Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,
Creating a quick thread in order for everyone to post their impressions/feedback on the new pvp season in a (hopefully) nice and organized way.

Here’s mine :

Current skill rating : 1532 (Gold T2)
Played 43 games, won 31 (72% w/l ratio)
Mainly playing support tempest and invo rev
- Placements matches are weird. I fell in silver T2 and i’m climbing quite easily out of it. (before my last game that i lost, i was on a 12-13 winstreak) That means that i clearly did not belong in silver. At the same time, i saw players starting in platinum and falling all the way down to gold T1 with a desastrous w/l ratio, players in gold that shouldn’t even got out of bronze (watched him on a stream so it’s not just a baseless assumption), and players, 80 games in having a perfect 50% w/l ratio, not moving one bit from their initial placement.
I believe the issue will probably fix itself with S6, as our rating at the end of the season will be taken into account for our S6 initial placement.
- I didn’t play many games, but i’m a bit afraid of the volatility. The way i see it is that the more games i play, the less volatile my skill rating becomes, and the less i gain/lose from the outcome of a game. It’s worriying me, as it will get artificialy harder and harder to climb even though the games feel just as easy to win. As i said before, i just got out of a 12-13 (i don’t remember the exact number) winstreak, and with every win, i gained less and less skill rating while imo, the system should help me get out of this easy matches by rewarding my winstreak. Of course, the same should apply to losstreak.
- I never felt this rewarded playing pvp, and i can finaly, hopefully have an accurate representation of my skill, so, just for that, this season is awesome !

I like it!

Skill Rating: 1068 (Silver T1)
W/L: 21-15
Power Warrior(GS/Mace + Sh)

I concur on placement games, they ARE weird. I went 5-5, so I assumed I would be placed in silver or gold. Nope. BRONZE. I started at bronze t3 with a 950 rating. As you said OP, the rating advancement made me raise an eyebrow. However, if I’m correct, those that played well in placement and started higher generally are falling and those that played not-so-well and started lower generally are rising. Maybe they had a bad day at work, frustrated, tired or something and wound up losing most of their games. This is consistent with the way mmr works. An example: 10,9,8,7,6 vs 10,9,8,7,6

Now that you can actually DROP, those that got stuck in bronze, for example will get better players matched up with them.

Overall, though, this system is fair. I hated the previous system.

JTGuevara.9018:

I like it!

Skill Rating: 1068 (Silver T1)
W/L: 21-15
Power Warrior(GS/Mace + Sh)

I concur on placement games, they ARE weird. I went 5-5, so I assumed I would be placed in silver or gold. Nope. BRONZE. I started at bronze t3 with a 950 rating. As you said OP, the rating advancement made me raise an eyebrow. However, if I’m correct, those that played well in placement and started higher generally are falling and those that played not-so-well and started lower generally are rising. Maybe they had a bad day at work, frustrated, tired or something and wound up losing most of their games. This is consistent with the way mmr works. An example: 10,9,8,7,6 vs 10,9,8,7,6

Now that you can actually DROP, those that got stuck in bronze, for example will get better players matched up with them.

Overall, though, this system is fair. I hated the previous system.

What was your initial MMR? I think this has something to do with it. I went for 5-5 too, But I did have a 267 Initial MMR (I think this is on the higher end pre patch, since a lot of ESL players I know are on this bracket or even higher) and I landed at Silver T3. Hiro (Talgo) who had initial 240 something or 220 MMR did 7-3 on his placement matches and he is in Gold.

To be fair, my placement matches are absolutely horrendous.

StickerHappy.8052:

JTGuevara.9018:

I like it!

Skill Rating: 1068 (Silver T1)
W/L: 21-15
Power Warrior(GS/Mace + Sh)

I concur on placement games, they ARE weird. I went 5-5, so I assumed I would be placed in silver or gold. Nope. BRONZE. I started at bronze t3 with a 950 rating. As you said OP, the rating advancement made me raise an eyebrow. However, if I’m correct, those that played well in placement and started higher generally are falling and those that played not-so-well and started lower generally are rising. Maybe they had a bad day at work, frustrated, tired or something and wound up losing most of their games. This is consistent with the way mmr works. An example: 10,9,8,7,6 vs 10,9,8,7,6

Now that you can actually DROP, those that got stuck in bronze, for example will get better players matched up with them.

Overall, though, this system is fair. I hated the previous system.

What was your initial MMR? I think this has something to do with it. I went for 5-5 too, But I did have a 267 Initial MMR (I think this is on the higher end pre patch, since a lot of ESL players I know are on this bracket or even higher) and I landed at Silver T3. Hiro (Talgo) who had initial 240 something or 220 MMR did 7-3 on his placement matches and he is in Gold.

To be fair, my placement matches are absolutely horrendous.

950 mmr, it’s on the first paragraph.

Starting rating 1700-ish Gold tier 1
Ended at rating Silver tier 2 close 3 ( don’t remember rating)
Win lose 8-8
Scrapper modified meta.

During the first ten matches I won 7. Just after that I had another 6 matches, lost 5 in a row and won the last… I had anot her match and won but strangely it didn’t count so I won’t put it in statistics.

In my opinion atleast 3 of these matches wasn’t lost becouse of me. I guess it is to early to say anything but it started to get pretty enerving when I lost the fifth match in the row.

Good topic, need more data.

Start: ~ 1590 rating
Now: 1722 rating
Win loss: can’t remember, around 70%win (~20games)
Marauder scrapper

First 10 games was absolute arcade! My team mates and opponent was only better AI npcs.… I was make 6:4 but now its better and better. Now I was on heavy winstrake and climbing up very fast. Matches are now quick, and close – every win is not for free.

This seasson is really enjoyable, leader board for friends and guild mates are awesome – I don’t want to reach top 250… I only want beat my friends (it’s fun between us).

Classes are balanced, mmr looks working, rewards are ok, GJ. Make title from 251-1000 rank and I will not need more

Best season since S1.

Started at platinum 2 (after 9:1), dropped to gold 3, now one win away from platinum 1 again. Now at 50 games, 38 wins.

Only thing bothering me is the high number of DH and the problem with countering those.

Started on Gold Tier 2, was one win away to Plat, now back to the very bottom of Gold Tier 3 thanks to a godawful loss streak (had a few teammates that were pretty bad on my team 3-4 times in a ROW)

Tip: Don’t play at night in the U.S. The games suck. I was on a win streak this morning but that all changed when the fire nation attacked….

…err when it turned nighttime