Guild Wars 2

Ever since the patch I lose way, way more matches than I did before. I keep getting teamed with players who don’t know what they’re doing, if they even bother to play at all.

Presumably there’s an element of randomness here and it could just be bad luck, but it just seems appreciably worse of late.

Its all the new playes attracted to the gold rewards and the new glory vendor

clint.5681:

Its all the new playes attracted to the gold rewards and the new glory vendor

HURRAY FOR ESPAHTS!!

clint.5681:

Its all the new playes attracted to the gold rewards and the new glory vendor

This. It’s unfortunate/sad. Played a tourney the other day and steamrolled a team. They obviously complained about how we were using meta builds… which I didn’t understand. Tried to offer advice, they refused and said they were only farming for glory.

People complain about PvP being dead and when it picks back up, people complain that everyone’s not pro enough…

Everyone starts somewhere and if this is bringing in people that still have yet to learn what you already know, then don’t hate.

Believe it or not, one of the things that holds back players experience the most in this game is the community…even though people love to point the finger at ANet.

New balance patch shaking things up a bit + a lot of new players.

Yeah I suppose.

Dahkeus, I’m not hating on anyone, I’m pretty new myself. But the entire PvP matchmaking system appears to be rather dysfunctional, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better.

So in PVE when you make a new char, your in a starter zone that takes like maybe 5-10 minutes to finish before you can leave it. I think anets need to introduce something to pvp to at least give people some idea of what to do properly in tpvp.

I cannot believe in the last few days the amount of times ever since the patch was live that I’m ether in a team with absolutely clueless people or someone happens to leave the game for whatever reason – either they jumped in to try it out and realised they have no idea whats going on or they repeated die and get frustrated. Either way 4 v 5 games are happening FAR to often now.

Its great anet have introduced pve rewards because it brings about a larger population. That takes care of quantity for now – but can you improve the quality of the game, not in regards to balance but at least in the quality of players playing tournament – in particular Solo Q.

I’m not the best player, I cannot carry my team but its so frustrating when someone leaves after 1 minute into the game. It always bothered me but at the moment its just downright annoying that after this happen the chances for winning mean everything has to totally right for my team and totally wrong for the other.

Obviously this only matters for SoloQ because you can’t choose your team. Please consider introducing some requirements to even step in SoloQ or Team Arena (eg by Rank, minimum number of Hotjoin games played etc).

Anyway I was gonna make my own thread, but decided to post here LOL.

I was queuing drunk last night and I lost 12 matches and two people blocked me.

Anet, please fix.

the solo que this week is sooo crap ! Soo many gold pve farmers only fighting the first thing they see whether it be off or on point and dying under 10 sec, and when the score is unfavorable..they just leave, so its 4v3 5v3 5v4, never 5v5

Solution: Get a better mmr

Seriously, this is all avoidable if your mmr isn’t crap

And all the bad players gives you a statistical advantage, so if you’re any good, you should be able to get yourself a good mmr easily

SpelignErrir.4263:

Solution: Get a better mmr

Seriously, this is all avoidable if your mmr isn’t crap

And all the bad players gives you a statistical advantage, so if you’re any good, you should be able to get yourself a good mmr easily

Thats obviously the best solution. the problem is they arent yet so many ppl in pvp to make a proper match making system

Dahkeus.8243:

Believe it or not, one of the things that holds back players experience the most in this game is the community…even though people love to point the finger at ANet.

In short….
You couldn’t be more wrong.

Have you ever played LoL?
the community is a dozen times worse, if not more…
Yet LoL is one of, if not the most popular game in the world…

After getting notoriety (GW2 had that by leaps and bounds, millions of sales before release) a game lives off of its gameplay.
GW2’s gameplay isn’t all that great.

It isn’t team centric.
It isn’t deep.
It isn’t easy to fallow.
Skills aren’t even well designed for casual play.

A game couldn’t ask for a better, more supportive population out of launch than what I saw around GW2. There were fanboys by the truck-load.
If a game couldn’t make it off of that, it can’t make it.

No questions asked.

There is nothing that could have realistically changed to make GW2 successful, short of the devs/company.

I think part of the problem is that new players seem to get placed too highly on the MMR to start.

So when I was ranked top 200, we’d see level 5’s in the group with no clue how to play the map.

i went from rank 72.. (avg rank about 250), to now 65%… and its just bad… i don’t want to play the game anymore. The people im getting teamed with are so frekin bad.

I have to agree with op. Solo queue is now a nightmare to play. I had 2 matches in a row where the teams were 4v5 and 3v4 in favor of the other team. I keep getting paired with players not even half my rank and most of the time they just stand around.

All the fun is slowly being reworked into unfun.

one reason is they made rank bonus without any reason more than double as high in teamQ than in soloQ

so alot solo player are forced now to join teamQ SOLO when wanna rank up. This thin out the playerbase on all ranking ratings and so the mmr dont find enough palyer on your ranking and have to do bigger jumps and give you whatever it finds.

this has to be fixed and bonus should be x5 in both – solo and team – as it is now we are back where we came from and solo players have to be canonfodder again for full premade teams with ts so this 2-3 teams can play

everyone know there are not enough teams but this is the wrong way

make teamQ interesting with tournaments and rewards for special tournaments – but not this way

so is game not fun and the only Q with a whealthy population should not be your target to milk from for the Qs people dont have fun with

Michael.9517:

i went from rank 72.. (avg rank about 250), to now 65%… and its just bad… i don’t want to play the game anymore. The people im getting teamed with are so frekin bad.

yep

stop hitting F5 on the leaderboard. you will enjoy soloQ a lot more.

people’s expectations are way out of line. if you have nubs in your match, don’t hate on them. they are the future. you can sob softly holding your knees to your chin in a corner of the mists when your match is done.

if you really can’t stand it, then it’s time to man up to teamQ.

faeral.7120:

if you really can’t stand it, then it’s time to man up to teamQ.

Ever tried getting into a PvP team as a rank 20 player with an uncertain playing schedule?

The team queue just pretty much guarantees a loss. I get paired with the same random people as solo queue, except now half the time I’m up against a real team.

They should (in soloq) instead of mmr crate teams based on rank.
Don’t give me a kitten that rank means nothing etc etc. If its not farmed in hj or skyhammer it DOES mean when ur like 50+ that u r experienced, quite much after such ammount of tournaments.
And stop telling kitten there are not enough players. There are plenty ppl wiht 1-10 10-20, 40-50 etc. Maybe it may be hard in the mornings, but afternoon/evening i bet many ppl que. Even assuming ther are not enough ppl, I’d rather w8 for match 6 mins than play like this.