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GvG - Let them eat cake!

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I would say it has spontaneous moments like that not involving siege.

I dunno, it’s just hard to take GvG as a game mode seriously as it is in Guild Wars 2. If I search YouTube for “guild wars 2 gvg 20v20”, I get this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5X9ERjoMcM . The first fight is 40 people fightin for 30 seconds.

Like, for fun? For training? Sure. As a separate game mode? No.

you base your entire perception of what GvG can be based on 1 YouTube video? grow an imagination plz!

You’re the one proposin a game mode! Burden of proof is on you! =) You’re free to tell me why it’s interestin to do or watch. So far all I’ve seen is stuff like “wah wah wah, the name has Guild Wars and Guild Wars 1 had 8v8 so now we need 20v20 in a complete different game”.

I get that some people are doin it but some people are doin WvW as quaggans too.

I provided examples, obviously you didn’t even read them or you did and your just trolling. I’m assuming the latter based in your standoffish attitude since your 1st post. with that said, don’t expect further responses as I consider your posts troll posts.

I’ve gone back and reread your posts and I still feel the points I’ve stated are valid and I don’t have anythin new to add.

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GvG - Let them eat cake!

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I would say it has spontaneous moments like that not involving siege.

I dunno, it’s just hard to take GvG as a game mode seriously as it is in Guild Wars 2. If I search YouTube for “guild wars 2 gvg 20v20”, I get this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5X9ERjoMcM . The first fight is 40 people fightin for 30 seconds.

Like, for fun? For training? Sure. As a separate game mode? No.

you base your entire perception of what GvG can be based on 1 YouTube video? grow an imagination plz!

You’re the one proposin a game mode! Burden of proof is on you! =) You’re free to tell me why it’s interestin to do or watch. So far all I’ve seen is stuff like “wah wah wah, the name has Guild Wars and Guild Wars 1 had 8v8 so now we need 20v20 in a complete different game”.

I get that some people are doin it but some people are doin WvW as quaggans too.

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Hello NSP, Why is this place so awesome?

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Just checking in to make sure we’re still keeping Rob and NSP shut down both in-game and on the forums.

We’re not actually fightin NSP in-game this week, Taquito. Just in this thread (for whatever reason).

high five .gif Rob

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GvG - Let them eat cake!

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I would say it has spontaneous moments like that not involving siege.

I dunno, it’s just hard to take GvG as a game mode seriously as it is in Guild Wars 2. If I search YouTube for “guild wars 2 gvg 20v20”, I get this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5X9ERjoMcM . The first fight is 40 people fightin for 30 seconds.

Like, for fun? For training? Sure. As a separate game mode? No.

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GvG - Let them eat cake!

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would be awesome too have maps like wvw were guilds can fight eachother!

not sure if seriouse or trolling lol, they have that it’s WvW, we need a smaller structured outlet with deferent modes: king of the hill, capture the flag, CTF with multiple area captures ect.

King of the Hill? Isn’t that just defendin a fortified or elevated location? We already do that. As well as capturing multiple areas, we do that too. I guess we don’t rush into people’s bases and take their flags but we do rush into people’s bases.

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GvG - Let them eat cake!

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Guild Wars 1 GvG was 8 on 8, it was like a sport. It had interesting plays, terrain, team splits, and mechanics that made it more than 8v8 combat. An individual’s contribution would stand out.

20v20 battles in Guild Wars 2 are like.. smashing bricks together. It’s too many people. It lasts minutes, the only way to tell who is winning is watching how many red arrows are where, there’s so many people you can’t even make out individuals on a team. Half of it seems to be decided by builds that it’s so formulaic I almost wanna call it PvE.

Guild Wars 1 had guilds up to 100 people but I think there was a reason we didn’t have 100v100 guild battles.

Guilds war in WvW over locations, I dunno why you guys are constantly so asinine about the game’s name. I hope no one ever lets you know that stars don’t actually war or trek.

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Using Tome elites in pvp-wvw; possible?

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Teamkiller is right about the stability.

Tome of Courage is pretty fantastic, using it at the right time can give your group a lot of staying power and basically reset the fight as far as their health is concerned. I think for group sizes 3+, it starts being better than renewed focus.

Tome of Wrath I’ve only used on walls to nuke rams and then it’s not bad.

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6/7 GoM - FC - ET

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I hope to run into both of you out there. Even though I’m on GoM and we out-number you guys pretty drastically this week, I’m usually off on my own looking for some 1vX.

If you ever see an RH gunslinger thief out and about, send me a /w or party invite and I’ll give you some fights.

Copy this post and replace “gunslinger thief” with “black sylvari mesmer”

Also replace “gunslinger thief” and “black sylvari mesmer” with “S/d Thief” or you can duel my lvl 10 duel axe kick warrior

Don’t no one say my guild don’t put out!

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6/7 GoM - FC - ET

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Never seen the night crew of GoM so demoralized after [WvW] guild gave all their hard work away for free earlier today. No commanders anymore, no upgrades or siege being bought and no response teams for defense either.

Hard work? Its a faceroll match up.

So you “lost” a couple gold you’d have lost at the end of the week anyways?

Its a kittening game, why take it so serious?

sorry to report but, most of us on GoM disagreed with giving up points to the ET/FC that needed map completion. it’s caused a lot of infighting that will most likely continue.

I doubt that.

I do have one question…

WHY? We have a 50K+ lead and we have almost everything in EB. Whats the point of taking it so serious?

While not let some ET get some map points they might not ever had the chance to get without transferring?

considering the massive amount of quotes and replies, i wouldn’t say it’s me taking it seriously.
server>alliance>guild
EDIT: the act itself doesn’t bother me at all, the fact that one guild held its opinions higher than everyone else’s does. GoM’s alliance isn’t a few guilds, it’s many. it would do well to remember that fact.

It wasn’t just one guild it was an alliance.

It wasn’t the whole alliance, just some guilds in it. I don’t think the people who made the decision kinda expected it would be so unpopular with some other people (in the alliance and outside it) – nothin like this has ever come up before that I know of and I don’t know if there was a clear cut decision. I didn’t expect it to be honest, though I had learned after the fact. After hearing some from the people who were upset I can see their point of view, I’m pretty 50/50 on it.

People are there to fight against FC and ET, not to help them and they don’t really like being prevented from doin so, which is fair and valid. I’m glad ET got their vistas.

Edit: Probably should avoid this sort of thing in the future.

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GoM (Gates of Madness) Wants You!

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You guys should recruit from within. There seems to be a lot of pve players in GoM.

I’m not sure how that makes us different than any other server which advertises (which is every server).

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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I suspect when wish says “that one thief” he means “It was me all along!”

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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Soro, Lili, even though I am genetically incapable of having fun, I love you guys.

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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The lake party was great. Best one we’ve had since January when we faced off with GOM. I still have video footage of that evening too. Don’t remember who did it but the fireworks were a nice touch to end the evening. Next time we need a bon fire, a roast pig, and a guild feast.

I’m the usual suspect any time fireworks are involved, although I refuse to admit any guilt.

JURY SAYS GUILTY AS CHARGED. Names and faces have been removed to protect all parties involved. Reward is subject to change without notice. Darkhaven is offering the bounty on El Taquito Bandito for approximately the next 48 hours, or the next time DR QQ’s in their matchup thread, whichever comes first.

Defense would like to plead insanity! Melody’s insanity, that is!

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WvWvW Server Herald

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Only if he says, “Citizens!”

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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true that. i need more friends

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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lol forever alone defense on DH hills

What you get for callin yourself soloblade instead of hasmanyfriendsblade.

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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Fun night last night NSP and DH. No commentary, just

  • NSP in Redvale.

Why aren’t we treb’in their ballistas? =(

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Area Denial?

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The problem with a lot of the control is most bosses carry this Defiant

I imagine that there’s enough control between a party to keep a boss shut down for a while (nevermind in the open world).

In dungeons, other than DPS, you can still provide a lot of boon support/heals. Control stuff still works on non-boss folk.

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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@Sarsbear – we meet again! Although this time you kept bringing the fight back to your spawn, that’s no fun! Got the warrior twice though ;-)

Fun fighting you as always!

You guys were the tail end of an approximately hour long fight. It started at south camp vs a much larger group, widdled it down to 3 tanky guys, eventually they left and you 3 came up. I think we’d prefer to fight 5 mediocre players than 2 good ones.

I totally agree. I was just excited to fight you guys because I hadn’t come across a group small than ~10 until that fight.

I posted this literally before falling asleep lol, but I meant to ask. Does your warrior (sorry, not sure of his name) have some form of perma stability? It seems like he ignores literally every immobilize/daze I put on him. Only source I know of would be your shouts, but I obviously don’t know warriors that well.

Always fun fighting against good opponents I haven’t seen before.

Edit: To ammend my previous statement from last night, I’m pretty sure you guys got us down once too. When I reread it, it sounded like I was bragging. Didn’t mean it to come across like that

If he’s with the guardian he could get 7.5 s every 24 s of stability from here and in at least one of the videos he’d get stability for 10.5 s every 40 from this

Stability doesn’t ignore immobilize though, just knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared. According to the video, he runs melandru runes (-25% on condition duration… also -25% stun duration), has dogged march (-33% immobilize duration), and if he’s runnin bowl of lemongrass poultry soup (another -40% immobilize duration), that comes out to -98% immobilize duration, which is 100% of the time. Immobilizin him is basically only good for poppin him a heal every 10 seconds (apparently that’s what dogged march does too).

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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wvw was boring so we made a video

We’re on the same server but your WvW is much different than mine….

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Remove upleveled tags

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Hard to think of a downside to this.

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What server should I transfer to?

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You can find all manner of fights in every tier (though less 60v60 as you go down in rankings). If you like the player density you have on Blackgate, stick to the higher tiers, if you’d like less density check out the lower ones.

Personally, I’d just look for guilds that do what you want, rather than servers.

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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Hey all, normally don’t post but figured I’d share a new small man vid – me and a few other SPCA (with an appearance by Dravul) had alot of fun early Sunday morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpsBks7qXzw

Ha! I’m in this video.

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gaurdian sucks in pvp

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They’re pretty much in demand in both sPvP and WvW groups.

Maybe you’re not built right? Different builds excel (or fail to excel) at different things.

If it’s sPvP, you could look at these builds for one that suits your playstyle (you can always change it up from there) https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Silven-s-PvP-Guardian-Build-Guide/page/3#post2097756

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WvW Wish list

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Fix the interface so can right click to kick/add to party/whisper/etc.

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Taking the week off GW2

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If you really want to change the dynamics of WvW, dissolve the EU servers and shuffle them into NA, as WvW is a 24-hour game anyways. Don’t just put little league teams in the professionals.

Ahaha… no.

Next stupid idea, ho!

Out of curiosity, why would that be a bad thing? Coverage wars aren’t really any fun for anyone. You can’t fight against someone who isn’t there when you play.

Seems like the suggestion is always to dissolve EU and make them part of NA. It’s so self-centered, haha. I dunno, I guess the world revolves around my timezone.

That aside, you can’t merge the servers ‘cause their populations are bigger than WvW population. And there’s no reason to think that it would solve any coverage problems. Just like NA servers don’t all have their strongest time in NA, EU servers don’t all have their strongest time in EU.

Noo yeah, I wouldn’t want to merge them entirely. But maybe some kind of workaround for WvW. So like one EU server gets matched up with an NA server for WvW population or something. Iono just brainstorming, it would just be nice if we weren’t fighting proxy wars.

I always got the impression that your server was pretty extreme, with very high coverage durin NA and very low otherwise. Is that what it’s like?

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Guild claiming

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I don’t think a guild should be able to overwrite someone else’s claim but I don’t see the harm in the claim expiring when the last buff does. It would definitely end some arguments.

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Taking the week off GW2

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If you really want to change the dynamics of WvW, dissolve the EU servers and shuffle them into NA, as WvW is a 24-hour game anyways. Don’t just put little league teams in the professionals.

Ahaha… no.

Next stupid idea, ho!

Out of curiosity, why would that be a bad thing? Coverage wars aren’t really any fun for anyone. You can’t fight against someone who isn’t there when you play.

Seems like the suggestion is always to dissolve EU and make them part of NA. It’s so self-centered, haha. I dunno, I guess the world revolves around my timezone.

That aside, you can’t merge the servers ‘cause their populations are bigger than WvW population. And there’s no reason to think that it would solve any coverage problems. Just like NA servers don’t all have their strongest time in NA, EU servers don’t all have their strongest time in EU.

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Does anyone else do this for fun?

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I love doin this.

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Best elite skill ?

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I agree, renewed focus is pretty sweet if you find yourself in melee a lot.

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Why should i pick a guardian?

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Guardians are pretty good at supporting a group with boons and some heals. They are the only ones who can stop movement with the staff and hammer wards. Only source of group stability also, I believe.

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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Yo mugi, where’s my duel at?

Please, Taquito, you know tM is zerg guild now!

its true, i am a zerger :P

No lie, I saw you zerg Taquito myself =( He is thief without stealth! Instead of zerging, you should pity him. Next time you see him you should stop and open up the mail and write him:

“Dear Mr. Taquito,

I see you because you are not stealthed at all. A thief without stealth is basically a ranger without pet, which is a doubly sad state. Here is 1 copper coin to help you afford a new build.

Signed,
-A concerned citizen"

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5/31 DH - GoM - NSP

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Yo mugi, where’s my duel at?

Please, Taquito, you know tM is zerg guild now!

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Where is the promised Commando Class?

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Rob, have you been playing bad games while you were away from WvW?

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Where is the promised Commando Class?

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Well, Mr Devon
Here is your simple answer,
Its called a Light Machine Gun my friend.
Ever been sprayed by one of this things by even the dumbest nub who can’t aim? Effective.

Imagine a 150man zerg battle with an assault rifle. Popp’in sum noob tubes.

The day after…

Commando: “Retaliation and reflect projectiles is OP!”

Also it is safe to assume I and you have not been sprayed by a machine gun as we are able to post here.

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How Zergy is your server?

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We run with 5. There’s a new concept for everyone.

You can build only one ram. Takes forever take something.

PAXA isn’t super interested in taking towers.

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Can outmanned buff be not advertised?

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Very much in agreement.

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New Server Matchups Was Worst Idea Ever

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I think some people misunderstood what I was trying to say. I don’t care at all about rankings and ratings. I don’t care that SOS is “performing better than we are expected to have performed”. I care about having fairly evenly balanced fights (at least numerically) during North American prime time. The “better than expected performance” on ratings is really due to our Oceanic presence.

I know that before this update, in NA primetime, SOS would have the outmanned buffed at times on all 4 maps (so we weren’t dominating based upon numbers); hence, we weren’t just facerolling CD and SBI as some have suggested. For anyone that was on SOS/SBI/CD, they knew there was often roaming groups of 5-15 in all 3 BLs. Zergs did happen from time to time, but they were often confined to EB. Now, our T2 opponents field superior numbers to SOS in all BLs and we get steamrolled.

For those on SBI and CD that hated the fact that SOS would win every week due to oceanic presence, I understand that and don’t begrudge them wanting something to change. But, at least they didn’t get constantly steamrolled during the time they actual play.

I play for fun fights – not for score. That’s why I won’t be supporting Anet any longer. It just isn’t fun anymore.

You’re earning 400+ points during prime time on your server. I still don’t understand how you think you are getting steamrolled. Do you know that to get steamrolled, you have to be incapable of holding 2/3rds of the map by yourself?

If you really can’t think of anythin to tell your guild, why don’t you try this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLVFnl3WcE

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Taking the week off GW2

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You’re losing 70k to 40k and you’re quitting? Does Sea of Sorrows even need you if you’re going to be the first one to quit 3 days into a matchout that isn’t even a blowout?

“Hey guys, it’s impossible. I know we’re earning +200 points now but let’s all just quit and sit on our butts for a week”

Actually he quit hours into the matchup :P

That’s just embarrassing. I just checked out mos and you guys are earning +440.

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Taking the week off GW2

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I wouldn’t mind the NA servers being shuffled into the EU servers, but there are just a lot more NA servers to absorb the EU population, but that’s sidetracking the conversation from my point;

Trying really hard and still losing but by a narrower (but still mile-wide gap) is going to be rewarded with you being put into a more unbalanced match-up. I’m all for giving it my 100% and everything, but at the end of the day being a try-hard isn’t worth facing JQ as a t4 server.

Being from SoR and having played JQ a lot, I find it funny that JQ are who you fear. And ok, so you didn’t think to say SoR, but hell, BG are by far a harder fight than JQ. JQ would be a nice, casual challenge for anyone to face.

A T1 server is a T1 server. A FULL server at that. Surely you must be joking. Surely.

People in tier 1 are crazy.

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Good Idea ANET but....

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Your right. Give it some time and lets see what happens. gliko or no gliko that doesn’t change the fact that a T4 server is no where near a T2 server. You think that gliko was holding that server back or that it was holding a higher server from falling that isn’t the case. Becasue free transfers are what caused the servers to be the way they are not the system. The real scores were already developed, any score from now on will just go back to how it was before eventually.

You should get away from thinking about these “tiers,” artifacts of the old matchmaking system that had little mobility. Instead, consider rankings, or better—ratings.

Analogous to your statement: Yes—a 1300-rated server should be much worse than a 1750-rated server. But when that 1300-rated server gets a .4-.6 result against the 1700-rated server (much better than what Glicko would expect), you have to think that there is some correcting to do in the rating scheme. To say the real ratings are already known is to not understand how Glicko (and other Elo-type) ratings systems work, regardless of how we arrived at the current disparity between servers..

Edit: To clarify, I’m not pulling this example out of nowhere. What my matchup describes is between the 20 seed and the 8 seed in EU.

Right so a server gets a better rating now than what gliko would expect, so you would think that it needs correcting but guess what that calculation is wrong. Regardless of how the glicko system or the elo type systems work or how they should work it is the way it is becasue it is the way it is. Not becasue some RNG thinks it should be another way.

If all servers were equal glicko would work just fine. But glicko doesnt take into account that all servers are not equal.

wvw is not based on skill between one equal player to another equal player. Its based on how many people you have and how organized you are as a community. This new system thinks hey this server is skilled lets match them aginst this other server, but it doesn’t know that the other server has twice the organization and numbers that you do.

“It is because the way it is” doesn’t even make sense. The ratings are clearly getting more accurate (before they were mostly accurate against the servers in your tier and now they’re accurate against 0-2 more servers as well). Glicko doesn’t assume that the servers are equal. It makes no assumptions about why anyone is winning/losing, so the reasons why someone is winning/losing doesn’t come into it.

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Taking the week off GW2

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You’re losing 70k to 40k and you’re quitting? Does Sea of Sorrows even need you if you’re going to be the first one to quit 3 days into a matchout that isn’t even a blowout?

“Hey guys, it’s impossible. I know we’re earning +200 points now but let’s all just quit and sit on our butts for a week”

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POLL: Which WvW Ranking system do you prefer?

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1, because the competitive scene of WvW is gone in 2. Because when my server is suckin, people don’t say we are going to T2, they say there are no tiers.

Nobody will be considered the best server anymore, no more tiers with the new system. The complete e sports feeling is gone as well. I thought GW2 was suppose to be e sports, this new system is going the opposite direction of e sports.

WvW isn’t esports. The servers are still ranked by rating, so there is a #1 server (are people in tier 1 so clueless?).

Edit: I like the 2nd one. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about how stale and boring the matches were. This has drummed up a lot of excitement.

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WvW is unplayable thanks to skill lag

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playable wvw already exists on 66% of other servers.

Yes, turns out WvW is quite fun too.

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You need LIMITERS on WvW randomization...

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I am tired of hearing about uneven population, people just need to stop. There is no magical fantasy land where people log in and log out at the same time and ArenaNet won’t and shouldn’t force people when/where to log on. We’re not victims of an unfair system, we’re all band wagoners. Face it, if all the servers were even population across all timezones, people would transfer off the 1 server that lost by 1 point to the server that won by 1 point.

At least in this new system, the top 3 tier 1 servers can stop being in a non-stop recruitment race that just leads to people havin sissy fits and abandoning their server.

The large WvW guilds don’t transfer to win, they transfer to have even match ups and good fights. If they transferred to win, large guilds would actually move down the tiers where they could blow out opponents.

What my point was that the old system encouraged people to congregate into tiers of similar populations to find balance, which naturally resulted in stale matchups and bloated ratings. The new system fixes the stale matchups and ratings at the expense of balanced matchups, which in the opinion of many was a bad tradeoff.

Maybe they don’t transfer to win but most of them are only transferrin when they’re losin.

They said they’d lower the deviation if they thought it necessary and we’ll see, probably they might do that.

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Wow GoM, you’ve been eating your spinach. We felt the need for some extra precautions today.

Ack!

goes to attack Bay

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The server ratings will become closer with the new system. The math says that, in the long run, the ratings should even out. However, as close the ratings may be, it doesn’t change the fact that the WvW populations are vastly different. All the servers could end up being within a small range in ratings, but will still be vastly different in game.

This is because of the effect of the OLD system which encouraged server stacking and wvw population concentrations. This made it so that the difference between consecutive tiers could be huge. Thus the ratings shook the servers down into tiers with similar populations with very little movement in rankings.

The new system is trying to address a symptom of the old system, stale matchups, without fixing the core problem which created the symptom in the first place: the uneven distribution of WvW players. The system should be first fixed in a way as to direct player behavior towards the ultimate goal of evening out the WvW populations. The dynamic matchups will happen as a natural result if the majority of the coverage/populations are similar.

Fixing that problem is a much larger task. And keep in mind that the players (despite very vocal denials) clearly supported uneven populations under the old system through their actions.

I am tired of hearing about uneven population, people just need to stop. There is no magical fantasy land where people log in and log out at the same time and ArenaNet won’t and shouldn’t force people when/where to log on. We’re not victims of an unfair system, we’re all band wagoners. Face it, if all the servers were even population across all timezones, people would transfer off the 1 server that lost by 1 point to the server that won by 1 point.

At least in this new system, the top 3 tier 1 servers can stop being in a non-stop recruitment race that just leads to people havin sissy fits and abandoning their server.

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styx.7294

Darkhaven! Give me a hug!

GoM! I’d give you more than that but I think this post would get deleted for inappropriate content. <3

Oh, baby, instead of fight club let’s have make out club behind the windmill.

Gate of Madness

blah blah new matchups = exactly the same

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styx.7294

Lovin the tier 6 match up!

Gate of Madness

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styx.7294

Darkhaven! Give me a hug!

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