Guild Wars 2

Since week 50 last year, two servers, IoJ and NSP, seems to be locked into state in which no escape seems possible. At what point is one allowed to start complain?

never! you must tolerate getting steamrolled every week for the indefinite future until your server breaks! we <3 loosing by 350k!

unfortunately, this is pretty much true. there are now 7 US servers with 1800+ ratings. since matchups are in threes, this means that after 6 of the top 7 are put into matchups, there will be one 1800+ rated server left to play against you.

the servers below you are all rated below 1600 so there is little likelihood that the leftover 1800+ server will ever be matched up against them instead of you (it’s unlikely that matchup randomization would stretch the ratings that far).

the only way to escape this is to hope that one of the servers above you melts down, or if one or two servers below you suddenly get a lot better, or if something dramatic changes on IoJ or NSP.

-ken