Guild Wars 2

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not really Arena,also fix bug that people are abusing they destroy ur gates in warm ups u know what i am talking about,also do something about leavers already

The matchmaking in sPVP in this game could be the most dysfunctional thing I’ve ever encountered in PvP in any MMO.

I’m new, and I quite literally have never been in a competitive match. Ever. Every single match ends with the winning team up at least 150 points, and often 200, 300 or even more.

It’s a mess.

I’ve had the opposite, the matchmaking in this game is the most fair I have seen in any game that is considered an MMO. If you want to talk about broken matchmaking, play a game like world of Warcraft.

I’d give it a few matches. It still has it’s faults but it’s been setting up some good matches this week for me.

So of course right after writing that I end up in a pretty close game. I think we won 501-378 or something.

I’ll be patient because I still like PvP, and I want to get a lot better at it before getting seriously into WvW. I really do wish they’d do something about the shortmanning and AFK issue, though.

Qaelyn.7612:

So of course right after writing that I end up in a pretty close game. I think we won 501-378 or something.

I’ll be patient because I still like PvP, and I want to get a lot better at it before getting seriously into WvW. I really do wish they’d do something about the shortmanning and AFK issue, though.

Smart move. If you play to a competent solo queue level in PvP, you’ll absolutely demolish people in small engagements in WvW to where you almost start feeling bad…

Are you talking about solo queue or hotjoin/custom matches? Because hotjoin/custom actually doesn’t have “matchmaking,” just a quick attempt to get you in a room with some players around your rank. In solo queue, everyone’s rating was just reset, so it hasn’t had time to really “settle” yet. You could still be getting some really good players doing their “first” match, so they’re entering at the level of a newbie. Of course, they’ll only stay at that matchmaking level for one or two games.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Smart move. If you play to a competent solo queue level in PvP, you’ll absolutely demolish people in small engagements in WvW to where you almost start feeling bad…

Thanks. Well, in theory anyway… I’m really pretty awful at this. Maybe in a year, if I’m still playing…

I really like WvW but I did find that I couldn’t really enjoy it because I would constantly get demolished. I can’t afford to keep regearing myself with new builds so it seemed sPVP would be a better way to increase my skill level, and I think it already has. But it’s still a really long and slow climb.

And some of what I learn in sPVP may not translate into WvW anyway.

But I figure it’s still better than going into WvW and either dying the second I meet an enemy in the open or running with the ‘zerg’ which is incredibly dull and seems to be completely unimpacted by what I do personally.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Are you talking about solo queue or hotjoin/custom matches? Because hotjoin/custom actually doesn’t have “matchmaking,” just a quick attempt to get you in a room with some players around your rank. In solo queue, everyone’s rating was just reset, so it hasn’t had time to really “settle” yet. You could still be getting some really good players doing their “first” match, so they’re entering at the level of a newbie. Of course, they’ll only stay at that matchmaking level for one or two games.

Well, after that one close game, 4 or 5 more blowouts. That’s frankly a pretty terrible record, probably worse than they’d get with random matchups.

As for hotjoin, it seems to be even worse. Every time I try hotjoin I find myself in a blowout, usually on the losing team getting my head handed to me in seconds as soon as I leave the spawn room. It is completely unenjoyable and as a result I now avoid the entire mechanism.

If I want a quick PVP I join one of the dueling servers. They have a lot of problems but I’d rather lose in a duel than have 3 very experienced players destroy me in seconds.

sPVP right now is a feature that is mostly going to waste because it desperately needs adjustment, and that strikes me as a real shame. I understand they are announcing some changes soon, and I hope they’re good ones. This could be a lot of fun if .. it weren’t so much not fun.

Chase.8415:

I’ve had the opposite, the matchmaking in this game is the most fair I have seen in any game that is considered an MMO. If you want to talk about broken matchmaking, play a game like world of Warcraft.

Why? I think WoW legitimatly had one of the best Arena systems, you could see your MMR whenever you wanted, you saw exactly how much you won or lost after a fight, there were a ton of people playing, it was very fluid and the queues were short, i can count the amount of 2v3 games on one hand after thousands of games, the only place where matchmaking was bad was in ratings of say 2400 and up where you ended up with -10 point losses and +1 point wins but that happens in the higher ratings of pretty much every MMO no?

Well, a day later.. it’s a bit better. But only a bit. At least 3/4 of the matches are still blowouts.

GankSinatra.2653:

Chase.8415:

I’ve had the opposite, the matchmaking in this game is the most fair I have seen in any game that is considered an MMO. If you want to talk about broken matchmaking, play a game like world of Warcraft.

Why? I think WoW legitimatly had one of the best Arena systems, you could see your MMR whenever you wanted, you saw exactly how much you won or lost after a fight, there were a ton of people playing, it was very fluid and the queues were short, i can count the amount of 2v3 games on one hand after thousands of games, the only place where matchmaking was bad was in ratings of say 2400 and up where you ended up with -10 point losses and +1 point wins but that happens in the higher ratings of pretty much every MMO no?

I had the same thoughts reading that post.

My most recent match: 500 to 83. With a ragequitter to top it off.

It doesn’t matter what the rest of the plans are for PvP. Until they fix this, it will be avoided by 95% of the playerbase, and for good reason.