Guild Wars 2

Legendaries -> Start in Diamond Following Season
Diamonds -> Start in Ruby Following Season
Rubies -> Start in Sapphire Following Season
Sapphires -> Start in Emerald Following Season
Emeralds / Ambers -> Start in Amber Following Season

From the Start of the season this will make matches statistically more balanced for players of all skill levels.

Its redundant to start Diamonds and Legendaries together in Sapphire.

Based on the current model, as a Diamond player you might as well not play the first 1-2 weeks so the majority of the legendary players can rank up out of your hair (which implicates an imbalanced placement system).

They need to make it possible to lose tiers after 5 losses in a row at bottom of tier. Meaning if you win lose lose win lose lose you cannot be demoted but if you lose 5 in a row at the bottom of diamond or legendary, you should not be there.

If they don’t fix this fast, they never will be able to be competative because players will demand grind based ranking and quit once they get legendary and realize they were never legendary players. It will be depressing for more and more players the longer the devs delay this change. At some point the devs won’t be able to change it because of damage to the playerbase and the game will see its ESL ranked die while they are suck between a rock and a hard place.

NO PIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Legendary has just been grind based, not skill based, so doing this won’t do kitten to balance matchmaking or anything.