Guild Wars 2

WARNING: SALT INCOMING!

Ok, not sure if this can be taken as any kind of serious feedback, but I must speak my mind. Just go get some popcorn and take a seat, for it will be long reading. I’m having terrible experiences with the season so far. Being an averrage pvp’er between the seasons, very active during each season, with good knowledge about the classes that I play, and already inherited all the strats and rotations few years back. Played nearly 4k matches during my playtime.
Now for the feedback part. Placement matches are absolute bullkitten. How can anyone have their skill determined after only 10 (ten) played matches, that’s beyond my ability to comprehend. It should be much more, 30-50 at least. Makes no problem for any decent pvp’er. Season start was killed by clueless pvers, who just flooded spvp to farm the asc stuff. I was getting tons of people who willingly told me and the team: that they have no care about if we win or lose, they just want to get them shards to buy asc crap. Seriously. I always thought this, now i’ll say it aloud: spvp should be completely separated from pve (loot/balance/build/rewards/whatever-wise), as it almost was a few years back, before all the feature pack shiny stuff and merge, or at least lock ranked play behind rank 80 or some certain amount of matches won. Currently 1764 rating (dropped almost two tiers in platinum just today, yep); playing three classes at a good lvl of skill: DH meditrapper, power berserker, procmancer reaper. Cirka 280 matches in. Constantly losing any progress that i made. Those two tiers took me days of hard work to get, now it’s gone due to the ongoing reasons.
Teammates range from horrible (= no other class to switch to, no sense of rotations whatsoever, they start to insult their own team when it’s 70:100, etc; and this all speaking about t1-3 plat), to fantastic – that’s where i get the occasional win here and there, while finally being allowed to have some fun (90% of the matches could be described as unfun, hopeless and agonising). Tragedy. But the even worse thing is, that I’m getting ESL players from the Top 5 as opponents (namely r55 guys). As a t1-2 platinum player. This is unacceptable. I want to have good, fair, enjoyable matches. I don’t play spvp to get destroyed by toxic tryhard teens, who play completely different game and thus should be placed against opponents close to their own SR. Nor do I want to have them in my team, and get carried. That just makes no sense to me, at all. I’d rather have 10-15 min long Qs for quality matches than that.
MM (matchmaking) is horrible. In order to deliver me quick Qs, it places me against/with any players that are available (as of how it appears to me, at least), no matter their rating. And all this because there’s so few people playing spvp right now. Most have already ragequited, or gave up. Although, that’s not gonna happen to me. I set myself a goal: to get into Legendary this season, and I will accomplish it, or die from despair (and salt?) next to my PC.
I believe GW2 needs way more spvp streamers, tho I’m unsure where to get them and how to promote them. They would draw the attention of other players to the game, while teaching them the mechanics and strategies, showing them how the different classes perform, discussing balance, or giving them personal advice and tips. That’d be awesome, and even I as a veteran player would watch them. And I’m not talking about Lord Scrubseth and Co., they are way too arrogant and toxic for anyone to watch them (well, except their hardcore fans, I guess). It would also help to have a tab with streamers that are currently live on the main web page (inspiration taken from a certain ARPG), possibly for all the game zones (pve, pvp, wvw).
That’s about all I had to say, hope your popcorn didn’t become salty while reading this!

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FWIW, the net effect would have been the same if there were zero, and fifty, placement games. Ten is actually pretty solid, since convergence on the “correct” solution in the MMR algorithm used is more or less exponential.

I’d honestly kind of prefer new players started at zero, but whatever, initial MMR is insignificant within the first two hours of PvP gameplay, replaced by a fairly accurate guess of your position relative to all other players.

To the later suggestion, that MMR be entirely disregarded and replaced with “First In, First Out” grouping … that would lead to a terrible experience. Your queue is unlikely to be significantly shorter than the current queues, but it would lead to situations where games were absolutely, positively no fun at all. (eg: one or two great players would dominate every match, to the point it’s no fun for them either.)

You probably also need to state where and when you play, since my experience is ~ 1 to 2 minute queues for PvP with MMR as it currently stands, etc.

Easy.

Worst Season Ever!

With that all unbalanced classes, matchmaking and joking point system anet continues to surprised us when we said it cant be worse

Probably the best season ever:

• 7/10 wins in the first matches, ranked gold (tier 2) at the beginning.
• Took me 94 matches in ranked to finish the bizantium chest and to get the ascended rewards, with a exact 50% w/l ratio. I keep the category albeit moving from gold tier 2 to 1 then 2 etc.
• 90% of my ranked matches were with condi (burn) DH, 10% with power DH meditrapper. Always did play alone.
• The MMR did work perfectly, I had the feeling that with a similkar skilled partner I should be able to reach platinum, but no way I’m able to play in legend division.

So far I got what I deserved: no shame, no tears and no big drama. A third of the matches were slanted in my favour, a third against and the other third were fairly balanced with narrow scores. I did drop to silver t3 a couple of times but getting out was fairly easy. So my guess is: the current system works and puts everyone more or less where they belongs.