Guild Wars 2

With re-linking now being a valid form of rebalancing tiers and creating some variety in matches, it is time to finally slay the Glicko dragon and make manual server tier moves each week.

Take this week with SBI getting thrown down into T4. It was bad for T4 and it is bad for T3. HoD should have moved down if any server at all yet the RNG basically kittened all of T4 to a week long blow out rather than a fairly close match like last week.

T1 is its own problem so I won’t get into that but Glicko nor the RNG is going to fix that either. Relinking and adjusting tiers manually are great tools to keep WvW competitive as populations change.

Straegen.2938:

With re-linking now being a valid form of rebalancing tiers…

Straegen.2938:

Relinking and adjusting tiers manually are great tools to keep WvW competitive as populations change.

Thanks for the laughs.

While I agree with you, I doubt Anet will spend their man hours overseeing WvW performances on a weekly basis. But even with that, the response to server matchups are definitely too slow, and a bit random. You are right, SBI has no business being in T4, and its not fun for us on SBI either…would rather bang my head against the JQ, FA or YB wall. At the very least, changes need to be made faster than they are.

zinkz.7045:

Straegen.2938:

With re-linking now being a valid form of rebalancing tiers…

Straegen.2938:

Relinking and adjusting tiers manually are great tools to keep WvW competitive as populations change.

Thanks for the laughs.

He’s not wrong. We see the results in increased activity levels for lower tiers rather than weighted towards the top.

I doubt relinking every week would be healthy to the community.

ThunderPanda.1872:

I doubt relinking every week would be healthy to the community.

Not saying we should relink every week. What I am saying is having the algorithm set the server matches each week doesn’t work well. A total moron could do a better job setting which servers should move up/down than the automated system. Basically the same system only a human decides if a server goes up or down.

zinkz.7045:

Thanks for the laughs.

So your plan would be to keep Glicko and the ridiculous RNG moves that continually happen? It is easy to take a pot shot without contributing.

Can this post be more relevant after this weeks matchup settings?