Guild Wars 2

Trying to find any information and not having much success so here goes:
When HoT is released and the new Boarderland map is in place, will the current server rankings stay as they are or will there be a hard reset of scores?
Lots of rumors and no answers.

Will everyone begin at Tier Zero?

They didn’t confirm/mention any chances to the ranking system yet, so I guess it will stay as it currently is.

There’s a rumor going around that ArenaNet is going to do something major like reset the ratings off servers. Complete speculation as no one has offered any reasoning or proof for their rumor and IMHO it would be highly damaging to player enjoyment of WvW with weirdly matched servers and demoralizing blow-outs. I can’t see ArenaNet doing something like that.

Indeed, if they reset it will be months of bigger servers smashing and demoralizing other servers as they climb back up to where they previous held a spot. That, in itself, would likely chase off any new players who opted in for the HoT expansion. Nothing worse than being steamrolled when you’re just learning.

Remember this? This was back in the game after the end of free transfers. Mass movement of population was highly unpredictable to the glicko system.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Update-No-WvW-Rating-Reset

“In light of the strong community response to the idea of a WvW ratings reset, the results of our ratings formula investigations, and our data on the current matchups we have decided not to reset the WvW ratings at this time. All existing WvW ratings will be preserved and the rating calculation methodology will remain unchanged. Any existing mismatches should be corrected by the system in relatively short order. Now that there is less volatility in the player base for each world we expect the quality of matches to improve more quickly. This is both because the rating system is operating in a less unpredictable environment and because more stable teams tend to produce better results.”

The only reasoning I could imagine for a rating reset would be due to the unpredictable nature of what kind of population WvW is going to see at HoT. Is ArenaNet predicting that the server populations are going to suddenly wildly fluctuate at HoT? The current WvW population is pretty stable unless free transfers were again offered.

Increasing the match-up variance creates better sampling opportunities between servers within vicinity of each other – and provide much-needed match change-ups – without creating wild blow-out matches that a ratings reset would cause.

Thanks for the link, Chaba. It is just over 2 years old. We’ve seen ANerf change their minds about a lot of things in that time.
I would just like something from a Dev…
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