Time of que'ing for PVP does make a difference in the experience. I have a better experience in the mornings than at peek night time hours. I just really hate it when people que and don't participate, why?
Also the bug when someone drops at the start and the system wont find a replacement so everyone stands there for several minutes to just not play at all.
But Yes coordinated prefab teams will always beat the *** out of casual solo PVPer's

Could be an issue where MMR is unique for each character on an account rather than being for the account as a whole.

So my main PvP toon has a higher ranking (say, 1000 idk what the metric is) but if I switch to a character I don't play much or just got to lv50 then I'm in a lower MMR (potentially 0 or whatever it starts at). I'm then matched with inexperienced players and people on new characters like me. It's an awful experience for me as an experienced player and for the novices. I don't want to fight people who still haven't figured out how to roll dodge out of an immobilize and they don't want to fight me.

The MMR system in this game is awful and fails to do its job IMO. MMR should be account wide, it should be visible to the player and it should actually be tied to win/loss (like every other ranking system in games) instead of just score/games played.

edit to say that sometimes one team ends up more coordinated than others or their class balance works out better so that results in lopsided games. Or you end up in a game like I did where 7/8 of the enemy team are sorcs on a tiny map and none of your teammates can get out of spawn without a curse and half a dozen crystal frags to the dome. I was literally spawning and dying immediately cause you can just drop meteors on to the spawn platform.

The latest PvP update has done nothing to support PvP in the long term and barely succeeded in any meaningful change in the short term.

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

I've said it many times but there are too many variables for any individual MMR to work properly. You can have the highest MMR but drop down to an average/low impact player just by testing out a new build that doesn't work. Even team composition plays a role. The top MMR players can be a bad team just because of their class/build composition.

There are even issues like people who sometimes play drunk/high and therefore have inconsistent performance regardless of team composition/build. That said, some kind of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) is almost always better than none at all. Games without SBMM are notorious for being unfriendly to new players, which is an extremely fast way to kill the population (because old players eventually leave and nobody new ever replaces them).