Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

Leader boards have renewed interest and set a reason to have players to come back. This is Great! However, does anyone see the need for another tournament game mode that doesn’t contribute to leader board rating?

For example… does anyone have casual friends that they’d like to tourny with that are starting to be leary about playing with because it might effect their ranking?

I would propose a system that allows almost like the old paid/free where you can queue for ranked game or queue for casual game.

Has anyone noticed the unintended social effect of the leaderboards making people very cautious to … well… just play the game with friends?

What do you guys think? How do we resolve this social divide while allowing for competitive growth ?

I think everyone except Anet has noticed that, but then again they dont actually play so….

Yes, i agree with the OP but also give us random maps or a daily rotation instead of weakly… it gets boring after a couple of hours…

what I do is join the 5v5 on hotjoins although they don’t last long… after 1 player from one team leaves, if he is not replaced in 1-2 minutes the rest of the team leaves as well and the setup is gone…

I still go with friends and i still soloq like before ladder….how?

Just don’t give a kitten about leaderboards, if i want to go solo or with friends (Even low ranked ones) i just go as usual…going with serious guild’s premades only just for some numbers on a worthless list? No thanks…

Archaon.6245:

I still go with friends and i still soloq like before ladder….how?

Just don’t give a kitten about leaderboards, if i want to go solo or with friends (Even low ranked ones) i just go as usual…going with serious guild’s premades only just for some numbers on a worthless list? No thanks…

Your view of fun in the game is different from everyone elses. His fun and many others can be the feeling of competing and racing to the top of the leaderboards so his opinion has a great point. Introduce a real ranked system and a queue system for tournament play that doesnt affect your leaderboard ratings.

Thats why we need good Custom Servers!

Tiger.6284:

Archaon.6245:

I still go with friends and i still soloq like before ladder….how?

Just don’t give a kitten about leaderboards, if i want to go solo or with friends (Even low ranked ones) i just go as usual…going with serious guild’s premades only just for some numbers on a worthless list? No thanks…

Your view of fun in the game is different from everyone elses. His fun and many others can be the feeling of competing and racing to the top of the leaderboards so his opinion has a great point. Introduce a real ranked system and a queue system for tournament play that doesnt affect your leaderboard ratings.

And he is just giving his opinion. If they had a better MMR system it woudn’t matter who you were queuing with because you would always be facing appropriate competition. I don’t know why you would care so much anyway about your ranking most of your wins are probably the exact opposite of what you compain about you queue as a group and face mostly pugs. The whole leaderboard is bogus until they tighten up matchmaking so groups face groups the vast majority of the time.

leaderboard hmm maybe, but check match-making for tournaments

in sPVP topic “This happens when you Don’t Communicate” have nice attachments
no need to read(its +- common that some ppl dont talk) just check both pics
its funny to see it. Didnt play in that game and if some1 start with play with team, you cant always play with team and some(think its a lot) ppl can play for 1-2 hours per day

So they added a new feature to leaderboard, if your not top 1000 you see a % sign.

Super awesome, thank you ANET!

If warriors didn’t get nerfed, we wouldn’t have to have this discussion about leaderboards. :\

There’s also the issue of rank dodging which has become laughably more common since the introduction of the boards. I didn’t realize people cared about rankings in a game with non-existent matchmaking.

PowerBottom.5796:

Thats why we need good Custom Servers!

Listen just check out my post from 5 MONTHS AGO;
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/In-search-of-your-team/first#post559661

It seems to me like the game started on the wrong foot and the same issues are still valid today. The leaderboards mean nothing when 90% of the pvp playerbase has quit 5 months ago and the forum is full of unnecessary clutter.

There is no real interaction in the game. Heart of the mists should not be seperate for each server, instead they should of had districts like in GW1 where eu/u.s players are interchangeable and can join the district/s they desire.

There should be a way of people being able to see the pvp tab of somebody else even if its limited to party/guild.

Guilds for spvp should not count towards your pve guild limits as stated in the post.
Representation of a team should be included in a leaderboard so people will not only work for there own ranking but of a team aswell.

There still isn’t a way for new players to progress in spvp. There still isn’t new modes of spvp.

If anything playing tournaments is like a bonus level completely outside of the game and the current leaderboard makes me laugh, I especially feel bad for the people who limit themselves to play with only four people in the whole game for a spot on that leaderboard.
Not only has the the system turned players bad in terms of skill but of character, the community backing up spvp in this game could not have been hit harder since 5+ months ago.

Oh well the game had potential but we didnt make them enough money.