Guild Wars 2

What really grinds my gears is that after 400 matches I finally felt confident enough to solo queue on ranked, just to see some teammate AFKing from the get go, another guy DCing and later on complaining that he’s a virtue bunker with a staff while fighting a premade team, probably with a voice comms because even though i roamed a lot trying to salvage the situation, my targets always were getting support and I was forced to disengage.

And then fighting a premade of 5 turret engineers. The amount of kitten they were dropping on capture points was unbelievable.

rant rant rant rant

But at least there was no Courtyard, Skyhammer or spirit watch…so at least that was nice!

P.S: Wonder if I should play lottery or such experiences are a common thing.

ouch. that’s just a really bad draw out of the hat.

5 turret engies…i should try that with my guildmates.. MMM XD

Anyway I do believe the bad matchmaking is due to kind of low population on ranked…un practice is also all kittened up…by far i have the best games in unranked, still no leatherboard there :-(

Well given I generally expected a lot better players in ranked, I can only assume that majority of people think the same and given that your rank never resets, they don’t want to start off on the wrong foot. At least that’s how I felt. Thus the 400 games prior feeling at least average and not completely useless.

After that miserable launch I got my guildies and we made 5-6 wins in a row. 3 of those games were against other teams and we completely steamrolled them.

But yeah it took me 400 matches to feel comfortable to try for leaderboard.
Must say, I’ve seen better players in unranked. Granted its not all black and white, some people really do start in unranked and they are quite bad but you can’t really blame them. We’ve all been there.

Ravenmoon.5318:

What really grinds my gears is that after 400 matches I finally felt confident enough to solo queue on ranked, just to see some teammate AFKing from the get go, another guy DCing and later on complaining that he’s a virtue bunker with a staff while fighting a premade team, probably with a voice comms because even though i roamed a lot trying to salvage the situation, my targets always were getting support and I was forced to disengage.

And then fighting a premade of 5 turret engineers. The amount of kitten they were dropping on capture points was unbelievable.

rant rant rant rant

But at least there was no Courtyard, Skyhammer or spirit watch…so at least that was nice!

P.S: Wonder if I should play lottery or such experiences are a common thing.

lol I feel your pain. But it’s not always like that. When you solo Que there will be matches that’s just plain screwed up for one reason or another, but for me at least the good matches out number the bad ones by at least 2 : 1. You just gotta remind yourself it’s just a game and don’t get too mad at the bad ones.

Edit: MMR are not linked between ranked and unranked. So you are starting at a low mmr as you start ranked , things should get better as you play more…

there are way more new players in ranked compared to unranked.
if you really want to encounter some good players in ranked, you really need to get the time zone right. or else it’s will just pair you with players who are not even unranked levels..

Ravenmoon.5318:

Well given I generally expected a lot better players in ranked, I can only assume that majority of people think the same and given that your rank never resets, they don’t want to start off on the wrong foot. At least that’s how I felt. Thus the 400 games prior feeling at least average and not completely useless.

After that miserable launch I got my guildies and we made 5-6 wins in a row. 3 of those games were against other teams and we completely steamrolled them.

But yeah it took me 400 matches to feel comfortable to try for leaderboard.
Must say, I’ve seen better players in unranked. Granted its not all black and white, some people really do start in unranked and they are quite bad but you can’t really blame them. We’ve all been there.

Leaderboards don’t work and are in a worse position compared to previous iterations. I mean come on look at the top 25 or whatever and you can easily tell it’s just whoever plays the most is in the top

lighter.2708:

there are way more new players in ranked compared to unranked.

^This

I just finished my 1v1 against a ranger who went down on point, but had to run away due to I was going down to condi – thought I would be able to make it >> wrong estimation.
Meanwhile a LB ranger (from my team) stood at the side and did nothing, then ran past both of us allowing the ranger pet to fully heal the ranger (btw what other downed skill allowes you to do that? – it’s utter garbage).

I didn’t want to believe my eyes.

glorius.1235:

allowing the ranger pet to fully heal the ranger (btw what other downed skill allowes you to do that? – it’s utter garbage).

Rangers are bad, and therefore spend most of their time in downstate, that’s why they get the best skills.

Sorel.4870:

glorius.1235:

allowing the ranger pet to fully heal the ranger (btw what other downed skill allowes you to do that? – it’s utter garbage).

Rangers are bad, and therefore spend most of their time in downstate, that’s why they get the best skills.

I don’t think Rangers have enough dodges to avoid that Rapid Fire. GG.