Came in 3rd three times in a row

Mulgorrah

I come on to get the daily 100k daily xp from bgs, and used to enjoy the bg at the same time. Now I get on and I'm consistently coming in 3rd every single match. I'm not a *** who is going to keep playing a game hoping to get a second place win, when I've already lost 3 times and wasted my time. This *** shouldn't happen. There are so many broken factors to bgs, that I'm really glad I unsubbed a couple of weeks ago. ZOS doesn't listen to things like, "please nerf whirling blades" or "poisons are super op". So what's the point?

charlieb

“I didn’t win, ZoS sucks.”

Get better at the game and you’ll win more probs.

Cuddlypuff

It's just as boring coming 1st and 2nd in BG tbh.

SkaraMinoc

A significant portion of the playerbase doesn't care at all about objectives. Consistently placing 3rd is normal.

Dem_kitkats1

Of all of things to be mad about you chose whirling blades and poisons? That's an interesting take... If you PvP for the XP only, then simply collect the objectives, because that seems to be the only thing that matters to win a match. This is PvP after all so don't expect players to just let you take them. So you do need learn and adjust if you're not succeeding. PvP success isn't necessarily based on standings anyway.

newtinmpls

I'm not sure what OP is upset about.

If you do well, you move up in the standings and then fight "better" opponents. Eventually you will start to top out in terms of your play skill, so you need to review your sets, patterns and so on. What was one week's top build suffers from random stealth nerfs the next week.

I do get that it's frustrating to "not win"

I'm just happy if I can figure out how to play the various games.

Amottica

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

A significant portion of the playerbase doesn't care at all about objectives. Consistently placing 3rd is normal.

Considering only 1/3 of groups can place third it is statistically not normal. It is just as much of a chance a group will place first or second and has nothing to do with how many were interested in playing objectives. Heck, if it were true that such a significant number of players were not interested in playing objectives then it would be easier to win by doing some of the objectives.

Dagoth_Rac

If coming in 3rd got players the 100k XP, people would would queue into the battleground and then AFK. Which would make playing battlegrounds an even worse experience.

SkaraMinoc

Amottica wrote: »

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

A significant portion of the playerbase doesn't care at all about objectives. Consistently placing 3rd is normal.

Considering only 1/3 of groups can place third it is statistically not normal. It is just as much of a chance a group will place first or second and has nothing to do with how many were interested in playing objectives. Heck, if it were true that such a significant number of players were not interested in playing objectives then it would be easier to win by doing some of the objectives.

I see the confusion. It sounds like my original reply was "only placing 3rd is normal". That's not the case obviously.

Solo Random teams are a complete dice roll and you have roughly an equal chance of placing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

I uninstalled PvP Meter but I get results like this all the time.

3rd place
3rd place
3rd place
2nd place
3rd place
2nd place
2nd place
2nd place
1st place
1st place
1st place
1st place

I've spent 4+ hours trying to get the Daily XP 3 wins because of bad team composition.

My favorite is 3 healers on the same team running The Ritual and nobody wants to die and switch builds

Amottica

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Amottica wrote: »

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

A significant portion of the playerbase doesn't care at all about objectives. Consistently placing 3rd is normal.

Considering only 1/3 of groups can place third it is statistically not normal. It is just as much of a chance a group will place first or second and has nothing to do with how many were interested in playing objectives. Heck, if it were true that such a significant number of players were not interested in playing objectives then it would be easier to win by doing some of the objectives.

I see the confusion. It sounds like my original reply was "only placing 3rd is normal". That's not the case obviously.

Solo Random teams are a complete dice roll and you have roughly an equal chance of placing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

I uninstalled PvP Meter but I get results like this all the time.

3rd place
3rd place
3rd place
2nd place
3rd place
2nd place
2nd place
2nd place
1st place
1st place
1st place
1st place

I've spent 4+ hours trying to get the Daily XP 3 wins because of bad team composition.

My favorite is 3 healers on the same team running The Ritual and nobody wants to die and switch builds

When queueing solo for anything it is a dice roll of what you will get for a group. It is the worst way to PvP, or PvE.

Iriidius

If you queue for a battleground and stay afk you get removed from the battleground for inactivity. If i had a disconnect and relogg i also always det removed even if i was inactive less than a minute/the game said i couldnt relogg because i am still logged in. Everybody that participated and tried to win should get the reward. Players that loose have to play multiple battlegrounds atm, increase their MMR higher and will loose even more fights.

mmtaniac

Become better at game ,make build , learn how to fight. I like objective modes too but at the same time i love winning those matches , this means skills in fighting can help too you can just take flag from others when they stay on them and go to another. Only running is ok tactic sometimes(when you or your team can't kill anyone) , but not always.

TheHeroCat

I understand! losing over and over again and not getting your daily xp is frustrating, But i believe in you! oh and also try to queue with friends! they're more reliable then randos.

CameraBeardThePirate

newtinmpls wrote: »

I'm not sure what OP is upset about.

If you do well, you move up in the standings and then fight "better" opponents. Eventually you will start to top out in terms of your play skill, so you need to review your sets, patterns and so on. What was one week's top build suffers from random stealth nerfs the next week.

I do get that it's frustrating to "not win"

I'm just happy if I can figure out how to play the various games.

This isn't true though. There is no ELO besides what basically amounts to the number of games played.