Guild Wars 2

Division should not affect matchmaking cause it takes no skill at all to get to legend, you can party vs soloquers, play with ambers, tank mmr, just play alot of games till you get lucky everyone can do it one way or another.
I have tons of people on friendlist with who i have played matches together for past 3 years and who are on similiar skill level but i havent seen them in any of my games since league started because they dont want to farm alot of games and are 2-3 divisions below me, so instead i get other legend players who i have never seen before and obviously they are not very good.
Maybe im just having short term memory and i dont remember about past games but it really feels that with every division im seeing more bad players in my games.
I dont mind playing with emeralds or sapphires as long as they know what they doing instead of just farmed stronghold with party.

S2 should parcially solve the problem of ppl being on divisions were they dont belong due to the fact that ppl will not be matched against players of the same mmr, but players of that same division, so bad players will be usually matched against better players and lose. Exploiters will still be on higher divisions tho

agreed, it takes 0 skill to get to legend, i’ve seen so many diamonds who have no idea what they doing..
the old MMR leaderboard before grindboard and division was the best..at least in match making wise

You say this but, 98% of the people on this forum are in sapphire.

Leeto.1570:

Maybe im just having short term memory and i dont remember about past games but it really feels that with every division im seeing more bad players in my games.
I dont mind playing with emeralds or sapphires as long as they know what they doing instead of just farmed stronghold with party.

I agree, playing at high diamond/low legend is a very depressing experience on EU currently. I’m now 8 pips away from legend playing the same way as you do (100% solo, 100% conquest) and it sure feels like matches in early-season emerald/sapphire were more competitive and had higher-skilled players. It’s a surreal experience to rise in ranks and simultaneously see the match quality drop, sometimes drastically. It devalues the whole ranking experience. I die a little bit inside every time I see a bunker tempest suddenly decide he is a roaming DPS class and go +1 enemy far node, letting mid get decapped for free. It’s like these people are aliens and their only purpose on earth is to rob pips from their team mates.

Amber shopping will be gone for season two, thank god, but as long as Stronghold gives out pips, legendary rank won’t mean much. Currently, there’s only two things you can say of any legendary player for sure, unless you know how they climbed the ranks. One is that they spammed a considerable amount of games, and the other is that their win rate is above 48%. How’s that for devalued honorifics?

For my money, Anet should scrap the whole pip grind and sort players into divisions by their MMR. Add visible MMR and permanent rating decay, and we are golden. One can dream, right?

I think some people try to look like they’re not trying to throw the game. Taking their time to get to point and not putting up much of a fight. Or sit on home the whole game and get downed whenever anyone contests it. You’d get less verbal abuse for being a bad player than people knowing you’re playing bad on purpose.