Guild Wars 2

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I know topics not unlike this one have been made more than once during the last few days but the issue I have seems to not have been discussed as much.

If it has, please forgive me and I would love to be pointed to the right thread.
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I am at a loss at this moment in regards to the following conundrum:

I started my placement matches for Season 5 ranked a little late due to a demanding work life.
However the matches were some of the best I had in years. Active, intelligent players who fought for a win. The outcomes of these matches reflected this feeling by being very close with ~100 points or less difference at the end of most of the matches being it wins or losses.

I ended my 10th qualifier match with a ratio of 7 wins and 3 losses placing me squarely in gold 2.

So far, so good. PVP is fun again: Check
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Now comes the bad:
From the first match after these placement matches I encountered the following situation:

1. Nearly 100% losses, most of them with > 250pts. difference at the end.
2. Players who seemed to not only never played their class but also the game (a warrior in lvl 1 gear following a mesmer to close and standing around the rest of the match dying seconds after an enemy engaged him/her).

Easy answer: I suck! I am probably the reason my team gets stomped.

But wait: Were the placement matches not designed to ensure I will be placed with other players who are at my level skill wise?

So where did everything go wrong?

• Were the placement matches wrong by placing me into gold 2 (I am silver now) or
• is matchmaking kittenty?
• Did I switch classes between placement matches and later matches? Did I use my “main” to do placement and later switched to a class I play much worse? The answer is NO to that. I main Thief since the beginning four years ago but find myself unable to make an impact by rotating and +1’ing. Therefore I switched to support Tempest some time ago and did all the matches since then with her apart from two.

This cannot be an “it is you” issue as long as I did not play vastly superior during placement compared to now – the structure of the season is specifically designed to ensure that.

So what happened between the engaging and fun pvp I had during placement and the total crapfest I see now?

I would like if anyone apart from me made the same experience or if someone has an idea why this is happening. The change was like day and night and its terminator lies between my 10th placement match and the first season 5 match as if two completely different algorithms are used to compute the match-ups.

Placement matches are a joke. Let me tell you why. There are a lot of players who have never played PVP before, or have little experience with it. They know nothing about rotating… Here comes the best part….. Some of them will get carried in those placement matches, therefore they will most likely be placed in Gold or even Platinum division. And that creates the problem for you, who deserves to be in that division or even better. Those ‘carried placement’ players will get in your team, and you will lose because of them. And you can never progress any drastically because of that….. How can someone with no PVP experience be placed in the same division with people over 5000 games. Tell me Anet, explain me your awesome PVP improvement.

Than that probably means it is time to finally switch to Overwatch for PvP. At least that game does a better job at balancing, class roles and matchmaking.

masterfan.8375:

Placement matches are a joke. Let me tell you why. There are a lot of players who have never played PVP before, or have little experience with it. They know nothing about rotating… Here comes the best part….. Some of them will get carried in those placement matches, therefore they will most likely be placed in Gold or even Platinum division. And that creates the problem for you, who deserves to be in that division or even better. Those ‘carried placement’ players will get in your team, and you will lose because of them. And you can never progress any drastically because of that….. How can someone with no PVP experience be placed in the same division with people over 5000 games. Tell me Anet, explain me your awesome PVP improvement.

This. Placement is BROKEN.

Not to mention, new players, or any pvp player in general can come in on the LAST DAY of league, win their placements and make leaderboard. ON THE LAST DAY. For the people who played hard throughout the season, is that fair? NO.

I had the opposite experience. Horrible placement matches but once that was over I started having good matches.