Guild Wars 2

Firstly, I want to say I’m genuinely confused about this, it’s not just a gripe for something different.

I’ve been an active Solo Q’er since it came out, and I understand that you won’t divulge exactly how the leaderboards rank is formulated, but I’ve noticed something in the last week that doesn’t really add up.

I’m rank 50 and have a win ratio of ~60% which is by no means great, but it has always placed me in the top 400 or so, and after a few win streaks, it would bump to the top 25 and decay down if I didn’t keep playing. Great, seems to work pretty much exactly how it was listed. (And it seems that for some people, this is still how it works.)

About a week ago, I checked up on my standings about found that for no discernible reason, my rank dropped to the low 900s. After a few wins and losses (losing ~.02 from the ratio) I dropped off the board completely to 59%.

Ok, so that seems odd to me. The final kicker is that other folks in my guild are a much higher rank with a lower pvp rank and win ratio.

Agian, not trying to complain bout a rank I don’t deserve, just seems like the board is acting weird. If not, could someone more knowledgeable than I shed some light on what might be keeping my rank down? Is the pool of active Solo Qers just 10 fold lager than it was a month ago?

Thanks for the response, but I’m really not sure. I’ve played and even improved my ratio since the last patch and it still seems artificially low…

67 xxx 403 247 62.00% Jade Quarry
306 xxx 25 18 58.14% Jade Quarry
413 xxx 29 24 54.72% Jade Quarry
553 Ben Cheney.2753 84 56 60.00% Jade Quarry

These are my guild mates, the second and third of which I know I’m a higher pvp rank. Should I not be between 67 and 306?

Your win/loss rate doesn’t determine your rank.
PvP rank also has nothing to do with it.

The leaderboards use rating. If you’ve beaten people with lower ratings, you get less points compared to beating people with a higher rating. This way, even with a negative win/loss rating you can be very high ranked.

10-4, thanks for the info.

Ben,

You lost matches to teams with an average rating lower than the average Glicko2 rating of YOUR team. Your team was the expected winner, but lost. That makes you lose a lot of rating. It may not have been your fault at all, but rather the 4 other people on your team not performing up to their rating.

Of course, there are a lot of players on the leaderboard at the moment with a “temporary rating” that starts in the middle…even though they may be clueless about how to play. The system assigns everyone a mid-level rating with they first start SoloQ…regardless of their skill.

So…the good players on a team have to “carry” an entire team sometimes…or see their own rating drop.

It’s not fair, but it’s the best ANet can do because right now there is a core of decent players and what seems to be about 5 times more casuals who pop in and out now and then…many of whom just run around attacking the nearest enemy, without knowing how to actually win the match.