Guild Wars 2

Currently the system resets the symbol beside your name in game when new seasons begin. This I’m sure was to provide incentive for players to return and play again the next season and keep people coming back. It also however abruptly devalues a player’s work in a prior season.

Maybe someone didn’t get time to play for a few months that was a Diamond, play a few games and stop in Emerald for this reason a few seasons down the line. Now that decent player is considered “scrub-tier” for all intents and purposes and his/her badge does not reflect skill level or past efforts; just their availability to play in a particular season.

I have what I think is a simple solution:
1-Instead of resetting the badge per-season; leave the highest attained badge visible in PvE/Lobbies.
2-Inside matches display their current season’s badge symbol (Like on the end game results currently)
3-On top of this place a simple numeric value in the bottom right corner of each badge in PvE and maybe even in the PvP games that designates how many seasons a player obtained that particular skill-tier in PvP.[/list]

The numeric value should incentivise the hardcore players to keep returning instead of just quiting after 1 season and keeping whatever badge it was. It should also alleviate the stress of grinding thru PvP every single season just to get the same reward again, or less if you’ve finished the The Ascension.

I’ve made Legendary this season, can probably do so again. I’m guessing my win rate was around 85%+. Could I do it again next season? Most likely, but I’m finishing up the Ascension already so why obtain the exact same badge by my name? At least we’ll know the truly dedicated PvP’rs that rise to the top every season this way.

I think they should get rid of the pvp badges or at least allow us to turn them off.

I’m onboard with all these. Honestly, the dropping back down and having to grind up each time seems excessive and not really productive, especially for those of us who do have schedules that fluctuate. Trying to get into parties that match my skill level if I miss the beginning of the season (i.e., I was diamond, now I’m emerald, and premades are looking for saph and up, so I can’t reliably join a team).

The badge system would be best if it could represent what you’re capable of rather than how much time you have had in a particular season.

I really like the suggestion of having the number of times you reached the division next to the badge. That will add a lot of prestige to a division badge without making other people who can’t play every season feel like their hard work was for nothing. However I also like the current system of having to work back up to get your legendary badge because that gives me motivation to play because then I can show off what division I am in to all the people in HotM/LA when standing around. I think a better suggestion would be to have 2 badges next to a player’s name- the highest division they ever reached and their current division.

They need to either keep the highest badge ever obtained or bring in PvP titles based on league ranks attained and keep them permanent on the player name as such

Toggling them on/off might not be bad for some Sapphires and Emeralds out there feeling on the low spectrum in PvP. But hey, the way I look at it even if they’re not great they tried. A lot of folks don’t even do that, wear that emerald with pride lol.
Just gonna disregard amber, since you just have to play to get through it, it’s more like an intro than a tier this season.

I’d like to have the pvp badge be optional. If you don’t make diamond or Legendary then it’s almost as if you’re being mocked between seasons. Certainly other PvP players will call you bad.