I remember slands s1 that had MASSIVE inflation from all the PVErs pvping and r1 was like 2700 the first week and 3k+ week 2. Blizzard intervened and nerfed mmr or the average player wouldve been like 2k+.
This led to a super stagnated season where everyone at the top sat there was a CANYON between 2.4 and 3k.
I remember having several discussions with Dilly and arguing for decay or massive inflation to encourage people to queue.
He issued specific concerns of saying that decay doesn’t really solve anything because people would just queue the minimum amount to not decay which wouldn’t be enough to influence the ladder and inflation accomplishes the same thing while rewarding people who actually play.
He was worried that if you ever injected MMR, people would start to expect it and believe their injected mmr was more to their skill as a player and they would expect that rating every season going forward.
I remember arguing against that, thinking it was ridiculous, and that people would just be excited about a “free” gift and would recognize the irregularity and not expect it again.
Shuffle has proven that I was so incredibly wrong and dilly was right.
Also, shuffle mmr really doesn’t need to be unnerfed, because IF it gets unnerfed, then everyone would just flock there from blitz and shuffle would be 3k+ again and blitz would stagnate at 2.4. People will always go to the path of least resistance.
Its way better than Blitz. Blitz is the worst game mode blizzard ever created. Its completely random nonsense with no skill or thought involved. I keep getting like 3 rouges and 2 warriors on my team 3 games a row in other team has all hunters and casters and its a auto loss.
The best solution would be to balance the modes so that each rating threshold (1600, 1800, etc) is fairly consistent in difficulty, whether you are doing 2s, 3s, shuffle, or blitz. Personally I think percentage based rewards would be better, then we wouldn’t have nonsense like shuffle r1 being 50 points over duelist.
Yes matches are try hard right now for little reward. However you are improving with each match even if it doesn’t feel like it. Just keep playing and improving, don’t worry about rating atm.
I hit 1800 before BM damage gutting happened…decided to queue it back up a few days ago.
First game back: Feral, Frost Mage, Outlaw Rogue and me the BM Hunter…was the worst experience of my life and I probably won’t be queueing solo shuffle until Hunter changes come through next week.
Oh and on top of that…the healer on my team goes “yO uR a bM HuNtEr yOu sHoUlD deStrOy MaGes”…I legit just wanted to stealth in a corner of the match while on that healers team and just let them 2v3.
It’s crazy to me that people still think Frost Mages cast anything but Polymorph in PvP and can’t just AoE CC chain Zoo builds. BM pets messing with castbars against Frost Mage is a thing of the past.
Alongside prioritizing balanced average team ratings, the matchmaker will now try to prioritize balancing classes and specializations across teams if there are multiple of the same class / specialization in the game.
Some adjustments have been made to prioritize higher quality matches with minimal impact on queue times, for both solo and duo queue.
update made it passed 1700 1713 with a baller 6/6 win in ss. Tried blitz and currently a little over 1500. ima try ss again at reset, and keep at blitz.
Thank you all for the input. ima keep trying, even if it takes some time.
Run BM, it’s not too difficult to hit 1800 right now. Just throw a couple traps a round and make sure to stand ontop of the enemy healer 24/7 to send them into an anxiety panic the whole game.
