Well after 5 months, I expect the devs to continue doing the wonderful job of nothing they’re very accomplished at…but that being said, the basic formula and it’s underlying stats are flawed…logged in (after completing lvl 4 missions in eve) to check and see how darkhaven was doing. The answer, not well, not well at all. Crystal Desert has run the board, both in eternal and in home world. While dark and northern shiver along with CD are all “tier 5” it must be just barely for CD, because dark and shiver are so far behind, on a Monday after reset, that it’s just incredibly sad.
It seems that where Anet screwed the statistical pooch is in the combination of ranks versus ratings with a dose of deviations to make it all confusing. While the deviations would smooth servers into like tiers, they’ve misread it and are using standard deviation to equate stratification’s to each other when in fact they don’t: example as I write this CD is about 146K on a Monday, while the other two (dark and shiver) are lounging in the mid to upper 60K… a rank10 has been thrown in (because of bad bell curve analysis) with a couple of servers that are 6 and 7 ranks below them (16 and 17 respectively). Great stuff for the ego of the T10, not so much for the high teens. Anet really needs to focus more on the R2’d of this debacle than the presumptions of statistical analysis they are using to justify the screwing of the lower rank servers.
Unless they get their stats lined up with some reality; WvW will soon be over for most…it’s already dead for casuals which will only see Dark slide more now that the big WvW guilds have left for higher rank pastures and the remnants of Dark delude themselves that the endgame content of GW2 is PVE.
And for GAWDS sakes, stop the stupid editor from inserting KITTEN into any form of adult conversation that you would be comfortable talking to your minister, rabbi or priest with…it’s just annoying….