Mergrim wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:05 pm
Ofc...for me 95% ppl playing this game are casuals.
Ok, but this attitude certainly hasn't made Ranked into a success.
Mergrim wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:05 pm
If there is SH on 1st place thats mean all those weak players can improve and be good to.
I see where you're going with this, but I don't necessarily agree. You will probably agree with me that in its current form it is easy to "play the system". And what I mean by that is collecting outside information on things that will influence your win chances in Ranked. That is: avoiding difficult competition, avoiding weak players on one's own team, looking for weak players on the other team, queueing with a group of friends to essentially turn your random Solo Ranked group into a premade, etc.
In my opinion, it is entirely unclear how much the aforementioned factors into the success of the top players, and therefore I don't agree that it can simply be taken as an accurate representation of class balance.
Mergrim wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:05 pm
People join ranked not prepaded, all want free win. I have game with skrimish sw vanq set no pots 4times in a row...have many games with aoe bw/sorc.
Want win? bring correct spec/use pots and be smart.
Well, yes. Some players are simply not good enough to be successful in Ranked. But the question is why certain classes seem to have a lot more "weak players" than others. Because that is what my measurements seem to show: that certain classes have a much harder time participating in Ranked than others. Because wouldn't it be logical for every other class to suffer from these weak players also? So why don't they to the same degree?
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