Guild Wars 2

I am proposing to change the way colors are assigned in WvW.
Right now according to ranking, 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, … worlds are green; 2nd 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, … worlds are blue; 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, … worlds are red.
To 1st, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th, … worlds are green; 2nd 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, … worlds are blue; 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 15th, … worlds are red.
This to give a better balance when playing in EotM.
Right now green is so much stronger than red. It discourage the red worlds to play.

How about putting a weekly color rotation in place instead?

The fact that EotM is a karma/loot train discourages worlds from playing/fighting. Heck my guild occasionally goes there for WvW practice and we get all sorts of hate because we engage enemy player zergs. It is funny when 10 people completely wipe a group of 30-50 people, but it gets boring after a while.

agrho.2579:

I am proposing to change the way colors are assigned in WvW.
Right now according to ranking, 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, … worlds are green; 2nd 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, … worlds are blue; 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, … worlds are red.
To 1st, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th, … worlds are green; 2nd 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, … worlds are blue; 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 15th, … worlds are red.
This to give a better balance when playing in EotM.
Right now green is so much stronger than red. It discourage the red worlds to play.

I see what you’re doing there. Currently, the group with the 1st ranker gets the “1st” map in triplet, the 2nd gets the “2nd” and the 3rd the “3rd”. Your change would make it so that the world that was last in the previous bracket gets the highest ranking in the next triplet.

1 6 7 12 13
2 5 8 11 14
3 4 9 10 15

However, I don’t think that it will work the way you want it to. The difference between a top ranking map and a mid-tier map is far too large. I doubt that the lower half of the ranking has much effect on the end result.

Also, colours should never be tied to your rank. The worst of it has resulted in weeks or months of some server having the same colour. Or conversely not having one colour at all. This is a notorious issue with regular WvW.

Olba.5376:

Also, colours should never be tied to your rank. The worst of it has resulted in weeks or months of some server having the same colour. Or conversely not having one colour at all. This is a notorious issue with regular WvW.

My server was Green for the entire WvW Tournament, only upon completion of the tournament we were red, now we’re green again.

Colors should rotate, even for the sole fact of being fresh every week or allowing random PvE enthusiasts get their map completion.

agrho.2579:

I am proposing to change the way colors are assigned in WvW.
Right now according to ranking, 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, … worlds are green; 2nd 5th, 8th, 11th, 14th, … worlds are blue; 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, … worlds are red.

Right now in NA, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21. The following are blue: 1, 5, 8, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23. The following are red: 3, 6, 9, 10, 16, 19, 20, 24.

In EU, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 25. The following are blue: 3, 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26. The following are red: 1, 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27.

The underlying assumption behind OP’s idea is actually not true.

-ken

Snowreap.5174:

Right now in NA, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21. The following are blue: 1, 5, 8, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23. The following are red: 3, 6, 9, 10, 16, 19, 20, 24.

In EU, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 25. The following are blue: 3, 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26. The following are red: 1, 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27.

The underlying assumption behind OP’s idea is actually not true.

-ken

Yup. That was my feeling as well. We’re green this week (EU no. 5) and we’re often outnumbered while during the Spring tournament the Green Machine was untouchable. A change was made? It’s great if that happened. I’m just looking for confirmation from Anet… in lieu of the announcement they apparently forgot to make.

Cheers.

I suspect it has more to do with perceptions than actual server ranking. During seasons colors were assigned directly based on rank and it isn’t an unsafe assumption to make that because each of these were green they added a little more in population overall. Fast forward 2+ months and you have a population of the game who, despite it no longer being this way, sees EotM as green always wins, so assuming this, they fairweather out and don’t even both playing EotM.

yes. during Tournament play the matchups are very predicatable in the sense there is no randomness involved.

but during off-season (normal) play there is some randomness involved. this is not new, it has been this way for a long time.

-ken