Decided to get another toon some PVP achievements. Rolled him up to 1995 in rated BGs, now hes back down in the 1700s. Wins are giving zero rating, losses are dropping 16-26 rating. MMR is crap and needs to be gotten rid of. Every win needs to increase rating. Why the heck am I winning 3-4 in a row and getting no boost in rating. Stop placing people with 0 rating in games with 2k rating. Id rather longer que times to play with equivalent players than have a bunch of randoms who just started coming in with blues and basically throwing the game.
You are likely going to have a 50% - 55% w/l ratio if not worse solo queing.
The only way to eventually get out of the rut of +0 is to keep queing.
There is no other way out of it unless you catch a coat tail from a higher mmr player.
Just gotta keep queing even if it makes you sick and disgusted.
It is pure agony at times, pure, unfiltered, unadulterated agony for climbing.
The only other tip I have for you is to take a break after a loss to shake up the player pool.
First, it’s defineteyl confusing and needs to be better and at the least, should be explained.
1995 MMR means almost nothing while you’re still doing placement games. While you’re in your placement games, MMR basically doesn’t matter. I have been 2800 MMR and still in 2200 games during placements.
Every win increasing rating doesn’t make sense. The aim of MMR is to get you to your ‘correct’ rating as quickly as possible. If you’re on a loss streak, which you have been, you might need to get multiple wins in a row to start getting rating, that’s why it’s best to just ignore it.
If they got rid of MMR completely, ratings gains would be substantially slower and some of the problems you’re describing would still exist.
I do think there needs to be a minimum threshold here OR a way to build groups so that rating is still taken into account when placing players on each side. The aim being to balance out actual ratings so the sides are as even as possible.
For now, get past your placement games and just get some wins under your belt. It’s worth finding a healer if you can and getting 3+ wins in a row to boost your MMR again and get your ratings gains on the positive side.
I personally believe once you hit 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2400 you cannot down rank below those current ratings. Most games with PvP have safety nets you cannot down rank to.
Ya my unholy DK went 5-1 in the 1st Solo Shuffle match yesterday then was placed into a 2400 CR lobby my 2nd game with 500 CR from the 5-1 game. Then proceeded to go 0-6, but at least I made it to 70+ dampening stacks before I died.
Fresh Blitz MMR needs to start at 1200 instead of 1800. Too easy for people with no experience to luck into inflated MMR and being way in over their heads into games with experienced players.