Guild Wars 2

just a quick suggestion

We already have reward tracks in WvW with the rank up system. How about putting some hero-point rewards into the tiers of the specialisations?

Example: Guard Killer

1.)1% damage to guards
2.)2% (total) damage to guards
3.)3% (total) damage to guards + 1 hero point
4.)4% (total) damage to guards
5.)5% (total) damage to guards
6.)All guard killer bonuses now also affect enemy lord and supervisors + 3 hero points
7.)7% (total) damage to guards, lords and supervisors
8.)Gain 50% of your endurance back after killing guards, lords and supervisors
9.)10% (total) damage to guards, lords and supervisors + 6 hero points
10.)Add 1 stack of Applied Strength on killing a guard, lord or supervisor
Applied Strength: Increases power and condition damage by 20 (max stack of 5, stacks are lost on death)

I like the concept (a lot, actually) but it would be a nightmare to untangle each time they reset all our WvW points…

To counter my own suggestion, another problem would be the finite character of hero points. Players who play WvW and PvE would get more hero points than players who only do PvE.

Nike.2631:

I like the concept (a lot, actually) but it would be a nightmare to untangle each time they reset all our WvW points…

What about tying it to Rank?

TheDaiBish.9735:

Nike.2631:

I like the concept (a lot, actually) but it would be a nightmare to untangle each time they reset all our WvW points…

What about tying it to Rank?

I’d like that, but I think ranks should become more important and visible when doing this. Like a reward track for ranks with additional “goodies” at certain places in the reward track

• rewards new skins in certain intervalls
• rewards hero points in certain intervalls
• …

At the moment ranks are a bit bland if you ask me.

On the other hand we have quite a lot types of reward tracks already, which might get confusing for new players. Achievement points, skills and traits, sPvP, zones,….

about the problem with the finite character of hero points:

What if unlocking hero points in one gamemode (e.g. WvW) cuts those points from the other mode?

Let’s say you get 5 hero points in WvW, now a random skill challenge in PvE which would reward you with 5 hero points would reward you with 1 gold instead.

This way there would be one specific number of hero points available, you could get 100% from doing only WvW, you could get 100% for only doing PvE AND you could get 100% (and not more) for doing WvW and PvE.

Nike.2631:

I like the concept (a lot, actually) but it would be a nightmare to untangle each time they reset all our WvW points…

Hm good point. What if you only get these points the first time you spec into that tier rank? Doing a reset wouldn’t delete the hero points and you wouldn’t get them a second time you spec into the same rank of the tier.

But I could spend those points in a different line and get more of them if I retain my old ones…

Nightmare. Honest.

Nike.2631:

But I could spend those points in a different line and get more of them if I retain my old ones…

Nightmare. Honest.

I see, true. Well a non-resetting system like the ranks would make sense then, I guess. If only the system wasn’t as boring as it is now.

What if each reset of WvW-points would simply reset the hero points you’ve gained from that? You’d reset the hero point reward tracks with it and would have to respend all the points left again (just as you do in the WvW specialisations track).

Then they’d have to track the total number of points earned as a floating pool, and as a player you’d have to respend your whole account one character at a time (because WvW reset affects every character on your account at the same time…)

Lord of the Rings online has a similar situation each time they reset all our legendary weapons because they’ve made some tweak to the equivalent of trait lines. For a mature account it can be more than an hour staring at build screens cleaning up the mess it triggers every single time. And its usually messaged poorly enough that you don’t realize you’ve been reset until some slightly ambitious pull kills you because all your passive bonuses are disabled. It could go better here, but I am leery. Plus ANet may simply not want people with less than max points rearranging their whole account every time they want to do a WvW reset.

Some sort of non-linear, telescoping reward based on total WvW rank earned might be better… a hero point point at WvW rank 10, 30, 60, 100, 150, 210, 280 (10 more ranks earned to reach the next point each time) might work.