Guild Wars 2

Everyone know the matchups are very unbalanced every weeks, there are 3 or 4 matchups every week are totally broken. Glicko system work badly atm on NA servers.
ANet please reply this, any idea you are thinking about to solve it? If NOT make a fresh start again please.

Can reset it but then it will be back to the same stuff again in a couple of weeks/months.

If you think matchups are unbalanced now, how bad do you think it would be if anet hit the reset button and made all of them completely random. A T1 server would tick 600+ the entire week against 2 bronze league servers. Said T1 server would be bored silly and their bronze league victims would not even bother venturing into wvw. This would kitten off absolutely everyone who plays wvw.

What Osu said.

Depending upon, it could be nice to make the glicko shift a bit faster, so we don’t see servers getting stuck in tiers they no longer belong in for as long as we do now. But I’m sure there are some drawbacks to that as well.

But people are complaining for both sides of the fence. Some wants to only be matched up against the closest 3 or so servers to avoid blowouts. While others want more variations so they can get out or boring or stale match-ups (Poor tier 3).

No matter which they pick (if any), lots of people going to be angry.

I doubt that a ratings reset would fix the broken matchups. for matchups to be ‘good’, you need to be able to order the servers from strongest to weakest, then divide the list into groups of 3 servers each, and have it come out that all 3 servers in each group are about the same strength.

but the servers don’t come out that way. some servers have ratings that aren’t anywhere close to another server’s, or perhaps 2 servers have similar ratings but there’s no third server with a similar rating to give them a good matchup.

or if you take NA T2 and T3 as an example, there are 4 stronger servers and 2 weaker servers. you can pick any 3 out of the 4 stronger servers and get a good T2 matchup, but the leftover server always gets paired with the 2 weaker ones for a blowout. the only real fix would be to somehow make one of the 4 stronger servers weaker so that it would fit well into T3. but what server wants to get weaker?

resetting ratings won’t change this. the problem isn’t the ratings, the problem is the servers themselves are all spread out strength-wise (except in NA T1) so that there’s no way to make a good matchup, or even if there is it can’t be done without making an even more horrible one for somebody else.

-ken