Guild Wars 2

Just venting here. Not having a good time so far. Why is the matchmaking system so screwed up (Rhetorical. I actually don’t care why, just fix it)?

1) 4v5 loosing side

2) 4v5 loosing side

3) 1 staff ele, 1 DD ele, 2 mes, ranger (so ranged) vs. 2 warriors, 2 thieves, DD Ele (Melee)

4) Good mix. Actually a close score: 497 to 500

5) OK, mix. let me see if I can remember. 3 warriors, staff ele, necro vs 2 necros, engi, warrior, can’t remember the last. Close match (btw, still haven’t won a match. Granted, I’m playing a staff ele, maybe I should get on my mesmer at this point.)

6) 4v5 loosing side. Even though we lost, we did well.

So, after a couple hours, lost every match. half of which were 4 v 5s and one was super imbalanced. Done for now. I can’t take it anymore.

This is no joke. I’m not making this up. Anet, you can check my history in game, or whatever. I’m sure there’s some kind of record.

4v5 is a major problem, i agree on that. But profession balance is not Anet’s fault. You can always relog and change to something that suits your team more. That’s what I am doing all the time…

staff ele is the major problem

How on earth do you plan to carry with Staff Ele in solo queue? It’s very much a weapon that needs coordination to work.

While I agree that profession balance is partially up to me, I would like to try to get better on my ele. I’m best on my mesmer. But I do disagree, to an extent. If they match all ranged against all melee, then why couldn’t they have swapped 2 players in the matchmaking process. If the rankings were going to be too far off, then wait another minute for someone else to be in the pool and make a more balanced melee / ranged group. I’ve been in soo many matches that had 4 of one class and the other team had 3 or 4 of another class. That doens’t make sense to me.

We should be allowed to play want we want and have the system work out the matches.

Granted, it may not be the best group comp. At that point, we can determine whether we think the system did a good job in making up my teams group comp and choose to relog to a different profession.

Jeez, you guys are getting hung up on staff ele and missing the point. I did well on my staff ele. Killed a few solo, offered good support, decaped points, blah blah blah. Yeah, I kill a lot faster on my mesmer, and bunker better on my guardian. I am rank 53, so I’m not a newb in PvP. I also know how to play an ele out side of pvp and just want to see if it is anywhere viable with my level of skill in PvP after April 15th.

But again, THAT ISN’T THE POINT. The point is match imbalance and plethora of 4 v 5s.

You can try to queue solo for teamQ. Lot less 4v5 situations, but you can stumble upon some well organised teams, or you will be paired with very bad players.

But believe it or not, most of the time you will fight other solo players or small teams of 2-3 with pugs. There are also many new or inexperienced guild teams that are quite easy to beat as a pug team.

So, atm, soloQ < teamQ (from my perspective)

i was going half and half with my first six…then the last 3 after that i had: 3 mesmers and a rifle warrior(dunno if thats a thing in pvp). round 2, a insta die guardian(every where he went he really did get 1 shot) a ele and 2 necros, good match but i got no help on tranq and ended up losing because of that. last round 3 rangers and an afk mesmer. I’m a condi engi. and after the last match up i basically punched my computer in the kitten and now here i am

I’m currently on a 11/34 streak just because of 4v5’s, getting teamed up with first timers (yes I sometimes look ppl up when I got a hunch), ppl afking the whole game, ppl dying on purpose (eg. keep running of the map→ respawning on skyhammer), nude people trolling. Only played like 250 games in total but still, went from a stable top 100 to prolly never getting into the not working as it should ladder again.

Ask in heart of the mists for a team group play. Setting up a good group comp is not that hard. I went 6 and 1 with randoms then proceeded to do 4 more games queuing in team que alone and went 3 and 1. Team que is much better.