Guild Wars 2

From reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3cfv9o/datamining_upcoming_features_from_the_july_7/

sPvP
1001464_0876 You cannot join this arena or game mode because you or someone in your party has too low of a PvP rank.
1013760_0252 Rank Too Low
1013759_0769 Reach PvP rank _ to unlock this arena.
10137610721 Reach PvP rank __ to unlock this game mode.

It’s interesting but first of all we don’t know if pvp rank is the usual pvp rank we have now (1-80) or is something else (maybe linked to mmr?) and we don’t know in which areas it will be applied.

Maybe it’s a simple light filter to avoid extremely new people join unranked or ranked or some hot join arenas.

In general i think Anet should avoid people farming rank in custom arenas like we have now if this pvp rank is the same we have now.

The idea is probably to unlock Unranked at like rank 5 and ranked at rank 20 or something. It should gradually ease you into the “higher skill” environments instead of having brand new players join ranked, wait 5 minutes in the queue, and then get obliterated repeatedly by dragons. This happens to a lot of people in games I play in, both on my team and against me. I genuinely feel bad for the ~50AP players who get into these games and then have that as their defining PvP experience in GW2.

Or you could have new players face off against other new players… like every other game!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

ellesee.8297:

Or you could have new players face off against other new players… like every other game!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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ellesee.8297:

Or you could have new players face off against other new players… like every other game!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

aggreed, higher rank arenas does not exist. Practice is crawling with dragons (I bring my alts there for example) and the constant team swapping and 4v5 will ruin every newcommer’s experience. If anything practice needs to be gated before unranked.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The idea is probably to unlock Unranked at like rank 5 and ranked at rank 20 or something. It should gradually ease you into the “higher skill” environments instead of having brand new players join ranked, wait 5 minutes in the queue, and then get obliterated repeatedly by dragons. This happens to a lot of people in games I play in, both on my team and against me. I genuinely feel bad for the ~50AP players who get into these games and then have that as their defining PvP experience in GW2.

Honestly, I pity brand new players being forced to play hotjoin before they can do unranked or ranked. Theres nothing quite like busting your pvp cherry by getting 5v4 daily farmed on double ele day.

Rising Dusk.2408:

The idea is probably to unlock Unranked at like rank 5 and ranked at rank 20 or something. It should gradually ease you into the “higher skill” environments instead of having brand new players join ranked, wait 5 minutes in the queue, and then get obliterated repeatedly by dragons. This happens to a lot of people in games I play in, both on my team and against me. I genuinely feel bad for the ~50AP players who get into these games and then have that as their defining PvP experience in GW2.

Only took them 7 months…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Suggestion-Restrict-ranked-arena-access/first

Phil.8901:

In general i think Anet should avoid people farming rank in custom arenas like we have now if this pvp rank is the same we have now.

I don’t really understand this problem, this so called ‘farming’ is actually a significantly slower method of attaining rank points than playing unranked/ranked due to the decreased rank points for matches that finish quickly.

Second of all, it only takes around 2 days to reach rank 20.