Guild Wars 2

Several times the devs have said they are thinking about reimbursing players for the 1300 rank/win that they missed in the first year of release. Since then I haven’t heard anything about this, so I did some math. The players already received some rank points when they won, 200 rank per win before, and they usually scored 100 points per match. So let’s say ANet deducts 300 rank and for each tournament win in the past, they give 1,000 rank points.

There is at least one player who apparently has over 10k tourney wins. At 1,000 rank points per win, the player would receive 10,000,000 rank. If the player got a full 1,300 rank per win, they would get 13,000,000 rank. Rank 80 “only” requires 8,971,500 rank.

TLDR: If ANet reimburses players with rank for their past tourneys, some players may be close to, or already have Dragon rank.

Is that a bad thing or a good thing in your opinion? Because if a person has 10 thousand wins I’d think he may be a good candidate for top rank.

I think everyone should be judged by the same standard. If the devs think the required rank is too high and they lower the effort with higher rewards, the benefit should extend to the veteran players.

if the PvE community asked for it be probably done in a jiffy.

This would give me a LOT of ranks. However, I do not want it to happen. Things change, get used to it. If they would reward ranks why wouldn’t they reward dungeon gold retroactively? Or anything else.

Because rank does not effect the economy of the game.

Rezz.8019:

This would give me a LOT of ranks. However, I do not want it to happen. Things change, get used to it. If they would reward ranks why wouldn’t they reward dungeon gold retroactively? Or anything else.

Because, a lot of players exploited skyhammer to rank up. They didn’t get banned or punished for doing this. Then there were those who played spvp legitly to rank up, they didn’t get a single thing for playing the right way. So from one perspective they all should of exploited skyhammer like the rest of them, so they could rank up.

The situation is more about how pvp is viewed in general by anet. If there was a exploit in pve that allowed players to gain something faster than normal, these players would be banned. In pvp? It doesn’t seem to matter much. Actually they benefited more, not only did they achieve higher ranks than a legit player might. But when the wintersday patch rolled around, they were making tons of gold converting their glory into wintersday boxes to sell.

They probably dont want people to reach r80 already because the dragon finisher isnt even made yet. Even the phoenix finisher looks like created in a rush.

um i think you putting too much tougth, i think its much more simple like…. they are just lazy.

Pretty Sure Justin O dell said this is gonna happen , but only rank points not rewards

Nope, they actually said they won’t do it:

John Corpening.9847:

What you are asking isn’t something that we can just turn on so it would have to come in a build later if we decide to do it. At the moment we don’t have a plan to retroactively award points for wins but many of you have brought up some interesting reasons for it so it is something we will take into consideration when we are discussing how to adjust ranks.

Josh Davis.6015:

As John mentioned previously, we don’t plan on retroactively awarding rank points for previous wins. We will, however, be rebalancing rank tiers to make them more attainable.