Guild Wars 2

EDIT: I’ll credit the person who switched between Blacktide and Arberstone [FR], while they still hold 90k points and we hold 6k, it’s a much needed improvement. PLEASE, get an actual equal for us

TL;DR at the bottom.

Come ON! A vabbi player crying out-
I recently tried WvW, I loved it. But, as expected, this is a rant/suggestion thread; Blacktide is like 5x our size, I’m not even exaggerating because they have almost full control in every map INCLUDING OUR OWN! They EAT and MUSH Vabbi and Fissure of Woe so easily, it takes so much out of the competative nature of WvW when EVERYTHING is owned by Blacktide, I mean, look at their leverage over us, look at the buildings right now- It’s just not fair play nor is it fun for me or my Vabbi companions.

You guys don’t give a crap about the smaller servers, this is not why I bought this game, I thought you guys were fair!

If you’re doing something to fix this, please, tell me we’re going to be put against a server our size. Please consider:

-Merging a server with Vabbi
-Putting us up against another server, a smaller one.
-Give us a BOOST, the current boost against a population advantage DOES NOT help, you NEED to double our HP or something more significant than having our armor not get harmed when we die (Oh, yay, you assume we’ll just die everytime, nice going.)
-Cut Blacktide into about two to three servers.
-Cut Blacktide’s WvW mass of players in about three
-Make Blacktide a “very high” population server because it’s REALLY not a medium sized.
-Encourage people more to transfer to Vabbi!
-Get more smaller servers
-Add more AI to our HOME map.
-Add more AI to lesser populated servers.
-Close entering to higher populated servers.
-Balance Blacktide by lowering their stats considerably
-Lower/heighten stats only in group fights so free roaming won’t get harmed?

And finally,
-add some fair play, because I’m sure as heck not seeing any of it right now.

PLEASE help us.

Strength and honor,
David.

TL;DR: Blacktide has around 550k points while Vabbi owns about 8k and FOW has 10k.
The servers ‘Vabbi’ and ‘Fissure of Woe’ against ‘Blacktide’ is a complete failure, Blacktide has about 5x population and we don’t even have control over our home maps. We have about 1% of all buildings.

Suggestions above.

I’m in a similar situation on my server so i can sympathize. We always are outmanned 10 to 1 even on peak hours. I doubt they will merge servers though. Alot of people just don’t do WvW and are mainly PvE servers. The outmanned buff is one way of fixing this. I suggested this already. Give us a bonus to actual useful stats rather than a crappy magic find and exp boost that doesnt do anythign to help us when we’re outmanned anyway. A bonus to all stats that scales depending on how badly you’re outmaned would be nice. When i’m trying to defend a tower we managed to take by some miracle with a grand total of 7 other people on the entire map against a zerg of 60+, a 500% boost to all stats would be a nice way of evening the odds.

I reckognise some of the sentiment, yet it also sometimes just helps to see what happens over time. Similar complaints were in our guild and people suggested to leave the current server and move somewhere else. I said “just sit tight, lots of guilds move around all the time, because the grass seems greener on the other side”. And sure enough, many guilds by now have come and some have also gone. It changes dynamics in WvW all the time. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

The one thing I really don’t like in the current ranking system is that you can be against the same servers for weeks on end, despite the weekly reset. Specially if your server is the weak one of the 3, it can be very frustrating and demotivating. Of course you don’t hear anyone complain when you’re up against the same guys for 5 weeks in a row while your server is the strongest of the 3 :p.

I’m on the top dog for our bracket (Tarnished Coast) and I still agree with the OP. It’s not fun. There’s no good massive battles to fight, either we eat the opposition alive, or they manage to turtle in their few remaining keeps for hours on end.

tyrswrath.1753:

The one thing I really don’t like in the current ranking system is that you can be against the same servers for weeks on end, despite the weekly reset.

That’s my gripe, and I only care because I am a PvEer who only wants a chance to get my World Completion done. But we’ve not only been up against the same servers (with the same results) for the past 6 weeks, but for 5 of those 6 weeks we were the same color.

Edit: Make that 6 out of the last 7 weeks. (Sigh).

Hamfast.8719:

tyrswrath.1753:

The one thing I really don’t like in the current ranking system is that you can be against the same servers for weeks on end, despite the weekly reset.

That’s my gripe, and I only care because I am a PvEer who only wants a chance to get my World Completion done. But we’ve not only been up against the same servers (with the same results) for the past 6 weeks, but for 5 of those 6 weeks we were the same color.

Solely for that purpose you could consider guesting another server to just complete your world completion

I just looked at the points at some ranking site. How can they even own that big? Shouldn’t they play in a higher tier? Or did some guilds transfer suddenly to make them stronger?

Shouldn’t they be up to the next tier next week so you play against a weaker server next?

I went over this problem in our “Top 10 things GW2 needs to improve video”
I’ve been on both ends of the spectrum with this (I’m from hendge of denravi) and while there’s a bit of fun to be had being on either side of the spectrum it pales in comparison to what it’s like when the teams are somewhat even.
Check out the video here: http://youtu.be/XMEq4PAFmnI?t=2m55s
That’s a link to start of the WvWvW segemnt of the top 10 (number 9)

tyrswrath.1753:

Solely for that purpose you could consider guesting another server to just complete your world completion

Errrr, unfortunately no you can’t: guesting doesn’t apply to WvWvW.

Luthan.5236:

I just looked at the points at some ranking site. How can they even own that big? Shouldn’t they play in a higher tier? Or did some guilds transfer suddenly to make them stronger?

Shouldn’t they be up to the next tier next week so you play against a weaker server next?

I know, it’s insane!

Thank you everyone for the support! I wish the devs would see this, it’s really not fun anymore for me. Last time I was on Blacktide had around 600k points while Vabbi had about 8k and FOW had 10k.

COME ON!! The issue was partly fixed by replacing Blacktide with some french server, the server was a lot stronger than FOW or Vabbi (my server) but it was way weaker than Blacktide. AND THAN BLACKTIDE RETURNED. So, this thread is NOW RELEVANT AGAIN.

WE ARE LITERALLY AT 1K POINTS, BLACKTIDE HAS ABOUT 600K.

I quit, until you fix this, I’m not going to play GW2 or buy any gems. Thank you and good night.

This already is going to be fixed. On Tuesday or Friday WvW matches are a bit more random.

EDIT: I just looked on mos and well.. There’s nothing that can help you. Your enemy is always the third last. If Blacktide isn’t able to keep up with the servers above them you’re stuck with Blacktide.

The actual problem here is that there’s a huge WvW activity gap between you and Blacktide.

There’s no enemy weaker than Blacktide or Arborstone.