Guild Wars 2

From the release page:

Fight to Keep Your Spot on the PvP Leaderboards

We’ve improved the way that the PvP leaderboards reflect excellence! Inactive players will automatically start to slip down the leaderboards over time, allowing new and active players an opportunity to fight their way up to a higher rank. This means that the leaderboards will more accurately represent the best PvP players.

That’s a very welcome change and ppl were asking for it for some time now. Big thanks to the team for that one!

My question is, is this the only improvement on the leaderboards? In the last SotG(http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/b/410812694 around the 15min mark), PvP programer Evan Lesh talked about new (low ranked) players will not be matched so often with higher ranked players. Also the other big change mentioned in the SotG was the “less volatility” (or “jumping/skyrocketing” ladder positions after a single match). What about them, are they in this upcoming update?
My concern is the “volatility” issue, because now we have to “Fight to Keep Our Spot”, but in the same time, we will be jumping 50-100 or even a lot more positions (i’ve seen jumps of 1000+, from the 96% to top ~500 in exactly 2 matches), which seems kinda contradictory…

I hope someone from the PvP team can give us a bit more info.

Inactive player now going down after the 11june….its good for all pvp players

Thank you for the clarification, Evan!
Exactly what I wanted to hear! And of course, my reaction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykpjFjsEdl4
:D

@ Evan will this upcoming patch have guild leaderboard ?

Decrypter.1785:

@ Evan will this upcoming patch have guild leaderboard ?

How could we have guild ladder without guild rating srsly?

Gandarel.5091:

Decrypter.1785:

@ Evan will this upcoming patch have guild leaderboard ?

How could we have guild ladder without guild rating srsly?

I think he meant like a team leaderboard, not guild.

that’s nice thanks evan

Another quick question regarding this blog post: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-changes-to-the-pvp-leaderboards/
Are the changes live now, or do we have to wait for the next week’s update?

Great =). Was hoping this would happen for long time.

savov.3712:

Another quick question regarding this blog post: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-changes-to-the-pvp-leaderboards/
Are the changes live now, or do we have to wait for the next week’s update?

I was wondering the exact same, it appears they already announced the changes. However, there is no clarification if they are already live or not.

I have to say that they can’t be live yet. Solo que for about 5 matches and watch your rating plummet.

hope it will be better I start tooday with 85% on leaderboard, win 6 time lost 6 times after that I got 76% so…

JonathanSharp.7094:

This has not yet happened, but will be coming in a patch next week.

Thank you for the clarification, Chap! I’m really excited for the patch next week. Right click targeting toggle, leaderboards and matchmaking improvements and I’m hoping for some good balance changes as well. Keep up the good work! (if possible a tiny bit faster )

“Less volatility, better matchmaking, and leaderboard decay”

and whats bout seperate soloQ from teamQ?

YOUR playerz which get farmed from premades in YOUR game by pressing the button “join solo” dont fkn care for volatility or decay or what ever …….. this should be HOTFIXED ages ago

NO other game company would use their players as cannonfodder for premade teams

insane

Actually, they confirmed that solo Q is top priority for them atm, so I hope we will see improvements on this end too.

Can we expect the patch today?

Lupanic.6502:

Can we expect the patch today?

He said next week on saturday, so yes, that would be today. Unless there is another patch this week.