Guild Wars 2

…no distinction is made whatsoever to obtain balance (in terms of group sizes) between the two teams, correct? It will opt to pit a team comprised of 4/5 players queued together against complete randoms if that’s the fastest pairing the queue can find to commence a match?

I genuinely ask this because I want to farm out some of the map-based meta achievements more casually in Unranked, and I feel that the quality of the matches I’ve been getting have been so completely skewed and lopsided one way or another, that I don’t know if it’s legitimately worth trying my best to play these out when it seems the matchmaking makes no attempts to prioritize skill/hidden MMR (assuming it is still a thing for Unranked) between the players in the lobby.

If that is the case, I’d rather just take my chances and do things in Ranked, because without any effective incentive to play well in order to get within a bracket of players that give good-quality matches, I might as well do Ranked where matchmaking balance is implicit within the ground rules of that mode. If true, that would also make Unranked a largely worthless mode outside of testing goofy/experimental builds (which can done in Ranked play so that point isn’t strong).