Guild Wars 2

Ok so we have had many different suggestions for the WvW problems. I don’t like any of the ideas pitches thus far (merges, caps, and battle groups). What about a rating system that defines where players are placed?

I play a phone game called Clash of clans that has such a rating system. You start out as a noob in a Bronze 3 league… and you advance to Silver III-I, Gold III – I and so on.

Why not take something like that and assign a WvW rating to the player. Crappy players play with other crappy players until they rank up and good players play with other good players. Each map fields a 50 vs 50 or what ever the magic number is. Then you take your player rating and start instancing out the WvW. Its a large scale PvP battleground. You lose the world identity, but right now everyone is just transferring up to the higher up server anyhow to play WvW.

So for example:
1002 players queue up for WvW across the servers…. You’d create 10 different games based on their rating and 2 players queued up for others. Scale this so if 50 + sitting the queue you’d open up another instance to those players as more jump on during prime time.

Its late and this might be a terrible idea, but its an idea that might help spur some more ideas to solve the WvW issues.

Btw, I’m on HoD and WvW map completion is a bit frustrating since its been over a month of camping Eternal Battlegrounds Stormmist Castle with our server never getting it when I’m on (I have my doubts that we have snagged it in the past month).

how would you determine who is a good player and who is a poor player?

At the moment the players with the most skills – aka solo roamers – tend to have the fewest wvw ranks… while those who run skill 1 in large blobs have the highest ranks.

Not to mention the differences in class… warriors, guardians, elementalists and other classes that can tag multiple targets on average rank up faster than classes such as mesmers that do very little damage – although lots of people qq about them, it actually takes a lot longer and a lot more skill to kill people on a mesmer than it does a warrior and that is not including the number of skills that fail on a mesmer during a fight (for example, I was fighting a thief the other day and every single skill I had failed in the first engagement – leaving me with almost no skills to fight with except dodge and shatter – until my skill bars recharged, in the end the thief ran away from me).

this idea would actually work very well for players who aren’t in a guild and who don’t have any friends they play with.

for people who play with others, it kind of sucks that the game would prevent you from playing with your buddies just because your rating is different from theirs.

-ken