Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/?utm_source=client

This is GREAT NEWS, not just for WvW players with WXP being account bound across all your characters but in particular this section:-

As we begin to roll out our new core horizontal progression system of continually-expanded skills and traits, we felt there was no longer a need to have a character-specific progression system unique to WvW. The skill and trait system will provide game-wide horizontal character progression for all players. Devon Carver.

New skills/traits are a far better way of rewarding players and allowing them to develop there characters than just increasing stats, which as most players know is meaningless in the long run.

Awesome! I just returned to the game recently but can you expand on ‘progression system of continually expanded skills and traits’ ? Are we getting new skills now?

Sounds awesome. It’s pretty rare for them to make a change that is %100 positive and doesn’t screw anyone int eh process.

Ranking up to 3000 and increasing your WvW-related effectiveness with the wxp points earned sounds more like vertical progression to me, or was there something I missed? (assuming this will continue to use the existing power-creep system of wxp ‘skills/traits’)

It is definitely better that it be account-bound than character bound though.

Meglobob.8620:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/?utm_source=client

This is GREAT NEWS, not just for WvW players with WXP being account bound across all your characters but in particular this section:-

As we begin to roll out our new core horizontal progression system of continually-expanded skills and traits, we felt there was no longer a need to have a character-specific progression system unique to WvW. The skill and trait system will provide game-wide horizontal character progression for all players. Devon Carver.

New skills/traits are a far better way of rewarding players and allowing them to develop there characters than just increasing stats, which as most players know is meaningless in the long run.

I am having a Multi-NerdGasm!!!! I am about to pop

BOOOM!

Mind Blown

Yahooo!! More horizontal progression !

Does this mean new skills coming soon?

Celtus.8456:

Ranking up to 3000 and increasing your WvW-related effectiveness with the wxp points earned sounds more like vertical progression to me, or was there something I missed? (assuming this will continue to use the existing power-creep system of wxp ‘skills/traits’)

It is definitely better that it be account-bound than character bound though.

Aside from the guard ones (which never should have been made) the wvw skills are largely situational enough to not be a make or break problem that comes with most vertical progression. It’s also something you just get from regular play so you don’t have to grind for it. Not strictly horizontal, maybe more 90degrees progression that any active wvw’er participates in by default.

Knighthonor.4061:

Does this mean new skills coming soon?

God help us all if they ever do a golem mastery skill line.

Substance E.4852:

Sounds awesome. It’s pretty rare for them to make a change that is %100 positive and doesn’t screw anyone int eh process.

And yet, someone somewhere will still complain about the change.

fellyn.5083:

Substance E.4852:

Sounds awesome. It’s pretty rare for them to make a change that is %100 positive and doesn’t screw anyone int eh process.

And yet, someone somewhere will still complain about the change.

I can just see all the bronze players kittening about all the new bronze ranked folks as they, themselves get instantly rocketed into silver rank.

Oh, that’s a nice change.

so lets sum up: we asked for the new T3 armor skin to be removed, and they removed it, we asked for account bound WXP and they will give it to us and on top of that they preparing a form of progression… You just made my day ANet because i have more reasons now to believe that the CD has chances to succeed and make the game even better!!

If only they would give us Cantha and Elona….that would make me so, so happy. Make it happen Anet!

Whew, they’re doing it right at last, after that whole debacle with the last patch.