Guild Wars 2

Cynz.9437:

People who wanted to buy HoT already bought xpac, no need for moronic imbalance for the sake of sales anymore.

StickerHappy.8052:

So matchmaking is?…..

… a black furry kitten.

StickerHappy.8052:

We had a dc at the beginning of a game then came back halfway

oh, the system might not count it if the person comes back

Pinkcomet.2975:

What kind of game that make you feel like kitten every time you play?
and what do you think they do next?
………………. (fill the blank)

fap

did either team get to 400 points ? i think desertion doesn’t count if 400 or maybe 300 points are hit

otherwise you could do your team a solid and log out to prevent the other four from losing a pip; the penalty is only 15 minutes anyway – one extra long pee break

Happy now ? I’m winning non-stop and complaining about it.

From a different thread, but brilliant:

Fivedawgs.4267:
You know why league. Smite or Dota are popular or enjoyable (subjective term)? Because they use the 50/50 algorithm; they match against people you have a 50% chance of winning or losing; unlike what we have now, where one side is GROSSLY FAVORED over the other.

Fivedawgs.4267:

You know why league. Smite or Dota are popular or enjoyable (subjective term)? Because they use the 50/50 algorithm; they match against people you have a 50% chance of winning or losing; unlike what we have now, where one side is GROSSLY FAVORED over the other.

Torafugu.1087:

high MMR have nothing to do with skill. once you reach a certain value the system carry you up. Acting high and mighty just confirm you need a system to carry you up.
If you are really good, you should ask for a system that works the other way, that higher your MMR, the worse your team gets, so YOU need to be better to carry them. how does that sound ?

TheFamster.7806:

They started with 3 cap at legacy of foefire, score being 250-0, but we manage to comeback and lord rushed to win 500- 390.

Haha they must have been truly terrible players, or had a double disconnect. This just supports my point that match making loves you.

haha i bet this Famster kid can sit in a corner, afk, and still win matches the system loves him so much

This. But as one poster said “Evan Lesh is a good guy”

If you have fanboy appeal and twitter followers that’s all you need. Who cares if your product is flawed and you’re giving paying customers the finger.

lloydst.6985:

Lets just grow up and press the report button let the mods handle this

He created this account specifically to troll me. Even if he is banned or reported he’ll still continue on another account.

steppres.9046:

Teams on my Engineer are running around is all directions not knowing what to do.

I can +1 this.

Maybe Anet added class-specific Match Making code with the infamous path on the 15th.

Pyriall.1683:

Please stop…

Interesting and insightful contribution to this forum. Keep up the great work! +1

TheGrimm.5624:

Saw this change block more people from trying to game the system by grouping with people of lower divisions to lower their group average.

No no, that was the patch before the last patch. That was a good patch. The last patch didn’t include anything about PvP in the release notes. It was a hidden change.

Puz.8529:

IUntil I had that one point over the 50% line again and I got horrible matches.

Probably its the new range the dev was mentioning – instead of matching Ruby vs Ruby, etc., it matches the top half of one division with the bottom of the next division. Kinda weird and arbitrary, but whatever. Maybe the PvP Match Making dev never played Hearthstone before.

No, you’re right. There are a few dozen post about how the last patch’s (Fri. 15th) change to Match Making destroyed progress.

Yesterday was a weird day:
8/10 times I was on blue team and lost; kinda weird
7/10 matches ended with a greater than 200 points difference

*all solo queue Diamond Tier 0
*one stronghold match cause I accidentally queued for both

Teamed up with an Amber after and won 3 in a row. GG Anet.

Mogar.9216:

This kitten kitten 1/2 rank 1/2 mmr match making is just real bad. match diamond with diamond, ruby with ruby. Cream will rise to the top over time and ladder will be set. What we have now is just a joke.

This is the single best statement ever written in the PvP forums! It should be permanently fixed to the top of the site.

NeroBoron.7285:

Second: I think stronghold is pretty dead know. Cant be true that i have to wait more then 20 minutes to play a maxium of 15min stronghold.

No no, its dead. Everyone has the same long queue times for stronghold. Its a super boring map now though. If you get one or two cleric Elementalists to heal the NPCs in front of doors its like fighting that unbreakable golem in the lobby for 15 minutes.

Sergoros.4398:

Then tried changing classes and noticed, that my ranger is having Super Easy matches, unlike my revenant, who always had weak team and ultra strong enemies.

Ok, this is weird. I played my Ranger last night for the first time in months just for kicks and won 6/7. On my Engi, Necro, Mesmer I have a maybe a 1/10 win rate.

I think we’re getting trolled by some intern at Anet.

Zietlogik.6208:

If I lose, that is when I take a break, if I win, I continue until I lose. But I don’t know about that algorithm.

You’re on the opposite end of the stick. Match Making is always in your favour. See the screen for an even better example of the power of luck in solo queue.

If you win by more than 200 points, the match was likely in your favour from the start. I won a match 500 to 17 in solo ranked yesterday and only gained 1 pip.

maelstorm.6074:

Same kitten here. One win per 5-6 loses. All loses like 85 vs 500

Yeah, check out the screen I attached a friend sent me. The matches aren’t even close anymore. And its all solo ranked queue.

TPMN.1483:

When the API shows how many pips we win/lose and our expected win ratio – we’ll be able to see how broken the system is.

That’s a great idea ! They should add those two columns to the previous ten match statistics listed on the PvP window.

Ohoni.6057:

I’ve just given up on winning matches at this point. I haven’t won a single match in a week, nor been in any position to win one. I just line up to get my three participation trophies and then I’m done for the night. Fun.

Very many people are in the exact same situation. And the exact opposite too. One of my friends can’t stop winning haha. I hate him now -__-

No Pulse.2967:

I’d love to play on one of your accounts just to see if your claims about being stuck because of matchmaking are true… I know, there wouldn’t be any volunteers, but still…

What is the purpose of this comment ?

Archon.6480:

Watch a few ESL matches, review MetaBattle, etc…

I’ve competed in a few ESL Weekly Go Cups and was invited to a monthly once. I don’t understand why you’re attacking me instead of contributing to the discussion. Do I intimidate you or do you troll forums as a hobby ?

Anyone who plays 10+ ranked matches per day will have noticed that Match Making changed since the last patch. As many posters above have mentioned. The purpose of this thread is to discover what changed, not to harass others simply because they queue for Ranked matches and you don’t.

Coelho Nat.4697:

I can see very clear that my team is always the weakest, so I am not the cause of the defeats (not completely and not in this ratio).

I remember my last few matches before the patch. I was queuing with this group of relatively new players just to welcome them into a guild and I was playing really well for some reason. I managed to carry them to four straight wins. In one match I managed to win two pips off a team of 5 diamonds while I and my team were Ruby or lower. I solo queued to Tier 2 Diamond in almost straight wins after and then the patch hit…

This pretty much maximized my MMR and since then it has not gone down. I lost ~40 matches in a row after the patch. Then I started scouting for people who were in the exact opposite situation as me and teamed up with a lucky player to breeze through 8 straight wins as a pair yesterday.

A few hours ago I tried one solo ranked match queue just to test my hypothesis and lost 500 to 17 (seventeen) in a match without groups; 5 solo vs 5 solo; all diamonds.

Hmm. It doesn’t explain the huge streaks some people are experiencing. Also, average ranked queue times are significantly longer since Friday. Is the search range upwardly skewed – does it look for players above your division more than for players below your division ? or vice versa ?

darres.8203:

i’m losing a lot of games all of a sudden
not saying it doesn’t always happen but this is a little bizzare

Write an in-game support ticket. Many people are in the same situation or in the exact opposite – winning lots more matches than usual. Maybe with enough tickets they’ll have someone look at the issue.

Coelho Nat.4697:

I am not the best player in the world, just average. However, I noticed I am always being set to the weakest side over and over.

They changed the way match making works with the patch on the 15th and they refuse to explain what they did. Many people are experiencing the same thing you are or the exact opposite – winning many more matches than usual.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Your MMR has updated every match. Can you please elaborate?

Can you verify that my MMR has updated after every match? Personally, it is impossible for me to win a ranked match while queuing solo since last Friday. I’m sure your records show my ~40 losses in a row. Recently I found someone in the opposite situation of mine who wins matches simply through unbalanced Match Making always in her favour and we teamed up, winning 8 ranked matches in a row by more than 350 points each time.

Match Making in Ranked PvP was greatly altered in the last patch and I think the Guild Wars community deserves an explanation of how the system was changed.

That’s all I ask for; a little transparency in the patch notes. Thanks

Evan Lesh.3295:

The only changes we made last week is the search range for ladder position.

So you did silently change something that completely broke Ranked PvP for some people.

There are two extremes introduced since Friday: People who now win almost every single match (seriously, this is my friend’s case, he can AFK in a corner and still win matches; went from low Ruby to Legendary x1 since Friday) and people who now lose almost every single match (my case; at one point I had 47 straight losses in Ranked from queuing solo Friday to Monday and not a single close match; all ended with points differences greater than 300)

There are numerous posts about these extreme win/loss streaks all over the forum and Reddit since Friday.

Please look into the issue and into what broke from your new algorithm last Friday.

Angina.9314:

Apparently they froze MMR. And most of your games are very close, you just need to do slightly better

If your MMR is stuck at the extremes you haven’t played a single match that ended with a closer than 400 point difference, win or lose, since Friday. Seriously, I just won 4 in a row this morning by more than 400 points each time; its very very broken.

bump, plus some more characters to get to fifteen.

darres.8203:

oh?
how do you know this?

I queue for ranked. And I have friends who also queue for ranked. And I read the forums. And I read Reddit. And I read /map chat in the Mist Lobby.

Anyone who plays frequently would realise MMR is frozen.

Sunshine.5014:

They don’t use MMR anymore.

Nope, they use magic pixies that get sent straight to your home and sprinkle lucky clover dust all over your computer to make sure all your matches are Super-funny-happy-time.

Match Making Ratings have been frozen since last Friday’s patch. That’s why some people are experiencing unusually high or unusually low win rates in ranked PvP.

Really Anet, you’re not going to reply ?

Match Making Ratings have been frozen since the last patch Friday. Lots of people are experiencing what you are or the exact opposite – unusually high win rates. Most are not since they are Plebs who always have a mid-ranged MMR like the above posters.

Each account’s Match Making Rating (MMR) has been frozen since last Friday’s patch. Please correct this Anet.

Each account’s Match Making Rating (MMR) for Ranked PvP has been frozen since last Friday’s patch. Please correct this issue.

What’s up with all these “guilds” spamming recruitment messages here and in /map chat? Why doesn’t Anet limit repeat messages to 3 ?

If the same guild posts 3+ times in less than a minute on Lion Arch /map, it just screams: “We’re a phishing scam ! Join us and give us your login info!”

The weekly tournament is today at 4pm EST! Click the link below to sign up. And make sure you enter your GW2 tag even if you have an LoL, HotS, etc tag already registered.

Top prize is $400 but only 2 teams are entered so far. And third place is 2,000 gems each and everyone gets a Llama Mini … maybe; you gotta win one match !

http://play.eslgaming.com/join_team/?teamid=9472159&joinpw=72b39a40

yo guys, you need at least 30 matches recorded each to infer any sort of descriptive statistic -win likelihood, etc. Its a stats thing, trust me.

The weekly tournament is today at 4pm EST! Click the link below to sign up. And make sure you enter your GW2 tag even if you have an LoL, HotS, etc tag already registered.

Top prize is $400 but only 2 teams are entered so far. And third place is 2,000 gems each and everyone gets a Llama Mini !

http://play.eslgaming.com/join_team/?teamid=9472159&joinpw=72b39a40

3 years later and this mission is still bugged.

Forum moderators keep locking and deleting posts about it, but this mission is still bugged.

If the Asura die, you have to restart. If Trahearne dies, you have to restart. If Trahearne doesn’t follow you through the caves, you have to restart. If you get downed at any time during the mission, you guessed it, you have to restart.

Yes please !!! I did over a million total damage yesterday but totally messed up trying to take the screen shot in the 5 second window and now I’m sad :

BLUna.7928:

we will not be allowing Elementalists to use this runeset in upcoming Go4 Cups, including the one taking place tomorrow.

What’s a Go4 Cup and where do i sign up ?