Guild Wars 2

Getting frequent blowout matches, over and over.

Feels like the matchmaking went back to high MMR vs low MMR again.

I don’t know whether this is due to leaderboard, but most of my matches are now 500-200 or close to there.

For a while after the matchmaking change and before the leaederboard change I was getting tons of great games (500-450).

Has this change been reverted? If so, I will stop solo queueing immediately.

I think it may have to do with a smaller amount of people playing right now and the fact that it’s just not stabilized yet. From what I can see, the top 1000 starts at maybe 50% or so whereas before it went to 90-91% before hitting top 1000. There just is way less people to draw from so the matches may seem to be lopsided again.

The MMR reset was still very recent, so more games need to be played for the system to get players to their true MMR. Right now the matchmaking is creating balanced teams based on MMR, but the skill levels may not align correctly resulting in unbalanced matches.

The outcome of Solo Q games is determined by multiple factors.
The fact that you lost for more than 200 points could be due to this factors, just to give some of them:

1- Your team has 2 rangers and enemy team 2 warriors hambows (they got hard countered in the matchups therefore owned).

2- Your team may have excess of bunker specs, while enemy team is balanced.

3- Your team may have 2-3-4 players of the same class, therefore too much redundancy and lacking team synergyze in comparison to the other team.

4- etc etc…

Since I´ve got more than 1.2k matches in solo q I can tell you that often, the outcome of a match is not really determined by a real players skill.
Many times the game is won by the team composition.
Also map makes a huge difference as well.

Spirit watch and skyhammer require different factors in order to win.