Guild Wars 2

I’m currently Gold tier 1:

I’ve seen quite a few posts that say they lose lots of rating. Instead I lose only like 18 rating and have balanced matches, but under closer inspection I could see that these close matches are the result of me and usually only 1 other player trying their hardest.

For example: I played fresh air tempest and got matched with a normal team: 2 dh (yeah, “normal”), 1 healbot ele, 1 mesmer and lastly me as fresh air. The healbot ele has no idea how to play his spec, he pushes far solo instead of healing his team (and everyone wipes mid, duh), mesmer goes into mid point instead of going close and trying to beat their scrapper there (again, mesmer isn’t that great in teamfights, yet he doesn’t want to go there and rather dies in the teamifight), 1 dh just stands on point spamming traps and the last dh actually knows how to rotate, he probably won us something like 150 points himself alone (for real tho, everyone thinks mid teamfight is the most important thing about ranked, instead of winning side points, splitting the enemy team and then pushing mid to win that). Since I see everyone dead on mid, I run close, kill engi and decap. I keep running around, decaping and killing players, but only that one dh gets the rotations (which emphasises the importance of a tutorial for ranked) which means we lose.

So, the match ends with 440-500 (pretty close, right?). I only lose 18 rating, but this happens match after match. Close games, bad people and very low rating loss. How do I lose so little, but get bad players so often? Sometimes the scenario is the exact opposite, except on enemy team (enemy team has 2 ppl good and 3 baddies)

gold players are free kills, playing a proper bruiser build can easily let you do 1v2 or 1v3 while your team no matter how incompetent will crawl around and capture empty nodes