Guild Wars 2

I understand why they decided to change the matchups for wvw but it isn’t working. I am in one of the lowest populated servers, Ferguson’s Crossing. Every week we are put against higher populated servers that just run us over in wvw. It has gotten so bad that people are moving out of Ferguson’s Crossing to the higher populated ones. My guild does a lot in wvw and we even have a designated night that we all participate. You will usually find a few of us with a presence there on any given day. We love the game but it is just not a fair fight. It is very frustrating and depressing. There must be a better way to make the matchups more even.

You are not alone. We on RoF knows this very well. Fighting with servers with rank +9 was normal for us.
At least this week we got good matchup,but people stopped playing WvW in past weeks and it is hard now to get them back.

Anet can’t control a servers WVW so easily. I believe ET and AR are facing the same problem as FC. Maybe ask for a lockdown match up for a few weeks? Recruit more ppl? Slowly buildan active WVW guild in the server? ( for commanders) Motivate ppl every day by being optimistic on every situation?

The list goes on . Cant remember any more ideas that could help you guys.

Best of luck to FC

Gotta organise, on Kaineng we don’t have the numbers to match other servers but we trained all guilds and pugs to all basic WvW strategies like moving in groups, fire/water field, buffs and combo.

Its working very well, whats killing us on the ranking its our lack of 24h coverage. so we end up losing, but on the battlefield, most of the time we win the fights when outnumbered most of the time.

by outplaying your enemies you may counter their number. just gotta organise with everyone for this.

It’s gone so well over here, we had few ppl who started to join Kaineng even tho we ain’t high pop top of the list server.

A guild even asked us to pool them golds to help them transfer and most guilds contributed.

so Yeah Anet system blow but you can counter it

Until very recently, there wasn’t really a fix for this. For a long time SF dropped to T8 and smacked FC/ET around, but it was the evenest matchup you could get. Then SF moved up and GoM came down, problem persisted, GoM went up, HoD came down, a couple weeks later it was the same problem. Then random matchups came in and anytime FC/ET were together it would happen, anytime they weren’t they had a better shot to sneak around but it could only do so much. Hopefully with AR in its current state, you’ll get the ET/FC/AR matchup which based on experience playing against each of them could turn out fairly even – and FC would definitely have the numbers advantage in that match up.

Natronix.9827:

Anet can’t control a servers WVW so easily. I believe ET and AR are facing the same problem as FC. Maybe ask for a lockdown match up for a few weeks? Recruit more ppl? Slowly buildan active WVW guild in the server? ( for commanders) Motivate ppl every day by being optimistic on every situation?

The list goes on . Cant remember any more ideas that could help you guys.

Best of luck to FC

>locked tier matchup bad
>RNG matchup bad
now you want locked tier matchups again?

I’m from FC and been here since pre release and would want thi RNG over the stagnant match ups prior to RNG. I do believe the deviation could be looked at a bit more though.

Wildchild.7502:

Gotta organise, on Kaineng we don’t have the numbers to match other servers but we trained all guilds and pugs to all basic WvW strategies like moving in groups, fire/water field, buffs and combo.

Its working very well, whats killing us on the ranking its our lack of 24h coverage. so we end up losing, but on the battlefield, most of the time we win the fights when outnumbered most of the time.

by outplaying your enemies you may counter their number. just gotta organise with everyone for this.

It’s gone so well over here, we had few ppl who started to join Kaineng even tho we ain’t high pop top of the list server.

A guild even asked us to pool them golds to help them transfer and most guilds contributed.

so Yeah Anet system blow but you can counter it

dont worry about it FC wins every equal number fight, ever, and when we have an actual organized zerg we dont lose (unless siege is used or there are around 2.5x more than us)

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

The random matches have been closer than I expected, but I think there’s still a place for alternating between random and ordered matches.

Low pop vs high pop!

LET’S DO THIS, IT SOUNDS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

That’s right, Jade Quarry needs people more than Ferguson’s Crossing. I mean, how long can Jade Quarry stand having the 3rd highest population? Let no Guild Wars 2 player rest until that’s fixed.

styx.7294:

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

That’s right, Jade Quarry needs people more than Ferguson’s Crossing. I mean, how long can Jade Quarry stand having the 3rd highest population? Let no Guild Wars 2 player rest until that’s fixed.

+1

tired of T1 recruitment posts, they have enough people already T_T

MrFluffy.9307:

styx.7294:

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

That’s right, Jade Quarry needs people more than Ferguson’s Crossing. I mean, how long can Jade Quarry stand having the 3rd highest population? Let no Guild Wars 2 player rest until that’s fixed.

+1

tired of T1 recruitment posts, they have enough people already T_T

+2

youngheart.9764:

I understand why they decided to change the matchups for wvw but it isn’t working. I am in one of the lowest populated servers, Ferguson’s Crossing. Every week we are put against higher populated servers that just run us over in wvw. It has gotten so bad that people are moving out of Ferguson’s Crossing to the higher populated ones. My guild does a lot in wvw and we even have a designated night that we all participate. You will usually find a few of us with a presence there on any given day. We love the game but it is just not a fair fight. It is very frustrating and depressing. There must be a better way to make the matchups more even.

Servers only ever do as well as the efort their players put in and the number of players who commit to WvW. The game type purely by its nature isn’t balanced, so the only thing you can do is recruit more people to your server, put up with it or transfer.

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where all your problems are solved in under 3 seconds.

Can someone muzzle him? He’s in every freaking thread! I appreciate that JQ wants to be competitive in T1, but it’s just not going to happen and some assessment of reality.

As for low pop vs high pop, it happens in every tier, and becomes exacerbated in higher tiers when you start figuring in off hours populations. All the rave in T1 matches right now is EST NA vs PST NA and the “unfair” advantages of that.

Unfortunately, it appears that ANet is on Fuzzion’s side and just expects you to get gems to move upwards.
The WvW population is probably the game’s most die-hard fans, but they are the most crap’d upon as well.

IMO it be nice if Anet GMs actually went in and did some manual “balancing” on the servers. Identify a server that has low population (low queues, poor performance in WvW, etc). Go to a high pop/performance server and simply ask the prominent guilds if Anet can move their entire rooster to the low pop server.

I’m sure not everyone would bite, hell many large guilds dont even WvW. But for those that do its a free transfer without the hazzles of leaving members behind, especially if they have been thinking of moving. It would be worth a try.

But unfortunetly I dont think anyone at Anet is capable of that. GW2 is like the only MMO that dont have involved GMs. Or GMs at all for that matter.

Many of this weeks EU matchups are pretty unbelievable in terms of points and pop difference yet they got matched up, after this long isn’t this enough to go by that something needs to be adjusted for the EU ladder?
This isn’t that much fun either way outside what we can find as fun for me that is a challenge, perhaps I could just play during prime time but blowouts due to imbalances do not seem right to me.
The high pop servers just Karma train with imbalanced matchups happening too frequently.

My server enjoyed weeks of not having Vizunah for once but we’re not quite improving cause educating the pugs is not easy cause it’s s just too easy to Karma train at night.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

My server enjoyed weeks of not having Vizunah for once but we’re not quite improving cause educating the pugs is not easy cause it’s s just too easy to Karma train at night.

SFR had them for the past week and their meta of 80 man blobs wasn’t fun for us either, we have to take turns taking care of the awkward ginger kid of WvW

I wish we’d stop getting higher ranked servers, not because of the population difference (I could give a kitten about the arbitrary scoring system when populations are this skewed), but because you literally can’t find one person apart from the 50 man zerg they all seem to think is uber to run in. NSP rolled Kain and BP this week and 90% of the people I know pretty much took the week off to pve. I know for a fact none of the servers above them are any better. Higher tier thinking is killing my longevity in this game…