Guild Wars 2

Thought of this last night so I figure I’d pass it along here to see what people think. It has some drawbacks but I’m sure there are ways to navigate around them.

The PPT system, how about we just eliminate it all together as it seems to give people a reason to complain more than anything. The rewards for the current PPT system.. seem to reward those who PvE more than the actual people who WvW. To me, the rewards should directly reflect those who are participating in WvW.

My proposal, replace the current PPT ticks with ticks of gold, xp, and karma. In some cases, items as well. Basically, the more stuff you own, the higher your gold, karma, and world xp. If people feel this is too OP in terms of rewards, then just increase the time in between ticks to what most can agree would be fair.

If your outmanned, you tick at double, as to keep on par as your probably not going to hold onto as much stuff. As for items, perhaps if you take over stonemist, the next tick your guaranteed a rare with a chance at an exotic. Make it so this only can collect this reward once per day. Take over keeps, you get a guaranteed green with a chance at a rare. Then perhaps on the borderlands; take over the opposing garrison, rare with a chance at an exotic. These items can only be collected say 1x per day. These are just some ideas.

Basically you only collect these ticked rewards if your in WvW and participating, not when your PvE’ing, and certainly not when your offline lol.

The downside, which I’m sure many of you are thinking about right off the bat.. AFK’ers and possibly bots.

My solution would be, if your AFK more than 5 min outside of your spawn area, your booted out of WvW. If you havn’t moved out of your spawn area within 5 min, your booted.

1) Do people support the idea?
2) If people do support it, is there a way to navigate around the AFK’ers and bots?

TL;DR – Replace PPT ticks with gold, karma, world xp, and items per tick which only people participating in WvW at the time collect the rewards. Want the details, read the rest.

If this came to be you would have WvW tick timers like all the other ones; quick it’s been 14 minutes, need to get to WvW for free loot then back in time for Jormag!

Immolator.5640:

If this came to be you would have WvW tick timers like all the other ones; quick it’s been 14 minutes, need to get to WvW for free loot then back in time for Jormag!

Hmm good point, I suppose this might be taken care of if players had to be in WvW for 2 full ticks before becoming eligible for loot.

DeadlySynz.3471:

Immolator.5640:

If this came to be you would have WvW tick timers like all the other ones; quick it’s been 14 minutes, need to get to WvW for free loot then back in time for Jormag!

Hmm good point, I suppose this might be taken care of if players had to be in WvW for 2 full ticks before becoming eligible for loot.

How do you deal with spawn afkers? WXP earned limit?

Define “participating” in WvW. Is a scout who hasn’t hit a person in 20 minutes “participating”? What about someone ticking siege in garrison? Is taking camps “PvEing”?

Also, anything that provides rewards will be the only thing people do. If taking Stonemist provides the greatest rewards, that’s all people will be doing in EB. Ninja groups will be trying to take Bay and Hills on whatever Borderlands they can a couple of minutes before the tick and then abandoning it, hoping it gets taken back before the next tick so they can get loot again.

Sorry – I don’t think it’s viable.

When you label and idea as “Crazy” in your own title, it’s probably a hint that it’s not very good.