Guild Wars 2

First of all, let me say congratulations on setting up the leaderboards. It is something I feel is so important to have in a competitive game. It will give a whole new meaning to WvW and sPvP.

On the other hand, I would like to point out that the PvE leaderboards are a little too simple compared to the other two. We have all known for a long time that achievement points are about how many dailys you grind and how much gold you toss in the agent of entropy bucket. May I suggest a few categories for PvE leaderboards, similar to how you divided the PvP and WvW?

1. Total Achievement Points – just as it sounds
2. GW2 Achievements – that is the total achievement points minus the repeatables (dailies, monthlies, entropy etc.) and minus the Hall of Monuments. This would be a comparison of what a player has achieved ingame.
3. Grindbot – total achievement points from repeatable achievements, possibly give as a monthly ranking
4. Endgame Dungeon Hero – the highest fractal level completed

What do you think? Total achievements are really only a reflection of time spent at the computer, directly proportional to “/age”. Highest fractal level is a direct indication of skill, and GW2 Achievements would be for the explorers/completionists who would rather get all the achievements than simply grind agent of entropy.

I’d like to add the following:

The things you’ve mentioned that could be added to the leaderboards sounds good.

The first thing I’ve seen “missing” is the ability to search e.g. a certain person’s name. So it can be easier to spot some people in the list.

I’ve also seen, you can’t access the leaderboards if you don’t have the direct link. Since if you go to the Homepage and then go to “Community” (where the link suppose to be). It isn’t there. Here’s the example:

(This link doesn’t give a dropdown list to be able to go to the leaderboard.)

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

(This link gives the dropdown list, al though you’re already in the leaderboard page)

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/

I’ve put this inability to access the leaderboard without the direct link here, since it’s about the Leaderboards and how to improve it from players perspective.