Reaper Alim.4176 Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Starting to get some really engaging matches in Ranked lately. Very close and entertaining nail biters.Is anyone else noticing this trend as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Alim.4176 Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Never mind the afkers just logged in 2 matches back to back. :# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUST.2305 Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Match quality dropped significantly week of the 18th (before PoF) and simply increased in low quality because of PoF. Adding PoF specs mid-PvP season without any matchmaking or any PvP changes was a huge blow to PvP. Ranked is pretty much just practice mode at this point. As much as I like PvP, the quality has just made me unnecessarily toxic. I usually keep a positive mental attitude and work with what I got...but recently it's just become unbearable. I even been in games where someone would ping the map once and one player would just start writing a novel and pretend afk. I don't even PvP for the rewards...but I'm just about to call it after I grind out the remaining shards.I'll stick to watching the pros duoing. Cheer them on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbreaker.6507 Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 @LUST.7241 said:Adding PoF specs mid-PvP season without any matchmaking or any PvP changes was a huge blow to PvP. Ranked is pretty much just practice mode at this point. This was something that made zero sense to me.Nearly any other game that is PvP based (be it an MMO or MOBA) usually has a brand new season when an XPAC or major features get changed.In the end though, I was fed up with PvP long before this point, so I decided to stop playing and cancelled my pre-order of PoF.I'll keep checking back to see if Anet makes any positive changes that the majority of community thinks is beneficial to PvP (because as the old saying goes you can't make all the people happy all the time), but after the last year plus I don't have any hopes of that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habitax.8124 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Since POF launched - Quality went WAY UP =) . Is it due to lack of PVE players in sPVP matches ?? I have been a part of many solid, close matches and i have been on winning teams 17 out of the last 18 matches since the weekend. I would love it if it stayed this way, but I am a realist and know the pve player base will creep back into spvp eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omcrazy.4756 Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 For me, I've found match quality in ranked (mid-gold) has been better the last few days (I was out of town during PoF release). Still get some blow outs, of course, but most of my matches seem to be within 50-150 points. Only AFKer I've gotten was someone who get his feelings hurt because a random teammate told him to decap far and pinged the minimap too much. Unranked can be a bit more silly, but I think thats because people are going there to learn specs. Plus new players are there trying it out. And then decent players are there to pick on the noobs and test specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kKagari.6804 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'm close to 300 games played.Roughly 15 complete blow out games (+400 score differential) from memory.1 game where people gave up in first 5 minutes (3 merciless legends and 1 ruthless legend in team).I'd say match quality went up. I like how it isn't so volatile.Also lost 21 points on a 499-500 match though. People testing builds annoys the hell out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Windfoot Omega.7485 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Quality for me has went up, most of the matches are much closer and i have been climbing the ranks again(nowhere near enough to make up for that horrid quality before though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loop.8106 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I find alot of games going to time-limit rather than actually finishing by score. Is this due with the abundance of Spellbreakers are the lack of thieves, I don't know. Either way, I feel like the quality of the games has increased, still tired of the fact that 60% of the games are filled with Necros and Warriors though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmibolt.3928 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 @Reaper Alim.4176 said:Starting to get some really engaging matches in Ranked lately. Very close and entertaining nail biters.Is anyone else noticing this trend as well?Cautiously optimistic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Alim.4176 Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 b> @Emmibolt.3928 said:@Reaper Alim.4176 said:Starting to get some really engaging matches in Ranked lately. Very close and entertaining nail biters.Is anyone else noticing this trend as well?Cautiously optimistic...Yeah I am as well. But the fact remains I'm getting less blowouts then I used to, now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Matters Fecal.9560 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Is this what people have been doing all this time? Blaming blowouts on matchmaking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omcrazy.4756 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 @All Matters Fecal.9560 said:Is this what people have been doing all this time? Blaming blowouts on matchmaking?Yes, that is exactly what people have been doing. Most assuming their team has bronze/silver players while their opponents have Plat/Legend/top 250. Or people purposefully trying to farm pips by losing. I've actually seen a couple posts about how the MM was targeting them specifically because their ranking had gotten too high and they were on some sort of list of players that needed to have their ranking kept in check (I wish I were joking).To be fair, it did seem like skill varied pretty significantly before PoF for a while. But I think a lot of that was just the snowball effect. People in Gold just don't seem to understand they need to regroup when they start dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugrakarma.9416 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 surely ppl testing build is better than afkers, "im here to have fun", or pip-farmers. at least build-testers are engajed. The low quality scr. went all to farm Gryphon on POF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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