Guild Wars 2

Hello, I have not played in quite some time and have a few questions about the current state of spvp:

1. I have read that glory will be removed from the game and instead we will have gold. So my question is what will be glory to gold transfer ratio, because surely they cant just delete one currency of an entire separate game mode without anything in return?

2. Will the matchmaking be fixed, because today from my 2 matches in solo queue I had one fight 4×5 and another fight r20-30 against r50-60? Or is the mmr considered fixed in its current state?

3. Did they ban skyhammer exploiters or has exploiting became a not bannable offence? If it still is I have seen people farming this map yet again.

4. Did they add anything new to the game besides reskinning the mysts and adding npc that sells some pve gift packs for glory?

5. Are there any changes in rewards? Because the tournament chests I have opened still had the same crap as previously and I am too annoyed to open them all.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

1.) On their latest news, there will not be a transfer ratio. We will get the news weeks before they are going to completely remove the glory, so we will have enough time to spent all of our glory. (Maybe they will leave a glory vendor available afterwards similar to the tournament tokens vendor for players returning.)

2.1) In the last update they reduced the amount of dihonored stack necessary to get banned from pvp, which ‘should’ result in less 4v5. They know about this problem, but any further solution will not be implemented until the new ladder system.

2.2) Please don’t confuse the glory-ranks with the leaderboard position/MMR. When you are waiting for less than 5 minutes, you should get matches with 9 people on a similar leaderboard position. The longer you are in queue, waiting for a match up, the bigger the deviation from your position/MMR. In the upcoming ladder change, they will also calculate into account your ladder-tier.

3.) Here is the last statement we got from ArenaNet: “The abuse of Custom Arenas and the Skyhammer map in particular has been fixed. We do not comment about account actions taken against players that violate our Rules of Conduct. If you feel that a particular player(s) is in violation of the Rules of Conduct, or would like to report an exploit, please send an email to exploits@arena.net with your report.” Even though this does not mean, they took actions (haven’t heard from any), at least I think this is the first time, they called it an exploit.

4.) New Heal Skins, better balance, better MMR (you can say what you want, but it has been worse).

5.) You get silver at the end of the match, and they have increased the achievement points available. There is still a reward revamp on its way, but we have no clue how long it will take.

The next news update we will probably get on the twitch live stream on Friday the 20th.