Guild Wars 2

Current leaderboards and matchmaking are a test. Thank goodness for that because in no way form or shape is this acceptable as “competitive pvp model”.

Now when the real thing hits i suggest to consider Leagues. Right after you consider positively may i add, separating solo and team ranked quques.

Idea is very simple. Based on their performance players get put in a given league after a week. League is a collection of players roughly similar skill level.

At the end of every week player’s perfomace is summed up and some percentage of top players from a given league is promoted to higher one, while at the same time same amount of the bottom dropped to lower league.

With that you’d have means of properly matchmaking people of similar skill as well as a goal for them to work for rather then watching them flail around helplessly as every attempt to raise to higher rank without a premade team is curbed my MMR giving them bad teammates “for balance” or opponents that are way above the rank they aim for.

This has been said a lot allready. Anet doesnt agree.

Arenanet prefers the system where everyone gets matched with everyone.

With test they mean:

This is the system that will be used…..but the exact numbers need be tweaked a bit here and there. So dont expect any noticable difference between this test season and the real thing.

One thing I think they are going to do, only speculation, is the “creation” of a full Team Queue (based on the addition of Guild Leaderboards). I think we will have this system in both Unranked and Ranked but there will be another queue, a full team queue.

The creation of a full team queue would serve as a “sponge” to move premades from the queues we have right now to that full team queue. This is simply speculation.

About leagues… They should maybe, but I don’t know if we will ever see them. But we still have hope because on the PvP forums it says “Structured PvP, tournaments, leagues & events”. #Believe!