Koal.8029

Thanks for all your responses. I can see how low population can explain some of these problems, but I'm still not entirely convinced.First, I always lose/win about 12-14 rating points - shouldn't those be inflated/deflated if the odds are stacked towards one side? And in the few odd games my team does manage a come-from-behind victory, I have not noticed a real difference either.Second, I had a pretty stable rating for weeks at around 1250. Then I fell by 200 rating points in a single day, stayed down there for dozens of games, and then suddenly got swept up again. 200 ratings is HUGE, if it's even remotely similar to ELO.Finally, my rating is only average. The matchmaking algorithm should not run into population problems in that bracket constantly, I'd imagine. Edit: Also, if you just put a platinum player on both sides, that should at least kinda even things out, shouldn't it?

I've started playing GW2 again after a couple of years, mostly enjoying PVP. I started out in Gold Tier at 1250 Rating. There I spent a couple of weeks, until last week, matches suddenly became really brutal, and I dropped down to Silver within a single day (down to about 1050 Rating).I've had big troubles climbing up again all week long, staying between 1050 and 1100. Most matches were complete onesided slaughters - interestingly, with me being on the winning and losing side about 50% of the time. If I lost, my team was getting ripped apart, not even reaching 200 points. And when my team won - I could have just rolled my face over the keyboard, it would not have mattered.Then suddenly out of nowhere, today I had a 10 game winning streak, and now I'm up from Silver 2 in Gold again.I really want to point out that I'm not complaining about my rating or class balance or anything. The problem seems that something weird was/is going on with matchmaking. The onesided slaughters are really no fun, not even on the winning side.