Guild Wars 2

With the new rewards coming to WvW March 28th through May 30 it makes me ask the question, “What’s in store for spvp rewards?”. As of right now Spvp is rewarded with glory (that’s going away), armor skins (to salvage), and current pve event swag (stuff pvpers don’t care about), and finishers through ranks (you can buy cooler ones). It’s nice to see these rewards coming for WvW and gives me hope that maybe players in Spvp will be rewarded soon.

Another concern by many of us veteran pvpers is rank points in Spvp. It’s nice that rank point rewards will be increased for all game types, but what concerns us is how hard we have worked to get to the rank that we are at and how easy it will be for new comers to achieve that same rank.

With the new rank point ladder to climb will veterans be boosted a few ranks to account for total points gained?

Remember ranks and the finishers obtained through them are the only real reward we’ve had in spvp. I’m really hoping to see some significant changes to spvp soon. Seeing how much the dev team does for PvE, and WvW content shows how much more they could do for Spvp.

Why would they suddenly tell us. It seems like they are saving all major things for the feature patch and when I say saving. I suspect spvp rewards would be the fact whatever balance they string together.

Honestly though, I see a lot of players calling themselves veterans and while that is nice, I suspect Anet cares more about attracting newer players than pleasing old players. All those changes to sPvP reward wise have been designed to benefit newer player. I think keeping rank was just a reward to get the veterans to stop complaining, but then again I am a pessimist.

Rank is virtually meaningless. Don’t mind if its actually removed later.

Pretty sure the “rank points actually mattered” boat sailed a long time ago with the implementation of skyhammer and custom arenas. Even then rank was meaningless since there was no dedicated solo q and most premades just farmed all day anyone that wanted to “yoloqueue”. Anyone that has been playing pvp for a while considers the increase in rank points good (imo) due to the grind of 150k/450k rank points per level and I personally don’t care that rank points are easier to get.

Anyone who says “rank points don’t matter” are welcome to play a team with r10s vs one with r50-60s.

After all, rank points don’t matter right?