You get to play against everyone – n00bs and Gladiators alike – and aren’t pigeonholed into playing against people with a similar rating to your own.
You get to play against a wider range of different classes, specializations, and compositions, because there’s no pressure to play FotM for a competitive advantage.
If you play with someone you like, you can offer to queue with them again. This is a more friendly and natural way to form a team, as opposed to vetting players based on arbitrary requirements such as rating, specialization, or experience.
There is no risk of losing, so you have more freedom to experiment with talents and gear, and strategy and tactics.
People don’t get toxic if they lose.
You can queue alone, at your own leisure, and don’t have to commit to other people or time schedules.
You don’t need to bother with LFG.
There’s no boosting, win-trading, or otherwise rampant cheating going on.
Endless games are less common, because there’s no incentive to stall or drag a battle out.
People on the forums can’t armory-police your performance.
10 Reasons Why Skirmish is Better Than Rated if you don’t want to meet anyone with a competitive mindset that seeks to improve his own gameplay or play with people on his own skill level*
Yeah no one uses it - so just put it in the group section like everything else Could even make it rated with no rewards for all I care although they’d have to balance stealth somehow cos waiting for 2 stealthers to open is horrible
You don’t have to choose between playing with inexperienced friends for fun – and risk losing rating points – or playing with skilled people you don’t know, just to earn rating points.
It still boggles me to this day why they haven’t added rated solo queue for 2s and RBGs at least.
Keep glad mounts & titles in 3s where premade groups are required but why can’t we just solo queue rated 2s? Every single competetive player versus player game has solo queue, literally every single one.
I choose this specific topic because Skirmish Arena is not often talked about, so I thought I’d highlight a few reasons why someone might err toward it, as opposed to doing Rated Arena.
I’m not making the case that one mode is definitely better than another. It’s just some unrelated pros for one that can appear as cons for the other.
I don’t think the style of writing is antagonizing. Who am I antagonizing exactly? Perhaps it’s provocative, but I don’t see what’s bad about challenging people’s perceptions and giving them motivation to put forth their own opinions and argue a viewpoint, if they want.
And ultimately, then you’re free to ignore the thread and post in some of the many other threads on the Arena forum if you don’t fancy this one.
People get toxic less frequently?
Quite an extreme example though. There’s some anger there.
I have this thing where if you queue 2v1 or 3v2, I’ll hand the enemy a fair chance at winning by letting them fight an equal fight first. Not everybody appreciates that.
You get to play against everyone – n00bs and Gladiators alike – and aren’t pigeonholed into playing against people with a similar rating to your own.
You get to play against a wider range of different classes, specializations, and compositions, because there’s no pressure to play FotM for a competitive advantage.
If you play with someone you like, you can offer to queue with them again. This is a more friendly and natural way to form a team, as opposed to vetting players based on arbitrary requirements such as rating, specialization, or experience.
There is no risk of losing, so you have more freedom to experiment with talents and gear, and strategy and tactics.
People don’t get toxic if they lose.
You can queue alone, at your own leisure, and don’t have to commit to other people or time schedules.
You don’t need to bother with LFG.
There’s no boosting, win-trading, or otherwise rampant cheating going on.
Endless games are less common, because there’s no incentive to stall or drag a battle out.
People on the forums can’t armory-police your performance.
Could even make it rated with no rewards for all I care although they’d have to balance stealth somehow cos waiting for 2 stealthers to open is horrible
