Guild Wars 2

Ugh…I know how it feel….>→

If you are in the top 300, you get guys in the top 300 in your team. If you aren’ in that range, you will be facing those guys with r10 ones in your team who aren’t on the leaderboard.

The more you lose, the more impossible it is to win. And it is hard to win with mentally challenged people in your team.

Also, the community is small. With nothing to play but conquest + terrible meta + worst matchmaking ever, Arenanet is still totally satisfied because their 3-4 teams can compete on an E-sport scale.

I suspect that if you could see the pool of players waiting for a match, it would be very small right now, with more top 100 players in it than lower-level players.

PvP is garbage atm, nothing else really to say.

Who ever thought that putting 5 good players against 5 weaker players was a good way to create balanced matches ?

As long as they do not implement a real Solo queue with a honest matchmaking system , the pvp communities will not grow. Its that simple, and should have been available when released.

I’ve had this happen as well, it’s horrible
Especially after waiting ~10 mins for a que to pop in the first place.

Obsidia.5127:

As someone who has tried to stay positive about SoloQ – I have to say I have completely changed my mind now.

This is the only time I have actually bothered to check the ranks of the players on the Leaderboards and as you can see, something is seriously broken.

I added another screenshot to further prove how bad the matchmaking is.

So… What’s going on?

i cannot believe people are still complaining and comparing based on rank.
it’s just /facepalm

maybe the matchmaking is broken, dunno – and as far as we don’t get to see the formula behind matchmaking, judging is not ours.

if you can’t stand yourself loosing against a lower rank, get yourself a cookie.
the real comparison goes with leaderboard ranking

pathetic

While I agree on rank not being so meaningful (there’s usually some correlation, specially for lower ranks), the first picture actually shows leaderboards rankings:
5 top 100 on the same team while the best rated on the opposite one is about 6xx.
Some minutes ago I’ve had a pretty similar match. 5 top 100 (3 top 20 included) on the same team against a 3xx, a 4xx, a 5xx (me) and 2 not even rated (unless they’re shown on another characater).
I can understand this happening on team arena, while this kind of mismatches are unavoidable if not enough people is queued, but on solo queue …
I don’t know if it’s a sync issue or if the system is just stupid. C’mon, how hard can it be to sort all the queued contendants by rating and do something like this?

1 → 2
4 <- 3
5 → 6
8 <- 7
9 → 10

Solo que is odd when it comes to this. One of my last matches everyone on my team was +45r and the other team was 10-30r range.

We won 500-0.

What I’m getting at here is the teams are always stacked for some reason. I just recently started to play again. I’m 18-5 and in the top 100. My team always has very high players either by rank or leaderboard. Yet the opposing team is significantly lower.

I find it funny that Anet only goes to the forums around patch time.

Vargamonth.2047:

C’mon, how hard can it be to sort all the queued contendants by rating and do something like this?

1 -> 2
4 <- 3
5 -> 6
8 <- 7
9 -> 10

Actually it would be better if it was something like: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10 vs 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Would be a lot more balanced due to many reasons that I can type if you’ll really insist on it, but yeah.

Seriously Anet though, go fix your matchmaking system and reset the leaderboard!

Rezz.8019:

Vargamonth.2047:

C’mon, how hard can it be to sort all the queued contendants by rating and do something like this?

1 -> 2
4 <- 3
5 -> 6
8 <- 7
9 -> 10

Actually it would be better if it was something like: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10 vs 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Would be a lot more balanced due to many reasons that I can type if you’ll really insist on it, but yeah.

Seriously Anet though, go fix your matchmaking system and reset the leaderboard!

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to get an optimal distribution, just a simple algorithm which would work A LOT better than the current one.
IMHO the best solution, even if loses in fairness, should be somehow random in order to prevent the same teams to face each other over and over.

I’ve given up soloQ untill matchmaking is fixed. I just dont want to go to a 4v5 match or face ridiculously higher ranking teams. Hotjoin matches seems fairer. Just click that random team button and enjoy…… I now try to have a high % of wins on hotjoins by going into random teams, and get highest player for objective assaulter and defender. Yay!

I’ve pretty much given up, the matchmaking is flawed to say the least, seeing how it matches the top rated players together against the rest of the bunch that was unlucky to have signed up at that point.

I’ve dropped down to around 80% now, but still I’m matched with/against people that’s top 100 on a regular basis.

Not sure if it’s the matchmaking or the lack of players tbh.

Whats going on is this game isn’t that popular and there is a very limited pool of players to match you with at any time barring adding very long hard queues. People really don’t seem to grasp the fact that this game sold millions of copies. There would be instantaneous pops of matches if this game had a real pvp population. Most people bought this game and hated spvp. Wake up and smell the coffee.

Doesn’t sound like it. I’d like it if someone could verify by using gwshack info to compare the 2 teams to see if its still stacking them. I am not at home to do this test myself.