Guild Wars 2

That is all.
Anet, I hope you’re happy with your disgusting system.
Just got matched against a full premade with 2 diamonds in it on a full random team.

Not that the system isn’t bad, but you clearly just went on a tilt. It might be frustrating but if you’d just taken a break after a few losses, maybe the rest of those defeats wouldn’t have been defeats.

Shadowflare.2759:

Not that the system isn’t bad, but you clearly just went on a tilt. It might be frustrating but if you’d just taken a break after a few losses, maybe the rest of those defeats wouldn’t have been defeats.

Yes fighting the exact same premade twice in a row and losing two pips on each defeat is clearly my fault and not the system’s

I can’t find something sarcastic or funny (to me) to comment, sorry.

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The pip system is actually great. But the matchmaking is just totally broken. Wich means that if you lose to a full diamond team with one ruby or whatever the game thinks you are in an ‘advantage’ wich means that you have a higher chance of winning, according to the system. So if you don’t, it just takes a way two pips because: You should’ve won, you were in the advantage.

On top of that, the game can’t recognize afk players. Meaning that they have to log out or disconnect in order for the game to calculate you being in a ‘disadvantage’ that will allow you to keep a pip even after a loss. Meaning that if you have 1 or more people standing in the spawn you will lose a pip and they will not get any punishment.

To go further on the afking. If you afk a few rounds you get matchmade with ‘bad’ people. It’s a thing that lots of matchmaking systems from lots of different games do. So basically, if you’re in a new tier ( and you’re in a division where you can’t lose tiers ) and you go afk for a few matches, you will have an easier time winning than if you didn’t.

If you DO manage to win 2-4 games you will get matchmade with higher tier/division players, because you are a ‘good’ player, since you won a lot in a row.
You get matchmade with higher tier players (emerald – ruby/diamond for example) because the system is just flawed. There are fewer players in the higher leagues and thats why lower leagues play against them sometimes (still way more than should happen) —> THIS is why you don’t lose a pip when you play against a diamond player.

The idea behind the system is absolutely amazing. The way it’s made on the other hand is absolute garbage.

Edit: If you group up, the system tries to put you up against another group, wich consists of a similar amount of players. For some reason, it fails to do that. And since team composition is everything in this meta, this is a very, very bad thing.
If you are in a team of 2 or more you will very likely get matchmade against another team, the others in your team will: or be randoms, or will be another party of players consisting of X amount.
However, this does not mean that if you don’t go in the qeue with a party you have 0% chance of facing a party of X amount of players. Wich is very unfair and not fun at all.

Edit: It does not mean that if you lose a match that you lose a pip, you can even win a pip if you lose. The way this works is that, when you are in an advantage (i don’t know how grave of an advantage) you only need X amount of points to not lose a pip and X+Y amount of points to win a pip even if you lost.

For example: I face up against a diamond team while i’m sapphire. We lose but manage to get 400 points. The system thinks that we played very well since they’re a lot better than us, so it gives us a pip. If you manage to get 200 points you don’t lose a pip because you played good.

Keep in mind that these points are not representatives of the real numbers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/match-predict-plz-change-20-39-into-20-49

Vennyhedgie.5369:

Shadowflare.2759:

Not that the system isn’t bad, but you clearly just went on a tilt. It might be frustrating but if you’d just taken a break after a few losses, maybe the rest of those defeats wouldn’t have been defeats.

Yes fighting the exact same premade twice in a row and losing two pips on each defeat is clearly my fault and not the system’s

The matchmaking not separating team queue and solo queue is obviously a problem, but you were definitely part of the reason why you lose all those points. If you’d lost 4 points already against the same premade, why not take a break and wait for a time where it’s less likely to get matched versus the same premade? You went on a tilt and didn’t stop yourself, so the fact that you lost that many matches wasn’t just a problem with the system.

If that’d happen to me, I’d wait at least 5 minutes before queuing again, if not straight up taking a break. That’s how I got to diamond relatively smoothly.