Character Locking and it's Problems in SoloQ!

#1 - July 31, 2013, 4:47 a.m.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/pvp/pvp/Solo-Que-August-6th/first#post2523103

Character Locking is coming on August 6th. This raises some unecessary difficulties for SoloQ:

If you Queue up for Solo Arenas and your team has no bunker guardian but their team does, how will you address this now? Because I used to swap out to a bunker if we didn’t had any because I can play one just as good and it helps the team composition.

Character Locking for TeamQ I understand but Im afraid this change will negatively affect SoloQ.

Players with class-versability should be rewarded and not limited. Just take a look at League SoloQ for example. If you can play several roles your chances are highly increased!

Evan Lesh

#42 - July 31, 2013, 9:47 a.m.

Character locking doesn’t happen until the game start countdown. You still have the ready time to switch. This decision was made specifically in consideration for solo queue. We can always move when character locking begins, but when the feature launches, it will happen at the countdown. This feature is intended mostly to stop exploits where people would switch characters for different skill setups or to reset cooldowns.

Evan Lesh

#47 - July 31, 2013, 10:13 a.m.

Ashanor.5319:
Evan Lesh.3295:
Character locking doesn’t happen until the game start countdown. You still have the ready time to switch. This decision was made specifically in consideration for solo queue. We can always move when character locking begins, but when the feature launches, it will happen at the countdown. This feature is intended mostly to stop exploits where people would switch characters for different skill setups or to reset cooldowns.

Personally, I think it should lock the second you get in there OR you shouldn’t be able to see what you are playing against until the game starts.

I agree there is still the problem of counter picking after joining a match. I’m sure we’ll find a middle ground with these issues.