Guild Wars 2

The staleness is, at this point, more of a problem than fairness of matchups. Most active world vs worlders quit our server because they feel like their efforts aren’t affecting the matchups (and I guess many left the other two servers since nothing changed…?). As Imperdigao mentioned – it may be because of wild variations from week to week when people are leaving wvw and guilds are transferring servers. What is often done in engineering optimizations where the system gets stuck in a local minimum (Monte Carlo is sort of like this) is to add a small random term to the balancing. a) It is more likely to give more even matchups in the long run and b) this will make for more variable and potentially more fun matchups.

Dear Arenanet,

I love your game and have given the following issue a chance to resolve itself but 3 months of completely stagnant matchups in wvw with the exact same servers is disgusting. SBIvsCDvsMag (I am sure this is the case on many other servers) have been stalemated for a long time. People have quit servers, bought guilds, quit GW entirely, come back and nothing has changed. Whatever optimization scheme is in place is not working. Please shuffle periodically as per Monte Carlo optimization. The problem is that each week’s score is completely irrelevant and many people on these servers (can’t speak for other ones) have quit wvw because their efforts do not matter.

Currently well of power gives 1 second of stability. Is this meant to pulse 1 sec stab? Appears to be a bug as currently the stability effectively does nothing.