Guild Wars 2

But the flaw in this is that he would WIN LESS points and LOSE LESS points, that would make perfectly sense for me, but in fact it was WIN MORE points and LOSE LESS points, I don’t see how volatility will cause this.

If he would be on a lower rating than me that would make sense, but if we are on the same rating I cannot see where this comes from except from a Class Specific Coefficient.

So you say, that a different volatility can lead to this scenario:

I (1430 Points) and my friend (1410 points) play together 5 matches, in the end I have 1350 points and he has 1370 points although we played the exact same matches together as a team?

But volatility would not provide a constant “more points win, less points loss” balance right? It would just increase the variety in point gain/loss.

Also I am not sure how the volatility affects the points you gain/lose, I rather thought it affects the matchmaking. If you are on 1400 then – independent from the volatility – the “center of calculations” should be those 1400, so that if 2 friends at 1400 win the same match in a team, they would gain similar points (+/- a few percent maybe, but not 1/3 or even double the points).

Hey there, yesterday a friend and me had an interesting match:

Both hat 1396 points, we were in a team, fighting the same match, we lost, I (engineer) lost 17 points, he (elementalist) lost 10 points.

Generally in the 6 fights we had he always gained more points and lost less.

Now, I saw in the code on wiki that there is a class specific coeficient included. But is it really fair to have more than 33% difference in the points gained while being on a similar skill rating? Which would mean that with my engineer I would per se have to win many more matches than he with his ele.

Does someone have a reasonable explanation for this?