Guild Wars 2

I was curious to see how the wvw points would have stack up over the course of a 7 weeks. The NA leagues 12 servers, so assuming A-net will force a rank 1 server to fight a rank 12 server these numbers will not reflect how the league will play out. Still I was interested to see what the points spread would look like. I used http://mos.millenium.org/na/ from week 35-29, over a 7 week period. 1st place in each matchup gains 5 points, 2nd place 3 points, and 3rd place 1 point https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-world-vs-world-season-1/.

NA UPPER LEAGUE:

1. Sea of Sorrows 29pt t3
2. Blackgate 27pt t1
3. Jade Quarry 27pt t1
4. Bolris Pass 27pt t4
5. Tarnished Coast 23pt t2
6. Fort Aspenwood 23pt t2
7. Dragonbrand 23pt t2
8. Yaks Band 23pts t4
9. Sanctum of Rall 21pts t1
10. Crystal Desert 17pts t4
11. Maguuma 15pt t3
12. Ehmry 13pt t3

NA BOTTOM LEAGUE

1. Isle of janthir 29pts t5
2. Darkhaven 23pt t6
3. Henge of Denravi 23pt t6
4. Gate of Madness 23pt t7
5. Stormbluff Isle 21pt t5
6. Northern Shiverpeaks 21pt t6
7. Sorrow Furnace 21pts t6
8. Ferguson Crossing 20pt t8
9. Eredon Terrance 17pt t7
10. Devona Rest 15pt t8
11. Kaineng 13pts t5
12. Anvil Rock 7pts t8

The only thing the points totals shows is which servers had the hardest match-ups or gave-up early over the past 2 months. It is interesting to see that SoS had it the easiest over the past 2 months. Now I can see why Maguuma is always complaining on forums.

I have to point out the flaw that the top 3 servers faced each other more often than not in that 7 week period, with some rank 4 and 5 thrown in the T1 match ups. Once the league play comes in they will all have more opportunity to face the lower servers, thus more wins, thus more points.

SOS also tends to finish in 1st or 2nd and rarely in 3rd, unless we’re facing those top 5 servers, like this week for example. SOS has also beaten Maguuma in score whenever we’ve been matched up with them, and yet we are still ranked one lower than them, you can thank the wacky points system for that. They recently have faced the harder challenge thus get more points for participating and it keeps their rank high enough for them to get thrown into that tier 2 fight again.

Both servers have had their share of being thrown into the T2 match up if you go back to when the new match ups system began, and both have swapped rank 7 and 8, although it does seem that rank 7 is thrown into T2 more often than rank 8, again blame the system for that.

Sad thing is, It probably would be a good matchup having 7. mags 8. sos, 9. ehmry bay facing off in their appropriate tier near their appropriate ranks, but good luck to us on getting that match up.

Xenesis.6389:

I have to point out the flaw that the top 3 servers faced each other more often than not in that 7 week period, with some rank 4 and 5 thrown in the T1 match ups. Once the league play comes in they will all have more opportunity to face the lower servers, thus more wins, thus more points.

I have a feeling that the match-ups will be decided by multipliers on whether or not a server has fought another using the same old method as current with RNG. Otherwise, they’d have to do 3of12 but that’d be all over the place.

So it will still prefer sticking SoR/JQ/BG/TC in a match-up, it’ll just throw a lamb to slaughter along the way and the one week where none of the goliaths face one another.