Guild Wars 2

Serious suggestion. It’s in a terrible state and at least we wouldn’t have to fight the same ~20 people for hours.

Odd…
For years, anet has had only one tournament system. However people requested there be a solo que leaderboard. Now the people got what they wanted, and now, they already want it removed. Its like a circle.
I want this
Remove this
I want this
Remove this
Just wasting developers time is all that is being done.

But, on a real note. Just do hotjoins if you don’t want to be apart of ranked matches.

uberkingkong.8041:

Odd…
For years, anet has had only one tournament system.

Not years, only 1 year.

However people requested there be a solo que leaderboard. Now the people got what they wanted, and now, they already want it removed.

People wanted a soloque, so they don’t get roflstomped by 5 man premades while they que alone. Nobody could foresee that the matchmaking will be this bad, even the devs admit that soloque ranking is not an indication of player skill level at all.

I want this
Remove this
I want this
Remove this
Just wasting developers time is all that is being done.

People wanted new maps too, and Anet added Skyhammer. Does that mean people wanted to have skyhammer? Don’t blame the players just because ArenaNet couldn’t deliver.

But, on a real note. Just do hotjoins if you don’t want to be apart of ranked matches.

If I wanted to get ebola I’d got to Africa, thanks. I just want a team of people with approximately the same understanding of the game if i que up, but if there is no chance for that, at least add variety by letting us play with different people, not just a pool of 15-20 for hours. When I’m repeatedly on a team with players runnig specs like a turret engi, phantasm mesmer or P/P thief (none of them ranked in top 1k) against a team that has members of TCG, Purple Smokers and 55hp Monks then I think I have every right to doubt that the matchmaking is legit.

I didn’t play Gw2 for like 3 days, and in my first game I did do today, I knew 4 players in that game.

How sad is that? And I’ve now played 4 matches, I knew like 3-5 people IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, after a few days off.

It honestly makes me want to just stop logging on, that it’s the SAME FREAKING PEOPLE ALL DAY EVERY DAY in soloq. It’s boring, not fun, it’s lame and annoying.

This, coupled with dc’s and absolutely horrendous matchmaking (my last match was 500-90 ish or something) just really does make me want to say I’ve had enough, and change mmorpg :/

Edit: In 5th game now, know of 5 of the players, my team being horribly stomped, gg, yet again.

witcher.3197:

If I wanted to get ebola I’d got to Africa, thanks. I just want a team of people with approximately the same understanding of the game if i que up, but if there is no chance for that, at least add variety by letting us play with different people, not just a pool of 15-20 for hours. When I’m repeatedly on a team with players runnig specs like a turret engi, phantasm mesmer or P/P thief (none of them ranked in top 1k) against a team that has members of TCG, Purple Smokers and 55hp Monks then I think I have every right to doubt that the matchmaking is legit.

Odd, that you want to be playing with people equal skill level than you.
Fact is that pool your talking about is the people with the skill level around you.

Odd, your solo queing and always facing members of skilled teams.
What is happening is most likely your skill level is trying to get to a higher skill level but most likely not happening because your not ready for that skill level yet to be playing with top dogs like the teams you mentioned.

@Mjgander.1905
Odd, its just your same skill level as those people so you are qued with them and constantly playing them. When you get better or they get better you will start seeing those same people less.
Quick fact, in PvE theres millions and I don’t think I could ever say “hey I know you”
However PvP community doesn’t consist of millions so you are stuck with same people.

Its not that solo que is forcing you with same people, its that its your skill level and mostly because that’s whose playing.

Quick fact, ToL had 2k viewers on twitch, before they hyped it with precursors and llamas. WTS qualifiers had same or worse viewers (1600-1700 was peak for NA, ToL was 2k if I recall). Also that WTS was hyped with precursors and llamas. So WTS had more people who watched not to support PvP but for precursor and llama and ToL was mostly people who supported PvP community and was active PvP’er. Just shows how the PvP community is declining.
Quick fact, hotjoins had more active servers with full teams fighting each other a year ago than compared to today.

PvP community is in decline, its not that the solo que system is bad, but when you have small number of people to choose from, you a rank 91% will have better chances at facing a rank 100 than compared to a huge massive pool of people for the system to work with making it more level rather than huge deviations.
Quick fact, even if you a 91% beat a 100 ranked leaderboarder on solo que. You will only go up 1% (be 92%), and that 100 ranked will most likely drop 100 spots. Whatever there glicko system, if a bad player beats a good player he gains crazy amounts of points, is not in effect. Its if you win you go up you lose you go down, same percentage and I cant speak for top 25 since I never been there. But they stay top 25 for a long time because not many people can win consecutively that much to get on the top 25.
So the truth about when you get to top 25 and don’t play anymore you stay at top 25 is still true. That decay you see is mostly from other players knocking you down and I’m not sure when the decay really happens.

I thought solo people were q’ing into team q’s to avoid skyhammer and 4v5’s and rating problems. Did that change?

Unranked Q with no matchmaking so that everyone can get instant q-pops would be fantastic.

I expect lots of leavers/afkers/3v5s but if this comes with an overhaul of rewards to encourage players to finish the game, this would be a huge fix for pvp.

witcher.3197:

Serious suggestion. It’s in a terrible state and at least we wouldn’t have to fight the same ~20 people for hours.

Is there a matchmaking in soloq?