Guild Wars 2

more than a week after reset and we still see this… seriously, how far up the leaderboard are you putting new players? It’s not the first game that I’ve had this morning that has been ruined because I’ve had at least one rank <10 not knowing how to

• play his class
• play conquest
• know what any other classes do
• know the map mechanics

In the very near future, there needs to be better barrier of entry, there is absolutely no reason someone this clueless should be anywhere near the top 1000 in the leaderboards.

its possible because there is literally no playerpool and top 100 get matched with random kittens. Either its people who literally play tourneys for the first time or dudes who just play way too much and never stopped sucking. Check the top 100 – you can literally get there with a winratio of less than 50%

as for your question – where new players are matched – according to anet its at top 500 where u are first placed when u enter the game.

When i played the first game on my 2nd account i was matched with pretty much the best top 100 players in the game currently. Nuff said really..

After i won the 2nd game i got ladderspot 15. So yea its pure RNG now – teams are terrible – strats are idiotic – and even a good amount of the actual decent players just go there to kitten around and do kittened kitten. Overall soloq leaderboard is entirely worthless now.

And if i see another entirely kittening incompetent rifle bunker engi im going to kitten him in real life – i swear. (if u feel addressed i can assure you – YES! that means you!)

RaynStargaze.6510:

its possible because there is literally no playerpool and top 100 get matched with random kittens. Either its people who literally play tourneys for the first time or dudes who just play way too much and never stopped sucking. Check the top 100 – you can literally get there with a winratio of less than 50%

as for your question – where new players are matched – according to anet its at top 500 where u are first placed when u enter the game.

When i played the first game on my 2nd account i was matched with pretty much the best top 100 players in the game currently. Nuff said really..

After i won the 2nd game i got ladderspot 15. So yea its pure RNG now – teams are terrible – strats are idiotic – and even a good amount of the actual decent players just go there to kitten around and do kittened kitten. Overall soloq leaderboard is entirely worthless now.

And if i see another entirely kittening incompetent rifle bunker engi im going to kitten him in real life – i swear. (if u feel addressed i can assure you – YES! that means you!)

I don’t think you can truly get top 100 with a win rate lower than 50%. Well, ideally it should only be slightly higher than 50% for everyone in the better board positions. In any case, win rates were not reset. Some people had inflated rates from the old system, some had much lower rates than they should. For instance, when I play hotjoin I almost always join the losing team, and was still able to keep above a 50% win rate. In the old solo queue I was drug down and held down by the team stacking and gave up. When the boards were reset I started again and have since brought my win rate up from 41% to 52.75% and have maintained 50-100 fairly easily. Not sure how many games I have played since reset, probably about 50. You are welcome to do the math on my true win rate if you like.

I do agree, however, that they start players in too high of a starting position and the system becomes to lenient if it cannot find a match. For instance, I was around position 60 the other day and had a friend of mine who is ~700 matched up on my team. Not that I am complaining, he is a good thief and we won the match, but it does make me curious how long it takes before it starts just taking whatever it can find.

You know what’s worse Acandis? R20s/Skyhammer Farmers who are just as clueless, and pretty obviously bad at rotations or fighting, and getting into such games. And on top of that, they think they know the game and when asked what they are doing, they become self-righteous.

It’s perhaps that Rank 51 caused the Rank 7 to be there. Well, the rank doesn’t correlate, maybe. But it IS the high MMR one one of the players that brought that low-skill guy into the mix.

Are you sure that wasn’t someone on an alt account? A lot of players (myself included) have alt accounts to try out new builds in tPVP. If he was a complete newbie, you would have lost by significantly more. 500-300 is pretty normal for temple of the silent storm. It’s very easy to have the score snowball out of hand if one team gets stillness + 2 cap at the start. A good bunker on home and a thief to cap far or mid while the rest push stillness will usually do it…

It’s because new players are given a starting MMR which correlates to about the 500 mark on the leaderboards I believe. It’s ridiculous. Their starting MMR should be 0%. Maybe 25%.

I feel a certain disrespect within the leaderboards. Truly, you should find skilled and experienced players on it. To me, the leaderboards represent those that have a solid performance while in the arenas.

This is why there must be an entry-level barrier before any name should appear on them (minimum number of games/wins, minimum pvp ranks, etc)

To the OP This will happen until the spvp population grows . The lack of spvp players causes this however, things are Chnaging for the better starting on 10th of dec :P

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