Guild Wars 2

It is time for Anet to once again shake things up as they did in Season One and make either Silver or Bronze the 6 league division this time around. After all the moving around and stacking for position, it will once again make things more interesting. If one examines the current league variation from season one layout from top server to bottom server is the worst for Silver league and way out of line compared with Gold and Bronze variance from top server to bottom server.

As the Tourney’s and Leagues are something that will continue, the suggestion of rotating Gold, Silver, and then Bronze to be the 6 league division will keep it fresher and better balanced as players and guilds move around. The top Gold league appears it will always be stacked, but to demoralize with the disparity and the huge variance in Silver and Bronze with the current layout will just continue to make things worse for the middle and bottom servers and no question the seasons less fun. Please Mix it up Anet. Keep it interesting and fun for more than just the Gold Leagues top 6 servers with even competition.

The following is the current rating numbers variance from the top server of each league to the bottom of each league.

League One Season heading to Season Two Tourney

Servers 1 thru 6 variance 268.569
Servers 7 thru 15 variance 531.539 (the worst variance of all possible layouts)
Servers 16 thru 24 variance 321.172

Better Tourney Server Layouts for Season Two

Servers 1 thru 9 variance 491.147
Servers 10 thru 15 variance 240.121 ( 6 team Silver)
Servers 16 thru 24 variance 321.172

Servers 1 thru 9 variance 491.147
Servers 10 thru 18 variance 313.187
Servers 19 thru 24 variance 210.009 ( 6 team Bronze)

Adding a Platinum Division for 4 Six team Divisions (Longshot)
Servers 1 thru 6 variance 268.569
Servers 7 thru 12 variance 327.730
Servers 13 thru 18 variance 124.381
Servers 19 thru 24 variance 210.009

i made more or less similar topic….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Please-make-NA-4-leagues-for-WvW-tournament/first#post3741956

but i doubt ANET would have a look.. their mind already set to 6-9-9 league format, instead of 6-6-6-6…..

Are we talking about NA or EU , because they are very different

since OP mentioned 24, i guess that would be NA….

You guys are just players and have no idea what your talking about, Anet knows best … they have Devon.

The rankings are going to be a lot less accurate after the transfer fee change. I’m not going to lose sleep over how the leagues are grouped – the best case scenario for balanced match ups by ranking is to make 8 leagues and from week to week we see that isn’t even ideal.

There’ll be blow outs, balanced match ups, and life’ll go on. Just gotta roll with it. Every server has match ups they can’t win.

Yes, please look at this. SoR’s implosion has been distorting the ratings for the past month. Despite very close matches in T2 due to roughly equal coverage, which will make for good competition during the Season, T2 servers run the risk of being wrongly placed in Silver. No one will have fun.

We all know its not that involved to shuffle the deck and make either the Silver or Bronze league the 6 Server division this time around, and yes this was meant for the NA Tourney. The more Devon seriously looks at this idea of rotating Gold, Silver and Bronze for each Season or Tourney, the more it makes sense and benefits the health of WvW overall. Please consider Devon and the WvW powers that be. Thank you…

If they want to shake it up (and generally fix the underlying problem with WvW) they would remove the concept of server from the equation. Players should align with a guild, guilds should ally/enemy other guilds and at the beginning of each week shuffle the deck for solid GvGvG fighting (Grouped Guilds versus Grouped Guilds versus Grouped Guilds). Far more diversity of match up, built in ability to resolve population imbalances and finally something to actually fight for.

Guild alliances would be ranked based on their relative winning position (PPT they generate and general efficiency). This would encourage Machiavellian style of game play with guilds aligning and stabbing each other to stay on top. It wouldn’t be Game of Thrones but it would be inspired by it none the less.