Anet Plz Fix This!!!!!!!!

Think about other team sports out there (hockey, football, etc) You will have good teams fighting bad teams regularly. It happens, deal with it. The simplest solution is to watch how long it's taking to find an opponent, any more than 20 seconds, restart the search as it's moving further and further outside it's starting search. I see what he means. Yes, while it is true that this is the case in competive sports, sometimes it seems like Peewee league being matched against last year's superbowl champs. You can sure learn something from them, but more often then not, it is just disheartening and you just want to stop playing pvp (gvg) all together.

My guild is primarily PvE but we have had some interest in doing GvG battles so we tried a few. We were drastically outranked and as such no one wanted to do it for weeks. When we finally did attempt again, we got lucky and went against a relatively similar rank guild, but they had one level 20 War, 1 lvl 3 ele and a lvl 6 monk vs. our level 20s. We destroyed them. I can only imagine how they felt. But riding on that high, I knew I didn't want to ruin the joy at actually winning a GvG battle by going into another one just yet. So we only did that one.

Now I am not dead set against doing GvG. That little bit of confidence helped me to continue interest in that aspect of the game.

While it is true that the age of the guild doesn't determine the experience of the players in the guild, I think there should be some better attempt to match guilds of more or less equal rank.

As your rank builds, you move up in tiers.

Then tell your friend to go post in the "unrated gvg" thread and ask for unrated gvg. What did you expect from gvging after a ladder reset? Or you can just tell him to wait in about a month, then his guild might find an equal guild in skills/rank. It's much like he said. The guild matchups are based upon the rating number right? Since the ladder just reset, the difference in rating between a guild just starting and #1 is minimal. As time goes the ratings will spread out more and the low rating will fight more low ranked guilds as will the high end guilds.

This isn't to say the matching system is flawed though. Even before the reset, my guild went up against several guilds in the 3,000 rankings to even unranked. There isn't much you can do. Anet is trying to find a perfect balance where guilds can fight similar rated guilds, but at the same time not wait forever to get matched.