Guild Wars 2

Hey, all. I have to say I’m excited that soon dailies and monthlies will be their own thing, but I have to wonder what will happen to the points people have accrued prior to the upcoming change. They way I see it, there are a few likely paths to take.

1) Points from past dailies and monthlies get removed from a player’s numerical achievement score, and converted into laurels.

2) Points from past dailies and monthlies get removed from a player’s numerical score, and are not converted into laurels.

3) Points from past dailies and monthlies remain in a player’s numerical score, and are either converted into laurels or not converted into laurels.

Personally, I find the first two options make the most sense to me, primarily because by removing points accrued from those dailies/monthlies, I feel it allows the numeric score to have a bit more meaning. As it is, you can’t easily tell whether a person’s achievements come from exploring the world, conquering dungeons, participating extensively in PvP/WvW, doing the some fiendishly hard jumping puzzles…or simply performing a ton of dailies.

I can already sense some of the counterarguments against this idea, because people still earned those points, and some may place a greater value on the quantity of points earned, rather than the manner in which they were earned. There’s no right or wrong to it, it’s just a matter of how you look at things.

My own personal suggestion is that the points from past dailies/monthlies should be removed entirely from a player’s numerical achievement score. However, they should definitely be converted to laurels, so players will still have a vestige of that time that they put in, and be rewarded for it.

Anyway, those are my two coppers. And this assumes that those points are even tracked in the first place! I’ll be interested to see how this turns out.