Guild Wars 2

One word, prestige.

Some may wonder why rank is such a big deal to some players. Rank shows the time put in, it shows the dedication put towards the game. The emote symbolizes this time and effort.

6493 matches.

That is how many matches it took me to reach rank 60. No Skyhammer farms – straight pvp daily grind via tournaments, solo queues, and hotjoins.

With the new ranking system, how fast will others be able to get there now?

Will it still take them thousands of hours of pvp game play?

I’m not sure why they didn’t just lower the points needed for rank as this would have helped all. Old and new players. Instead they increase rank points received, which only credits the new time pvpers put in.

I understand ANet is addressing many PvP related issues, I just hope they credit the original PvPers for the time and effort they put in.

I recoectfully disagree. What I believe drives competitive play is exclusivity. That is, obtaining rewards based on the amount of times you win and not necessarily how long you have played. The more times you win the higher your rank goes, gaining access to items that are available after you reach a certain tier of points. Losing in turn will make you lose points.

It was easier to increase rank points because they can take them away anytime.

if they lower the amount needed, what is the right ammount? if they make the cap too low and need to revert it, now they would be stealing away ranks from those who benefited at first..

still tho… compensation should have been given to all the loyal players.

I played 4282 matches out of which 4046 were tournaments (no skyham farm) and I am rank 58. How come you needed so many?

Rezz.8019:

I played 4282 matches out of which 4046 were tournaments (no skyham farm) and I am rank 58. How come you needed so many?

It depends on what you mostly play. It also took me a little over 6k matches to hit 60, and no I never skyhammer farmed. Hotjoin is my most played, followed by soloq, and then teamq. So I’d get less rank points then someone that just does teamq.