Nothing in the traditional MMO milieu seems poised to do it right these days.

I feel the same way about the Zerg, its not terrible or anything, but it doesn’t allow for very interesting uniquely expressed experiences or moments of “that was awesome” small team action without extreme rarity.

Even in WoW early before battlegrounds, you could go do Zerg, large scale stuff in Tauren Mill for small amounts of points off tag kills, pushing back and forth… But you could also go off and find cool ganks and skirmishes for quality fights all over the world as well and decent points per kill.

Guildwars 2 is just Meh…

The best strategy, and you know it, is to move to a less disputed system…

Now we can of course join our zerg, and that itself can be fun for a bit, but the problem is the non-zerg options are very limited and not all that beneficial, which I mostly attribute to the size of the map and the ease of travel.

European World Rankings
2105.216 Vizunah Square
1832.8 Far Shiverpeaks
1831.66 Desolation
1812.345 Riverside
1721.516 Augury Rock
1700.819 Kodash
1664.686 Gunnar’s Hold
1617.15 Aurora Glade
1611.369 Baruch Bay
1609.415 Fort Ranik
1609.201 Blacktide
1605.825 Gandara
1602.253 Seafarer’s Rest
1562.421 Arborstone
1561.985 Elona Reach
1516.21 Abaddon’s Mouth
1488.269 Underworld
1475.444 Jade Sea FR
1406.02 Ring of Fire
1272.608 Piken Square
1254.93 Whiteside Ridge
1254.831 Vabbi
1245.978 Drakkar Lake
1143.284 Ruins of Surmia
1021.606 Miller’s Sound
1003.289 Dzagonur
991.366 Fissure of Woe

Well, JQ have the second best rank from US servers. You are pairing against HoD and SI, that problably have well organized guilds doing PvP.

The thing that make me feel uneasy with your argument is that the WvW map is big, not small how you afirm. Maybe the teleporters make the map appear be small, but need some organization for a guild move from one place ot other and we all know that good generals know how to move an army and bad generals not so… well, maybe I am seeing too much History Channel and thinking how Patton made an entrie army change direction 45 degrees and move to fight the german army at the winter of 1944.

I fear you are finding that PvP against guilds that know how to make PvP is not so easy how you think. That brings the wolves against sheep argument again: if there is no sheep, it is wolves against wolves and that is not so fun…

Basically, for you WvW is not being fun because the other guilds are better than you and your guild…

:P

The problem is map size. If they were bigger, even vs organized forces the ‘roaming 8′ of DAoC would still work. But because the maps are so small, it’s only mildly effective.

So, we can assume that the higher ranked servers have more guilds well coordinated and that servers will be paired.