Guild Wars 2

I’m an average to below average player at pvp. My main is in ruby and I have struggled to get past the mid tier of it. As an experiment, I made a F2P alt and am tiring to get into the same level to see if it has similar match making or if my main really has the deck stacked against it. My alt won 30 of 50 matches in unranked to get to level 20. So far it has won 21 of 27 matches on its way to sapphire. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be able to compare the two accounts and see if there really is a matchmaking difference or all the bad matchmaking complaints are just raged induced illusions.

One of my last teams in emerald seemed to be different from what I normally get in ruby. We were down quite a bit at temple, and there was no raging. People just kept playing hard and made a close match when all seemed lost.

Temple close match

I ended up playing 18 matches on each character at the lower tier or ruby. I would alternate playing the main then the alt on the same builds. The alt was carrying a 12 game winning streak coming out of sapphire. The better overall record and win streak did not give the alt a free pass through ruby. The alt was 5-13 and the main was 4-14.

There wasn’t a huge difference overall, but the numbers show that the alt with closer losses and a bigger margin of victory. Another interesting stat was if you look at matches where my team scored less than 250. My main had 7 (39%), and my alt had 1 (5.6%). For wins by the same margin, my alt had 1 and my main had 0.

Character   Avg Points for	     Avg Points against
Alt	                410.4	                     459.0
    L	                373.2	                     514.1
   W	                507.2	                     315.8
Main	        312.8	                     483.9
    L	                259.1	                     502.4
   W	                500.8	                     419.5

I dont see anything wrong with this either way.

It might be ruby is the division you fit best in. I like that Anet made it so core F2P accounts are able to make it to ruby for the back pc. The back pc takes 4 seasons to make and people are raging because they cant have them now but its totally something everyone can acquire.

I would also like to think that being you have a core F2P character anet gave you a + for better team mates. It might be frustrating for your team mates but if they want to get into higher divisions as well. Everyone should have to earn it in a way.

For instance in 1 game i had a core fresh air scepter ele and a core warrior on my team and this was in diamond. I think this is good for everyone even if it costed me a pip.

18 matches (or 36 in total) are pretty few to make statistics of.

To me the negative is once you reach a plateau in the current system you are better off playing an alt, or just quitting ranked. The more matches you play the worse your teammates will get. Not arguing about my placement on the ladder. I just think there should be an incentive to keep playing your main. The best strategy in the current system is to wait until mid season play for a week or so and stop.