So what do you guys think about PvP rank?
My thoughts on it was, it was something when the original game was made.
You would rank up, others would notice your rank after a match. As you ranked up you was rewarded by going to vendors who sold armor to make you more distinct in PvP. Also, those vendors sold bigger bags at set price of 500 glory. The thought being that you’d participated a lot more, you have more PvP consumables to make other PvP exclusive things and therefore needed larger storage. Most of you might not recall, but way back when PvP was originally designed, when you was a high rank, you looked better than everyone else, it may not seem that big anymore but it gave those high ranks some ‘feel good’ feelings and proud to have made it that high. Sure PvP rank wasn’t too hard to get, only dedicated or people with dedicated PvP friends new the ways to get rank fast. Slapping the downed guy, following zerg and slapping everyone, when zerg is about to lose, run away go find another 2v1 or some guy about to die, slap him, go uncap, etc., use the cannon, use the treb, etc. Actually put the map to use, I know that raid of Capricorn probably isn’t played anymore, but when its played I doubt people will use cannon now, well not as much with the old point system.
Anyways back to topic, another thing about the old PvP system was that although it wasn’t hard to get rank, it wasn’t crazy easy as it is now, and that you’d still have to spend a massive amount of time in PvP to reach rank 80, which could be obtained in a year and half, maybe shorter with the old system. Rather than seeing newbies running around at rank 80, with the old system you’d see really good players or people that really do know how to PvP at rank 80. Another thing, I recently was in some hotjoin to see how its doing… Ya you know I won, its so easy to figure out which team is winning, just wait for game to play out for a bit, see who won the first fight…. Join the victors who won the first fight. A lot of people would agree with me that if you won the first fight, you pretty much won the game, sure there are comebacks, but odds are in your favor if you won the first fight. But anyways, match was over…. No rank was shown.
Now if they don’t show rank after matches anymore, don’t show them on leaderboards. Tournament ques not based off rank. No more special vendors for being a high rank. No more bigger bags for being a high rank. What’s the point in getting to rank 80 then? The only thing I can think of is that you can do a /rank 80, and that you have a title. But there’s so many titles, that even having a title isn’t that great. PvE’ers are proud of doing rabbit /rank, having a dragon rank doesn’t really awe them. I feel like rank use to be good, as a show of ‘yup you know I PvP’ after match with showing your rank (with the old system of getting rank), also a lot of people know it means something in tournament (rank 10 got lucky teams guy on your team, or rank 80 been through a bunch of bad teams but really good… which one you pick auto generator? Looks like that got lucky guy is now on your team and you lost because the got lucky guy is terrible), yet rank not a factor in tournaments. PvP rank is also widely known as not meaning anything either, I’d say it means nothing a lot more than when it was at launch of GW2. Hence why they don’t even show people your rank anymore, not in hotjoins, not in tournament games, not on leaderboards, not no where.