Guild Wars 2

The new article about PvP changes in HoT is unclear to me about the details of rank finishers.

It seems to say you’re starting fresh at rabbit rank with a new version of rabbit and so on going up, but I’m unclear about what will happen with the previous rank finishers.

I haven’t reached dragon rank yet so I’m now unclear whether or not I’ll be able to unlock the vanilla rank finishers. It says if you own HoT you’ll get the new finishers, but what if I want the old ones first??

I believe what they mean is the new rank finishers are merely obtained via the reward track, which is separate from the glory points needed to rank up.
pvp rank =/= reward track rank
correct?

The new rank ups are tied to the reward tracks, not traditional rank ups. You will still be able to get OG dragon rank in same way you do now. The only thing this adds is the ability to gain a new rank up by using the pvp reward track system.

In short, you should not worry because this addition will in no way effect your ability to gain the dragon rank you are working towards.

Ah, well that might be what they meant. Might.

But you earn reward track points and level your rank simultaneously. I think they scale the same if they aren’t actually the same amount of points. So I’m still unclear about how it works but that’s a possibility.

Not might. It’s exactly what they meant. The reward track progress is completely separate from your rank. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand. You understand what a reward track is right? Instead of getting gear or weapons boxes you’ll get finishers.