Guild Wars 2

Soo, do an unranked match, get put with some guy who said he was in his first ever pvp match, deciding he was too good for hotjoin or some kitten, who was so kittening kitten he couldn’t even find the nodes and spent the whole match running round getting 1shotted by a thief and messing around with the trebuchet…

Next match, and we up against Sizer with what I think was a premade judging by their beastly rotations… Seems legit.

At this point I had done around 40 unranked matches. I think I’ve only had like 5 where I haven’t felt like I wasn’t having to carry the team hard, constantly fighting 2v1 whilst the only person I can rely on is my friend who i queue up with, the pugs doing god knows what.

I’m OK with the whole soloq and teamq merging, had some hilarious games where we destroyed some full guild groups with proper comps with a necro, mes and 3 rangers etc, but can we have some system that forces newbies to actually train and get good before they come kitten my matches? I know unranked is meant to be more casual but since matches take so long to get started its kinda annoying once it finally begins and u realise instantly u don’t stand a chance cos of ridiculous variation in skill.

But they’re unranked. Unranked is the new hotjoin. You get nothing from it lb wise, so why worry about new players using it? It’s more of a matchmaking problem than the fact that it’s unranked.

Can confirm this happens a lot. When I go with 2-3 friends we win by like 500-50 or some kittened score like that. When I go alone I get rolfstomped by premades.

Even when I go with friends the pugs we get are bad. I don’t say I’m good or anything but I just had a match where the guardian was afking a node whole match(yet somehow dying as dps guard vs thief from time to time) and even more recently I had a thief who followed me around the map. Literally. He freecapped with me every single node.

“Just go ranked if you want competitive gameplay”. No. Ranked is where the turret engis, venomshare thieves, greatsword warriors dwell. So that’t not a solution really.

What? Venomshare thieves are OP now? Did I miss one meta?

What? Greatsword warriors are OP now? Did I miss one meta?

Benjamin.8237:

But they’re unranked. Unranked is the new hotjoin. You get nothing from it lb wise, so why worry about new players using it? It’s more of a matchmaking problem than the fact that it’s unranked.

Read the whole post, I wouldn’t care about losing if the matches were as fast to join and get started etc as in HJ but they aren’t, plus the atmosphere is waay more serious than HJ cos of all the premades, people treating it like HJ with more loot is the problem…