Guild Wars 2 Forum

[SUGGESTION] turn on RANKED offseasons.

there is a reason many of us refuse to play UNRANKED matches., mainly due to their poor matchmaking and very poor matches, or because of hating certain maps.

please for the love of Tyria, enabled ranked play during the offseason….

if you’re worried about people getting confused… then i suggest, during the actual seasons, add a “League Match” Option to the queue UI. (or change the Ranked option to “League Match” option during the actual season matchups)

[My own PvP history]

back during the PvE content drought of 2015, i got so bored that i finally tried my hand in PvP. i thought i’d start in unranked so i could practice. sure, my MMR was very volatile, so my matchmaking experience was all over place, seeing blowouts pretty much every match. i watched some videos on YouTube to learn more about PvP, and discerned that most games i was matched in unranked, one team knew how to PvP, and the other team had no clue. therefore, every match seemed to be a blowout.

so i tried ranked. my matchmaking experience was 100 times better. (even though the matchmaking for me is still very volatile since i was not able to PvP every day, or even sometimes only one day a month due to work scheduling)

for me, ranked was always a better experience. and i am reminded of how much better ranked experience is, every single time i queue in unranked. because my unranked experience makes we want to never PvP again.

[TL;DR] ranked is a much better PvP experience than Unranked, please turn on ranked play during the offseason, and give a “League Match” queue option during the actual season

– The Baconnaire