Guild Wars 2

This weaks EU matchups are a joke. Around 3 hours after head start you can see in the following screen that almost all matchups are completely broken. At headstart at least you can see EU prime time server activity and strength.

It is sad ANet can not manually select matchups without any strange algorithm who is ruining matchups and subsequently WvW. This is just ridiculous and ruins EU WvW even more. Why you match servers together in a matchup who have 5 ranks between them?

I think matchmaking should be done manually, this should not be that much work for ANet. You could also take into account in case servers are struggling and loosing active WvW players or are declining in ranks.

This situation is very sad!

Manually? Why? If the same servers play each other regularly, the forums are flooded with threads crying about having to play the same servers (done so because it is the most competitive option)…………When they open up the rating restrictions to allow for diversity in server match ups, we get threads like this complaining about an imbalance, and misusing the word broken.

So why should they manually do anything, when they have a system that does on a competitive level?

Variety isn’t a bad thing.
Fighting SFR every other week get’s rather boring after a while – we want to fight other Servers and Guilds now and again, rather than focusing on the Scoreboard, we would like to have a bit of variation.

Population imbalance can’t be helped at this stage of the games lifecycle, it’s always been a problem with stacking and players moving towards more active – higher tier Servers right now, besides before any Tournaments – where they may stack where they are more likely to win the best rewards.

Well, I’m not from one of the top 6 EU servers and I can imagine that some variation for servers who constantly have to fight against SFR is good, but for middle to lower tier the situation is quite dramatic for the health of WvW

Honestly last MU was so kitten boring for SFR and 2 other servers. I only had 1 good day whit fights rest i didnt even bother to go in WvW.

This week is awesome fight fight fights.

Being On Jade Sea it would suck being trapped with 5th and 6th, it’s nice getting 1/2/3. The variety keeps people into WvW. And to allow us those matches 1/2/3 inevitably would get pushed down to 5/6.

I haven’t cared about the overall score in over a year, and it seems like most people don’t care because there’s really no reason in winning, the extra rank chests are a joke. We all know who wins is based off who night caps more in EU. Since it’s less coverage heavy than NA.

Actually, this is what makes EU more interesting then NA. While you think that rank 5 wont be a match for rank 1, it is far from as simple as that.

Rank 5 will lose due to lack of coverage, but at the same time, they are good fighters and often fight harder, thus prove to be more of a challenge (battle wise) then higher ranked servers which just “float” on their coverage.

Player from Baruch and more excited with this unbalanced matchup, than the past weeks, when things were more balanced. I don’t care about being stomped, all I care is finding enemies.

Also, you need to give it more time. Resets have become a lot more unbalanced for the past months, but after 1 or 2 days things become much more equal.

@Ansau
Although variation is nice in your view, for one of the servers you are fighting (Piken Square) the amount of fights we will find this matchup will be lower than any we’ve had in the past month. For the people who legitamitely enjoy WvW, it’s always nice fighting higher rank servers, makes the server try more than they would otherwise and find more fights.
I talked to a few of our frequent EB com’s just before reset and they hoped we get FSP and GAND, even though they ROFL stomp us the fights are amazing.

Aren’t match-ups determined by how well the servers preformed in the previous weeks match-up? Not by ranks?

Doesn’t this just mean the ranks haven’t caught up to how well the servers are preforming?

As a Gandaran player, I’d rather be matched against the higher ranked servers. There’s more fights, it’s more of a challenge and there’s more to do. We’ll lose the matchup, but so be it. Not like we’d get anything for winning.

As for the other matchups you’ve highlighted as being “broken”, the majority will probably be closer than you’re assuming. The scores now are already different than on the screenshot you attached.

The scores and ranks don’t tell the whole story.

excuse me? manual labour? for wvw? aint gonna happen.

on a serious note its better then the first system where you played the same servers every week.. but still far from good as this posts proves.. variety should be 2 up 2 down or something, not 5 up.