Guild Wars 2

Mew.7386:

imo this encourage people to transfer to a stacked server even more, since this is win or nothing. Those players in a server’s weak timezone will have zero objective to do(except karma/wxp farming/teabag), since all their effort will become nothing no matter how hard they fight.

However, let’s see how this change will really do since this may not a permanent change, cheers.

On the other hand, it takes a lot of pressure off due to not needing to have 24/7 coverage to compete, which is always a good thing.

Swamurabi.7890:

Yeah, in my match the first place server has won all but one skirmish.

Here’s a better idea, balance the population and you will have a better WvW for all.

P.S. My server has won only one skirmish this match, the other server has zero wins.

Your Matchup Old Score Your Matchup New Score
Server A 215 143
Server B 145 73
Server C 72 72

This is assuming B and C get 2nd(B) and 3rd© repeatedly. Which score seems closer? There’s still a 70 point gap between A and B but the new scoring actually has C MUCH closer than they would have been to A and might have more participating later in the week.
As for population, server linking was supposed to help solve that but there will always be a chunk of players that will pay to tip the scales so that they more easily achieve victory.

The new system is ok, the fighting server will win at least 3 skirmishes around primetime due to ppk accounting over 50% score during those hours.

People complaining about snowballing, the value of winning skirmish is actually same: 1st place gets double of average of 2nd and 3rd. Now 2nd place just will be just pointless and 3rd place not so bad, so you have to focus getting 1st and you wont lose as much from failing to beat the 1st and ending 3rd due to one server being idiotic.

Dont forget the system is also glicko based so ideally if you just focus higher glicko server, you will go up in rankings as long as you manage to get them 2nd even if you end up 3rd.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Reverence.6915:

Servers with the weakest coverage don’t even need to turn up now to be rewarded. Smart move

What? Servers that don’t show up now still get points awarded in 3,2,1. This makes zero sense.

rev meant if you are obviously #3, you end up with the same points as #2 at the end of the week even if everyone goes to pve….

that said, it is silly to make judgements on the system without the system playing out for several weeks….. If more people play, the change is good. if drastically less people play, the change might be bad (need to know why they stopped)..

Anet does not know what else to do to WvW but constantly messing it up. It seems to be getting worse and of course there are no incentives for 2nd and 3rd place servers in the skirmish. Well hell, screw the score on who wins (because it doesnt matter anyway) lets just farm the players and hope we get a precursor out of it. WTG Anet with messing around with WvW when you dont have a clue how to fix the old problems.

Literally no point for any off-peak players on smaller servers to play anymore.
If you don’t come first, you might as well just go play something else.

10/10 change I have to say.
Oh boy! I cant wait to see what change is going to happen next.

Vova.2640:

Literally no point for any off-peak players on smaller servers to play anymore.
If you don’t come first, you might as well just go play something else.

That was true with 3-2-1 system when both the 1st and the 2nd server attacked the weakest server together.

Now the weakest server (after finding it impossible to win the current skirmish) can play as a kingmaker or can build up momentum for the next skirmish by upgrading its objectives.