Guild Wars 2

It seems a bit excessive to me that you should lose an entire Division(!!) worth of rating in a week. There’s no need for such steep drop off. The +100 you get per/win is too much as well, but necessary only because you made the decay so steep.

Adding insult to injury is the fact that the placement matches kittened me over and dropped into the bottom of Bronze, from which I climbed all the way out to just a couple games shy of Gold before I left town for the holiday. Now I have to play with Bronze and Silver players… again? Come on.

The dynamics of your placement mechanics are just too extreme.

Decay should be more forgiving but also become permanent after some time. People can place high, never play again and just recover their decay later on and lose maybe 20 places on the board.

You’re still matched up against gold players, it uses that same mmr you’re just not going to show on the leaderboard

After decay I lost a total of roughly 100pts off my rating.

If rating decay is intended to reflect skill “rust” from time away, then why would it place me against players at my original rating? Why change the rating at all then and just let me lose?

And you cannot tell me that it’s intended to keep active players at the top of the leaderboard when the “top players” have only played 13 matches.

My “League” Experience so far has been to get kittened in my placement matches and dropped into the bottom of Bronze, only to climb basically all the way out and up to Gold, only to get pegged back by another 100 rating for not playing for a week… ???

What the kitten is that? Do you not want me to succeed at this? It’s hard enough to get rating separation from the people who are detrimental to your team’s outcome, why do you keep pegging me back, ANet?

If I remember correctly, the decay just effects your post on on the leaderboard. It still uses your rating prior to decay for matchmaking purposes, meaning you’re not being matched with bronze players. I left the game for a bit for Christmas, came back, lost a match, won a match, recovered all of my decayed rank.

Shaogin.2679:

If I remember correctly, the decay just effects your post on on the leaderboard. It still uses your rating prior to decay for matchmaking purposes, meaning you’re not being matched with bronze players. I left the game for a bit for Christmas, came back, lost a match, won a match, recovered all of my decayed rank.

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If rating decay is intended to reflect skill “rust” from time away, then why would it place me against players at my original rating? Why change the rating at all then and just let me lose?

And you cannot tell me that it’s intended to keep active players at the top of the leaderboard when the “top players” have only played 13 matches.

hackks.3687:

My “League” Experience so far has been to get kittened in my placement matches and dropped into the bottom of Bronze, only to climb basically all the way out and up to Gold, only to get pegged back by another 100 rating for not playing for a week… ???

What the kitten is that? Do you not want me to succeed at this? It’s hard enough to get rating separation from the people who are detrimental to your team’s outcome, why do you keep pegging me back, ANet?

What if I place well then play a good 25 matches to start the season and am sitting comfortably in the leader boards? What’s stopping me from not playing the rest of the season at all? This is just a simple way to prevent people from sitting in the leader boards and never playing again and to encourage semi-regular play, not used to emulate rust (there are other variables for that).

And are you blind? It still uses your ORIGINAL RATING for match making, how many times do you need to read that? If you’re having bad matches I’d start looking at recordings of your own gameplay to see where you went wrong since the only thing you have control over is the improvement of yourself. That is, unless, you actually think you cannot improve anymore.

hackks.3687:

Shaogin.2679:

If I remember correctly, the decay just effects your post on on the leaderboard. It still uses your rating prior to decay for matchmaking purposes, meaning you’re not being matched with bronze players. I left the game for a bit for Christmas, came back, lost a match, won a match, recovered all of my decayed rank.

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If rating decay is intended to reflect skill “rust” from time away, then why would it place me against players at my original rating? Why change the rating at all then and just let me lose?

And you cannot tell me that it’s intended to keep active players at the top of the leaderboard when the “top players” have only played 13 matches.

They wanted it to keep active players in the leader board but because of how t was implemented allows for people to play only one game every 72 hrs to maintain their Rating

hackks.3687:

Shaogin.2679:

If I remember correctly, the decay just effects your post on on the leaderboard. It still uses your rating prior to decay for matchmaking purposes, meaning you’re not being matched with bronze players. I left the game for a bit for Christmas, came back, lost a match, won a match, recovered all of my decayed rank.

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If rating decay is intended to reflect skill “rust” from time away, then why would it place me against players at my original rating? Why change the rating at all then and just let me lose?

And you cannot tell me that it’s intended to keep active players at the top of the leaderboard when the “top players” have only played 13 matches.

I’d have to look this up as well but I believe eventually your decay becomes permanent, meaning your effective mmr (that’s the mmr that’s dropped from decay and affection ts your leaderboard placing) eventually becomes your actual mmr (meaning at that point you would get matched with bronze players if that is how far you decayed). I mean, I don’t think Anet expects you to forget how to play the game after just a week, so there is no reason to let you come back and farm people far below your rank. If that happened, people would purposely let their mmr decay and then come back and win easy matches, getting back their decayed rank plus more, then rinse and repeat.

Also, if I’m wrong and decay never becomes permanent then that really isn’t an issue either. It is highly unlikely that your skills are going to rust in any significant manner within the time span of a season. So in the case, why should the system attempt to account for skill rust that most likely isn’t happening.

And though it probably isn’t as strict as it should be, mmr decay was put in to prevent people from getting a high rank and sitting on it. Also keep in mind that not everyone started the season at the same time, so they could place high on the leaderboard with only 10 matches played but it doesn’t mean they’ve been there since the start sitting on their rank.

Kitten fluff, just play a match or two and it’s back wtf stop whining!

Famine.3164:

Kitten fluff, just play a match or two and it’s back wtf stop whining!

I did. I netted a -100 rating loss a result.

Read.

hackks.3687:

Famine.3164:

Kitten fluff, just play a match or two and it’s back wtf stop whining!

I did. I netted a -100 rating loss a result.

Read.

It’s not the decay’s fault you lost rating though. You gained back your decay in few matches, minus the mmr you lost from losing your matches. Then to have netted a 100 point mmr you loss you must of continue to lose matches. You would of lost these matches and dropped in mmr with or without the decay.