Guild Wars 2

As topic says, I’m pretty upset with my placements so far. But why am I posting a new topic about it?
Becouse I’m angry mostly about team matching. After few years spend in Guild Wars 2, I made over 2k ranked games. The last PvP season ended up for me in high gold tier. I may not playing like pro players, but in my opinion I can definitly say, that my personal skill is quite over avarge random GW2 player. So new season starts.
First match: Eternal Coliseum 139:500 for enemy team.
Most of my team was playing like headless chickens, running around points, being constanlty dead in middle of nowhere. “Git gud”, I thought. And queued again.
Second match: Legacy of Foefire: 419:503 for my team.
I have to admit. Hard and good match. Good focusing, good power rez, good on point fights. So I queued again.
Third match: Legacy of Foefire: 103:608 for enemy team.
Again. I played versus team with two thieves. One was playing double pistols, second was playing some wierd condi stuff. And they stomped us. Four man on mid, I’m pinging target, focusing on it. And my team was like: “Oh, okay, you have your target, let me find mine!” and everyone started focusing diffrent person, so we were just killed one by one. Our mesmer had portal just to make entrence in base, run down mid, almost die, open it again to port back to base and heal himself from downed, for about 30-40seconds. After match I had on question in head: Why? Jesus, why?!
Fourth match: Battle of Khylo: 500:138 for my team.
It was stomp. I actually lost my mind when enemy warrior asked why he’s not capping point in vegance. Really dude?
Fifth match: Capricorn something: 500:115 for enemy team.
In my team I had sword/shield+rifle warrior, scepter/sword+gs mesmer combo. All they did in whole match was fighting offpoint, being dead and running down to nowehere, to fight offpoint a little bit more. I asked warrior what was his division last season. “Bronze 2, why u asking?”, he replied.

I lost 6th match too, and probably gonna lose next matches. I really enjoyed playing PvP, total stomps happend, but not so often. And now I’m giving up after six matches.
Why ex gold player is even queued with bronzie guys? Is it just my bad luck or someone thinks it’s okay?
Prove pic: http://imgur.com/a/GebeI

Ps. Sorry for my english but Im not native blablabla.

That happen when you can’t chose who’s your allies: you take what you find. If you find good players you win,if you find bad players you lose. That’s how actually is the sPvP.

If you’re not playing a class able to carry your team or aren’t able to carry it with your favorite class, there’s nothing you can do unless hope to find good players.
That’s the solo/duo queue main problem and nothing can change it. Not the match making for shure.

It’s also the start of the season. It’s not a hard reset but the skill mix will be greater early on. It’s also the middle of the week. A lot of people can’t play enough yet to get their placements done and settle in MMR.

Loss 1:

Teammate: Crap wrong weapon! Sorry guys RIP

Loss 2:

Teammate: Hey guys haven’t played in a long time

grrr arg why me

1. The skill gap is big (power creep) , people just take the wrong build, skill or weapon, just one of them , this will over, we no need to talk more.
2. population is low.

MMR never work in this environment.

xeonage.1253:

1. The skill gap is big (power creep) ,

Power creep has literally nothing to do with skill gap.

Here are some peaches:

1. What’s this map?
2. New to “X profession”, don’t expect much.

Crinn.7864:

xeonage.1253:

1. The skill gap is big (power creep) ,

Power creep has literally nothing to do with skill gap.

YA? Why player can dead in a sec? Why there are 10x 20x condi in a sec? Why they cannot make enough damage?

If a player can dead in a sec because they cannot run their def spamm ratotion because of their 200-400ping or their timing control or they take the worng skill/weapon/build.

If a player cannot make any/enough damage output because of they cannot find window of def spamm ratotion or take the worng skill/weapon/build.

The PvP ranking has nothing to do with your actuall skill. It’s just all about luck whether you get decent players as your team mates or not. Mostlikely the game will try to force you into 50/50 so one match easy with decent team mates and the next one blowout with uncarryable team.

What you can do is get a decent duo partner so you can influence the RNG a bit, solo you have almost no chance to carry whole team. So again, the current ranking shows some weird numbers which for sure don’t reflect your skill

Had 3 players in my team yesterday triple capping close at the start of the match, guess who lost..

Join a guild and start doing inhouses/scrims if you want actual real matches.

while you are dissatisfied with your matches I am the opposite end of the spectrum right now. I was ruby/low diamond before these ranks and have always ended up mid gold. after my placements i’m mid plat. I feel sorry for my teammates cause I know i’m not that great of a player and just play to kill some time and have fun. I guess eventually i’ll drop down to where I think I should be but until then my teammates will also suffer cause of my lucky streak during placement matches.

Good start for me, 5/10 placement matches had DCs (4 on my team, 1 on enemy). Won 1/4 of the DC matches, we were ahead on all 4 of them, confident we would have won 3/4 of them if no DCs.

Other highlights:
- Thief, Mes, Guard, Druid, Engi (Me) Comp. Nobody goes home, all go to mid. 4 end up going to far, 3 following 1 other there. Lost home, mid, but won far!
- Winning ~484 – 481. We own home, they own far, 3 of them capping mid, 3 of our guys dead and respawning. 1 other hanging between mid/far. Me on mid delay cap for as long as possible for respawns. I die at 492 – 489 making it 492 – 494. The 3 respawns (run right past home) + the 4th member ALL go far. Our home gets decapped, they get mid ofc, and we get far as the game ends. Lost 500 – 493. Those dopes were running 1by1 into mid all game.

Placements always suck. Otherwise to all the people crying that they can’t climb – git gud and abuse strong (OP) specs: thief. Worked for me.

Don’t worry I only joined in S5 and finished bronze because I didn’t understand conquest or any other class than my main. Then S6 I placed silver 1 after 8 wins, finished at gold 3. Yesterday I went 4 wins and placed gold 1, so I think your rank from previous season must have a good impact on where you actually place.

But yeah I was pretty kittened off too, the losses I had were absolutely ridiculous people 3vs1 a dead body on close/far while I’m kiting x players around for days, total wipes at mid and nobody disengaging or kiting whatsoever.

What’s the starting range for those in placement matches?

I didn’t do so well in my placements.

But i’m not worried, i can always carry myself into plat, it’s just now i have to play more lol.

Miyu.8137:

The PvP ranking has nothing to do with your actuall skill. It’s just all about luck whether you get decent players as your team mates or not. Mostlikely the game will try to force you into 50/50 so one match easy with decent team mates and the next one blowout with uncarryable team.

What you can do is get a decent duo partner so you can influence the RNG a bit, solo you have almost no chance to carry whole team. So again, the current ranking shows some weird numbers which for sure don’t reflect your skill

Wasn’t this disproved by one of the ESL players? I wanna say Helseth? He tanked an alt to bronze and climbed up to legend last season or the one before?

Granted, their skill level is significantly higher than most of us, but this disproves your theory. It is not entirely about luck. A good player can potentially have a heavy influence on his team. And yes, it is a difficult climb because you’ll lose games due to total randoms that just don’t belong there, but a positive climb can occur.