Guild Wars 2

I thought they were going to turn off matchmaking for an hour when the patch hit to allow for a grace period. But now ranked play has been turned off for a week. What gives? When are we getting it back? Dragging out my Year of the Ascension even more

League season ended.

After countless months of complaints about Skyhammer and Spirit Watch, and how we need separate queues for people looking for a decent match and those looking to test or run strange and often unviable builds, and ANet finally listened and made unranked and ranked and removed Skyhammer and Spirit Watch from ranked, the geniuses at ANet then decided that when league season is over, ranked will be disabled so not only does everyone have to join the queue where Skyhammer and Spirit Watch are in the map pool, but those looking for decent matches have to queue with those running nonsense builds as well.

Mega Skeleton.8259:

I thought they were going to turn off matchmaking for an hour when the patch hit to allow for a grace period. But now ranked play has been turned off for a week. What gives? When are we getting it back? Dragging out my Year of the Ascension even more

i have asked this in map chat many times in HotM and it seems to be starting this month ( february ) around the 26th or so. every single time i ask i have gotten this answer..
which is fine with me. Anet is waiting just a month with starting season 2 to make sure that balance isnt completely broken etc.

Yea I have no idea what they’re doing. PvP is a serious mess atm and you’re better off PvE’ing until they’ve “contemplated” enough and decides to press the button that starts a new season.

Yikes, a month of no ranked PvP? What the hell are they thinking?

Feb 23rd is the next PvP Season

Source:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/state-of-the-game-update-q1-2016/

“PvP League Launch
On February 23, we’ll launch a brand-new in-game PvP League season. We’ll be making some changes to the rules and scoring for PvP Leagues, which you can read about here. This season will also include new rewards to earn, a reset of your league badge, a reset of the guild leaderboard, and new guild leaderboard rewards. You’ll be able to continue to earn items you need to start—or continue to build—your own legendary backpack, the Ascension.”

Looking forward to the next season.