Guild Wars 2

First of all, i want to say this is a great news for pvp in general, i can’t wait to see new implementations, unranked queue, map selections, new matchmaking, test seasons. etc. really wonderful.

But the question is….leaderboard decay will change? Because now it’s very easy to reach the top of the leaderboard with very few games, and basically you are incentivized to not play instead of playing.

So i know it’s a test season but i think decay needs to change if you want a good competitive season.

I hope there are some changes to the actual leaderboard decay.

This is really important, i hope Justin will able to give us some new news about how it will works decay and if something will change in this area.

It’s very very important for new competitive good seasons.

So basically you will reset these ladder points between seasons, and you’ll keep our mmr, right?

I need to understand how are linked ladder points with mmr, i hope new blog will be more clear about this point.

In general i hope the decay will work differently.

So you will still be able to get to the top with few wins, but you will have to do it each season?

Josh Davis.6015:

As mentioned in John’s overview post today, we’ll be ranking players on the leaderboards based off of ladder points, rather than MMR like we do right now.

As some of you may remember, we’ve done leaderboard wipes before, but that also wiped your MMR, causing chaos in queues until everything normalized. In the new system, we’ll be able to save your MMR while wiping ladder points, allowing us to do resets a lot more frequently and easily – hence the test season.

Justin’s blog will explain it in more detail tomorrow.

Does that mean there won’t be temporary decay anymore?