There are several changes coming for PvP to help with matchmaking, fair battles and gear guidance:

We're now displaying your PvP power rating on your tooltip as well as your character sheet. This is a percentage number that tells you how close you are to the top of the power curve for your level. Higher is better.

We've added a new rating system to the PvP game. Every player will start out with a rating of 1500. Winning matches will increase your rating. Losing matches (or quitting matches) will decrease your rating. Points lost by the losers will be gained by the winners.

Click here for a description of a similar rating system.

We will use these ratings to decide how to match you in PvP. Your base rating (displayed on your character sheet) will serve as the starting point for your matchmaking rating.

Each player's matchmaking rating is currently computed like this:

MatchRating = BaseRating + (PowerRating * 4) + (Level * 2)

A group's MatchRating is equal to the average of its member's MatchRatings plus 200 for each group member other than the leader.

When a group enters the PvP queue, matches will be found based on a widening rating tolerance. This tolerance currently starts at 50 points and increases by 1 point every second. This will ensure that closer matches are favored early in the queueing process, but allows for further matches the longer you're in the queue.

We've also started giving three King's Coins to the winners of a PvP match and one King's Coin to the losers.

That's the basic summary. I'll do a full write-up for the patch notes. This will help us ensure that matches are more fair and more fun.

Enjoy!

steve

Ty For the update Stephen Much Much appreciated sounds like it ws a much better system then whats in place now.

Sounds very interesting, Stephen. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action.

Thank you Stephen for making me realize that it was a bit premature to consider giving up entirely on PvP....

This is a GREAT start toward addressing the Balance and other assorted PvP issues, and I am simply amazed that the Dev's here take an active "hands on" approach to Community Relations...

Am I right in assuming that any previous PvP wins (or losses) will not be taken into account for the new system? Sounds great, by the way.

Yes, that's correct. Everyone will start at 1500 when the chunk comes out.

Wait what? So we get rid of the Wins and make them point system?

Nobody said wins wont be shown anymore

Sound good.

..but if the matches are more fair, then you have to wait for someone with more or less the same lvl (<etc.) if there aren't many people in the server then wouldn't it take a long to to find/wait for that person?

Not necessarily. Everyone starts with same amount of points. That number will determine how players are matched. So if a lvl 100 and a lvl 15 both advance to a rating of 2200, they could be matched together. The system is based on experience and skill, which I think will greatly benefit the matchamking process.

Also, as far as groups go, it sounds like the system will look for close matches, but the longer a group waits, the wider the search will get, so that should cut down on really long waits.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, Anson. After posting I was hoping I wouldn't completely eat my words...at least I was partly right!

Point system would piss of Wreker. He'll have 1500 points to start like everyone else!

That's what I thought. I wonder... obviously, previous wins will not actually take part in the new rating system, but will they be kept? Just for bragging rights?