Guild Wars 2

I think we can all agree WvW could use a bit more prestige. I was pretty pumped when WXP came out, and I love that I show up to enemies as increasing ranks, but I think many people would love to show off their WvW dedication to their own side too, I know I would. Right now the WvW titles in achievements are all we have, and that doesn’t really show how much you play WvW or anything, plus they’re kitten near impossible to obtain.

I hate to draw the comparison, but I think back to Vanilla WoW and how much people grinded to get to Grand Marshall and High Warlord. When you saw one of those people around town, you knew they’d put a lot of time and effort into that title, and with WvW, it’d mean they put a lot of time and effort into fighting for their server.

Especially if they’re going to keep expanding upon it like this, why is a commander tag the only displayable thing we have?

I do not agree WvW could use a bit more prestige. People have things goin to their head enough as it is. Somehow every server is better at fighting bigger numbers than every other server they’ve fought.

I posted about this a couple weeks back. Make the ranks display somehow or make whatever rank you have a selectable title. Easy enough solution. 100% agree that your allies should be able to see it.

Esoteric.5490:

I posted about this a couple weeks back. Make the ranks display somehow or make whatever rank you have a selectable title. East enough solution. 100% agree that your allies should be able to see it.

Yeah, it seems so obvious, I’m surprised they haven’t done anything about it, or even said anything about it yet.

Realm Avenger works.

I’d like them to use prefixes. At 60, when you are “knight” you get sir/dame.then maybe at 120 lord/lady. they could have them spaced apart but it would still rock.

Sunspots.9861:

I’d like them to use prefixes. At 60, when you are “knight” you get sir/dame.then maybe at 120 lord/lady. they could have them spaced apart but it would still rock.

Thats tricky though with people already being able to use words like that in their name.

+1 to this suggestion. Please ANET implement this.

My engi would be General General MiLkZz.
Yea, that sounds general enough.

Zyphent.2967:

Sunspots.9861:

I’d like them to use prefixes. At 60, when you are “knight” you get sir/dame.then maybe at 120 lord/lady. they could have them spaced apart but it would still rock.

Thats tricky though with people already being able to use words like that in their name.

There are already Commander Commanders.

MiLkZz.4789:

My engi would be General General MiLkZz.
Yea, that sounds general enough.

Doesn’t have to be the word, could just be a rank symbol or number or something that appears on hover, like the map completion star for all I care.

Just some way of showing it off, ANet can figure out exactly how they want to do it.

Esoteric.5490:

I posted about this a couple weeks back. Make the ranks display somehow or make whatever rank you have a selectable title. Easy enough solution. 100% agree that your allies should be able to see it.

100% agree with this. this really need a dev response its totally reasonable and people have been making threads about this stuff months before world xp. WvW needs more recognition.

I totally agree, it’s stupid that the only ones who can see some indicator of your rank are enemies who can’t even see your name.

Sure, we definitely need those kitten numbers next to our names.

Why would anyone brag about their rank in the current setup of WXP? The system rewards nothing but objectives and killing, and even then screws it up and does not measure meaningful contribution to a kill, just that you did minimum amount of damage to tag stuff as you run around spamming whatever is easiest to tag stuff. It takes 1 person to take a camp, why are 70+ getting the same reward?

The system is a joke and the higher rank meaning nothing other then you can spam aoe in a giant zerg while running around in a karma train doing pvdoor. Not a play style I think we should reward. I do not want to see my own team’s rank, it would impact my ability to take them seriously.

Niim.9260:

Why would anyone brag about their rank in the current setup of WXP? The system rewards nothing but objectives and killing, and even then screws it up and does not measure meaningful contribution to a kill, just that you did minimum amount of damage to tag stuff as you run around spamming whatever is easiest to tag stuff. It takes 1 person to take a camp, why are 70+ getting the same reward?

The system is a joke and the higher rank meaning nothing other then you can spam aoe in a giant zerg while running around in a karma train doing pvdoor. Not a play style I think we should reward. I do not want to see my own team’s rank, it would impact my ability to take them seriously.

It still shows the amount of time a person has dedicated to WvW, and we can display it to enemies at the moment too. Earlier I made the comparison to Vanilla WoW’s top tier titles, they were a lot more grind than skill as well, but they’re still an impressive feat, and something thats fun to have attributed to your character.

When you get right down to it, most prestige in this game is work and not skill, but that doesn’t mean people don’t like having it to show.