Guild Wars 2

I reached top 30 EU leaderboards SoloQ and finally thought it was time to play with the big boys. I got a r20 elementalist in my team with 12 tournament games played. And he only pushed far and responded to me in French. Playing during primetime EU. How is this acceptable in any way?

You should just have mentionned that he was playing ele. That alone is unacceptable.

Only people really doing SoloQ at the moment are PvE players doing their dailies etc.

I would wait till April 15th if you don’t want to go ‘wtf why is this guy in this game?’

by some miracle last night in soloq I got some really great matches. Mostly everyone on both teams were ranked players, and the occasional lowbie that was at least good enough that the matches were all very close. several games were decided by less than 30 points or so.

didn’t even get any 4v5s at all. wish that was the case more often.

It’s a little bit of both, but they feast on each other making the problem worse.

Ratings are too volatile, so you end up paired with much weaker or stronger players. Losing/winning because of that is not fun. So you stop playing or don’t play as much. Less players means the chances of having that skill mismatch increases. Cycle repeats.

In addition, the reward return for hot join is lacking, so quite a few people that may do solo join actually solo in team queue.