Guild Wars 2

Seems like there’s some dissatisfaction with the psuedo solo queue that’s been implemented. I favor a totally split solo/duo and team queue as well, but I’ve actually had a pretty good experience solo queueing so far.

I think the ranking system starts everyone off at zero and moves them up from there. So right after the patch hit, all those 50+ premades were still at zero ranking. From now on, though, all new players should queue against other people with a very low ranking. Is this correct?

I still favor a separate solo queue but maybe this is a viable alternative for now. Only thing I can’t figure out is how we’re supposed to switch from joining team to joining solo. Won’t we face the same level of opponents?

it still needs work, solo queue should never be aloud to play against premade players, esp when MMR is involved. And the spvp kind of died overnight when this patch went up (if you didn’t notice), like 90% of the competitive players/teams stopped playing, so that’s more likely the reason as to why you are seeing less premades in tournaments.

Idk I honestly just hope someone makes a private server with just the mists, balances the skills, and just puts a normal queue, ranked team queue, and ranked solo queue, and ladders. Hell if they could even get a ghetto spectator mode/custom games implemented, the server would get more traffic than retail GW2.

Perhaps I will host a balancing video with the top players of each class, and a dev or player from another game to rationalize balancing for skill, and then send it to the jons. I rely think the main reason everyone rage quit was the lack of promises kept for balancing, we all want to stop playing these boring cheese builds, but anet won’t nerf them so the game just gets more and more stale.
Could you imagine if backstab was nerfed by 60%, but they added an effect like “block next 5 atacks” to cloak and dagger, and maybe increased the range on heartseeker by like 100, this would make s/d, d/p, d/d, and maybe even every other wep set viable for thief.

tldr: spvp is dead, therefore no premades are playing. Anet’s ability to balance this game is laughable, and I hope someone makes a private server with just ranked/unranked/custom games + spectator mode so we can get esports going here.

Zodian.6597:

it still needs work, solo queue should never be aloud to play against premade players…

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…Could you imagine if backstab was nerfed by 60%, but they added an effect like “block next 5 atacks” to cloak and dagger, and maybe increased the range on heartseeker by like 100, this would make s/d, d/p, d/d, and maybe even every other wep set viable for thief.

Agree with both top points. All I’m saying is this patch may carry us over for a couple months. Viable short-term solution.

That would certainly change thief gameplay by a lot. It might even draw a few pro thief players back who were disappointed that they only had one real tournament build. I’m guessing one or two thousand WvW players would quit, though. The culling abuse level would go through the roof. Anet quite simply cannot get more diversity to tournament thieves until WvW culling is fixed.

@Oni: yeah, that’s why I don’t queue for anything in the middle of the day. I’m guessing primetime will be populated enough that 75% of the teams Curse stomps will be pretty good premades, but if I’m wrong, the population is lower than I thought. To be clear, I know there’s a lot that still needs changing, but that’s why the title of the thread is “join solo is okay most of the time now.”

Yep, solo queue is actually very enjoyable 99% of the time.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Zodian.6597:

it still needs work, solo queue should never be aloud to play against premade players…

-snip-

…Could you imagine if backstab was nerfed by 60%, but they added an effect like “block next 5 atacks” to cloak and dagger, and maybe increased the range on heartseeker by like 100, this would make s/d, d/p, d/d, and maybe even every other wep set viable for thief.

Agree with both top points. All I’m saying is this patch may carry us over for a couple months. Viable short-term solution.

That would certainly change thief gameplay by a lot. It might even draw a few pro thief players back who were disappointed that they only had one real tournament build. I’m guessing one or two thousand WvW players would quit, though. The culling abuse level would go through the roof. Anet quite simply cannot get more diversity to tournament thieves until WvW culling is fixed.

@Oni: yeah, that’s why I don’t queue for anything in the middle of the day. I’m guessing primetime will be populated enough that 75% of the teams Curse stomps will be pretty good premades, but if I’m wrong, the population is lower than I thought. To be clear, I know there’s a lot that still needs changing, but that’s why the title of the thread is “join solo is okay most of the time now.”

remember, they can separately balance pve and pvp skills :]
i’m not too concerned about wvw, it’s doing fine. Frankly, i’ts been getting more and more embarrassing to affiliate myself with this games pvp, when I tell my friends from sc2 and LoL I cover gw2 for a professional gaming network they /lawl. And it’s rely sad because this game would go SO far if they just tweeked a handful of things (that have been mentioned over and over on the forums) and added in spectator mode or atleast custom games.
That’s why i mentioned earlier that I hope someone just makes a private server for pvp, it truly feels like anet is sitting in a dark room and we’re all running around with flash lights asking them why they can’t see, its frustrating.

Let’s hope for march. :p I think they had some adjusting to do to their plans due to feedback we gave on the 2-team rounds, etc.
I wonder how it’s going with custom arenas, I tought they said they were in testing a month or 2 back.

Anyway, the tournaments are almost where they need to be.

even us(cn) didnt play since thursday so ye it has nothing to do with the queue being better just noone is playing.