Dailies being the same for everyone, and having 4 professions only worsens the problem. People doesn’t really spread more for having those 4 options. Most people will always go for the same 3 professions, so if one of the 4 is any of the 3, people go mostly for that one, and spread less if none of the other 4 is any of the 3.
While with achievements to do things like world bosses, events in a map, specific fractal levels and dungeon paths you want everyone to have the same thing, with achievements like PvP professions you want everyone to have different things to increase the chances of having more variety in matches.
Because of that, The daily profession achievement must not be the same for all accounts. They need to implement a system that checks the account’s info and generates “tailored achievements” that are different between accounts. Something like this:
- One daily picked randomly between the 4 most played professions of the account.
- One daily picked randomly between the 4 least played professions.
This way someone with the base 5 slots can still do 3 dailies without deleting characters, and the fourth achievement encourages trying things you rarely try.
Also, before limits being added to profession in matchmaking, we’ll need something like a way to ‘register’ professions you prefer to play so more than one of your characters may be used in matchmaking.
For example, you load the characters you prefer to use in PvP, and can register them for matchmaking by talking with certain NPC. You would be able to register one of each profession, and sort them from the profession you want to use the most to the one you want to use the least, and temporarily disable particular professions without removing them from the list. When matchmaking for you, the current current profession will take preference, but if no matches are found for that one, your enabled registered professions are checked, and a different character may be used instead, and the Match Ready panel will indicate that you have been matched as <Profession> instead the current one. You take too long to find matches with your current profession? Maybe too many people is already queued using that one. Try to register more professions, or re-enable more of the ones you have registered but you disabled.
Once such a system is implemented, we will be able to have profession locks, individual profession mmr and limitations in number of professions when matchmaking.
But without a way to queue as more than one profession, such systems would only increase queue times.
Another advantage of having a way to register professions is that we would be able to have a ‘draft’ system for matches, in which teams take turns banning and picking professions. So we could have, for example, a match in which a team bans necromancers, and another team bans elementalists. And the rest have to pick among the rest of their registered professions taking turns.
If we also had PvP build templates, we could have drafts for specializations rather than entire professions, so we could have drafts in which the ban phase is just for partial builds, knowing loading builds is much faster.
SUGGEST-A-TRON says:
PAY—ONCE—UNLOCKS—ARE—ALWAYS—BETTER.
No exceptions!
