Ranked solo scenario "premades"!

[Mor]

Hi all,

I have been playing ranked solo scenarios season 1 and now pre-season and I need to point out a pretty distasteful thing. Queuing together at the same time, namely organising groups with people who we want to play with, becomes a daily routine. I really thought that solo ranked would be something for those who do really want to join a scenario on high competition level and enjoy fights against totally RANDOM enemies. Instead, when you pick a bad time to play ranked solos you might lose many matches against the same or nearly the same people! Players used to practise this method in season 1 and they practise it in pre-season and will do in season 2.

Destruction is way more involved in playing ranked solos than Order. The count for Destruction players sometimes reaches 16/18 players queuing at the same time, whereas for Order it is around 8/10. To arrange 6 good players, let them join the same discord/server (which everybody can clearly see every time they play ranked solos) and tell them to press the queue button at the same time is easier than leading a pug warband. When the count of people queuing is high on one side then the other takes advantage of it.

Although I have no great solution to that, I would really love to hear what you guys think. Imo, this has to stop or season 2 leaderboard will be swallowed by MMR 1800+ players who always queue together with their friends. One thing that comes to my mind is setting a minimum number of players to queue for ranked solo scenarios in order to receive a pop - i.e. 12 players of any class. In that case neither side would ever get a scenario pop with the same players or nearly the same players.

Mor