Guild Wars 2

Used to be when I went in pvp, I could do a proper solo queue – no pugs vs full 5-man premades.
The 4v5 rate used to be much lower, too.

1. 6/10 matches are 4v5. Guy might log out if he doesn’t get the treb, doesn’t like the map, doesnt like a player, etc. I don’t know, I just know that the game needs to start replacing dropouts or jailing someone on the larger team at a rapid pace to fix this so you aren’t out of luck from the start.

2. The pugs vs premades (even if it’s just small groups of 2s/3s as the “premade” team) is just sad. We need a solo queue and a team queue. You’re forgetting that at least half your population is probably soloers that don’t really party or deal with people like Kirito in SAO (@staff: not calling outa player in game, referring to character in the anime/novel), and this shafts them hard where pvp is concerned when they’re facing even partial teams on VOIP.

The reason our former solo queue was never used was because it gave lower rewards – so you took it out. Despite that, I still preferred it since the win rate was higher than facing premades in team queue.

It’s perfectly acceptable for a team queue to accept parties of 2 through 5 and pit them against other teams, but solo queuers deserve nothing but other solo queuers!!! There is 0 teamwork in solo PUGs. At least if you mix and match some mini-teams, some of them may be working together resulting in more functional teams, while the solo queuers can have their solo queue.

Either you are the unluckiest person in the game, im the luckiest one, or you lie quite a bit about 4v5s. Outside of getting Vindagor on your team its very rare. Sometimes its just unavoidable, people loose connections or have important stuff come up. But its not a problem at all considering how rarely it happens.
They are reworking the honor system and it will be back for HoT.

Solo vs. premade is not that big of a deal as some people make it out to be either. Its more about skill, ive beaten premades 100s of times running full PUG and lost to soloers with my team 100s of times. If MMR does its job (and imo its pretty good at it considering everything), premade vs. solo is ok. It does consider teams as a factor, so if you do end up playing against premade its likely their MMRs are lower and you have the skill advantage. Ofc its not guranteed, there are other factors, but in general it works pretty good imo.

People just like to blame something for the losses. So every time people loose to a premade its because thats the sole reason, its never something else, 100% cause of team. but consider you loose about 50% of the matches against other full PUGs too.

Though I would like to see MMR distinguish between elementalists and everyone else, and distribute d/d eles evenly

I’m having a lot of fun in PvP.

The 4v5 rate is definitely lower. 6/10 is a bit aggressive lol.

PvP is fun for me, (most of the time.)

I don’t see many people afk or logging out in ranked.

I got dishonored for dc’ing and really was fairly kittened off about it.

Dishonor needs to be based on player complaints, not automated. That’s a pretty big slap and it shouldn’t happen unless there’s a real reason.

-edit- I think ANET should consider tiers of dishonor. If someone is being a kitten for a couple matches, say 30 minute timeout.

Progressing it that way will get the player’s attention without being excessively harsh. Punishing poor sports harshly will make them worse sports and ultimately reduce the pvp population.