WvW/RvR in games isn’t fair, and it will never be fair. If you can’t stomach uneven numbers, gear discrepancies or anything like that then these systems of mass PvP/RvR/WvW or whatever you want to call it aren’t for you.
Essentially the same argument Devon made in his now famous statement some time ago. It’s still equally bad though. It is true that WvW cannot achieve the same degree of balance as other, smaller formats – but it is still desirable to aim for the best degree of balance achievable. Machups will never be entirely even, and there’s nothing that will change that. But you can still do your best to ensure that each side is as likely as possible to have an equal amount of force to throw around the map(s). And in that regard there is vast room for improvement.
Balance will never be there because of the varying degree of armor/weapon/trinket set ups with runes/sigils as well as trait point allocations. The only way to get balance would be to give everybody the same number of each class with the same gear and trait allocations for those classes. Even then there would still be kittening because of player skill becoming a factor. The side with less skill and teamwork due to varying personalities and differences of views and opinions would be the deciding factor, not to mention the resolve each side has. Then the people on the server who can’t work together as well as the other one would kitten that something else isn’t fair and the cycle continues.
Though having approximately the same number of people toeing off with each other in a fight would give you the closest semblance of balance for WvW, it will never happen because some like to roam, some like to zerg, some like to escort yaks and defend camps and you’ll never be able to force people into doing something they don’t want. In an ideal scenario everybody would have equal numbers doing everything the other server(s) is/are, however this is not how it works in practice and will never work that way. Just because you may have even numbers on the map doesn’t mean that there will still be any semblance of an even fight. There will always be uneven fights with one side having the advantage.
This is why people on servers who have built up a community and work well together are able to get as much done as they do. If you’re on a low tier server with low population and no organization and the people have a general apathy about winning or WvW in general you’re not going to get anything accomplished. Either step up and spend the time trying to build the community and get it working well or find a different server that suits you better.
There’s plenty of people across all leagues that are happy where they’re at and are content with how things perform. It’s the extremely vocal minority that like to go on about how they can’t win and it’s not fair and everything needs to change to give them the best shot possible, yet they’re afforded the same possibilities that the rest of us are. The difference is what you do with it and they typically just don’t want to spend the time and effort putting things together and bettering themselves or the community they play with and would rather complain on the forums about how it’s not fair because it’s the easy thing to do.
