Guild Wars 2

I’m not very happy about it. I haven’t played solo arena since last November before the changes, when I worked up to around 550 on leaderboards. Because I had started a couple months after the original leaderboard release, I had a lot of catching up to do and I worked my butt off (and frustratingly dealt with being on the wrong side of many 4v5s) to get that high. Then I took a break because of RL and just recently came back.

So I did 2 solo arena matches and we won them both. I wake up the next morning to find I’m in spot 10. I thought something was wrong, and maybe 10% was meant at first when I saw the number. How could it be that I jumped straight up to 10th after not playing for so long? It was only 2 matches I won! So I played one more match last night, which we won. This morning, up to the 2nd spot.

I would like to be happy about this “achievement”, but I just can’t be. I shouldn’t have reached the 2nd spot after winning just 3 matches. I’d of course like to think I’m a decent player, but that just felt too easy- especially considering how hard I worked just to get to around 550 last fall. There are plenty of others who have played hundreds of matches who are surely more deserving of this. This system is not rewarding for anyone. Why did this happen? 3 matches, lol…

I believe it’s because the leaderboards have fake decay. You drop when you don’t play, but as soon as you do you will jump right back up to where you were. This is why you’ll notice if you take a week+ break, come back and lose a game, you will still jump way up from the loss.

Not only that but when you see people in the top with less than 20 games played.. you just stop caring. The leaderboard should also decay faster for players with fewer games played than the average.

It’s disgusting – I made a post about it the other day but no one cares.

I think people have given up complaining about it because nothing is going to be done.

Well yeah…. nothing will be done now because, in the future there will be seasons. I just hope the same problem won’t exist then.