Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

Originally Posted by Koltik

All this talk about matchmaking.

Let me just remind everyone what happened to WD when they implemented rank matching. It died.

In the perfect world we have enough of a population for match making to work and not kill queues, but be careful what you wish for. If doing this means increasing queue times from 1-3 minutes to 5-45 minutes, no thanks.

YEP this is correct matchmaking via PVP rank is what ultimately killed The Fold.
When The fold was first introduced there were no que restrictions via PVP Rank, but then people started to complain that they were getting matched up with people that were higher rank then them, keep in mind this was in a time when rank 0 players didn't have access to all pvp skills so they had to unlock them by ranking up.


Squarenix changed how the Duty finder handled matchmaking and it caused quetimes to become extremely long. This was because The Fold matches up via PVP Rank Total. For Example.

If you are rank 0(Bard) and you que up and the Duty finder Matches you with aRank 1(Paladin), rank 23(Scholar) and a rank 50(Monk).
The Rank total of this 74. You will end up in que until another group of around 64->84 are matched.

(This is also how win traders trade wins in The Fold(Light Party) btw they just make two teams that are around the same Total rank and then enjoy instant ques over and over and over...All they need to do is make sure they are in a Language setting that isn't used much like [D] )

If you are rank 0->10 the odds of getting into a game are very low unless more players around the same rank as you que.