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  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    CW - Old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 459. Wasn't close despite what the score says. Decided to play...
    Leaderboard - 3rd on team, 4th overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - unbalanced
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    TR - 2 new pieces and 2 old pieces T2 PvP
    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 302
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - unbalanced
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    GWF - Old T2 PvP gear (no tenacity)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 773 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 2nd to last on team and leaderboard
    Tactics - poor. team only tried to backcap a few times, compared to the opposing team. I'm the only GWF on team with 1 TR, 2 HRs, and 1 CW. My team could not cap outside bases while I tried to fight in the middle.
    Team Gear - unbalanced. Our team could not kill the other team players without numbers.
    Blue Gear - new level 60 player had partial blue gear
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs -
    DCs -

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 488 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team, 7th overall
    Tactics - non existent to partial. TR kept backcapping but team got stuck fighting instead of capping and getting killed.
    Team Gear - not balanced. Team could not handle opposing GF and CW
    Blue Gear - 1 player partial blue gear
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - 2. TR gave up and then everyone else. started commenting about everyone's lack of gear score instead of teaching about better strategies against better geared oppoinents
    DCs -

    Match 3
    Queue Time - long
    Win/Loss - 47 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 6th on board
    Tactics - non existent
    Team Gear - unbalanced, game deteriorated to opposing team camping at our spawn point.
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor Enchantment - 1 player
    No Weapon Enchantment -
    Leavers - 1 after first round
    AFKs - 1 player said, 1 left. wp. end fast. and stayed at camp. 3 rounds later. another player joined him at camp.
    DCs -

    Match 4
    Queue time - long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 147
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. we outclassed them. ended up letting them cap a base first before wiping them. and repeat.
    Blue Gear - none
    No Armor Enchantment -
    No Weapon Enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    GWF - First time as Vanguard (Old T2 Pvp gear - no tenacity)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 947 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 2nd to last on board and last on team
    Tactics - tried to play tank, but team couldn't cap side bases before I died. I died to quickly
    Team Gear - unbalanced. opposing GWF and GF could kill me quickly
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    2 piece new, 2 piece old T2 PvP gear
    Match 2
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 524
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team and on board
    Tactics - I focused on backcapping as compared to last match. My gear still too low to fight and hold a point.
    Team Gear - a wide range it would appear, but overall net balance
    Blue Gear - 2 players
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 731 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 3rd on team, 7th overall
    Tactics - not consistant and overridden by gear imbalance
    Team Gear - unbalanced
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    TR (2 piece new, 2 pieces old T2 PvP gear)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 349 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 3rd on team, 8th overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced, could not kill the other players without number superiority.
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - 2 players
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 212 to 1000
    Leaderboard - last place
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. Team couldn't kill opponents without numbers.
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - 2 players
    AFKs -
    DCs -

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 78
    Leaderboard - 4th on team, 5th overall.
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced...at all
    Blue Gear - a couple of players with a couple of blue pieces
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - 1 opposing player left after 1st round. 2nd opposing player left after midway in the match.
    AFKs - rest of the opposing team mostly stayed afk.
    DCs -


    CW - T1 PvP tenacity gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 401
    Leaderboard - 1st overall.
    Tactics - consistent back capping kept the opponents sufficiently occupied
    Team Gear - felt kind of balanced
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player (same as above)
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    CW (T1 PvP Tenacity gear)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 106 to 1000
    Leaderboard - last place
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. OP GWF and TR on other team wiped out my team "single handedly"
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - 1 for most of the match. came back for the final min
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 588. Led the whole match, but game was close because team gear score was a closer match between the 2 teams.
    Leaderboard - 5th on team and leaderboard
    Tactics - consistent backcapping on our team kept us in the lead. If we didn't the match could've been lost.
    Team Gear - fairly even.
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 907. Great match, come from behind victory. Behind for the 1st half of the match, but came back in 2nd half and took a "strong" lead in the final 1/4 of the match.
    Leaderboard - 4th on team and 7th overall
    Tactics - backcapping consistently helped us to come from behind
    Team Gear - balanced.
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment -
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    TR - 2 piece new, 2 piece old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 994. Small lead for most of the game, but they took the lead in the final third of the match. Came from behind to edge past in the final secs.
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team, 4th overall
    Tactics - battle of backcapping
    Team Gear - balanced
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 1001 to 86
    Leaderboard - 1st overall (9 kills 0 deaths). complete mismatch in my favor
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced.
    Blue Gear - 2 players with partial blue gear
    No armor enchantment - 2 players without
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    GWF - 2 piece new, 2 piece old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 1000
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced.
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - 1player (same as above)
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - quick
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 697
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - lived and died by backcapping. when we neglected backcapping they caught up. other team stopped and we surged to the finish.
    Team Gear - not really balanced. we had 4 players in double digit kills, they only had 1 player
    Blue Gear - 1
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    CW - T2 PvE gear (HV)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 519
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - consistent backcapping helped. opposing team wasn't as effective in this.
    Team Gear - not balanced. our team had less than ideal gearing, but opposing team seemed to have worse.
    Blue Gear - 1player
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 223 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 3rd overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. not even close
    Blue Gear -
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - 3 gave up about 1/3 into the match. started complaining about other team mates and other team as premade
    DCs - none


    GWF - 2 piece new, 2 piece old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 343 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 4th overall, 2nd on team
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced.
    Blue Gear -
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - 1 after first round
    AFKs - 2 after my second round
    DCs - 1 at beginning of match - came back after this guy left --> 1 after my second round.

    Match 2
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 97
    Leaderboard - 3rd on team and overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. not even close
    Blue Gear -
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - opposing team - 1 left after first round, 3 left after another min.
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    TR - 2 piece new, 2 piece old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 372
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team and overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced.
    Blue Gear -
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment -
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - 1 player since about the first 1/4 of the match on our team. it seemed like the opposing team also only had 4 active players, but no leavers.

    Match 2
    Queue Time - normal
    Win/Loss - 952 to 1000. Led the whole match by a comfortable margin even with only 4 active players until the final 1/4. Sloppy tactics killed us.
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - good back capping until the second half of the game.
    Team Gear - fairly balanced... we had an OP GWF. I was second in kills. we had one other player with decent number of kills. And one player with only 1 kill outside of our DC'd player. other team had about the same amount of kills across the board.
    Blue Gear - none
    No armor enchantment - none
    No weapon enchantment - none
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - 1 from the first quarter of the game
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    CW - T2 PvE gear (HV)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 496
    Leaderboard - top of the board, but only at the end.
    Tactics - consistent backcapping won the match.
    Team Gear - balanced
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - na
    No weapon enchantment - na
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 449
    Leaderboard - 4th on team and overall
    Tactics - na
    Team Gear - not balanced
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - same player as above
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na


    GWF - 2 pieces new, 2 pieces old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 69.
    Leaderboard - 1st overall
    Tactics - na
    Team Gear - not balanced
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - na
    No weapon enchantment - na
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - opposing team eventually sat at campfire
    DCs - opposing team looks like they had one

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Quick to Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 588
    Leaderboard - 4th on team and 7th overall
    Tactics - consistent backcapping took and held the lead for us
    Team Gear - balanced; fairly even distribution of kills among all the players. I was actually low in kills compared to everyone else
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - na
    No weapon enchantment - na
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 412
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team and overall
    Tactics - backcapping was effective
    Team Gear - not balanced. our team on average had twice the number of kills as their team
    Blue Gear - 1 player had partial blue gear
    No armor enchantment - 3 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na


    TR - 2 pieces old and 2 pieces new T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 339
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team and overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. we out killed them easily
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - na
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 507 to 1000.
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 3rd overall
    Tactics - backcapping was good for the first half the match. After DC, team gave up and didn't bother with tactics anymore. One player even said, "we can't win 4 v 5."
    Team Gear - balanced
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - 1 player towards the end of the match
    DCs - 1 player about half way into the match
  • nazghul22nazghul22 Member Posts: 407 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    blureel wrote: »
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 496
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 449
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 69.
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 588
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 412
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 339
    Win/Loss - 507 to 1000.

    This sure was not a day of balance.
    ToD = ..........
    Tired of Dailies/Tyranny of Dailies/Timers of Doom/Tricked Or Duped/Tremendously Obnoxious Dailies/Try Otherwise, Devs
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    GWF - 2 pieces new, 2 pieces old
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Long
    Win/Loss - 263 to 1000, started ok. had the lead for the first 1/4 of the match. Then 1 player went afk and eventually dc'd. during that time, the other players got owned. By the time that player returned, the other players completely gave up trying to win the match.
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 6th overall
    Tactics - i kept backcapping, but team just defended home base
    Team Gear - not balanced; other team had 2 OP players based on end result kills
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - na
    No weapon enchantment - na
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - 1 player, but eventually 3 more players went afk
    DCs - same player, but returned


    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 229
    Leaderboard - 3rd on team, 4th overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - balanced when comparing kills on both teams. suggests other team didn't play as a team.
    Blue Gear - na
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - same player as above
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 880 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team, 7th overall
    Tactics - poor tactics made the match closer than it appears
    Team Gear - not balanced. they killed us at will
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 2 players
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none


    CW - T2 PvE gear (HV)
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 610 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 4th overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 2 players
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 109
    Leaderboard - 5th on team and overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced. not even close
    Blue Gear - 1 player
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - na
    AFKs - na
    DCs - na


    TR - 2 pieces new, and 2 pieces old T2 PvP gear
    Match 1
    Queue Time - Normal
    Win/Loss - 106 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 4th on team, 9th overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced
    Blue Gear - 1 player with 1 blue weapon
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 2 players
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - 1 player about a 1/4 of the way into the match
    DCs - none

    Match 2
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 610 to 1000
    Leaderboard - 1st on team, 3rd overall
    Tactics - not applicable
    Team Gear - not balanced
    Blue Gear - 1 player with partial blue gear
    No armor enchantment - 1 player
    No weapon enchantment - none
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none

    Match 3
    Queue Time - Normal to long
    Win/Loss - 1000 to 424
    Leaderboard - 2nd on team, 3rd overall
    Tactics - consistent backcapping overcame early deficit brought on by opposing OP GWF
    Team Gear - not balanced. The one OP GWF had a lousy team
    Blue Gear - 2 players
    No armor enchantment - 2 players
    No weapon enchantment - 1 player
    Leavers - none
    AFKs - none
    DCs - none
  • blureelblureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    nazghul22 wrote: »
    This sure was not a day of balance.

    Indeed it wasn't. In fact, as the days go on, I'm not seeing a "balance" with the new Elo system. It still feels the same unbalance that existed prior to the Elo system except that there are not that many leavers any more. I was hoping to see and feel the games get progressively better, but instead I still get the same randomness of really bad matches (my team get's owned), really good matches (my team dominates), and the occasional balanced matches.

    *edit

    This is one of the reasons why I wanted to start this thread - to keep track of the progress of the Elo system through 1 player's "real world" experience so that the Dev's can see at least one set of "real world" results of the Elo system over time.
  • ambisinisterrambisinisterr Member, Neverwinter Moderator Posts: 10,462 Community Moderator
    edited March 2014
    I notice you consider gear score the "balance."

    It is not. Really it is not.

    For example you said "poor tactics made the match closer than it seemed."
    That is balance. It doesn't matter one bit if they have really good gear if they can't put it to good use.

    Gear will not be the same. In fact you should probably just stop keeping track. The most important number is honestly how close the matches are and at what point they stopped being close.

    If the match was neck and neck but suddenly somebody leaves that should be the most crucial consideration. Same goes if it seems like the enemy team stopped trying. Balance is the chance to win. Gear contributes to that but it doesn't matter how obscenely high their gear score is if the match can still be won by superior tactics and teamwork.
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    the forums aren't supposed to be used as a blog or a way to keep your match data. soon, you will get that option in-game in module 3. however continually posting in a thread with no active discussion is both considered spamming and bumping, both of which are not allowed. in addition to that, you're posting data that cannot be proven, data that comes from competitive pvp matches and pvp drama needs to be kept in-game.

    a better usage of what you're doing here might be to collect your data personally over time and later come back with constructive feedback based on your data, but trying to determine statistical facts about the internal workings of programming or how/if elo is working... what i understand about elo in neverwinter pvp is what the devs tell us and i know that they have the ability to scale it up or down. i have no way of proving that elo is or isn't working, but from my own experience, i can say that my pvp matches do feel more balanced than before. and there will always be a winner and a loser because it's pvp.

    based on the above, we are closing this thread.
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