Guild Wars 2

As the title says its broken.

In the last 3 days I have seen multiple games where one team consisted of players so new to the game that they had no titles, and not even broken level 40.
At the same time the other teams consisted of players with PvP titles & in a couple instances being dragon ranked.

I have also seen quite a few instances where it started matches even though the teams were 4v5 & in one case 3v5.

Not to mention a hefty number of times where it pitted newer players (See above) up against teams where multiple members were in the same guild (obvious premades)

Would it really be that hard to look at the match making system & at least make sure it scrambled teams a bit better ?

I have some (pvp) titles and i never use them, and i fail to see how titles are representation of player’s skill. Also, i’ve been playing on my new character fot the last 2 months now, but since i mainly do pvp, he’s only lvl 15 or so (i just lvl him up when i have to do it for daily). Also, not representation of my skill.

In the last update they (anet) made some huge progress on how to remove 4v5 situation. But there is only so much they can do. If someone leaves once they accepted the queue, well, its not their problem. You should not blame this on them, but rather on the player that left.

Also, there is no soloq. If your MMR is so high that you (as a solo joining player) are better than the other premade team, they will just match you with other similarly rank players and you should do just fine as a team.
English is not my native language, so there is only so much i can explain in a forum post, but if you check the blog post from anet, where they explained how the new system worked, i think you’d be good to go.

I purposefully don’t use my PvP titles in PvP. Why these people want to give out more information about what your skill level might be? It seems to some times just be there to protect their egos and have something to point at when their team wonders why they are getting their kitten s slapped across the map.

Level doesn’t matter in PvP, I know others that go into PvP on their lowbies just to fool the other team into thinking they are scrubs.

Titles like legendary champion mean virtually nothing now.

P.S. Omnomivore is the most hardcore title in PvP. Fear it.

Maybe you guys don’t understand what I said because of english not neing your native language.

Lack of PvP titles does not bother me.

Lack of having any title & being a good deal under 40 is generally a sign of a new player.

And given how said players performed (like new players) is was a good indication.

The game should not be placing multiple new players like this on one team then pitting them up against multiple veteran players many of whom were very highly ranked.

This causes massive imbalances & mainly ends up with matches being won 500-less then one hundred. with the losing side horribly beaten.

So either the matchmaking system is broken or horribly configured.

“but if you check the blog post from anet, where they explained how the new system worked, i think you’d be good to go.”

If you read the blogs you’d see that they have basically turned off the new matchmaking because the queues got too long for top-level players and people grouped together.

They will be trying to turn it back on after the 16th. But in off-peak hours it will still be more or less turned off if the queue times for people on teams gets too long.

…. it’s really bad with the mmr turned off

I saw Svanir kill two of my teammates within 30 seconds last night.

So in a nutshell if you play off peak hours which I do, then single q spvp is dead. Thanks anet.

Laserbolt.6731:

“but if you check the blog post from anet, where they explained how the new system worked, i think you’d be good to go.”

If you read the blogs you’d see that they have basically turned off the new matchmaking because the queues got too long for top-level players and people grouped together.

They will be trying to turn it back on after the 16th. But in off-peak hours it will still be more or less turned off if the queue times for people on teams gets too long.

Well that explains it.

Guess they neglected PvP & WvW now so long there dying off outside peak hours.