matches with very close final scores and knowing that your solo queued pug team did their very best and played as a team. I don’t care if I lose those because the overall enjoyment is worth the wait.

Lately, instead of communicating about strategy on teamchat, I’d ask stuff like:

why are you double/triple capping?

why did you run away from a 2v2 on a point we just capped?

why did you run past a downed teammate w/o rezzing him only to run towards a 1v3 and die?

can you please stop zerging? why are 4 ppl chasing 1 thief?

can you please stop dying in 2 seconds?

this is no longer enjoyable. why am i here?

Pretty much this. I seem to be getting brand new players on my team versus 2-3 premades and some more experienced pugs. It’s about as fun as a bleeding nose watching your level 2 Ele camp earth attunement and die almost immediately to a strong breeze