Solo Ranked WZ's (Terrible idea)

I appreciate the nod, lol. Yeah, I may not be likeable all the time, but I rarely post super serious threads in the PvP forums. This request just irks me, as I do not want RWZ's to become the next farming grounds for lazy players. We all know these types exist, and since solo players would NOT have control over that, further illustrates the flaw in such a request. Anyhoo, thanks for the reply.

Pistols I understand you think most people want this to farm gear, Again, that has no bearing why me and my guildie would want it. we have our gear, we are augmented. We are tired of pugging in normal warzones vs recruit gear. We are not going to leave our guild that consists of 3 of our other close friends that dont enjoy pvp just to join a guild that runs ranked warzones.

Secondly, No one is saying that bioware has to pit solo queue vs 8 man queue. Although, not that anyone would get the picture but FPS games have had ranked queue's that involved solo and groups for years now. I dont care how many times people say this is not an FPS so that wouldnt work, they are wrong. It is still 8 players vs 8 players. Give us our own ranked bracket for solo queue, i am fine with that. However, excluding the people that are in smaller guilds from ranked warzones in a game that is having trouble with subscriptions in the first place isn't really that great.

I personally love the game still, I truly enjoy the pvp. I could care less about OwPVP because I come from a competitive gaming background. I've been to the tournements. I've played with money on the line, and again this is why I am wanting solo ranked queue's. You can have you're "top tier teams", but give the people who do not have the numbers the ability to show our stuff as well.

Telling us to join a pug is not the option. I've joined the pug before. I took 7 lose's in a row to the top republic team on our sever the first day ranked came out. Trust me, it wasnt because of me. I still enjoyed everyone one of those matches, because even tho I was taking the loses, I was still showing that I stacked up. I went from a non target in the first warzone, to the first target the entire team went after whenever I stepped onto the field.

Also, those pugs tend to be gear farmers, and thats not what I am looking for.

Give us a solo ranked bracket that allows us upto 2 or 3 members in a group to queue up, put a minimum valor rank or expertise number required to be allowed to queue. Keep us seperate from you guys, put us up against you guys. I dont care. BUT, as you say you dont want to water down you're ranked pvp, try being us that can only queue up against people in recruit gear or with no clue in how to play in the first place.

Pistols, while I agree with your overall point, let's be honest. Since the first couple weeks of RWZs when there were actually some good fights and people hadn't yet realized the system was a bust, peeps have only been using RWZs to farm gear, both goods and bads.

Ideally, yes. RWZs should only be where the best fights are to be found. But nobody is using RWZs to find good fights. Everyone is using RWZs to gear up. And frankly, until there is a functional matchmaking system, and until there is Xserver queuing, that's all RWZs will be good for.

So in the end, adding a RWZ Solo queue won't make a difference of how those matches are commencing presently. There will just be more peeps in the pool and more RWZ matches. As an aside, my Imp guild was in the RWZ queue for over three hours last night without one pop. The system could definitely use some new blood because currently it's near impossible to even get a match.

I would like it if the ranking system was to be used effectively and the teams were put together the same way groupfinder works.

But I don't. Because, people who have zero ranking (needing 10 to get a rank) will be put together random. If a good player is teamed up with the "carebears" (such a funny word) or a couple of fails in the team, or if they were facing a premade of 8 with voice, that means he will lose and get a bad rating. Imagine this repeats several times, and he ends up at low rating, since when you start from zero you have 50% chance of losing. Imagine it is a bad team a few times in a row and you have a bad rating.

Then the RGF will match you based on your rate, since you are not at zero level anymore. And you know who you will be matched together? Carebears (hahahahaha, i love this word). Since they have the same rating as you do. This would result in a legitimate QQ on the forums (which could be the only legitimate QQ on the forums)

This is just the most basic issue with solo Q. Next is the QQ about "hackers" (hackers= people you lose the game against, not necessarily real hackers) or 8 man premades or RWZ group finder not working proper since you "lost 3 games last night but you should not have because you are pro". Or RWZ GF ended up giving you 1 tank only, the other guy who listed as a tank "was not geared proper for tanking", etc etc etc. This is just going to flood the forums with so much QQ, we will miss the first week of 1.2 patch.

I would like a system where I would not be ended up with no healers, or people who are really new to the PVP. I would love to end up with a team that are at similar skill level with me. But I don't have a solution for it. I don't think solo-Q would solve it either.

You still don't get it do you? Without abolishing the gear disparity and making gear, for today's standards, such a grind to acquire, it is easy for people to quit trying. Because, you know, this is only a game and people don't have neither the time nor the motivation to spend 3 months playing casually to acquire gear to compete so that they can start to have fun.

If you make the gear disparity disappear, you only leave skill as an excuse to quit trying. Well I guarantee you people are a lot more competitive then they are grind tolerant.

So, you abolish gear grind for PvP and give more incentives for people to run RWs, such as establishing a web page where there are statistics for RW teams displayed, MVPs are selected based on performence, Showcase of RW matches that were so close it was nail biting, etc.

Gear incentives for PvP DO NOT WORK. Understand that already.

There is a reason why soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

I am a paying player thus i have the right to a fair and competitive pvp environment without unfair gear disparity due to time spent ( here paying customer is the status and time spent is other factors )