Gear killing enjoyment in the game combined with severely mismatched teams | Forums

[Fox F6]

This game has a pay to win setup. The fact that you have to get to rep 3 hardly means anything when you can just grind AI. You get matched into a Dominion 4v4 and your team has 1 bot, 1 guy with grey gearscore, and 2 guys with blue gearscore versus 1 max gear and 3 purple gearscores.

These people don't need any skill or talent to defeat you. They just kill you in 1-3 hits out of revenge which they get instantly with their gear and mob you down with their numbers.

There never should have been gear with stats in PvP. It should have all been cosmetic. The gear is just absolutely out of control. The matchmaking is abysmal. It literally feeds new players into a meat grinder of max gear opponents.

I now automatically leave any Dominion match where the gearscore is ridiculously mismatched which is 7 out of 10 matches.

tl;dr - gear with stats in PvP was an absolutely terrible idea. The match making in this game is abysmal.

[Fox F6]

Some fair teams right here.

[Fox F6]

My team all left or got disconnected or it just threw me in with 3 bots, but don't worry, I will solo this match without a problem.

[Fox F6]

The boot is on the other foot this time, but these guys can just play with skill and overcome the gear difference. We probably won't get very experienced players replacing the bots, either.



Here are the results of the same match.

[Fox F6]

Here's my last Dominion matchup. I am not exaggerating when I say 7 out of 10 matches are horribly mismatched. Out of the remaining 3 out of 10, 2 of them are just mismatches and 1 of them is an even fight.

[MeArney]

Great that someone else is also on this. I have a combined rep of 12 across four characters. It´s extremely annoying that somehow when I play with my 94GS Warlord it matches me with rep.5 and higher players on my team and when I play with my rep 1 Valkyrie with four other with grey (common) gear. I made a thread about this and ..well, nobody took notice. This has to be somehow balanced out. It discourages playersto start new characters and makes diversity obsolete. I recently got my Valkyrie to rep on and got my GS to 18 then matchmade against a full team of only PKs and Orochis with 108 heroic gear. I keep attacking and dodging their attacks, until they get revenge ...and after that I die in two hits. It´s complete bs...

[dquinnell]

Same here rank 7 against rank 2 this needs addressing getting quiet annoying

[Epidemic1313]

I enjoy beating players that have an advantage over me, because it's either skill and gear, or just gear. There are worse issues that need to be addressed that are worse than this.

[AkenoKobayashi]

A 108 Peacekeeper dropped my health down in two stabs of bleed effect. I had 49 gear score on a Kensei.

[subnet]

So to the OP, would you say that it's not the gear score but the matchmaking? If the matchmaking were better would that make a difference? Do you think the game would be better if when selecting game type: Ex. Deathmatch -> Skirmish -> Player vs. Player , that another option be presented that allows Gear Stat On/Off?