Guild Wars 2

The matchmaking system is very boring, every second day we on Desolation fight the same enemies, Far Shiverpeak and the french. For them it´s even worse because the first placed and the second stay in the same matchmaking.

Why can´t you match 1st placed with 1st placed, 2nd with 2nd and so on?

Example:

Round 1 (1day, 1 week, 2 weeks whatever)
Top Tier
1st French
2nd Far Shiverpeak
3rd Desolation

2nd Tier
1st Kodash
2nd Gandara
3rd Blacktide

3rd Tier
1st Riverside
2nd Whiteside Ridge
3rd Gunnars Hold

4th Tier
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.
.

Round2

Top Tier
French
Kodash
Riverside

2nd
Far Shiverpeak
Gandara
Whiteside Ridge

3rd
Desolation
Blacktide
Gunnars Hold

The second round in this example might not be the perfect balance, but it makes the matchups far more interesting and we had some good fights against Gandara, Gunnars or Blacktide.

Getting matched with the french every round or every second round keeps people resigning from WvW.

Rank means nothing but an observation of overnight presence. Its like the greatest misconception of all time considering this to actually mean rank of ability. I dont even know why its published or why people consider it matchmaking, but to match up off peak population vs off peak population.

chili.9382:

Rank means nothing but an observation of overnight presence. Its like the greatest misconception of all time considering this to actually mean rank of ability. I dont even know why its published or why people consider it matchmaking, but to match up off peak population vs off peak population.

yes, there are several threads about it. I´m talking about the matchmaking though that bothers me. I don´t want to fight the servers every 2 days / 2 weeks.

Assuming you’re suggesting what you think you are I dont think it’ll work. So if my post sounds confusing, just assume that I didnt really understand.

Several times the Fort Aspenwood server has won. (indeed, feel free to use us as a baseline for average seeing as we’re right smack dab in the middle of the ranking) However if im reading this right, you would then want us to be facing other servers who won in their respective bracket for that matchup.

The problem is that if you assume that say 1st ranked was fighting 2nd and 3rd. then 4rth was fighting 5th and 6th, you end up with a situation where the 4rth ranked team could then be fighting the 1st ranked. And there are some severe differences between 4rth ranked and 1st ranked.

Lets give named examples.
Say it was
FA vs Maguuma vs crystal desert and FA wins.
Dragonbrand vs isle vs GoM and GoM wins
Blackgate vs sea of sorrows vs eredon and eredon wins.

Now if I understood what you suggested correctly, you would then have FA vs GoM vs Eredon. (or if you want to get technical it would be GoM vs eredon vs HoD as the rankings would use the top spot as the starting place. but I digress)

This would be potentially pitting a rank 12 server vs a rank 4. Where the rank 12 server is clearly going to get slaughtered. Then they face off against 3rd ranked people. But they’ll then probably crush (as their ranking is now lower for losing, AND they’re paired with the other losers) Basically servers will come out of their currently (at least from the perspective here in FA) reasonably balanced brackets, and thrown to the wolves, or send to slaughter lambs, then ping pong to the other end of the spectrum.