Guild Wars 2

1) day 1
2) ruby
3) is only lost 3 matches until i was ruby. now in ruby i have around 60%
4) now in ruby win/loss is balanced and teams are balanced
5) no
6) yes

1) Day 1
2) Emerald
3) Firdt two days only loosing (around 20matches – don’t have much time to play) after that it’s 50/50
4) Right now stuck
5) Around 20 matches in first 2 days,
6) Sure I do.

1) Saturday 27/02
2) sapphire tier 3
3) since this season it is
4) stuck at tier 3
5) yes I’m on right now 10 in a row
6) NO, not even playing GW2 anymore

1) I started 2 days ago (I am 100% Solo Q ing)

2) Ruby Tier 1 (since last night)

3) Win rate: 90% in Amber, 100% in Emerald, 70% in Sapphire

4) I stopped after reaching Ruby. Until that point I rushed through the Divisions 1, 2 and 3 in 2 evenings (~8 hours)

5) 4 losses in a row in Sapphire Tier 4, but then 3 wins brought me to Tier 5

6) Won’t continue since Ruby is fine for me

Can’t complain about the new matchmaking.

1) Day 1
2) Ruby (t5)
3) Is your win-rate below 50%?- to ruby t5 was 90+%,now 45-55%
4) Stuck, or are you advancing? – Always too close to next division. Then droped me back to t5.
5) Are you experiencing huge loss-streaks?- l 5loose streak, then 3 wun streak (for me, its succes)
6) Are you continuing to play in Ranked? -sure

I have really great games!! I never see victory on start. Usually we wiped on middle, then i start thinking if we loose. But very much my games is “comeback”. I played many games which we make(or opposite team) from 50-200 to 500-400. I saw in my games only 1 afker. And still outnumbered 4/5 we loose only with 40 score less. I enjoy this seasson really! Each class shake with your strategy, really love it.

I’m super casual. I played, I think, 5 team (3 and 4 players) games. Lost one of those. I’m saph 5 right now from soloq and I’ve probably only lost like 5 games total. I don’t know what that rate is. I only play ele. I played staff one game and won that just barely because no one was holding points so I had to face tank necro/thief. Longest queue time was probably 5m. I’m on NA. Not being able to use celestial amulet this season had no effect. In fact it’s easier now with clerics on lmao.

Salamander.2504:

So here is the 1-week followup to collect some data. If you can supply some quick information, that would be great:

1) Day you started ranked league (e.g., last Tuesday was day 1)
2) Your division.
3) Is your win-rate below 50%?
4) Stuck, or are you advancing?
5) Are you experiencing huge loss-streaks?
6) Are you continuing to play in Ranked?

1. I’m not sure, but I think it was day 2 or 3 when I joined ranked arena for the first time.
2. Currently I’m in 1st tier of ruby division.
3. No, it isn’t. Before reaching sapphire I had like 80-90% win rate, but since I moved to 3rd division matches became way more hard, so it was about 60-75%.
4. Yes. Though haven’t played single ruby game yet, but was advancing before.
5. No, I don’t. Longest loss-streak that I had was 3 matches in a row and it was only once.
6. Yes, of course. I’m having a lot of fun there, getting very interesting and intense games.

Thanks everyone for your participation. The attached figure shows the results. Too bad N=48 but I’m impressed so many people replied, even if it isn’t really a statistically significant number. In any case, if this was helpful at all to anyone we can do it for further weeks?

1) First day
2) Diamond T2
3) No
4) Advancing
5) One loss streak, but has been offset by large win streaks.
6) Yes

1) first friday
2) Saphire T4
3) yes over 50%, lost 6 games so far
4)Advancing
5)havent even seen 2 loses in a row
6) not even close to done, enjoying this season a lot

1) Started on day 1, have had about 4 days off.
2) Ruby
3) Approx 40 wins with about 5 losses.
4) Still advancing nps.
5) Not at all
6) Yes.
I have been on the leaderboards every season. I found last season was a bit difficult for me to climb the league (approx 50/50) due to my mmr. This season is refreshing because i don’t like the grind fest and i feel i am being pushed up to the appropriate level. Ranked all day, To the people having trouble, stick with it, you will get better and increase your mmr, then next season you will have an easier run at the start as well.

Salamander.2504:

A week has passed since the implementation of leagues. We all know it would be chaotic at the start, but it would be interesting to see if the chaos is declining with time.

So here is the 1-week followup to collect some data. If you can supply some quick information, that would be great:

1) Day you started ranked league (e.g., last Tuesday was day 1)
2) Your division.
3) Is your win-rate below 50%?
4) Stuck, or are you advancing?
5) Are you experiencing huge loss-streaks?
6) Are you continuing to play in Ranked?

Hopefully this will give us a qualitative sense for how the leagues are equilibrating with time (ANet has this data but we don’t!). Thanks!

1. Day 1
2. Emerald
3. Win rate 1 out of 20
4. No progress after 250 games
5. Yes
6. Sometimes I play another 20 games, just to check that nothing changes at all

1. Day 1
2. Sapphire T3
3. No
4. Advancing
5. No
6. Yes

This data won’t make much sense w/o initial level and number of games played before the season.

This system apparently destroys games for new players.

void.6217:

This data won’t make much sense w/o initial level and number of games played before the season.

This system apparently destroys games for new players.

I think a good point of comparison would be to include season 1 performance in the survey.

1. Day 1
2. Diamond
3. Yup well over
4. Not stuck, but games are harder both sides are playing 100%, can’t go on autopilot.
5. Nope
6. Eh maybe. Diamond always looks so daunting. I need all of part 4 of meta achieves, so even if I hit legend it’s not a guarantee ill get the backpack this season.

Edit: I also didn’t play more than 3 matches for three days of the season.

Salamander.2504:

Thanks everyone for your participation. The attached figure shows the results. Too bad N=48 but I’m impressed so many people replied, even if it isn’t really a statistically significant number. In any case, if this was helpful at all to anyone we can do it for further weeks?

Looking at this so far. Looks like starting out on day 1 is a bad idea.

rwolf.9571:

Salamander.2504:

Thanks everyone for your participation. The attached figure shows the results. Too bad N=48 but I’m impressed so many people replied, even if it isn’t really a statistically significant number. In any case, if this was helpful at all to anyone we can do it for further weeks?

Looking at this so far. Looks like starting out on day 1 is a bad idea.

Yeah, although it’s impossible to say for sure since there are so few data points beyond day 1. One interesting feature of the graph is that there is no strong trend of day vs. division: even players who have only been doing ranked for a few days (as opposed to 10 days) can climb high in the league. It’s not a time-gated grind anymore, at least from these few data.

BTW, I’ve linked the graph to my OP for ease of access.

1) Day you started ranked league (e.g., last Tuesday was day 1)
First day, on average 1-3 hours per day

2) Your division.
Diamond

3) Is your win-rate below 50%?
No, above 50%

4) Stuck, or are you advancing?
Advancing

5) Are you experiencing huge loss-streaks?
No

6) Are you continuing to play in Ranked?
Yea