Guild Wars 2

It seems that Blackgate is just about always in the lower right corner of EB and almost always has the left most borderland. We were in the top center base of EB a couple of weeks ago but, that was the only time I can recall Blackgate being in a different base on EB.

Aren’t servers supposed to rotate through borderlands and bases on EB? It seems to me that are positioning, in terms of maps, is so static that it would seem to defy the notion that there’s any mechanism in place to randomize it a bit.

Is anyone on any other servers noticing this? Am I wrong about there supposedly being some mechanism in place to randomize the bases each server is assigned during reset?

Borderland assignment is based on tier position. 1st place in the tier gets the green borderland, 2nd gets blue and 3rd gets red. If your tier is pretty static, you might reside on the same borderland for several weeks in a row.

This to me has become the worst part of wvw. It might be good if you move around in tiers, but if glicko works they way it has in the past, the lower tiers will be all but locked in place. Which is fine, sure it can be boring fighting the same people over and over, but I’ll take that for a good match up.

But playing the same people and being stuck in the same spot on the map for month? Makes me want to bang my face on my keyboard. I mean I know wvw is basically the same thing over and over, so please let me defend something slightly different.

To be honest, I’m not overly concerned about fighting the same people. We face Tarnished Coast a lot and they seem like a good bunch of people.

Being stuck in the same corner of EB for weeks on end – sorry but, I’m not transferring to a different server and I shouldn’t have to go through the whole guesting ordeal just to collect a poi for map completion.

You can’t guest on another server for WvW. Also, I don’t think we’ve been blue server in over 3 months. It’s a biproduct of stagnation in the bracket where servers aren’t moving up and down, they find their true rank and sort of sit there.

There are many time where we take any given point on the map, just be heads up when you are in WvW, especially at weird hours (before and after NA prime or NA morning) and it’s very likely we’ll take one of the points you need.