My first 4 days of Season 5
(…) and made it to gold tier 2 where I struggled a bit since I was getting matched with players doing their placement matches probably. Games here were back and forth and a bit frustrating, but I still felt I could go higher. (…)
I can confirm that part. I kinda hit a wall yesterday afternoon in gold t1 after getting there on a winstreak from bronze t3 (thank you drunk norn thief again for that placement -.-), not so much because enemy teams got too difficult to beat, but mostly because my team either had a stupid comp (3 mesmers and then not even good ones), afkers, ragequitters, bearbow rangers, zergmentality, you know… the usual
Stuff Id expected to see in bronze, not in gold.
Some players were clearly unexperienced (double capping close on start of the match… always painful to experience), others knew better in teamchat, but then did the same mistakes they just yelled at someone else for.
It was extremely frustrating and draining. I managed to hold on to my rating, but it was absolutely no fun. And the majority of the matches were clear blowouts (100-500), or really hard won wins against players that didnt know the meaning of “assist”, let alone “burst”.
I really think that:
a) there should be more placement matches. I know, it says less is better…but thats for 1v1 games. With 5 random people against 5 other random people, only 10 matches is just way too much dependent on fortuna.
b) placement matches should be separate, or they should start at bronze level. Averaging everybody for placement matches makes it really hellish for all players around that skill-level (or bad placement luck).
Ended up in T3 bronze too. Haven’t spammed games so still there, I can usually do three or four before the frustration gets to me. This system is just silly, why am I being judged on the actions (or lack thereof) of others? Quite often I’ll be in a game where even if I play close to perfect I still can’t carry and change the outcome myself if the enemy team has semi-competent players.
Kinda resigned to being stuck here for now… watching 4 people stand at a point together to cap while spamming in caps in /t. Maybe in s6 I’ll get lucky in placement and will be allowed to have fun as well.