Quote Originally Posted by Vandril View Post
@Geryth - I'd call this just a streak of bad luck. Most people queue freelancer nowadays, so skill difference between GCs has been largely minimized. You can try changing your GC if you really think there's something going on, but any change you notice from it is likely to be placebo. My advice is to just keep on keeping on. We all have days like that once in a while.
It is more then a streak of bad luck. Basically this is a further magnification of issues we have always had in frontlines.

Pre freelancer you had the better players queing for the same GC, freeloaders would then follow behind into said GC and the better players move on to the next one

When freelancer hit it was then a pre-made is rolling in blank GC and crushing everyone, leading to some bad luck, but otherwise, you had close to a balance win rate as OP noted.

They changed pre-mades now, that you auto to freelancer, so people have gone back to solo que but the better players in the same GC. This has been made worse then it ever was by Bots and people just farming Xp. You now have min chance on this groups as a result, even if they are not bots, they are generally people who do not care for winning or losing, and you are lucky to get more then 2 healers out of the 24.

You also have the issue that a skilled player has alot less carry potential in frontlines now. It was never large, but a few good players use to make a difference. Now unless that skill is magically making everyone stay together and hit the same target, the skill of those few good players is moot.