Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

Have been reading so many posts on wvw populations and on how low tier servers get the short end of it all due to server migration etc.

Also with anet not wanting to give huge rewards for competitions as the system has the same potential for winning every time which obviously isn’t ideal.

So here is my proposed solution, slap me with a feather or fan me with a brick for this. I’d like to hear all fors and againsts.

Would it be a good thing ( let alone possible) for wvw to be changed so that high tier servers are paired up with a low tier server as one team?

Not saying it would definitely balance things up, but I think it would make low tier players WANT to do wvw more without having to transfer servers.

We currently have 3 servers on one map, so why not 6 servers on a map spilt into 3 teams of 2 servers?

This will make it more of a challenge for high tier servers but would make a huge difference to lower tier players AND has the potential to for lower tier servers to be more successful.

Your thoughts please :-)

You are two and a half years late to the discussion. Do some googling.

Deli.1302:

You are two and a half years late to the discussion. Do some googling.

Maybe you can rephrase what you said in a way so you do not discourage others from forum interaction.

a few problems with this:

Overstacked primetime(long ques). I really dislike the T1 blobs and I might quit if anet places us in such a landscape.

If you’re only winning because of the higher rated server you’re matched with then there’s not much feeling of success or server pride.

Might create hostility if a server feels they only lost because they got a “bad” server on their team.

Servers are already in effect “merging” with all the migration to higher tiers. Plus, Anet makes money on this process instead of investing man hours. Seems like a win-win for them with little incentive to change, especially since any official merger has negative marketing connotations.

If your desire is to have balanced coverage, transfer to a high tier (namely T1) and the process of “combining” tiers continues.

I’m not after anything personally, I was just putting an idea forward. And Deli thank you for the snappy response. However I am afraid I was not playing GW2 two and a half years ago, I was playing GW1.

I didn’t realise the wvw problems are exactly the same now as they were 2 and a half years ago. Nor do I have the time nor inclination to trawl through the forums finding original posts.

I am sorry if that upsets you Deli but I’m completely cool with my decision.

Thank you for all the other posts to this, far more constructive :-)

HenleyLegoMan.4987:

Would it be a good thing ( let alone possible) for wvw to be changed so that high tier servers are paired up with a low tier server as one team?

Yeah this has been suggested a few times before, it isn’t a bad idea by itself, but it does have some problems.

• Coverage
• NA Prime Queue’s
• Communication
• Community
• Blaming each others.

An example: FA gets paired up with AR whom has a big NA Prime presence, but next to nothing outside of that, when FA already have enough queue’s many days that players can’t play. Where if DB got paired with Kaineng they would only get trivial number of people on NA Prime time, and perhaps some 20-30 at night time.

HenleyLegoMan.4987:

Not saying it would definitely balance things up, but I think it would make low tier players WANT to do wvw more without having to transfer servers.

There is also this, a good bunch of us down here in the “bronze wasteland” actually enjoy it here, you know the whole rugged survivors of hostile terrain and stuff :p

If this happened, and all bronze servers would be matched up with gold/silver servers, I would probably quit playing NA, and move my account over to EU, so I could play night time. I can’t stand zerging and really love the roaming down here.

Some of us like the lower population. Please leave 3 servers for us as well.