Dragonflight S1 2v2 rating distribution
50th percentile
1472
70th percentile
1582
90th percentile
1801
Dragonflight S1 3v3 rating distribution
50th percentile
1562
70th percentile
1680
90th percentile
1859
No data on Shuffle.
mORE DEFLATED ThAN ThE weIgHTs At pLANet FiTnESs.
Yea 2v2 games at 1800-2k have been the sweatiest thing ive played. It may take some time as everyone has been telling me, but sure feels deflated af right now.
hol’ up a minute. are you saying if your above 1800, you are considered above average?? 
I thought so and so said everyone was 2400+ in solo shuffle and 3v3s right now
That’s actually so bad for S1 participation, probably the worst out of all expansion.
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i dont get it. they gave us gear equalization which we were all asking for and yet participation is in the dumpster? something is off unless everyone is focusing mostly on PVE atm.
Pve nurds having no reason to queue arena = minus 69% participation.
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pretty sure you can upgrade youre conquest gear to the fullest and be on par with heroic gear. only downside is pvp gear has a lot of versa. so maybe thats what it is. pvers have no reason to even queue up unless they want that sweet sweet elite set. 
I mean at least now no one is complaining that Trill and the Mythic raiders were camping the pvp prodigies at 1500.
Makes sense as arena rating has 0 value outside cosmetics. Which is a good thing imo. Let pvp’ers pvp. we get our conquest gear then chill out and spam bgs.
well, i did say boosting would all but be eliminated in DF at least in lower ratings. Didnt know it would also destroy pvp participation lol
Look at some of the non meta specs in solo shuffle
Enhance -upper 1200s will put you top 1000
Monk mid 1700s
Ret Lower 1600s
Surv low 1000s
Frost DK 1100
Frost mage around 1000
Arcane mage 1000
BM hunter low 1200s
Fire mage 42 rating is 983rd on the ladder (1400ish top 100 fire mage)
Are there really that few people playing right now?
i dont think so. something feels off about Ludaslabs’ numbers. there’s no way that 1800cr is 90 percentile. according to these forums 2400 is considered average so yeah. who knows.
With shuffle being out most people would rather sit in queue than to sit in LFG and get yelled at by “2800 exp players” that can’t push their defensive buttons.
If most of the sub 2k rated players are shuffling instead of getting 3v3 or 2v2 rating then there is less people for the higher exp people to farm to inflate their rating. Seems pretty predictable to me. I don’t think participation is down. I think it’s probably up.
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Do we have SL S1 data to compare to? It makes sense that the ratings would be deflated this early since everyone’s MMR was reset to 1500 at the beginning of the expansion.
Edit: Found this article from 3 months into SL S1 which confirms my suspicions, early SL was even more deflated:
https://luduslabs.org/sotl/third-month-of-shadowlands
Most of the elite sets look like trash, though. I’m willing to be that’s what it is.
The mount is also terrible.
says 1859 is 90th percentile. I think it’s higher… Drustvar shows 25 fire mages above 1800 so what maybe 20 above 1859?
1859 is 2070 toons, 90th percentile would mean only 20,700 toons…
Blizzard leaderboard shows top 1000 toons are about 2k and above. With 10,000 Total NA toons that would put 2k at 90th percentile.
At 1859 top 10%, they are saying there are only ~8,000 toons? Since many people have multiple toons are we saying we have less than… what… maybe 6-7,000 players that have played 3v3 one time or more? Only 2000 different teams in terms of players have played 3v3?
Doesn’t seem right…
All of the DPS/healer specs have at least 1000 players listed on the board of solo. We know at least 30,000+ toons have played at least 6 rounds of solo Likely 50,000+.
If just 1out of 5 of those solo players did a round of 3v3 (likely a smaller number 1/10) the numbers are not even close.
I remember some disparaging comments being thrown my way for saying that S1 would be the most deflated season to date and that Glad’s would be playing at 2k and 2400 would be full of R1’s while the Shuff would be above 3k.
Turns out, so far at least, R1’s are playing at 2100 lmao. Cdew and Blizzcon winners are queuing at 2200. Meanwhile the tippity top of the Shuff is 2700+. Having a 300-400 rating disparity between those two game modes after only 2 weeks is alarming.
Once something gets done to fix the healer MMR/fun problem in Shuff I imagine that ladder will be north of 3k while 3’s is still full of R1’s at 2400.
Where are you seeing this? The last Ludas Labs “State of the Ladder” post that I can find is from 18 August, 2022: https://luduslabs.org/sotl
edit: never mind I see you are just looking at the graph.
The saddest part is its probably lower than that since many players can easily have 2 more alts now.
I mean its not like there’s alot of people in shuffle as well considering it has 1 hour queue.
If game like league got more than 30 minutes queue people would scream “game is dead” all over the youtube.