Guild Wars 2

There is no difference between ranked and un-ranked queue besides the maps and that is irritating. I think there should be a distinction between both of these arenas because I believe ranked should have some meaning to it. I also think it ruins PvP to have a bunch of noobs only spam ranked saying they have a faster queue time, but not realizing that they will have about the same queue time in unranked.

We all know queue time is based off of the MMR ( Match Making Rating ) and one idea that I’d have to fix this is simply by adding an MMR restriction on ranked, meaning people with low MMR could not queue. Bring some challenge back into the PvP scene instead of setting people who know what they are doing against clueless people who just want to ‘avoid’ the queue time.

There is nothing elitist about this post if you’re good you’ll be queued against other players who are just as good if not better, adding time to learn and more challenge in that respect. I don’t think the rewards should be any different.

If you’re bad you’ll still be able to compete against other people who are just as bad if not worse, and you’ll get stuck with them, the way the ‘good’ players with get stuck with less ‘good’ players.

It’s really irritating that I am now queued with this ex-turret engineers who cannot simply play the game and die 10-12 times a match. It’s irritating being placed with clueless people who are not there for the competition but just to farm reward tracks.

This game deserves an ‘esports’ value to it, and needs more competition. There is nothing fun about watching a bunch of noobs run power ranger, power necro.. etc not know how to play these simple builds and get spiked in two hits. There is no rotational strategy that I ever see in ranked for the most part, and that’s just from playing it the last two hours.

However in un-ranked people talk, call targets, and know what the hell is going on. You can say, “well just queue up for unranked”, but I feel like the better players of this game are less rewarded, and the people who are just here to farm are over-rewarded.

I hope you hear me out on this.

Ways to increase MMR:

1. Shouldn’t be through wins in unranked.
2. Should be based off of kills, caps, winning pivotal fights, ressing allies.. etc.
3. Accumulate enough and you’ll be able to queue for ranked with more competent players.

Limiting the population more is not the answer for better games since matchmaking will work even worse.

I think actually removing unranked (there’s no real difference between ranked/unranked) would help though.. bigger pool of players → better matchmaking but this is another topic…

This can only be helped rank-gating Ranked Queue. For example, you have to be rank 20 to get into Ranked Queue.

This would just make sure that, at least, you don’t get completely new people in Ranked. It could be get to Rank 60 maybe, something like LoL requires from you to get lvl30 to start doing Ranked matches.

This is just my opinion. Ranked should have “dedicated” players meanwhile Unranked should have more “casual”, non-competitive players.

jbondo.9817:

2. Should be based off of kills, caps, winning pivotal fights, ressing allies.. etc.

So the best strategy would be to zerg kitten to one point, kill one dude, cap point, move to next. Nice idea, should implement it immediately.

jbondo.9817:

2. Should be based off of kills, caps, winning pivotal fights, ressing allies.. etc.

Dude… It’s a team game. That’s why every member of the team has to be rewarded (or punished) for the same amount.

Why do people think gating ranked will help anything? If matchmaking is working properly, then new people and bad people will be placed with and against people with an equal lack of skill. If you’re matched with people of disparate skill then that’s a problem with rating and matchmaking.

The reason why high rating players have longer queues is because the population is smaller compared to average rating players. The game spends longer trying to find an equally skilled match.

Ranked is for competitive play
Unranked is for when you are teaching or running with casuals

OP you should start contact-adding teammates whose gameplay you admired during a match, then invite them to queue with you. Solo queue is bound to be like this, which allows you to enjoy a match more than once an hour.

I do not queue with other people, and I know and understand the risks of being the least-skilled person in a match, or the most-skilled and having everyone else kitten about.