Guild Wars 2

I know there are a lot of posts about how unfair WvW can be and how OG always has the big numbers, but I wanted to point out some important facts that I haven’t seen mentioned.

If you look at the current match ups, the top ranked server in each match up is Green (except for Tarnished Coast, I guess they did realize that pairing BG and TC would be a bit much). And if you look at current server populations and compare them to rankings, that also puts full servers in Green and less full servers in other colors, so there is a direct tie between server populations and their WvW rating.

Since ANet picks the colors, they really need to spread out the populations better to make EotM a better experience for everyone, even Green. Now for the tl:dr portion of the post.

I’ve been in all the different colors during all the different times of the day, and I’ve frequently had trouble finding someone to Command in Red and Blue, and even with a Commander those colors rarely win a fight against the numbers that Green runs with almost all of the time.

When I have been on the Green team, it is very nice being able to take objectives without difficulty, and for a while it is nice to win fights against the enemy zerg. However, it isn’t much fun to win when your group has 40+ vs their meager 15. And I have even on multiple occasions been on the Green team when we controlled the entire map. That has never even come close to happening as Red or Blue. Once everything is obtained, there isn’t much to do.

tl;dr over.

So please just spread out the top tier / heavy population servers around the different colors and make a more balanced EotM so that all the teams can have a decent shot at accomplishing something without getting steam rolled. I understand that in regular WvW, servers fill themselves up to have the bigger numbers in their tiers, but you, ANet, are making these tiers, and it seems as though you are intentionally making one sided fights.

I don’t think you know what tl;dr means.

I think you’d be surprised at what people consider too long and then refuse to read.

OP is wrong: in PvE, everyone’s a winner!

Um… The problem (which won’t change because people have been asking for random color since launch) is that the color equals where you should finish the week. Green usually means you’ll take first.

The prevalence of highest scoring teams being green this week is an anomaly which you can clearly see by looking at match histories.

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/histories

It looks like colors were assigned by server rank, which is exacerbated this week since we have the widest variance of matches with the Swiss Style.

However, I do think that green wins more often in EotM due to some map imbalances and being green in WvW does have a small advantage with the bonus 400 supply every 4 hours. A big influx of supply can turn the tide in a borderlands map, if it was spread out over the 4 hour period it would be less impactful?