Guild Wars 2

Who here will be taking the new solo q as seriously as possible? Or who (like me) will be running troll builds (effective not useless)?

I am debating whether to run my main or just run static discharge burst for trolols.

What will everyone else run?

d/d necro
;D

/15char

I am taking it seriously. It sounds like they thought this through and are making it fair. That means that if you don’t help your team win, then you will lose more than 50% of your games (and really what fun is that? You have hotjoin for nonsense builds and trolols). Doing it in a fair SoloQ means you will be at the bottom of the leaderboards.

Laserbolt.6731:

I am taking it seriously. It sounds like they thought this through and are making it fair. That means that if you don’t help your team win, then you will lose more than 50% of your games (and really what fun is that? You have hotjoin for nonsense builds and trolols). Doing it in a fair SoloQ means you will be at the bottom of the leaderboards.

I’m sorry, every expectation of that sort has been crushed by anet time and time again…

They’re not even changing the matchmaking system, so I don’t know why you have your hopes up, I mean they aren’t changing how the game matches people up… it will still be as terribly and spasticly flawed of a process as ever…

That was the core of the issue to begin with… their matchmaking couldn’t tell competitive from non-competitive players… if you want to play an off spec… well woe to anyone matched on your team…

Best of luck… seriously.
You’re going to need it.
;)

I did say it was effective. Didn’t say it was viable at high end playing.

SD engi is just very very painful in small aoe. it can hit 10-20k every 20s in a instant burst.

lol.

lol who the kitten take this game seriously omg

Serious fun, or fun by being serious.

Play the best with what I bring. But may not necessarily bring what is considered the best.

ensoriki.5789:

Play the best with what I bring. But may not necessarily bring what is considered the best.

Well said.

Leaderboards are most likely going to be largely similar to Call of Duty leaderboards (not necessarily representative of skill, but of overall experience with the game, and the ability to win).

Leaderboards are terribly vague (and therefore not a good indicator) and don’t represent everything a player brings to s match, so there really shouldn’t be any reason to fret over them for Solo Q. For instance, they don’t (and have never) indicate amount of kills per game (or damage points dealt), there’s no on-objective percentage, or objective captures, or secondary objective participation numbers.

So, while there will be a large portion of the leaderboards that will be representative of skilled players (probably top 100 or so), it will more than likely need a larger sample size before people can be distinguished between the actual “good players” and the people who are being carried by said good players towards victories. Over time, the amount of players getting carried should go down based on matchmaking logic, which would stabilize the leaderboards, but that also has a requirement of a large enough amount of players participating.

I would assume though, that eventually, if you play seriously and take it seriously, you will be matched up with like minded players, and if you don’t player seriously or take it seriously, than you will be matched up with those players. That is the ideal scenario, but I’m also going to assume that the system has to be fed a large enough sample size for that to happen.

jcbroe.4329:

I would assume though, that eventually, if you play seriously and take it seriously, you will be matched up with like minded players, and if you don’t player seriously or take it seriously, than you will be matched up with those players. That is the ideal scenario, but I’m also going to assume that the system has to be fed a large enough sample size for that to happen.

And if you ever are in the mind to switch between the two because you don’t want to take a game seriously or cassually always and forever…
You.
Are.
Boned.

garethh.3518:

jcbroe.4329:

I would assume though, that eventually, if you play seriously and take it seriously, you will be matched up with like minded players, and if you don’t player seriously or take it seriously, than you will be matched up with those players. That is the ideal scenario, but I’m also going to assume that the system has to be fed a large enough sample size for that to happen.

And if you ever are in the mind to switch between the two because you don’t want to take a game seriously or cassually always and forever…
You.
Are.
Boned.

Until matchmaking changes your position for your change in dedication.

ensoriki.5789:

garethh.3518:

jcbroe.4329:

I would assume though, that eventually, if you play seriously and take it seriously, you will be matched up with like minded players, and if you don’t player seriously or take it seriously, than you will be matched up with those players. That is the ideal scenario, but I’m also going to assume that the system has to be fed a large enough sample size for that to happen.

And if you ever are in the mind to switch between the two because you don’t want to take a game seriously or cassually always and forever…
You.
Are.
Boned.

Until matchmaking changes your position for your change in dedication.

What happens if you are already skilled but just don’t want to play the few viable specs at the moment, or want to practice a new spec?
What happens if you just want to mess around with some friends?

Should you have to take the few day climb back up the ladder after… just so you can be matched with evenly skilled players again…