Guild Wars 2

Dordane.5412:

yes, but you can’t tell me that 20 people no matter how good they are can stop the most unorganized zerg of 100 either. The numbers don’t have to match exactly, but as it is now, it’s just plain broken. Every single match the team that fails to keep the map at max population loses ground and eventually gets wiped off the map.

Oh and by the way who had the great idea of giving the winning team stat bonuses and the team with less players gets an exp buff? Really, what good is an exp buff when you can’t even get out of your own spawn area. Those things should be reversed if anything.

like i said..numbers isnt as key a difference as organization and the orbs. Plenty of servers have the numbers..they just dont queue because of how uncoordinated they are, leading to big losses. Fix how orbs work and how organized alliances have such huge advantages, and people will start to queue up again if they know they have a fighting chance.

numbers wont change a thing if you cant get them organized. a 100 random pugs zerging around vs 80 from an organized guild on a map, my money is on the organized guild.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

BlackLotus.8349:

Shinzou.1534:

maximumpanda.5178:

we do not play in the borderlands

I have no problem with you playing in borderlands, but please don’t lie.

I am in borderlands right now and Ruin pushing us back hard.

I doubt he meant to lie to you out right. We (RUIN) are assigned to EB as our primary stomping grounds and are suppose to only queue for borderlands as an overflow area. If we’re in there then we’re most likely waiting for our EB queues to pop.

so how long do ques to get into EB take?

A long time.

I’ve seen people in guild queue for 3-4 hours to get into EB. Personally I average 2 hours + to get into EB.

orbs and outmanned buff should be swapped. And if a server can somehow calculate the score difference as well as population difference, the orbs should scale accordingly with buffs as big as 20%/200+ stats added if a side is losing by 100k+ or is outnumbered 3:1

Asildriez.6748:

I personally don’t understand the perception people hold about Eredon Terrace doing a “dodgy” to face lower ranked servers. I mean…you were there the night before one week matches started. Do you honestly think we didn’t put our best into that match up between Sea of Sorrows, Blackgate, and ourselves? I do not remember the exact scores but it ended not to much better than our current matchup. People were excited in map chat to face Hendge before the servers reset. To our disappointment we got stuck in a lower ranked matchup. I truely hope Sea of Sorrows can get something going. It would make it more fun for all sides. Good luck!

never understood that too. We had a big lead over BG and SoS so I didn’t think we were not going to get HoD. Only way we were not going to, was if HoD, JQ and SB were really close in terms of their final score. I remember a 24 hr match where none of the three were moved because of the close proximity of their scores.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Aletheides.5693:

The system will balance itself out after a few weeks due to worlds moving up and down the rankings to face worlds with similar results.

This. You Gankhead-Zergfester types will just have to cool your jets while the servers get matched up. Let me also be the one to assure you that the people who are stuck in their spawn spots are no happier than you are.

If you really want a challenge, move back to the smaller servers for free, while you still can.

Yeah? And then what happens we come up against SB, JQ and HoD? Don’t flatter yourself…the guild alliances and organization isn’t to beat up on lower ranked servers. Its to be competitive against the top tier servers.

Removal of orbs, reworking of the outmanned buff etc etc. Changes need to be made.

Being on ET, I don’t believe its our fault for being able to put on a good showing. We can’t just disband our guilds for weeks when we’re not against HoD and reform when we are.

DeLLy.1897:

Super simple solution, if you don’t like playing with alliances, which are normally high tier WvW servers, go play on a low tier WvW server.

The game isn’t formed around alliances, nor should the game be formed around people who follow the alliances but aren’t hardcore. The game is very casual, but is also what you make of it. Alliances made it “hardcore” for the first 2 or so tiers but after that it is way more casual.

TL;DR – Transfer off alliance servers and go to lower ranked and more casual servers.

In case you havent noticed, even really low ranked WvW servers have been matched against servers who have far outmatched them. Whether its alliances or sheer numbers or advantage in timezone for players, theres always an advantage for one side from what I’ve observed. With that advantage, orbs are taken and the advantage only grows larger. WvW is meant for the casual and the hardcore hence the reason that low lvl players have their levels and stats boosted to allow them some sort of viability. I believe the removal or nerfing of orbs will help provide a more even playing field although organization will still better a server that has none.