If they separate out solo- from team queue, then sure, go ahead and add some “better” rewards to these events. If you are going at it on your own, and are being matched with others who aren’t a full team either, well.. it kinda sucks when you get matched against a premade team. Especially when you are at the luck of the draw on your team being competent enough to win in the first place, not even taking the opposition potentially being premade into consideration. You can be the greatest PvP player known to man, contribute like a champion and be a carry towards victory. On your own in a bad team, you will not win that match regardless. The system does not care for that. The win matters more than how good you are as a individual.
I’m honestly not even interested in trying to “win” these prizes that they are advertising in their latest post. Not because I don’t want them, but because I don’t feel like I’ll have even remotely a chance when I prefer to solo queue and are as such not capable in any way to ensure that my team wins. I can contribute towards victory, of course, but that’s all I can do. “Just make a team” some might say, no, I prefer to solo queue. “That’s your problem” they may say, and sure enough, it is. And as such, I don’t care to try win anything because I prefer playing a certain way. And due to that way of playing, feel like.. there’s not even remotely a chance for me to get anything out of it. So why should I waste my time for eight weeks? I’ll stick with Unranked instead and just play for the fun of it.
If they made a proper solo queue, with everyone having to be solo, alone, and not with someone else.. then I would be more interested to hop into Ranked. At least everyone would be at luck’s mercy with their team. Or maybe they could work on making a system that actually grades you better, based on various factors. Did you capture a point? Was someone from your team on that point already and not engaged, are you wasting time there when you could rotate elsewhere? Did the person on the point rotate elsewhere, meaning you both did something right and potentially equally useful? Did you come to their rescue by being a +1? Are you at Home or Far? Did you engage and win in a 1vX situation? Did you maintain control of a point under the pressure of x targets until backup arrived? Did you bail after y amount of time with many skills on cooldown, preventing a pointless death when nobody from your team came? There’s hundreds of little things that makes a good player. If a system could grade them properly, and give ratings based on that for a leaderboard, I’d be far more interested in participating to try climb it.
I don’t need something valuable to win though. A Mini Llama is fine. As are Glorious Hero armor, though I think that should be reserved for the World Tournament players. I just don’t like the system if I’m honest, and how if you are solo, you are at a massive disadvantage. One player, can not ensure a win if the team they get randomly is terrible. A carry can make a decent team win. But not a terrible one. Like when the Daily makes it so that there’s 3 Rangers, Engineers, Guardians, Warriors, etc. on your team for horrendous comps. Yay for a Daily that promotes players to play on their alts who they are far less likely to be good at. Pretty much no multi class player is typically good at all the professions they play, they are good at one, and maybe decent at others.
