Guild Wars 2

There is a lot of talk in the WvW forums about how the two worlds ranked 2 & 3 should gang up on the 1st place world (Tier 3 is a good example.) This was the design goal by Anet as well, so they should try to find a way to make it happen naturally.

After all, ranking is calculated on the differences between you and the other two worlds. But if you didn’t read the wiki/forums or http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA, you wouldn’t know that.

I believe the main scoreboard graphic should be changed. It should show the differences between your world and the other two worlds for the match scores. For instance, you can use a bar chart where your score is at x-axis and there is a bar for each opponent. If they are ahead of you, a positive bar, and you ahead of them, a negative bar. (Use whatever colours best convey threat/non-threat.)

The goal is to make people from the #3 world see a small difference between them and #2, and a large difference between them and #1. This larger difference, the larger the perceived threat. #3 will go after #1. This will aid in explaining to people how our ranking score is dependent how we do against both worlds and better align strategies.
World ranked #2 will also try to focus more on #1, and less on stomping #3 into dust.

In addition, the score bonuses can be moved to another tab, since those don’t offer any strategic information. An additional tab to show the current & next glicko rating & matchup would be nice, instead of having to point everyone to the above link.