My first 4 days of Season 5

My first 4 days of Season 5

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Posted by: Levijeh.9643

Levijeh.9643

To be honest it’s too early (only 4 days out of 55 since S5 started), placement matches are a thing as you can get “lucky” as many players state. At the moment top 10, 20, etc still doesn’t represent 100% the actual high tier players (not enough data or games played), lots of them are climbing up from gold due to the placement matches not in their favour. I’m no expert but I think that eventually as the season progresses, and people have 200+ games played and not 20 and be placed top 10, top 250 will be more representative.

I myself got placed in bronze tier 3, I have no idea why but I knew I could get out of there 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. So I commited a bit more and now I’m climbing to platinum tier 3, games here are more competitive and people actually know what they’re doing which is satisfying, at this point losing a match is not a big deal since they’re fun and competitive.

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Posted by: Yasi.9065

Yasi.9065

(…) 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).

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Posted by: Crowley.8761

Crowley.8761

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.