Guild Wars 2

Hey so basically the thing that I think needs to be sorted out is that the WvW matchups, while great fun, are drastically unfair! My server, Fissures of Woe is a medium population server. We were recently matched up with Ring of Fire, a HUGE server! At any given time, they have at least 5 times the people we do, making it impossible to fight them! They also have enough people to be in all four of the worlds at once, meaning that we cannot fight anywhere, as we are instantly destroyed! It’s become ridiculous and many people are leaving the server due to this, further diminishing our chance at taking anything! With the amount of people, even taking a small camp is difficult, as they respond within seconds! Have any other servers encountered this? It’s gotten to the point where I am thinking of leaving all the things I have gotten in my server, such as my guild, behind so that I can actually enjoy some WvW!!!!

Its called randomization the balanced matches everyone said were boring this is what they gave us sometimes u get facerolled other times you faceroll

RoS is a medium server and we destroyed RoF more than once.

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

RoS is a medium server and we destroyed RoF more than once.

WvW population != server population

i can envy you a little

There is just no third server that would give a Fair Match with FoW and Vabbi.
To bad, but the only ones that could change that are yourself:
make a “call to arms” to your player and guilds, organize a WvW-TS where everyone interested is welcome, focus on one borderland and/or the Ethernal-third, train your “zerg-fight skills” and skirmisher groups, support your commanders, …

Dayra.7405:

There is just no third server that would give a Fair Match with FoW and Vabbi.
To bad, but the only ones that could change that are yourself:
make a “call to arms” to your player and guilds, organize a WvW-TS where everyone interested is welcome, focus on one borderland and/or the Ethernal-third, train your “zerg-fight skills” and skirmisher groups, support your commanders, …

GREAT RESPONSE! and gl to the OP and your server!

Dear Diary;
Week 1, new wvwvw build.

Seems that a percentage of the player base is unhappy. . .

Poor Devon, trying his hardest to make wvw fresh and new for all. Well I think I may have a compromise. Personally I like the new shake up and there are those that will agree and disagree. The old saying, can’t please 100% of the ppl 100% of the time. So here’s my proposal. Two weeks with the roll of the dice and 2 weeks of tier based. Here’s my train of thought.

The new system is great because it gets the lower and higher ranked servers out of the same old scrap week after week. It also allows a lower rank to close with and engage a higher ranked server learning new tactics or revisiting old. This system also allows rank progression. Have a look at SoS, +3!! Way to go guys!! The old system was good in the fact that most servers were evenly matched.

I’m not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination so I have no idea if this could easily be implemented. I do know that if you can think it, it can be done. All we need is one guy to say, yea, you know what, I think I can do that.

P.S. I thought about starting a thread but this seemed to be an appropriate thread instead of starting another about the same thing.

I think we need to give it more than 1 week to see how this new matchup system works…

@OP – yeh it must suck for both FoW, & Vabbi but with your population as it is you’re going to be outmatched by any other server. And it’s not fair to servers like BT to be stuck fighting two servers which they massively outnumber either. It’s just an awful situation

This system has it flaws, as has any system. But they might be able to work them out. Biggest trouble is servers getting lots of points from lower tier match-ups. Which will in turn make their points too high compared to where they stand.

But as with anything, only time will tell!

I play on a server that is usually out manned during my play time. It’s been like that before the new system. The people playing during this time usually concedes the BLs to the other servers and all play in EB only. If there are enough players, some go to our BLS.

I don’t even bother looking at the “score” anymore. As long as we are doing well in the BG we are all in, we are successful.

Euro servers seem a bit messed up compared to NA. I don’t know how 22nd ranked Ring of Fire could be running 400k mid week against a 26th and 27th ranked server. Also I think the 4th tier matchup between Piken, Gunnars and riverside is a bit of a flaw in the system. I don’t think the current system should allow for 8th ranked to be in the same tier as a 20th ranked server.

The worst of NA is probably the Tier 3 matchup between Dragonbrand, Maguuma and Stormbluff. But that matchup is still a lot more reasonable than what I am seeing from EU and the rankings don’t seem too far apart (IMO).

Perhaps Anet need to take a look at EU and the current rating system and maybe tweak it so we aren’t seeing an 8th ranked server against a 20th rank because that’s just too much right now.

sostronk.8167:

Euro servers seem a bit messed up compared to NA. I don’t know how 22nd ranked Ring of Fire could be running 400k mid week against a 26th and 27th ranked server. Also I think the 4th tier matchup between Piken, Gunnars and riverside is a bit of a flaw in the system. I don’t think the current system should allow for 8th ranked to be in the same tier as a 20th ranked server.

The worst of NA is probably the Tier 3 matchup between Dragonbrand, Maguuma and Stormbluff. But that matchup is still a lot more reasonable than what I am seeing from EU and the rankings don’t seem too far apart (IMO).

Perhaps Anet need to take a look at EU and the current rating system and maybe tweak it so we aren’t seeing an 8th ranked server against a 20th rank because that’s just too much right now.

There’s also Arborstone, Nr. 25 versus Gandara Nr. 13. I guess the randomization is a bit too much :p.

Everyone should have know this would happen. While I have a lack of faith in anet even they would have foreseen this. But it what the people wanted.

If Arbor (25) reaches a score-ticker of +250 in primetime while Gandara (13) has only +155 as they currently do Arbor deserve a higher rating and Gandara is overrated! And the adjustments that are (and will) be made by the new system are most urgently needed.

Valik Shin.9027:

Everyone should have know this would happen. While I have a lack of faith in anet even they would have foreseen this. But it what the people wanted.

I am very disappointed this has happened. Such an obvious error, not limiting the randomness of matchups. I honestly don’t expect anet to do anything right in WvW anymore.

iggybl.5034:

Valik Shin.9027:

Everyone should have know this would happen. While I have a lack of faith in anet even they would have foreseen this. But it what the people wanted.

I am very disappointed this has happened. Such an obvious error, not limiting the randomness of matchups. I honestly don’t expect anet to do anything right in WvW anymore.

I don’t blame anet for this I blame everyone that begged for this. Anet knew this would happen