Guild Wars 2

RodOfDeath.5247:

I think you’ll be surprised at FA when they drop to T3. It’s pretty empty most of the time IMO. I am seeing orange swords quite often from Mag and JQ through roaming maps with zero FA tags present and a dead wvw mapchat. Maybe in the evening FA has a few select ones but very empty. The accusation is that “Mag doesn’t want FA in T2”. I don’t know the validity of that but FA is starting the cliche excuse game.

I do enjoy T3 more on my SBI account, but YB belongs in T2 and FA needs to drop. As long as YB keeps blowing out T3, it’ll most likely happen.

Eh, on the way down the fairweathers on YB found greener PvE pastures or the dreaded real life/other games. Once in t4 they came out in full force; now that HoD and Nsp are delinked from SoS/SBI the fairweathers are still pretty active in t3 (mostly populating EB and doing poorly in fights).

I think FA would be fine if they did go down, as they have a pretty stable population of groups. Healthy amounts of more casual players are actually important to the game mode because some of them become more “serious” players who help form the structure of the server. Another benefit of occasionally dropping rank is offloading toxic and bandwagon players/groups.

The major problem with tiers in NA is that there really aren’t off hour players for more than about 2 tiers with average activity levels atm. 3 tiers if people were very active. The mis matched timezone activity leads to lots of complaining and sometimes boring 1v1’s when the mode and scoring is designed for 1v1v1.