Guild Wars 2

So I have to applaud Anet on the complete overhaul of the system. Is it perfect? No but no pvp game has a perfect system. What I really enjoy is the fact you separated the Pip Rewards from the MMR/ELO/Ranking/etc. Great move /applaud. I like the fact you went so far as a soft reset with placement matches. Again I applaud. I do understand that currently everything is settling and people are seeing themselves sliding into where they are actually supposed to be.

This leads to the one problem I’ve noticed with your system. The actual placement matches themselves. 1st of all whoever thought it was a good idea to have it Thief day for daily achievements on the start of the PvP season needs to be let go. That was STUPID beyond belief. Now I personally went 4-6 in my placement matches. I literally had the worst luck/teams in my 10 games. I mean 2-3 thieves on my team every game. Some games that I won were completely in my team’s favor, and then there were 2 where I carried sooooo hard with clutch portals, moas, and 1v1’s.

So that wraps up and I went 4-6 and got my MMR of 1050 at the bottom of silver baby! So instead of kittening and moaning I said “Let’s see what this season offers.” So I started to play and now my record went from 4-6 to 20-9 and I just hit the gold division. Hrmm. Since my placement matches I’ve gone 16-3 and those 3 loses were b/c my teammates were something special indeed, and it felt like the game wanted me to lose.

How is this possible?

On the flip side I’ve fought a few people who were on the other team and they placed platinum on their placements. They’ve lost so much they are now silver. Hrmm.

So I think next season the placement matches need to be reworked, and a fail safe for improperly placed players needs to be implemented. Like lets say a player starts to really stack up the wins. Maybe there should be something inplace to jump their MMR up by like 100. I was getting 17-22 MMR a match. This might help get players where they need to be quicker.

Otherwise the season seems great. I know it’ll take like 100 matches for a person MMR to settle, and I’ll post my thoughts once the dust settles. I hope I see this system really settle in tbh.

im probably going to enter mmr hell soon because ive been trying to the achievments. which means playing classes im not that good at or that requires a good team. necro being the best example. i lost a solid 20 games trying to get the 5 wins i needed for the second tier.

sophiewhite.3149:

im probably going to enter mmr hell soon because ive been trying to the achievments. which means playing classes im not that good at or that requires a good team. necro being the best example. i lost a solid 20 games trying to get the 5 wins i needed for the second tier.

Just play your best class until the game is basically over than switch to necro at the end.

Azukas.1426:

sophiewhite.3149:

im probably going to enter mmr hell soon because ive been trying to the achievments. which means playing classes im not that good at or that requires a good team. necro being the best example. i lost a solid 20 games trying to get the 5 wins i needed for the second tier.

Just play your best class until the game is basically over than switch to necro at the end.

Wouldn’t that count as a DC since you switched after the 2 minutes of a game’s start? Or did they change that or did it never work that way? I honestly forget, but I’m pretty sure there was a system in place to punish those who left matches after 2 minutes into a game.

The game still tries to force you into 50% win rate. It’s so contradictory it baffles me. This starting season is also a big kittening chaos; as they stated everyone starts the same, matchmaking a disaster so far.

Dariya.9380:

The game still tries to force you into 50% win rate. It’s so contradictory it baffles me. This starting season is also a big kittening chaos; as they stated everyone starts the same, matchmaking a disaster so far.

No it doesn’t.
You only get into 50-50 when you are close to your true MMR.

The OP got bad placement games so he ended up way lower than he should be. That is why he won 16 out of 19 game. Work as intended.

Dariya.9380:

The game still tries to force you into 50% win rate. It’s so contradictory it baffles me.

How is it contradictory? It’s literally how every competitive multiplayer game ever does it.

Zintrothen.1056:

Azukas.1426:

sophiewhite.3149:

im probably going to enter mmr hell soon because ive been trying to the achievments. which means playing classes im not that good at or that requires a good team. necro being the best example. i lost a solid 20 games trying to get the 5 wins i needed for the second tier.

Just play your best class until the game is basically over than switch to necro at the end.

Wouldn’t that count as a DC since you switched after the 2 minutes of a game’s start? Or did they change that or did it never work that way? I honestly forget, but I’m pretty sure there was a system in place to punish those who left matches after 2 minutes into a game.

You have a minute or two to get back into the game. If you click logout to char select pic your necro you’ll auto log into the match

Exciton.8942:

Dariya.9380:

The game still tries to force you into 50% win rate. It’s so contradictory it baffles me. This starting season is also a big kittening chaos; as they stated everyone starts the same, matchmaking a disaster so far.

No it doesn’t.
You only get into 50-50 when you are close to your true MMR.

The OP got bad placement games so he ended up way lower than he should be. That is why he won 16 out of 19 game. Work as intended.

Yes thats my one complaint about this season. I think there are many like me who are misplaced and this,is the reason you see unhappiness with the system.

I think if you could get a more accurate placement and faster progression of misplaced players the complaints would drop significantly.

I do enjoy the fast progression through my rewards though ^^