Guild Wars 2

The question is, why should we ever join a party/team if we can lose points on the leaderboard so severely from someone else leaving or simply dc’ing? Why are players punished even if they played through an entire match outnumbered? The risk versus reward of being in a party is too great to justify being social and partying up. Isn’t that bad for the game?

What does everyone else think? Should you lose points because of my participation? Should I lose points because of your participation? Or, should the system be based on the merit of an individuals participation?

Don’t you have the same risks with a pug group? Playing in a party who can align builds and strategies and communicate is far superior. At very least, people tend to party with other players they think are good, so it cuts out that chance of getting a low skill player on your team.

I’m mostly referring to the minus 3 point system. Even if we party up, the best we can earn is 1 point on the leaderboard. If one person leaves, we lose 3 points. The reward for being in a party just doesn’t outweigh how punishing the -3 points are.

For example, gaining 3 points takes me an average of 6 matches since I have a 50% win ratio. Yet, in one match I can lose 3 points. All for accepting a party request and having someone leave the match or dc. That seems terribly unbalance and rewards playing solo more than anything.

I agree that it’s annoying, but don’t you see where it’s coming from? If that wasn’t the case, it could easily be exploited.

Make sure you always have a stable connexion when playing in ranked, especially in a party, and ask your friends to do the same. Frankly, it’s not that frequent.

As of why you should team up, having a decent team composition and no raging nerd/afker on your team is a good start.