Guild Wars 2

At the beginning of a match you don’t have any (active) traits. After 1 kill to your credit you unlock adept traits, after 2 additional kills (3 total) you unlock master traits and after 3 additional kills (6 total) you unlock grandmaster traits.

You still trait your character as usual in the mists before a match but the traits you have chosen will be inactive at first — until you unlock them as described above. You won’t have to trait them during the match. Due to these changes the match might last a little longer so the timer should be set to 20 minutes.

What do I hope to achieve with this idea?

• Add different “phases” to the game
• At first, teams might want to prefer team fights over capping since they need kills to unlock traits. Otherwise their bunker will have a hard time accumulating kills.
• Players now have a choice to pick lots of adept traits (and be effective in early game) or pick grandmaster traits (and be effective in late game).
• Make kills a little bit more meaningful

This idea isn’t meant to address any current balancing issues.

You clearly want to make comebacks even harder as they allready are. Imagine you can’t get a stomp during the first teamfight while the other team got 4. Against any average team, this is an impossible mission. In general it isn’t a bad idea, but conquest heavily denies this suggestion.

Maybe capping should count towards the kills. That could mitigate the problem that you addressed.

or you could just not implement this at all, which would completely eliminate the problem (=

Each kill counts kitten points and gives 5 stacks of any stackable sigil.

I see no reason to make kills even more important as most people farm kills in tournaments which is wrong as they’ll lose to the opposite team that way.