Guild Wars 2

Without Some kind of Manual Adjustment/reset has a Server Ever Made such a jump before while using Glicko? I know it has been Reset/Turned off before ,but this jump using the Glicko System seems unprecedented and possibly a clear sign of an error in Match making. Looking at the other NA Match ups this week would also suggest some sort of adjustment was made. Many are hugely 1 sided.
Is it all Possible the flood of player since the update has caused the rating system to error in someway? Many times while changing one thing in game it has effected another seemingly unrelated thing. Is that what has happened here? Has the changes to WvW and the current flood of players possibly negatively effected the matching code?

P.S. I have done my best to avoid violating the forum rules on these “style” of post, and hope this Topic can be discussed.

RNG roll + glicko has determined the matches since forever. The difference between jq (2) and tc (6) was < 100 at reset meaning they could swap places.

Tiers have meant nothing for quite some time…..

there are groups of servers pretty close jq-yb and especially sbi-db. Servers were never this close (that I can remember anyway) before 5-4-3 scoring which is why matches didn’t change as much….

I think DB had the pleasure of such an experience a couple weeks ago.

Fix is definitely needed. But… incoming re-links and we get to do this all over again! Yay!

In all honesty, the old tiers don’t work anymore. Look at this week’s matchup in NA.

Tier 1 – 1st rank vs. 5th rank vs. 6th rank
Tier 2 – 3rd rank vs. 7th rank vs. 8th rank
Tier 3 – 2nd rank vs. 4th rank vs. 10th rank
Tier 4 – 9th rank vs. 11th rank vs. 12th rank

Looking above, only the Tier 4 rankings even make sense. As for the rest, spreading out T1 servers to fight lower ranked servers means that now you have 3 tiers getting blobbed mercilessly for another week which makes for a very unfun environment for the lower ranks.

ANET seriously needs to fix this.

We are closing this thread as Match Up threads are not allowed.