Guild Wars 2

I’m wondering if we can ever expect better matchmaking for server matchups in terms of population. Right now my server which is medium population is being put against small and high population servers. Generally the poor small population server gets devoured very quickly and then the players stop showing up. Then the large population server quickly starts capturing our points one by one with their zerg of players that we simply cannot defend against. Eventually, our players stop bothering to join too and the large population server enjoys 95% map control until the reset in which the whole process begins again. It kind of sucks. Is this a problem unique to my server or are other people experiencing the same thing?

The idea of these preliminary 1-day matchups is to provide data for the matchmaking system for the rest of the game’s life-span. Just because a server is high population doesn’t necessarily mean that those players like WvW, so they have to do this in order to properly match servers for the longer matches that will be coming soon.

It’s getting better imo. I play on Desolation and we seem to be really active during the night/ early morning capping 80+ % of the map. However, we lose momentum during the day and early evening. (Meaning that our points are very close to the other servers)

There’s only a couple of servers that had an advantage over us during the night, resulting in a crushing defeat overall (Vizunah Squara comes to mind)

During the first set of matchups, Ehmry Bay had the same problem. We were utterly and completely dominated by a single large server. But in the next matchup WE were the ones dominating and controlling everything.

Mostly I think it’s just too early to tell at this point. People are still levelling up and enjoying the PVE side of things. Not everyone is jumping directly into PVP or WvW. I’d say give it time to even out.

Also, population is important, but so is organization. The Zerg is dangerous, but there are ways to fight back.

Eliteseraph.4970:

During the first set of matchups, Ehmry Bay had the same problem. We were utterly and completely dominated by a single large server. But in the next matchup WE were the ones dominating and controlling everything.

Mostly I think it’s just too early to tell at this point. People are still levelling up and enjoying the PVE side of things. Not everyone is jumping directly into PVP or WvW. I’d say give it time to even out.

The bigger thing to remember is that not everyone is staying put on their initial server choice. Many larger WvW centric guilds have recently moved from their high population servers to medium pop servers so they can avoid 4+ hour queue times.

They are doing 24 hour matches in order to set up the system, but the shift in the server communities due to overcrowding is making a dramatic impact on matches as it stands.

Matches are getting more even over time. The first few days my server controlled all 750 points of WvW. We didn’t let anyone have anything lol. Now it is much more even.