Guild Wars 2

I am English but decided to go to a US server to see what kind of WvW they enjoy…

I won’t bother saying anything more than that I feel for these guys and hope this is what the Devs envisaged on a huge proportion of match-ups.

Well, I’m not sure what’s going on with Janthir, but you have to bear in mind that Denravi was abandoned by all of its WvW players. It’s just taking a while for it to fall down the rankings.

Things might settle out on 11/1 when transfers become weekly.

I’ve noticed already that there’s a huge drop-off between those competing for ‘tier 1’ and everyone else. There just isn’t enough of what I’d you’d call ‘Hard core’ Wv3 realms for consistent ~roughly even~ match ups.

Odd realm out is going to dominate.

I didn’t know anything about the history of the server when I transferred to be perfectly honest. I was very shocked to see less than 10 people in EB.
Strangely my first experience of WvW on the server involved a ‘player’ who’s name I took no notice of, with a commanders badge. As soon as people started to gather near him they got “Don’t follow me, I couldn’t care less about objectives” and “STOP following me, you can burn in hell” kind of comments. Obviously a few stated that he was the servers biggest troll.
Kind of vindicates many of the current forum posts asking for changes.
Anyway I’ll head back to Eu. Was interesting if nothing else lol.

On IOJ and I never saw one Henge player the entire time.
Sea of Sorrows legit got their win.
No double-teaming.

Some say the orbs keep you on top or the lack of outmanned doing anything for the people behind.

Look, we didn’t have enough people show because they didn’t want to.
It’s not possible to peek into their minds unless they speak up.
While I can try to guess (and have in other places) why we are doing poorly, someone else may come in and see it completely differently because they were doing different things and saw different groups of enemies.

Today, I say, we were outplayed. The other team won, that’s that. I never saw anyone cheat that I could point out but I did see them zerg and attack solo people but why shouldn’t they. I’ve done it too. There were two times that I was not chased by a zerg while alone wandering but they jumped a dolyak, the servers we fought in the previous week would have stomped me before a map objective so for that, they outplayed us. Perhaps losing consistently will eventually knock us down to wherever we need to be and it will be funner for all.

Basically both HoD and ET simply do not have the Wv3 population to belong in the top tiers right now. So they are gradually going down in ranks but that takes time. Of course that could change in a moment if mass transfers happen.

The up-and-coming servers are still moving up in ranks. Take SoR for example, they were basically tied with SoS last week and the match wasn’t decided until the very end. So both SoR and SoS should definitely be in top six as it stands. It’ll be next week before SoR gets up there though.

There are other servers that are moving up or going down. Until the Wv3 population settle down on their real home server, the ranking will be messed up and lop-sided matches will occur. Even then it’ll probably take a bit of time before the ranking system makes any sense.

See here for the current scores. Basically half of all NA matches are unbalanced right now. Some more extreme than others.
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

To the op, I am feeling the burnout on the lopsided matches too. Its not even close. In my current matchup, its something like 200k for the leading team, 70-77k for the others. I am in the Meguuma, Ft Aspenwood, Dragonbrand matchup. Its been like this every week since I hit 80 and have been messing with WVW. I am hoping this is fixed soon as WVW was how I planned to spend my end game, but in it’s current state, I am just not feeling it.

This isn’t just a problem with that single match up. Every bracket in which one server controls all three orbs, that server has a MASSIVE point lead, 50k to 200k. If you look at the WvW history, you can see that this happens every single week.

Orb buffs need to be fixed, giving a huge force multiplier to the team that is already winning and has more population is possibly the worst game design ever to be published in a commercial title.

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This isn’t just a problem with that single match up. Every bracket in which one server controls all three orbs, that server has a MASSIVE point lead, 50k to 200k. If you look at the WvW history, you can see that this happens every single week.

Orb buffs need to be fixed, giving a huge force multiplier to the team that is already winning and has more population is possibly the worst game design ever to be published in a commercial title.

Correlation does not equal causation. The OP’s ss is of a match that has been one sided for just about the entire week. Now did SoS take the orbs because they just flat out dominated the bracket, or did they cap the orbs then proceed to dominate?

I’m guessing its the former. Most cases where its completely one sided, the opposing servers can’t field the people necessary to win. The orbs are usually only a small factor in that kind of domination. Microscopic factor.

it’s matches like these where orbs just add insult to injury.

While there are plenty of lopsided matches, this one is not a good example.

- HoD has gone from a top tier server to a ghost town and no longer belong in the upper tiers. It just takes a bit of time for their score to degrade.
- IoJ put up a massive fight in tier 1 last week and fully deserve to be t1 or 2. As a guess I’d say this week’s performance is a combination of halloween and burnout.

Tier 2 next week will be SoS v SoR v IoJ. SoS and SoR already fought to the death last week in tier 3 so I expect next week will be similar. If IoJ fight like they did last week then it should be a really good match.

IoJ deserves a lot of credit for their fight in tier 1 last week.

HoD has ruined their tiers for the last few weeks. Been there too when JQ won. The rank system needs to be adjusted.

SoS is the new up and coming T1 power – plenty of high level WvW guilds transfered there.

I don’t know if I should wish for my SBI to stay in T1 and face BG again or go down in T2 and play with IoJ and SoR…..Of course we’ll do everything to win but still, we want a fun fight.

I thought the purpose of 3 servers was to balance things a bit, but what do I know. Played three days and already tired of the zerg and the losing.