WvW Rating Reset Coming Soon

[Alaris]

Looking forward to next WvW monthly actually. And I think I'll kick myself into doing more dailies in WvW with my levelling-up characters.

Weak as they may be compared to maxed 80's, every additional able body adds up. Especially if said body is careful not to be frontlining, but adds damage from a safe distance (as necros and rangers can totally do).

[Fae]

They are a lot weaker, yes, but there's still so much they can be doing. Know when to pick fights and you can be a helpful member of the team.

[Alaris]

My rule of thumb when playing underpowered builds (which is pretty much all the time... I don't build for WvW, and I have not maxed a single character either) is to join zergs and contribute to the team as backline/midline.

I especially like the long range on engineer grenades/mortar with pistols to do higher damage to single targets. But I can see many professions working well like that, including staff/well necro, bow ranger, staff elementalist, bow/rifle warrior, greatsword mesmer. You won't tag as often, but also you won't die as often.

[RabidCoqui]

Man the siege! Your lvl doesn't matter there. ;)

Or run supply, or scout... or just join the zerg I guess...

[Alaris]

Siege is a good idea... you get kill credits for that, I assume?

Supply or scout sounds useful for the team, but those activities afaik gives no credits towards daily or monthly... why is why I was doing the zerg (solo is too risky).

[Lensor]

Build/repair stuff!
It is kind of boring so no one really wants to do it, but worth a lot once the tides change and you are under siege. It gives exp, but probably nothing else (or is there an achieve?)
Just be mindful of supply stocks.

[RabidCoqui]

There's an achievement for practically anything you do in WvW. I think repairing has one as well as building siege.

I know getting kills with siege gives xp and loot so I assume it also counts for monthly. Get your monthly done quick so you can concentrate on helping instead of simply kills.

[Alaris]

I'm big on synergies between what I enjoy doing, and the rewards I can get for it. I'm not so big on actually winning WvW.

Sorry to sound selfish, but I'm not about to spend time doing boring things in a game that is supposed to be entertaining, unless there is something in it for me. And even then... if I feel I have to do boring stuff in a game, that's usually when I drop out. The only reason I bother with gathering is that it's easy income on-the-go, I would not bother otherwise. As for building etc, I'll do it on the go, fine, but I won't go out of my way for it.

I do enjoy fighting in WvW, siege or regular, so expect me to spend my time there. I figure I can contribute plenty doing stuff I enjoy doing.

[CHIPS]

I am not so sure about the reset. Servers are finally stabilizing in their ranking. All 9 servers in the predict Tier 1 to Tier 3 are good wvw servers. The lower servers will be facing off each other, so no more roll over.

By doing a reset now, they are letting the top servers roll over lower servers again. It will be a month or more before things stabilize again.

[Alaris]

Afaik, the reset doesn't change the current rankings, just the accumulation of points from now on. What that means is that mismatched servers will move faster. Servers that are already matched will stay matched... and this will mainly affect those servers that saw a big migration (in or out) by giving them better mobility.

Specifically:

The new ordering will determine the groupings for the next matchup as usual.