Guild Wars 2

First some background. I ended season 5 at 1867 rating. I ended season six at 1786. My win rate last season was 61%, the one before similar, though I don’t have the exact number. My overall win rate in ranked is 59.72%. My placement matches were all fine, 7 wins 3 losses. Got placed in mid platinum, same as last two seasons, and then the kittenshow began.

This season my win rate is kittening 46%. My last 10 games consist of 1 win and 9 losses, half of which were complete blowout losses with <200 vs 500. For the first time ever, I’m almost out of platinum.

So what the kitten happened? What changed since last season? For the record, I’ve been playing scrapper all three seasons. Did scrapper suddenly become trash? Did I suddenly become trash in the space of a month? Has the population finally declined so much that it’s near impossible to get competitive games? You don’t just go from 59.72% over 1000+ games to 46% for no reason. So what is it? I’m struggling to understand this kitten. Combined with the fact that I’ve been playing the same kittening build since Heart of Thorns released due to zero significant balance changes to engineer/scrapper (oh, except nerfs of course) makes it really hard to want to PvP right now.

Anyone else experience something similar? Is it just a fluke? What?

Edit: changed engineer to scrapper for accuracy

Only two things happened :

1) The change to sigils : small things like thief running sigils of absorption instead of air/fire. It might shift the balance a little bit.

2) The threshold to platinum has been lowered. Guys like me who were around gold 1-2 are now up to gold 3 (I was 1 game away from plat 2-3 days ago). I suppose he level of your teammates got down a bit.