Guild Wars 2

I saw many people complaining about some players playing ranked matches only to get their ascendend shards and all the other stuff.

Why not from the next season, make something that the pip reward track progress for each individual only when they win matches. and hey why not even lose some progress when they lose(optional) ! That should motivate every one to actually play to win in ranked matches.

Also you need to have a look at the placement matches, i believe only 10 matches are too few for that purpose and i think that most of the players would agree, just another confirmation.

Oh and last, i believe that it would be very interesting to remove duo que from ranked !
YES ! solo que for everyone ! no more pro duos but each on his own, that would measure the “skill” of each individual player more accurately on the leaderboard !

I agree with everything you are saying. Would like to add there needs to be a metric to measure/reward individual skill. Continuing to rate players based solely on a team effort is a bit a silly.

agree …. It´s ranked. Giving one pip on top stats on loss woudl be ok. And less points lost if you manage 400+ so a close loss.

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Oh and last, i believe that it would be very interesting to remove duo que from ranked !
YES ! solo que for everyone ! no more pro duos but each on his own, that would measure the “skill” of each individual player more accurately on the leaderboard !

Or they could remove all the Solo Queue whiners from an Organized Team Game Mode and make it Duo/Trio Queue only, because you know the game mode is designed around Organized Team play not Solo Queue pugs…

Sure, they could. Enjoy those 45 min que times.

The reason things ended up going towards the solo que individual rather than the team que groups is that it’s far easier and more accessible for people to que solo rather than getting a team together, whether consistently or just pugging it up. While yes, it is a team game, if a healthy majority of the playerbase are barred entry until they meet x arbitrary standard, then you won’t have a game mode anymore. Plain and simple.

Me personally, I’m fine with keeping duo ques in the game, as it doesn’t skew the game nearly as heavily kitten man que vs all pugs once did. There is still a skew, but it is slight. Furthermore I also agree that the PvE rewards (see: ascended) should be locked behind wins. As it stands, a person can throw every game and still collect their free ascended set with little to no ramifications if they don’t care about rank. With loot locked behind wins, it’s either going to A: force the person just there for the gear to git gud to collect it. Or B: drive that person away from the mode altogether. Either I am fine with. There’s also a slight third option that the person can have someone duo que with them and carry, which I have mixed feelings about. As long as it leads to wins, fine I guess?

In any case, if and when you climb above a certain rank, you’ll run into less of these people. I’m bottom tier gold and I don’t think I’ve truly escaped them yet. But they are less common than bottom tier silvers.

broze and lowsilver is so ugly if you want to win …. You can barely carry. Matces are decided who gets the worst player or an AFK er. RANKED is for people that play to win.
Solo/duo is fine. the system itself is much better then we had.