Guild Wars 2

My other account just got to Dolyak rank and the ability to queue ranked.

She left unranked with a bit more than a 50% win rate. In ranked her record is around 30% and falling. Many matches are roflstomps with 200+ point differences. Not only that, I have time to sit at my comp between matches and make lace and read a novel.

Matchmaking exists specifically to prevent this kind of situation. It’s not a learn to play issue, since the matchmaking system is theoretically matching me with similar skill levels.

Ithilwen.1529:

It’s not a learn to play issue, since the matchmaking system is theoretically matching me with similar skill levels.

a.) The match making might need some time to match you with suitable players.
→ The mmr in unranked and ranked are completely independent. How many matches have you played in ranked yet?

b.) In ranked there might not be enough players at your skill level to be matches with.
→ Not a lot of active players around any more. (This will hopefully change with the introduction of leagues with HoT.) Besides having standard character models and lesser pvp maps, there is no reward difference between ranked and unranked. I guess (without any data available, just a guess), that more players are participating in unranked than in ranked.

Win rate currently in the mid 20% range.. just lost a match by 400 points. This is NOT the way to convince new players to PvP and f2p is all about new players.

This and the “I win” builds make pvp pretty unattractive to people coming in.