Guild Wars 2

Please tell me why I consistently keep getting grouped with players, who aparently play their first ranked matches?
Soloqueued on EU – lost 10 times in a row …
Dind’t Arenanet promise this won’t happen anymore?

Not to be a smart kitten but they also said there would be minor balance tweaks today.. Just expect bad balance updates, broken promises and regular updates to the gem store and Anet won’t dissapoint.

everyone is in the same basket atm, if you wait week or two, it will balance out

I have no words, this is a total bullkitten.

Cynz.9437:

everyone is in the same basket atm, if you wait week or two, it will balance out

Shouldn’t have to wait a week.

morrolan.9608:

Cynz.9437:

everyone is in the same basket atm, if you wait week or two, it will balance out

Shouldn’t have to wait a week.

you don’t have, you can though

really, in every game i played begin of season was like that: everyone (good/average/bad players) were all in same bracket but eventually good players would roll over average/bad players and move up divisions really fast

Didn’t they say that during leagues, matchmaking in ranked would be based more on division/pip range rather than MMR?

Cynz.9437:

morrolan.9608:

Cynz.9437:

everyone is in the same basket atm, if you wait week or two, it will balance out

Shouldn’t have to wait a week.

you don’t have, you can though

really, in every game i played begin of season was like that: everyone (good/average/bad players) were all in same bracket but eventually good players would roll over average/bad players and move up divisions really fast

This. This is exactly how they explained the new system a couple months ago. The first week will be rough, but then ppl will settle into where they should be and matches will become more balanced. This was the entire stated goal of the new system. It is necessary for all the posts from people up in arms about shenanigans from last season.

Kuya.6495:

Didn’t they say that during leagues, matchmaking in ranked would be based more on division/pip range rather than MMR?

Yes. MMR has taken a backseat for now to the new system. It has much less weight.

Tman.6349:

Kuya.6495:

Didn’t they say that during leagues, matchmaking in ranked would be based more on division/pip range rather than MMR?

Yes. MMR has taken a backseat for now to the new system. It has much less weight.

In that case, did the OP not get the memo?

Tman.6349:

Kuya.6495:

Didn’t they say that during leagues, matchmaking in ranked would be based more on division/pip range rather than MMR?

Yes. MMR has taken a backseat for now to the new system. It has much less weight.

This current system uses league division placement (division and pip range) to match you against your enemies and personal mmr to get you with your teammates. So basically you play with people who have same personal mmr than you and you face people from the amber pool when you begin this season.

matches are not that bad.. I’m a wvw player and usually pvp when bored.. already into emerald and i think only had 3 – 4 loses in amber. once i got to emerald though lost the first 2 matches but won the next 2.. Only thing i’m noticing is classes seem to be stacked way more than last league.. had a bunch of matches vs 3 reapers or had 3 on our team..

if you guys are struggling in amber all i got to say is LOL

It’s up to what teammates you get. As one player can’t win games. I get a lot matches with players that go for beast at start or someone take close then he decides to go beast, close free cap for enemy and stuff like that.

Played 6 matches today.

All of them are total pwnage. (One match winning 5 500)

Guess removing the MMR factor and only look at division plays a big part in it.
There’s just too many some of the worst players or newbies in Amber.
Once you climb up, it should get better.

because… everyone has started at the same rank as everyone else… duhhh
Give it a day or 2 and you amber players will be fighting other amber players.

The best of the best are in Amber today, so there is a good chance you are facing them. Give it a day or two and they will move up, and it will be back to normal.

Its because they’re stacking everyone they think to be good on one team. That way if you lose initially your mmr will tank and you’ll have a very hard time ever getting back on to the higher mmr team. It’s a very very very bad plan. Unless you get lucky and wind up on the winning high mmr side which at this point for a solo que player wouldnt require skill so much as getting on the good team to start a few times.

Anet changes the PvP daily so it’s participation in a PvP ranked or unranked match. Custom arenas don’t count and winning isn’t a requirement to complete the daily.

Can’t say I am all that surprised to browse the PvP forums to find a ton of posts complaining about how matchmaking is broken, because they keep getting grouped with noobs lol.

All the players who used to just farm dailies in custom arenas are now bleeding out into all the games.

Sapphire here i come :p

Matchmaking is great, having a lot of fun with all the PvE heroes in Amber atm. Also mostly good teammates, even got carried once or twice when I kittened up. Probably on ~80-85% Win ratio atm in Amber/Low Emerald. Might be pure luck but I like to think it’s because teammates are based on MMR while opponent grp is based on Division (not sure if they introduced it that way, but I think that’s what they originally announced).

Yeah, I’m going back to Unranked PvP until they fix this kitten.

to put it simply, you lost 10 times because you lost 9 times and so on and so forth.
You probably lost a couple game due to sheer bad luck then the broken MM snowballed the rest.

Torafugu.1087:

to put it simply, you lost 10 times because you lost 9 times and so on and so forth.
You probably lost a couple game due to sheer bad luck then the broken MM snowballed the rest.

I don’t really get this argument. Sure, if you’re a completely new player, it might be true… but this dude has 1222 ranked games played. One loss, or even five losses, shouldn’t really affect your MMR that much if you’ve literally played 1k+ games beforehand.

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

to put it simply, you lost 10 times because you lost 9 times and so on and so forth.
You probably lost a couple game due to sheer bad luck then the broken MM snowballed the rest.

I don’t really get this argument. Sure, if you’re a completely new player, it might be true… but this dude has 1222 ranked games played. One loss, or even five losses, shouldn’t really affect your MMR that much if you’ve literally played 1k+ games beforehand.

Ranked MMR is different from unranked MMR and it’s different every season.

Torafugu.1087:

Ranked MMR is different from unranked MMR

Yes, it is, but how does that matter here? He has played 1222 games in ranked, and we are talking about ranked, are we not?

Torafugu.1087:

and it’s different every season.

No, it’s not. As far as we know, the MMR has never been reset.

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Torafugu.1087:

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Well, no, it’s one month.

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Well, no, it’s one month.

Yes the difference between completely decayed and completely decayed, thanks for pointing it out.

Torafugu.1087:

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Well, no, it’s one month.

Yes the difference between completely decayed and completely decayed, thanks for pointing it out.

I seriously doubt it decays completely in one month. And also, lol, you say it like you know for a fact that it does. Funny.

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Well, no, it’s one month.

Yes the difference between completely decayed and completely decayed, thanks for pointing it out.

I seriously doubt it decays completely in one month. And also, lol, you say it like you know for a fact that it does. Funny.

Well they announced that it gets reset…. so there’s that

HipposWild.7185:

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

Pakkazull.6894:

Torafugu.1087:

If doesn’t matter if there is no hard reset if the rating decays over time. There are several months between seasons.

Well, no, it’s one month.

Yes the difference between completely decayed and completely decayed, thanks for pointing it out.

I seriously doubt it decays completely in one month. And also, lol, you say it like you know for a fact that it does. Funny.

Well they announced that it gets reset…. so there’s that

Please, do share your source.

briggah.7910:

matches are not that bad

They are, 90% of them are games like this one. In this particular case the other team was clearly new to the game and they just roled with builds that are on meta battle not knowing how to deal with a opposing team with 3 necros 1 scraper and 1 ele (they had 2 scrapers 1 burn guardian and idk the other 2 classes i did not see them because i was defending home the whole game).
At the end of the game 4 out of 5 of them had 0 points meaning they were not able to contribute to their team at all (i am surprised no one went afk).

Now the question is why did the matchmaking make totally new pvp players face veterans? I know my teammates got got high up on the ladder last season judging by the way they played and the fact that they discussed strategy before the match started and i got diamond t3 last season solo without elite specializations, so why were we matched against players who cannot out rotate us when we have 3 of the slowest class in the game??

No one cares here. You should open your thread on reddit or find a kittens streamer.

Do what you want, say what you want nothing changes. There is one truth anet really really really so much hate solo players. They only want keep protecting golden child teams. Marging solo and team ques one of worst thing they did.

Anyway please dont do anything, anymore.. If it is possible rollback to first days of gw2 will be 1000 times better than this crap.

No matter how you good player. You can carry your team for 1 game but dont worry anet gonna throw a rock to your head and you lost 3 games. They always like to punish solo winners.

Lets talk with numbers. If you are 9 points player from 10 and trying to play solo you gonna be suffer all days. But if you are 5 points player and have a same skill friends gw2 will be haven for you all.

Keep hating old and good solo players anet. You are doing great..

I’m one of the solo queue idiots who thought it would turn for me. Just mt beating my head against the wall. My mmr is so bad now I’m get people with 400 ap who run around killing beast from start (both lol) and don’t get on point or help until we are all dead then he rolls into 3 of em solo.

I’m 3 wins 34 loses in sapphire t2 and I’m ruined. 3 of those loses my team got over 400. 19 of them less than 200.

Ruined me

Just quit the season.
If we all quit the season, more people can’t advance because they don’t have anyone to play against, and quit as well. MM for Sapphire is already extending to like 10 mins.

Revenge of the snowball hell will be ironic indeed.

Good ol’ Matchmaking. I’m the emerald by the way.

Iamjazzman.8743:

Good ol’ Matchmaking. I’m the emerald by the way.

Yeah, you’re within range of facing sapphire players. What’s your point?

Pakkazull.6894:

Iamjazzman.8743:

Good ol’ Matchmaking. I’m the emerald by the way.

Yeah, you’re within range of facing sapphire players. What’s your point?

they could well be mid tier sapphire…. and me being the only emerald seems rather annoying. For them and for me.