Guild Wars 2

Server rankings can’t work when player populations are freely moving around. For example, Ehmry Bay is crushing Borlis and Ferguson’s. I could move my guild from Ehmry to Borlis but all that would mean is that Ehmry advances this round while becoming weaker and Borlis gets set back this round while becoming stronger. Next match could end up with Borlis playing a crushing game in their tier while Ehmry gets crushed in their tier, if enough people do this.

Balance can’t be achieved from round to round when large guilds are constantly transferring.

I know the original plan was to charge for transfers to high pop servers and continue free transfers to low pop servers.

For purposes of WvW, that’s no help.

Arenenet needs to create a custom list of free transfers, based on WvW population sizes, not server population sizes. Currently, all servers in the Ehmry Bay matchup are “high” population but frankly we’re more of a “medium” WvW population while Borlis and Ferguson appear to be “low”. Meanwhile, Crystal Desert is also a “high” population server but I hear their WvW queues are 1+ hours (versus 0-15 minutes for Ehmry and 0 for Borlis).

So server population is no indication of WvW population. Four servers with “high” population all have vastly different WvW populations.

Arenanet will have to create a custom “free transfer” list, based on WvW, or else start showing us WvW populations separate from server populations so we can make our own informed decisions.