Guild Wars 2

I haven’t posted in the forums in over a year or so, but have been keeping track of changes and logging into the game on patch days to pick up the new story chapters.

About a year ago when Ranked Queues were added, my guild hit its peak. We had Dueling tournaments every week, and the more serious PvP players would queue in small groups for good matches, but we were primarily a PvE guild. Once Solo Queue was implemented, however, our PvP players split. Those of us who enjoyed Duo and Trio queue couldn’t do so anymore. When we played Solo Queue to make up for it, we missed the ability to play together without being required to make full groups. This caused most of our PvP players to seek other guilds for full groups which decimated any PvP our guild had.

With this latest patch, I was able to convince my old guildies to come back. I played nearly all day Sunday in the Unranked Queue. I Queued Solo, Duo, Trio, and Full team several times each and have to say I had a blast each time.

My Solo games were pretty balanced overall even against premades. Even when it was inevitable we’d lose, our PUG would always manage a crazy comeback if only for a time.

Duo and Trio games were similar, though I noticed that we faced premades more often. Still fun matches though, and we even won a close 5v4 after one of my guildies DCed.

Full team matches we always were matched with premades. Sometimes they were way better, but even when we lost we felt that with better teamwork and coordination we could win.

Since none of us had seriously played in ages, we enjoyed the casual environment of the Unranked Queue. I’m feeling that old spark again: looking up builds, theory crafting with my guildies, discussing team comps. It’s wonderful.

Improvements could definitely be made, however. Since those of us left are mostly PvE players, we’d like to be able to queue in unranked while doing other activities. Make this happen and I’m pretty sure we’ll be coming back for the long haul