There are not enough players that progress quickly into higher divisions I guess. Last season you could get to legendary division even as average player. Now for many (solo) players this is not possible anymore because of the 50% winrate. I would take myself as a sample. I have played 150 matches this season with exactly 50% winrate. I have reached ruby tier 4 and thats it. I think more than 95% of all players are average or bellow. So I guess you have to wait a bit more until more average players progress further ;-).
So based on this logic, I’m supposed to wait another 2 weeks for more players to grind their way up?
In what way is that fair or reasonable to me or other legend players? We have to suffer so others dont get salty when they see a legend in their game?
I understand that there can be a massive skill difference between an actual legend and say a ruby. But that doesn’t mean I should have endless queue times.
I started the season in sapphire, and maybe played 6-7 games a day. In about a week and a half I got legend, and since then I’ll be lucky to get a que pop in a day. Ques usually take an hour or two, and although I appreciate the more league-based matchmaking, it’s a double edged sword. MMR hell still exists too-out of the 60 or some games I can only recall being fond of maybe 2 or 3 of them where my team hasn’t been able to steamroll, resulting in a near 100% winrate when I played thief (my main) and a near 75% winrate when I just fooled around on other classses.
In short, I just don’t really know what arenanet can do about this with the current season intervals. It’s obvious there isn’t a player base sufficient for this system to be implemented as people in legend tier often can’t get good games (or games at all) in the off season and the first month or so ranked season. I would suggest maybe decreasing the length of the offseason, extending current seasons, and allowing players to fall to lower leagues.
I agree with this second paragraph. If the league system is going to stay as-is then it needs to expand its tier search every 5-10minutes. Would help so so much with queue times.
Race ahead? All I did was play the game. I started the season in Amber. (Didn’t play last season, hence the low placement.)
My goal wasn’t to hit legend, that was expected to happen at some point. I just wanted to play the game and win.
And my reward for playing and winning? LOL 1hour+ q times
Its a joke. I shouldn’t have to limit my playing to avoid q times. The game should compensate for it.
As it stands I can’t even work towards my daily ranked PvP achievements because the q times are so outrageous.
As of writing this, been in solo queue for 45 minutes.
I’m currently Legend with 12 pips.
In what world should I have to wait this long for a game? I can’t think of any other game where q-times are this outrageous.
Should I q unranked, where the games are neither engaging or competitive?
Why doesn’t matchmaking expand my league bracket to match me with Diamonds or Rubys after set intervals in time?
At least if the game matched me with lower division players there would be effort instead of the faceroll snooze fest unranked is.
Curious to see what anybody else thinks.
EDIT: Q time screen
Also season stats info- 142 games played, 104 wins, 7 win streak.
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I don’t. I don’t do pvp because devs made sure that thief is unplayable vs any half decent players/teams. The only time i queue is with my team and frankly i probably will be just playing revenant or quit game completely once i finished legendary stuff.
Thief is 100% viable, l2p issue.
yeah 100% viable… in HJs vs rabbits kek
Oh you’re right, guess Toker didnt just play thief vs top tier players in the Go4 monthly kek.
I don’t. I don’t do pvp because devs made sure that thief is unplayable vs any half decent players/teams. The only time i queue is with my team and frankly i probably will be just playing revenant or quit game completely once i finished legendary stuff.
