Guild Wars 2

Why not break up the servers the following way?

TIer 8 (lowest rating servers) : Bronze Division

Reason: The lowest server is not going anywhere and breaking to another tier means being decimated by everything and everyone.

Tier 7, 6 and 5: Silver Division

Tier 4, 3 and 2: Gold Division

Tier 1: Platinum Division

Reason: A lot of guilds in the #5 and #6 Tier 2 servers have transferred already to Tier 1 in order to be with the stacked, winning servers. I know this as I play on TC (#4) and the score has Dragonbrand being beaten by SoS (who is actually a tier below them) and by TC as well. So its going to be Two Mothballed Servers and the current top six is really the top 4, where Tier 2 has no chance to win out against the overstacked tier 1 servers….

This is either that players do not want to play WvW or that simply put, a lot of guilds transferred to Tier 1 in order to call themselves “Winners”

Point is that all that this WvW Season 1 is actually doing is centralizing the WvW population to very few servers. Of course having a WvW event isn’t a bad thing.

I’ve said this in many posts, as long as WvW doesn’t have a PvE-check of some kind, Servers are doomed to lose their guilds to the top three. If not with a PvE check, at least some other mechanism has to exist in order to allow the servers to balance out as right now there really are only a handful of servers that are considered to be good at WvW and properly set up to have good weekly runs without feeling empty.

Because months of “data gathering” have not allowed our esteemed WvW dev team to recognize where the gaps of power are in the current ladder.

Forcing the T1 servers to match against non T1 servers for about 6 weeks out of 7 is hilarity.

Tier 8 and 7 are almost even with one another half of the time. Putting T8 in its own corner would be silly. T1 is the only problem. ANet could just as easily to kitten-4, T5-8. This would be far better for everyone.

This is a great idea! Anet please implement it.

I personally would also like to see rewards similar across tiers. In other words, last place in each division should receive the same rewards. That might help with the stacking of certain servers. Imagine T1 if all players knew the loser of the 3 way match up would receive the same rewards as the 24th ranked server. It would add so much more to the competition.