Guild Wars 2

Cause how can a solo-quer expect decent matchmaking?

inb4 a premade player telling you:

“GW2 is meant to be played with frineds: You shouldn’t climb alone!”

Solo queuers are even more cannon fodder than they were in previous seasons.

RIP

Spartacus.3192:

Solo queuers are even more cannon fodder than they were in previous seasons.

RIP

S1 matchmaking was always team favored compared to S2/S3 being really soloq favored (playing with more people was detrimental), I don’t know why anyone is surprised now that we’ve gone back to S1 matchmaking why it wouldn’t be team favored again.

XGhoul.7426:

Spartacus.3192:

Solo queuers are even more cannon fodder than they were in previous seasons.

RIP

S1 matchmaking was always team favored compared to S2/S3 being really soloq favored (playing with more people was detrimental), I don’t know why anyone is surprised now that we’ve gone back to S1 matchmaking why it wouldn’t be team favored again.

Only true if you had a good MMR otherwise you might want to rewrite that.

Yes faced premade team. It was meant to be that only happened when 3 or more of you were partied. Not 2 or less.

This is a bug

John.8507:

Yes faced premade team. It was meant to be that only happened when 3 or more of you were partied. Not 2 or less.

This is a bug

just lol

Spartacus.3192:

Solo queuers are even more cannon fodder than they were in previous seasons.

RIP

How?

Havent you realized it yet? Soloqueuers are padding for premades only. Thats the whole reason for your existence. To fill up that spot, to make queues fast for premades.

Live with it, or quit gw2 pvp.

Yasi.9065:

Havent you realized it yet? Soloqueuers are padding for premades only. Thats the whole reason for your existence. To fill up that spot, to make queues fast for premades.

Live with it, or quit gw2 pvp.

100% correct, and I bet unranked is pretty fun right now assuming most decent premades are in ranked atm

Can confirm, unranked games are pretty balanced and fun atm :P

beat some Steve Irwin themed full premade team yesterday. Premades mean nothing really. Terrible players playing together are still terrible.

Ramoth.9064:

beat some Steve Irwin themed full premade team yesterday. Premades mean nothing really. Terrible players playing together are still terrible.

Correct.

Bet you wouldnt have laughed so much if that premade was on your team though.

I really dont care much about premades on enemy team side. Most premades arent that good actually.

But sadly, most of the time, Im the padding to a really really bad guild team that wants to do… idk… daily, guild missions, whatever. Most premades I get matched with, are so bad, I sometimes think that its just badly designed bots, they remind me so much of GW1’s JQ bots.
Remember those bots? You know, the ones if you stood at stairs or corners, they just kept running into you until you killed them? ^^

Eh when will all these premades get outta unranked and go do ranked, isn’t that where they belong?

Man, the community is so iffy on these things.

One on hand, you got topics like this one.

On the other, you have the “Do not take these 15 seconds away from me” crowd.

Complain about premades, yet when given the tools to fight against one, they are not acceptable.

I have solo queued for 15 games and duo queue for 5.

My winrate is currently 73%, I don’t really see an issue with solo queue at the moment.

Razor.9872:

Spartacus.3192:

Solo queuers are even more cannon fodder than they were in previous seasons.

RIP

How?

When enough players realise with the S1 style Match Making trying to give you even matches, then tanking your MMR to get easier opponents and win streaking afterwards will encourage players to throw games in soloq. Then teaming up in a premade to stomp others.

It wont matter if you are a good player, In solo Q you could easily get one team mate who will be planning to AFK to lower his/her MMR, thereby screwing you over.

If this hasnt happened to you yet in soloq….give it time it will unless ANET does something to prevent it.

Human Nature is shaped by the rules and incentives put in place. We saw it with MMR smurfing, we saw it when people would farm stronghold for fast easy pip generation and we saw it with MMR tanking in prev seasons. We will see it again.

Heyo, [insert complaint we’ve heard a thousand times here]. See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya o/

You can progress as a solo queuer… I would say that solo queueing is the best way to grow as a player because you have to rely on your own rotations to make a difference. Notice I said rotations not mechanics, focus more on where you need to be and how you can change the tides of the game. I have progressed to legend solo q every season with builds that are far from being meta. In solo queue rotations and placement are more important than build imo.