Guild Wars 2

Silver League EU is dominated by 4 servers which could feasibly be in gold league (but not near the top). I wonder if one manner in which these huge gaps in score (due to number/cover or whatever) could be mitigated (I won’t say fixed) might be by having smaller leagues? Thoughts?

Uhhh no. The problem was that they allowed transfers before the season started when servers were already locked in their leagues. That threw everything askew and unbalanced a lot of the matchups. You’re going to have to either transfer servers or wait until after Season 2 is done for servers to readjust in their new tiers.

24 leagues! (27 in EU)!

first prize for everyone!

-ken

Snowreap.5174:

24 leagues! (27 in EU)!

first prize for everyone!

-ken

I was thinking more like maybe 4 servers/league, for now?

Then the rest could be a world-cup style knockout, maybe.

The other servers could just be matched up as normal while the winners play their knockouts.

Like 8 leagues in NA and 9 in EU? We already had this.

It does not need more league, it need better team balance!
And should there be a season again, it should be a season that
improve balance and not one that improve stacking on a few selected winners.

And there are ways to do that, e.g.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-Season-Rewards-for-better-balance/3947122 via league or during normal rank play
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-Enforced-Player-Balance/3921574

Svarty.8019:

I was thinking more like maybe 4 servers/league, for now?

4 server per league? Quite bad number to make 3-way matches

In fact any season that need more than 1 league per NA / EU is a bad season.

Dayra.7405:

It does not need more league, it need better team balance!
And should there be a season again, it should be a season that
improve balance and not one that improve stacking on a few selected winners.

And there are ways to do that, e.g.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-Season-Rewards-for-better-balance/3947122 via league or during normal rank play
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Proposal-Enforced-Player-Balance/3921574

Svarty.8019:

I was thinking more like maybe 4 servers/league, for now?

4 server per league? Quite bad number to make 3-way matches

In fact any season that need more than 1 league per NA / EU is a bad season.

Well, yes, I agree that the bottom/top of leagues are going to be exploited (i.e. tanking/transferring are rampant problems) if there is more reward for coming top of the lower league than coming bottom of the top league.

I would solve the problem the other way around and remove the leagues altogether. Obviously would have to remove the ridiculous rewards and replace them with Scarlet Gift Boxes.