Guild Wars 2

I think having all servers tied to 1 Mist would be really over crowded, however a group of like 6 servers sharing a mist I think would work rather well. Right now its rather hard to find Coordinated groups for Middle tier players.

As someone on Anvil Rock and in the esports guild I still wait all day to maybe get a group for a couple matches. I’m likely around 75% on the leaderboard, I’m clearly no pro but my rank is actually rising fast and I can hold my own.

On anvil rock there is your top tier players who all group with each other pug or whatever, then there is the rest which is mostly people just talking in map chat or completely ignoring everyone. It is so painful trying to find groups of around equal skill level, You can ask all day and all night with very limited success.

Even Anvil Rock has its very slow points in the mists as well, I just feel a server group of like 6 servers or even lets say 3 would be better, we just need more population in the same areas looking for teams.

I do get groups with people I play with some times, but I don’t want to have to solo q to find a group.

Something like GW1’s districts would work really fine. Although if Anet does create this technology, they should consider moving it to PvE as well, at least for less popular explorable maps.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

I would agree with that but even just groups of servers sharing the same mist would work, or just a group of districts that expands as more players join. 100 people in the mists 1 district open, 500 3 open or something like that.

It is just really painful right now, even more so for myself because I can’t join a team as a shiftworker I just can’t match schedules with a real “team” so I rely on pug groups.

[Quote=2431154;Evan Lesh.3295:]Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District[/quote]

If you made it. Would an international district be included?

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

First time I hear GW1 mentioned by a dev :o

ALL HAIL EVAN. The coming living story should have a PvP candidate, Evan Leshblade instead of Evon Gnashblade!

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

Is this even possible? I swear someone mentioned this on sotg and it was said that it wasn’t doable. Maybe this changed with guesting?

It would be kind of cool if they could route you to a district based on who you are facing that week in WvW or server rank, while allowing people to choose their district as well. Something like “Enter Heart of the Mists” with options: Auto, District 1 (Ranks 1-6), District 2 (Ranks 7-12), District 3 (13-18), District 4 (the rest). Where auto takes you to the appropriate district if there is space available. As a way to get know the folks you are killing in WvW, and there are a lot of people who play both sPvP and WvW. But I’m fine with any solution; I just hope the WvW borderland selection would work properly if its treated as an overflow, instead of Unknown Borderlands.

ranks shouldn’t matter

Roy.7405:

It would be kind of cool if they could route you to a district based on who you are facing that week in WvW or server rank, while allowing people to choose their district as well. Something like “Enter Heart of the Mists” with options: Auto, District 1 (Ranks 1-6), District 2 (Ranks 7-12), District 3 (13-18), District 4 (the rest). Where auto takes you to the appropriate district if there is space available. As a way to get know the folks you are killing in WvW, and there are a lot of people who play both sPvP and WvW. But I’m fine with any solution; I just hope the WvW borderland selection would work properly if its treated as an overflow, instead of Unknown Borderlands.

Q_Q People think of the mists as just a waiting area for WvW Q_Q

I wonder how much the ingame LFG would help with this issue for finding groups for the PvP. While I think districts are doable, it would only mask a population “issue”.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

That will be too cool to be true…
Or are you just teasing us only to get our hopes up and crush them?

They just need to implement a good “looking for group”.

Theres no need for complete server overhaul, people will remain groupless, the correct fix to getting people to group is a good lfg system. There needs to be a worldwide one, not server wide and it affects all zones someone is in, because some people get tired of waiting for a pvp group and goto another zone but are still looking, but due to failure lfg system it just doesn’t work.

It should have been done from the start…a central mists should have been done, and I think would be something awesome for the near-future.

With guesting people can already just guest to anvil if they want. Automating that would be nice for people that don’t know where people hang out but I think it would be a waste of resources to work on. Pvp has more important needs imo.

Shouldn’t the LFG tool address this issue?

No it wouldn’t, I want to be able to talk to people I might group with and not just be thrown in with some randoms who just join my team no matter their skill level.

DevO.9854:

No it wouldn’t, I want to be able to talk to people I might group with and not just be thrown in with some randoms who just join my team no matter their skill level.

That’s what Solo Queue is for.

All of your teammates are for the most part your own leaderboard ranking. Simply join solo and try to take people with you and form a team.

Chase.8415:

DevO.9854:

No it wouldn’t, I want to be able to talk to people I might group with and not just be thrown in with some randoms who just join my team no matter their skill level.

That’s what Solo Queue is for.

All of your teammates are for the most part your own leaderboard ranking. Simply join solo and try to take people with you and form a team.

I’m not sure but I think your agreeing with me…

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

I want that for PvE too and including the European servers.

yes, please implement back the district system for both Mists (sPvP lobby) and PvE (all explorable instances, and cities) !!!

not sure why overflow is used instead of district. >.<

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

Yeah that would be ideal as most hotm are generally underpopulated as opposed to say – the home servers lion’s arch. Considering that pvp covers all the servers for the region when you enter a match anyhow, I doubt anyone will have a problem with it. It would also greatly aid in searching for a tpvp team/premade.

stop asking for pve stuff -_-

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

Jonathan Sharp talked about this feature earlier this year : http://youtu.be/GBGYwpfSy54?t=8m9s

Nikkle.4013:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Sort of like GW1 districts?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/District

Is this even possible? I swear someone mentioned this on sotg and it was said that it wasn’t doable. Maybe this changed with guesting?

I guess it’s doable if they somehow use the Overflow stuff and just send everyone in HotM to the same overflow, with no player limit…

Like somebody said earlier you can already guest on anvil rock, this wouldn’t change anything and would be a waste of time.

The current lfg system isn’t the best because it only shows people lfg in the same zone, because of that nobody uses it. If you could go lfg anywhere people would use it.

This game relies too much on 3rd parties.
3rd party dragon timer
3rd party gwlfg.com
3rd party pvp tournaments
3rd party leaderboard that shows history and everything

all this 3rd party kitten just tells me that the developers don’t do a good job, pretty much everything they do someone else does better.

They should handover the game coding and let the 3rd party make it better in every given way.

This thread based on matchmaking/grouping? Well I bet you a 3rd party could come up with a GOOD algorthim in a day and problem solved. They wouldn’t have to come out with several “big solo que patches”.