Guild Wars 2

I read that the new fractal leaderboard is a “first come first serve” format which I think is, kind of lame. It essentially just creates a race and once the race is over that’s it. Whoever is in first is in first until they add 10 more levels.

I think a better solution is to reward players Leaderboard Points after finishing a fractal. And how I think that should be handled is that 1-9 gives 1 point, 10-19 gives 2 points, 20-29 gives 3 points, 30-39 gives 4 points, 40-49 gives 5 points, etc. And to keep people from doing the highest level fractal all day just for Leaderboard Points I think the reward should be given from the daily rewards. As a side effect this would also encourage players to play on the lower level fractals, increasing the pool size of players so that newer players can adequately find parties. And the reason why higher leveled fractals give more points is because unequal content should not be rewarded equally as a rule of thumb.

I don’t think the leaderboard should be affected by player performance (i.e. times died, dps, etc) because I think it could promote bad behavior.

Of course this brings up the question about how this can be implemented in a way that players know what’s going on. Perhaps it can be shown as a reward on the daily screen. And so what players know what it means exactly, perhaps you can put a NPC in the fractal lobby that shows the leaderboard in-game. If the leaderboard is show in-game then more people are exposed to it which would hopefully mean that more people would compete in it.