[NA] Weekend scenarios exist for premades to farm pugs.

[ShadowWar]

I was solo queuing on NA Order almost all weekend, because it was hard to get the guild together for a number of reasons. It wasn't until last night (Sunday) that we were able to wrangle a group together specifically to do the SC.

It does feel bad when you can't get groups together to do this, and Morr is particularly punishing because it is an SC with VERY different objectives for players, on top of not being in the rotation often, so it is not known. Add the only-one-group credit issue, and, essentially, it's a confluence of all the worst possible configurations for a solo player to do well in.

I don't hear people saying "get good" very often, what I hear instead is, team up. It's just like in ORvR, you can't get mad at the blob, that's the game. If they can bring more to a fight, you need to find ways around it, or do something else. In scenarios, you keep bashing your head against the wall, or you try to get organized.

Balancing matchmaking and population realities are probably one of the hardest things to do. Different people have different tolerances for how long they are willing to wait. I think I would totally support solo-only queues for the weekend Scenario, especially once ranked is open (is it open? does it open again? hello? Bueller? no clue I don't play/care).

The current "weekend scenario" event pattern is fun, but it's very confusing on it's intent, and the frustration of the community, and the reaction that always comes up because of it, is a bullhorn shout indicator that it is not performing/behaving as desired from some direction. Whether communication from the game to the player of proper expectations, or just bad implementation, is up to the dev team to address.

[Everdin]

I was solo queuing on NA Order almost all weekend, because it was hard to get the guild together for a number of reasons. It wasn't until last night (Sunday) that we were able to wrangle a group together specifically to do the SC.

It does feel bad when you can't get groups together to do this, and Morr is particularly punishing because it is an SC with VERY different objectives for players, on top of not being in the rotation often, so it is not known. Add the only-one-group credit issue, and, essentially, it's a confluence of all the worst possible configurations for a solo player to do well in.

I don't hear people saying "get good" very often, what I hear instead is, team up. It's just like in ORvR, you can't get mad at the blob, that's the game. If they can bring more to a fight, you need to find ways around it, or do something else. In scenarios, you keep bashing your head against the wall, or you try to get organized.

Balancing matchmaking and population realities are probably one of the hardest things to do. Different people have different tolerances for how long they are willing to wait. I think I would totally support solo-only queues for the weekend Scenario, especially once ranked is open (is it open? does it open again? hello? Bueller? no clue I don't play/care).

The current "weekend scenario" event pattern is fun, but it's very confusing on it's intent, and the frustration of the community, and the reaction that always comes up because of it, is a bullhorn shout indicator that it is not performing/behaving as desired from some direction. Whether communication from the game to the player of proper expectations, or just bad implementation, is up to the dev team to address.

I agree on the "get good" thing, while there are often some heated discussions what to do in a scenario (fight or BO), I never heard something like that outside from some jokeing around with guildmembers or alliance.

I think these shenanigans comes from the fact that some players can't differentiate between "I'm getting flamed" and "Someone wants to help", the language barrier may cause some of these issues. But also there are a lot of people feeling personel attacked if you ask them to do something group friendly like guard, heal, assist, stop aoe punting etc.

[Nameless]

At eu primetime when build prem you often face prem and often you got good fights. It is abit more tricky when you got as second grp pug vs 2 prems but pug farming is not a goal for most

[ShadowWar]

At eu primetime when build prem you often face prem and often you got good fights. It is abit more tricky when you got as second grp pug vs 2 prems but pug farming is not a goal for most

I will say, If a guild is queuing 2 groups at a time for the same scenario, there is very little other possible outcome (not saying you are, just an observation). There is not a competitive group SC scene here. Which kind of goes back to my, "the intent of SC and the weekend events are not clear". You are 100% right though, if you get a premade + pug v premade + pug the quality of the pugs has varying effects on the outcome. Morr is a particularly strong example because of the divergent goals presented.