So, I had a break from gw2 to come back today and play some ranked games. Out of roughly 7 games, I’ve had:
One 2v5 (essentially 4v5, but 2 people were afk for 80% of the game)
Two 4v5
Premade vs solo in half of the game
As a pug team facing a top team (assuming 3 member + 2 others)
Many blowout games
After these 7 games, I was pretty upset because this was far from being fun and thought how can a new player want to get into pvp and actually learn the game and be better after having a similar experience to me?
There are things that needs to be fixed asap really:
1. Punishing for leaving/afking. I cannot stress enough how important this is. It enourages people to just leave or not play once their team gets a bit behind. On the other hand, sometimes I don’t blame people for afking, since the matchmaking is horrible. Instead of dishonor, introduce deserter. You leave a game > 30 minutes without pvp. You leave another > 45 minutes…etc.
2. Fix this kitten matchmaking. How is it even possible a full pug team can face semi premade team that consists of players who appear in tournies/go to WTS? And I’m pretty sure one or two of those players were fairly new to the game.
3. Stop allowing premades vs pugs. This is just ridiculous, almost every single game I face premade when I’m solo or I face pugs when I’m in a party.
4. Let people do something between queues. Either let us queue from open world or adjust HOTM, so you don’t have to just sit and wait for a 10 minute queue pop.
5. Don’t have such a long time between seasons and/or make sure that there is a difference between unranked/ranked. The last season ended almost a month ago, now unranked and ranked are basically the same, only unranked has the bad maps. I can tell the difference in the quality of matches between playing in season/off season.
6. Balance your game. Remember when you said you’re going to nerf the necro downstate damage? It’s been ages ago since this got broken. I’m really getting tired of getting one shot from all the procs and and ridiculous damage. There is no reason we should wait half a year for this fix. Any fix. Immob mid air, balance, bugs, exploits…
7. Get rid of air/fire finally. You want more people to play your game? Well, then make it not based on procs. I wouldn’t expect a large amount of new players when this is still around.
8. Make it worth getting better. There should be some learning curve, not that you keep getting random matches that are neither fun or challenging. Possibly some decent rewards, too.
I do think gw2 has a potential, but at this current state it’s rather frustrating to play it. I don’t think preparing an xpack should be a reason not to update the game at all. We shouldn’t have to wait months or years for balance patches, don’t make the game stay stale. I took a break and coming back to this makes me realize why I left in the first place, I still care about the game, but come on this is getting out of hand.