Guild Wars 2

So I went into a game looking for a fun match. Ran into a guy and his guildy on opposite teams, trading points back and forth. While everyone else was sub 50 glory, they were sitting at 200, just capping points back and forth with their friends..

Why on earth do people think they can get away with this stuff? I really hope Anet will act on this. If left unchecked, it’ll do a lot of damage.

What damage are you talking about?

In my opinion this behavior just underlines the sad state of PvP in this game – people rather spend their time with a boring mindless grind than actually taking part in the PvP content.

@Ezekeel – ‘people rather spend their time with a boring mindless grind’ speaks poorly about people, not about the game.

And the damage is obvious – rank is there to show dedication to pvp, not dedication to mindless grind.

Rank neithers show dedication for PvP nor skill. It only shows the amount of time spend with PvP. A chimp could level up an account in sPvP if one could train him just to follow the zerg.

I didn’t say it shows skill, merely dedication – ie time spent (which in turn can imply skill). And yes, current setup of spvp does promote grinding rank through, fe, win trading, which is precisely the point made by OP – that currently mindless grinding is being rewarded instead of skillful play.

And the reason it is being farmed in any efficient way, is because there are rewards for it (thankfully only aesthetic), and because at some point we will get the same elitism we had back in gw1 where having proper /rank was more important then being able to play well.

if someone do this, he will end soon stomped by better players, because matchmaking works with your rank and if he just traded it, he will be matched with people kittenally are on that rank…

“Rank neithers show dedication for PvP …”, wrong.