Guild Wars 2

Just tell us exactly how the point system works. Not the modified Glicko-2 system, we already know how that works, and not the standard PPT, but all those mysterious, hidden, “non-PPT” points that sneak into our end-of-week score. I mean Dolyaks (supply caravans), Sentries, PvE Champions like the Harpy or Veteran Worm, and anything else that adds points to the WvW score for a server. Just please tell us exactly where all the points are coming from and how they are calculated in this competitive portion of that game that we’ve playing FOR POINTS for 8 months already. Please!

This requires no programming, no changes to the game, we just need someone to look up the information and tell us this very basic part of how the game works in WvW. Thank you.

wvw needs inprovment, i feel like im breaking my Armour 100s of times and for what one Armour price. they need more prizes like a mass cheat in the middle of stonemist that only appears when a team takes it over with prizes in it.

Let’s try to stay on topic here, please…

I would agree that it would be nice to know what gives points. I knew about the Dolyaks, which are quite an effective way of boosting your score, besides hampering enemy supply. Dolyak farming works especially well against green in EB because of the water and proximity. I didn’t know at all about the other events giving points.

bcd.4352:

I would agree that it would be nice to know what gives points. I knew about the Dolyaks, which are quite an effective way of boosting your score, besides hampering enemy supply. Dolyak farming works especially well against green in EB because of the water and proximity. I didn’t know at all about the other events giving points.

Well, if you want to get an idea of the effect these points are having on the end of the week score, here’s a little math: the maximum ppt is +695. That happens 4 times an hour (every 15 minutes). Considering that there are 24 hours in and we have 7 day matches:

695 * 4 * 24 * 7 = 467040
That’s maximum total points from a full week’s PPT in WvW, though it’s generally a little lower than that because there is at least a 15 minute gap between resets.

Now if we look at a matchup from last week, say the Tier 2 match here: http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/27#EU

The total score from all 3 servers was over 615,000 points! That’s a lot more than 467,040.
Even more shocking, if you scroll down you’ll see that a bottom Tier server, Arborstone, scored more than 487,000 points all by themselves!!! So 1 server is scoring more points than all the points available from a full +695 ppt combined!

And this is happening without any official word on how many points we can gain from non-PPT sources, and as far as I know, there is no concerted effort by any full server out there to really maximize these points. So it’s making a very big difference already, and it’s something that really just needs to be out in the open.

Again, we really just need to know how the WvW scoring system works, and where exactly the points are coming from. How many points is each non-ppt objective worth, what are the point caps for these objectives, and so on. Very basic stuff that you would find in the manual for practically every other game.

Is anyone from ArenaNet available to address this?