Guild Wars 2

We’ve played some matches in a 5-man premade in ranked yesterday. Won 100%. There is a high chance we were not put against full premade all the time, but we might have faced like 221, 32 or 311 teams.

1. The Courtyard.
We think it’s great and refreshing. We agree that there is amost no strategy on this map, but tactics, positioning and teamplay is insanely rewarding and it feels great. Running voice comm changes the game completely as you can time spikes, water fields + blast combos, keep an eye on who is focused, organize retreats or repositionning moves, etc.

People thinking that this is just a ‘get into the middle and lay down AoE’ map are completely wrong and will be destroyed by organized team.

2. Matching rosters
But just because of courtyard, we think the penalty score should be really high to avoid putting different size groups together. 3+ premades have an insane advantage against full solo queuers on this map and this leads to unfair matches.

Imo :
- 11111 (soloQ) should at all cost avoid facing a 3+ premade. 2111 or 221 is okay I think.
- 5 should not be put against something else than 5 and 41 (acceptable).

This leads me to believe that the penalty cost for having a difference of size of 2 between the biggest roster in each team should be REALLY high. Such a match should not be organized by the system unless you’re waiting for like 5+ minutes of queue.

AND I would suggest informing the players after those 5+ minutes that they might be put in such a match. It could allow them to reset the queue if they want it, and wait longer.