I am sure this has been posted before and will be posted again. The match making system needs to seriously be adjusted and have some developer attention. Constantly we are being matched up against top teir Premades(Leaderboards rank 1-500). The match goes 500 to 40….
What I mean is: I maintain about a 70% on the leaderboards. Several times a day while solo queuing I will be facing teams where 4 of the 5 players are in the top 500 rank on the leaderboards while my teammates are all lower 70% with a pvp rank level of 20 or below.
I don’t mind going against premades while solo queing providing they are on equal rating average.
If you was to fix this problem with premades then people complaining about solo queue will have that much less to complain about. Apples for apples the premade team will have the same ability as the other team. No what will make the difference is the team work and no so much the player skill. I am ok with that.
Please look at the match making and fix. I as a lower ranked player should never face anyone in the top 100 player base…… That would be like the NFL Denver Bronco’s playing against a middle school JV team.. That just doesn’t happen. EVER.
im sitting at 85% for a long time now and i havent fought any top teams so far, but im no eu. maybe its worse on na, you have less players right now. and also, facing good teams is not a problem, at 70% you should be an half decent players, and even if you loose you wouldnt(or shouldnt) loose too much rating and you would have a chance to learn, fighting top teams is GOOD, I mean, I would love to fight Paradigm or Made in Meta even though id be roflstomped, or maybe not, who knows. The problem is premade vs solo queuers, and the bug that puts random rank 1 in the middle of rank 40’s. I’m still amazed how the “bugfix patch” didn’t address the worst bug in the game.
The bigger problem for me is that winning games gives me better opponents which instantly halts my progress. The more I’m fighting the system the harder it hits me. This kind of dynamic system only works if the matchmaking can handle it.
If winning two games matches me against top 100 players but MM decides to bless us with a level 1 warrior everyone just leaves at 100 – 0. Then it’s back to where I came from. There’s just no real progression for me. If I were guaranteed to get enemies and allies of roughly my skill level this system could work pretty well. It would come down to small changes in the individual performance. A rookie is just a big fist up your …. that kills the match.
I agree to a point with you. Your right, you will be winning and progressing and then suddenly you’ll be facing a team lightyears ahead of you which is not a good dynamic.
I think there should be rating tiers. if your in the top 1000 then you should only face 90% and up. Then 80% to 89%, 70% to 79% or something to that affect. It can be based on the team average not individual for the match making. This will in theory keep progression on the same level and will prevent mis match tournaments.
In reality if your top 1000 your queue times should be long. If I’m ranked in the top 10 on the leader boards and my team queues it should take a while for another team equal rating to join. It keeps it fair and balanced. I know when I get a match and the team is a bunch of newbies I don’t want to play. Its no fun to monkey stomp rank 1 and 2’s. Its pointless.
Seriously Anet, when do you fix the the matchmaking system? Its a pain atm
Either you play vs premades or u have leavers (every second game doesn’t end 5vs5) or the teams are unbalanced that you win or loose with a 400 points margin.
How is something like this possible?
Listen we understand the queue times may be a little longer. However I think you will find most of us are willing to accept that if it means the matches will be balanced. We enjoy competition and want a good fight. So of my favorite matches have been ones I lost. 498 to 500. Very intense fun battles. Well matched.
