Guild Wars 2

I think that it’s not fair that people from PvE can just come into PvP, camp in a rank farm server and get ranks + unlock PvP only items with no hassle, while if we want a PvE item (like the fractal skin) we need an exotic armor set, a build, level 80 in PvE, learn how to play fractals ect. It’s a much higher time investment.
I’d love it if rank farm servers were removed for this reason.
I think it’s still too easy to complete the reward tracks and that it should be made harder or at least disable them until rank 20, 30 or 40 to prevent PvEers from gaining a super easy access to PvP only items (also, please, even more PvP only items!)

Rank farm servers isolate these people from the rest of the player base. The progression in custom games isn’t even that much compared to actively playing Solo Queue or Team Queue unless you’re really bad or really laggy.

On the other hand, if you really want to slow their progression, take the current 300 bonus points for winning and cap it at something like 5 times a day. Yes it’d hurt the “hardcore hotjoiners” but that term really shouldn’t even exist.

It’s almost impossible to nerf them without taking a sacrifice. Are you willing to accept either crappier games (with the farmers in normal games) or reduced/capped rewards?

PS: your last suggestion (disabling reward tracks) would create a wall bigger than the legendary/precursor grind for most players not already into PvP. That’s exactly the opposite of what they were made for (getting more people into PvP). They’re not fast to complete in hotjoin/custom servers at all, and people doing them in arenas is good, not bad.