Be prepared for an army of angry virgins to come in here saying it should be solo queue only.
The fact that ranked is duo/solo only in a hugely team based game is why nobody cares about rank or pvp.
This has been explained ad nauseam but I will explain it again, in a calm manner because I’m not an angry virgin. :^)
The reason why “it should be only solo” is because being in a pre-made team is a huge advantage over being with 4 other solo players.
Back in ye olde days we had team queue for team players and solo queue for solo players. But GW2’s playerbase isn’t nearly large enough to sustain such a system so the team queues were atrociously long.
So Anet merged the two and allowed teams to face against solos, which resulted in teams absolutely dominating and farming solo players, making is very easy for anyone to get into the legendary division, all you needed was a 5 man team with some halfway decent strats.
So Anet changed it once again, allowing team queue for unranked but only allowing solo and duo in ranked, which seems to be fair, but forcing everyone to go solo would be even more fair, but then I suppose it would no longer be fun. After all, what is more fun than ganking noobs? Ganking noobs with a friend. So duo it is.
It will be nice to have few queue modes options in ranked tie to reward system. Options to select only solo queue, team queue for under 3 men, team queue for over 3 men and free queue ( solo player to join random teamed group). I don’t mind waiting is long for 3 men party queue at least we get to play together laugh and discuss about it at the same time getting reward for taking part.
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just want to be able to play with friends