Guild Wars 2

Considering solo tournament queue gives so much less rewards now for the same effort, what is the point of SoloQ now? Might as well just keep going Team Q even if solo.

Because you have a much higher chance of winning in solo Q. In team Q, you’re likely to get pitted against organized teams of players who likely are talking on Vent, have played together before, and have a more optimal team composition.

Dahkeus.8243:

Because you have a much higher chance of winning in solo Q. In team Q, you’re likely to get pitted against organized teams of players who likely are talking on Vent, have played together before, and have a more optimal team composition.

I’m sorry, but it seems for at least most people on the leaderboards the win percentage is still close to 50%. I know I have a much easier time right now getting wins in TeamQ over YoloQ.

Dahkeus.8243:

Because you have a much higher chance of winning in solo Q. In team Q, you’re likely to get pitted against organized teams of players who likely are talking on Vent, have played together before, and have a more optimal team composition.

That logic is flawed. To win another team must loose. So the average win percentage across all SoloQ players is 50%. And since I have no influence on my team or my opponents its all luck.
Currently TeamQ gives me a better playing experience and better rewards, so the only reason to do SoloQ is for the two dailies which take too long to bother anyway.

Malediktus.9250:

Dahkeus.8243:

Because you have a much higher chance of winning in solo Q. In team Q, you’re likely to get pitted against organized teams of players who likely are talking on Vent, have played together before, and have a more optimal team composition.

That logic is flawed. To win another team must loose. So the average win percentage across all SoloQ players is 50%. And since I have no influence on my team or my opponents its all luck.
Currently TeamQ gives me a better playing experience and better rewards, so the only reason to do SoloQ is for the two dailies which take too long to bother anyway.

Partially true, but certain classes can help carry a team. A strong bunker makes the fight way easier.

The same can be said about TeamQ. Its astonishing how many premade 4man groups run without a proper bunker.

All is vain

I think you are playing wrong game-mode if you care so much about rewards.

Well, rewards in PvP?
Now that there are some, you want to be efficient?

Anyways, joining teamq alone is not intended and as a result you won’t ever get up in the ladder and be stuck with people having strange ideas like queueing with less than 5 team-members. And in case your rank rises: The premades will crush you.

Whilst in soloq you can play your way up the ladder without having some “hard cap” you won’t ever reach. Plus your odds to win are way higher, since there is no such thing as a premade party.

The rewards for teamq are reasonably higher, since both forming a team and being actually online to play together is rather hard. For that godkitten reason I have collected about 1,5k soloq games, while only having 600 in teamq.

My win percentage in TeamQ is much despite queueing solo for it. And if there are rewards for something I will choose the better option of the 2.
SoloQ is currently one of the most frustrating experience in GW2 you can find. You rank up much slower on SoloQ, too. 450 rank points vs 1000.