Guild Wars 2

Forst of all I want to apologize with all my teammates and opponents that I will face right now till I’ll go down to my proper rank.
I just came back from a 5 months break and since my old team got disbanded I started doing some soloQ.
I won 3 matches in a row and now I am first in the “leaderboard”.
I realy don’t care about the leaderboard, it was a friend of mine to inform me about my position, but even if I like to have the chance to face some of the best players for a while, I still feel I don’t belong to this rank, I would like to face people at my skill level and surely my opponents would like to not face me.
I am stuck now, because I prefer to do some “soloTEAM” where my rank is quite similar to my skill level, than soloQ and risking to ruin mine and others game.
Please A-Net put this thing in your priorities because seriously this leaderboard is embarassing right now

I don’t think ArenaNet understand how important the problem is. It screws up the matchmaking so much.

Obsidia.5127:

I don’t think ArenaNet understand how important the problem is. It screws up the matchmaking so much.

And its why some consider ranked a joke.

It does need to be fixed, it also needs some better in game integration.

Obsidia.5127:

I don’t think ArenaNet understand how important the problem is. It screws up the matchmaking so much.

They understand it, just don’t care enough.

kirito.4138:

Obsidia.5127:

I don’t think ArenaNet understand how important the problem is. It screws up the matchmaking so much.

They understand it, just don’t care enough.

They understand it, they believe it’s working as intended.

Fix’d this for you.

Here goes another topic where someone quits with extremely high MMR plays and scores rank 1, not understanding how rating systems work.

Look at the picture. He has 23 matches played. Please explain how that should be at the top of the leaderboards, especially when 8 of those are losses. It would be understandable if he was 23-0, but he’s not.

GW2 is using Glicko rating system algorithm.
Plz have a look on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system.
And you will clearly understand that your ladder depends on your activity (t parameter).

But they should revise this formula by redefining some parameters…

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Look at the picture. He has 23 matches played. Please explain how that should be at the top of the leaderboards, especially when 8 of those are losses. It would be understandable if he was 23-0, but he’s not.

Because he obviously won against people with a high rating, possibly people in the top 30 or 40. That is how someone can reach the leaderboard with a less than 50% win rate.

Obviously there are problems with how MMR works.

Having said that, if this guy actually continues to play he will go down pretty fast.

GG for leaderboards….

YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE! LEAD YOUR PEOPLE INTO PVP VICTORIES!

Dahkeus.8243:

YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE! LEAD YOUR PEOPLE INTO PVP VICTORIES!

eheh
seriously, the ranking system needs a rework, I know I don’t deserve to be at that rank.
But the real problem is that this rank will ruin my soloQ games and for the people matched with me, I know that.
Also I have more TeamQ matches done cos I like to play TeamQ even when solo and only from time to time doing a soloQ.
What if, eventually I should win again my next soloQ? I will be pushed again to rank 1 and that’s not good.
btw keep playing and have fun guys and don’t care about the leaderboard as I never did.
cya in game

Chase.8415:

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Look at the picture. He has 23 matches played. Please explain how that should be at the top of the leaderboards, especially when 8 of those are losses. It would be understandable if he was 23-0, but he’s not.

Because he obviously won against people with a high rating, possibly people in the top 30 or 40. That is how someone can reach the leaderboard with a less than 50% win rate.

Because he won against high rated players that should make him a viable candidate for rank 1? No it should not. This rating/ranking system is terrible, and how players are placed is even worse. This is how every ones matches will go if they don’t lose there first placement matches, they will get an auto rank 1 because this system flawed.

I am not saying it should be perfect, but it definitely should not be this far from it.

My favorite is this guy who is 3-8 (yes, three wins eight losses) who went up to rank 4 (he may have been higher, this was just the first rank I noticed him at).

How do you hit top 10 with 3 wins… even if you beat the best players all on one team three times in a row…

He’s decayed down to like rank 13. I took a screenshot.

EoNxBoNx.9213:

Chase.8415:

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Look at the picture. He has 23 matches played. Please explain how that should be at the top of the leaderboards, especially when 8 of those are losses. It would be understandable if he was 23-0, but he’s not.

Because he obviously won against people with a high rating, possibly people in the top 30 or 40. That is how someone can reach the leaderboard with a less than 50% win rate.

Because he won against high rated players that should make him a viable candidate for rank 1? No it should not. This rating/ranking system is terrible, and how players are placed is even worse. This is how every ones matches will go if they don’t lose there first placement matches, they will get an auto rank 1 because this system flawed.

I am not saying it should be perfect, but it definitely should not be this far from it.

How about this far?

http://i.imgur.com/j8z8o9s.png

Your 3 wins to get you to the top was most likely high rated games that got you to rank 1.

Well congratulations on achieving ‘Legend of the Arena’ title.

You’ve EARNED IT!

SFR player being ranked high?

I call foul play!

No way to fix this issue if only few (very very few) people play spvp ranked match.

Obsidia.5127:

I don’t think ArenaNet understand how important the problem is. It screws up the matchmaking so much.

Still rings true…anet don’t understand what they created or how to even balance gw2’s various facets. They don’t even understand the value of monthly/ weekly content/balance patches.