Guild Wars 2

So i blitzed through emerald and half way through sapphire on 12+ win streaks on my dh. Sounds great and all but my friend who is an equally good player as myself started out in amber by getting a slew of afkers who wanted to get the daily and/or still thought that lowering mmr before playing was still a good idea.

So i decide to team up with him to get him out of emerald because he had a 15 game loss streak and I figured well my MMR is hi, and I’m sapphire so we’ll be paired with other people in Sapphire.

Here’s what happened, I went from a win streak of 8 to losing 7 games in a row because the enemy team consisted of 5 sapphire players, all of whom were good or were in groups of 3 on ts. My team was composed of me a sapphire player and my friend an emerald player followed by another sapphire player who had an amber player with them.

This happened 6 out of 7 of the games. So obviously when you try to help lower mmr/tiered friends out by partying with them, it parties you up with other people who are trying to do the same.

Everytime we would join we would have another group of 2 players one from sapphire and one from either amber or emerald in our team and the amber and emerald player would always be horrible. Like really horrible to the point where it was rediculous.

I also have no proof of this but i noticed a significant drop in the quality of sapphire players I had on my team once he was joined in my party, so I’m not sure if some MMR averaging was going on there or what?

So yah, I wouldn’t recommend partying with low MMR players either. All i can say is RIP if you get low MMR because there is just about nothing you can do except for maybe organize a 5 man.

“nothing you can do except for maybe organize a 5 man.”

That exactly what ArenaNet is trying to force you to do.

Yes and I have no desire to play on a team at this point. Nor do many other people. Why does anet refuse to understand this?

I love how anytime people lose the opponents are well organized teams on TS.

Fluffball.8307:

I love how anytime people lose the opponents are well organized teams on TS.

2 matches definitely were, 3 people from pvp guild w/tag “oRLY” and 3 people from mist initiative and they were unbelievably organized

at one point i went to treb mid in khylo, and instantly 3 people came out to destroy treb, once they came out they let the engineer run up to me and the other 2 split off, one headed home the other headed far, id say they were on ts w/that kind of coordination.

Moral of the story: Pick your teammates wisely if you decide to go ranked.

More like the MMR is just plain broken.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

So i blitzed through emerald and half way through sapphire on 12+ win streaks on my dh. Sounds great and all but my friend who is an equally good player as myself started out in amber by getting a slew of afkers who wanted to get the daily and/or still thought that lowering mmr before playing was still a good idea.

So i decide to team up with him to get him out of emerald because he had a 15 game loss streak and I figured well my MMR is hi, and I’m sapphire so we’ll be paired with other people in Sapphire.

Here’s what happened, I went from a win streak of 8 to losing 7 games in a row because the enemy team consisted of 5 sapphire players, all of whom were good or were in groups of 3 on ts. My team was composed of me a sapphire player and my friend an emerald player followed by another sapphire player who had an amber player with them.

This happened 6 out of 7 of the games. So obviously when you try to help lower mmr/tiered friends out by partying with them, it parties you up with other people who are trying to do the same.

Everytime we would join we would have another group of 2 players one from sapphire and one from either amber or emerald in our team and the amber and emerald player would always be horrible. Like really horrible to the point where it was rediculous.

I also have no proof of this but i noticed a significant drop in the quality of sapphire players I had on my team once he was joined in my party, so I’m not sure if some MMR averaging was going on there or what?

So yah, I wouldn’t recommend partying with low MMR players either. All i can say is RIP if you get low MMR because there is just about nothing you can do except for maybe organize a 5 man.

So what do you want?
You are sapphire, you want to team with your friend and get fight with amber to crush them?
You said you friend is as skilled as you. So they shouldn’t be any problem to win against people with the same level are yours.

If you could stop complaining about the system and admit your skills, you will begin to progress.

a bad workman blames his tools half way

Regardless of his skills, the system is actually broken. It’s not hard to understand why it is. Admission of this is the first step to fixing it.

you are just complaining because you can’t win and blame a system… srsly…..
did you even read his post before replying.

Is your reasoning that the system cannot possibly be broken because I can’t win ?
A herculean feat of rationality, that.