Guild Wars 2

I am with a guild that hops servers looking for fights against other servers every new pairing. Rewards are now more of an incentive to play than ever, which may give us permanent residence some where. Will this start when the patch drops or will this start from the last time you moved?

Quick transfer to BG first now, ask question later

MMORPG: Will players who have transferred, either to be with new guilds or friends before this update, be locked out from rewards? On that note, what about players who transfer after this blog post but before the update hits the servers?

MB: You have to be on a world for an entire match to be eligible for skirmish rewards. That means if you transferred on Thursday, you would have to remain on that world the next day, Friday, and the entirety of the match that started on Friday to start earning skirmish rewards in the match after that. Therefore, any players who have transferred after the 26th will not be eligible for Skirmish rewards until they have been on that world for an entire match.

These transfer restrictions are important because we want to incentivize world loyalty and community.

Read more at http://www.mmorpg.com/guild-wars-2/interviews/exclusive-interview-about-the-wvw-skirmish-changes-and-rewards-1000011772/#8pSQVrTwusz8rpMk.99

I think the 3 weeks should be for duration of server pairings instead.

3 weeks = showing loyalty? not really, from what I’ve seen.

I agree, 3 weeks seems a little too short to mean anything close to “server loyalty”, it’s too casual a sense of the word for that time frame – it needs to be a more substantial and solid amount of time to have any sense of ‘server loyalty’. This is something you have to commit to.

Perhaps if they gave it a few tiers, it would work out. I think the goal is to allow people to transfer to play with friends/guilds without getting mollywhopped out of rewards for too long. However, the problematic transfers (whole guilds server hopping based on match-up) won’t be affected at all by 3 weeks.

edit: Obviously, this means they’ll get less rewards for about half of the linking, so it will affect them. Maybe it’s a big enough difference that it creates a deterrent while not completely disallowing the practice.

actually i think the system in place is pretty good solution:

• first week match you earn no pips.
• 3 next weeks you earn many less pips.

For 1st month the players that are hoping servers will earn less (we don’t have the numbers yet but lets say half less) pips per skirmish .

i think the math behind it is solid. And depending how many times you have to complete the pips track you need for the items that could mean a lot.

Now the core of WvW it’s server fidelity and pride so this change is good.

What about diminishing return on pips for constant server hopping? :P something like that?

SgtOVERKILL.4701:

I am with a guild that hops servers looking for fights against other servers every new pairing. Rewards are now more of an incentive to play than ever, which may give us permanent residence some where. Will this start when the patch drops or will this start from the last time you moved?

Guilds still transferring around under the premise of finding fights? No worries, Anet added a wvw LFG function. Just specify— “Fight guild—Looking For another Guild to Nuthug”

MAKE OBSIDIAN SANCTUM GUESTABLE. Guesting to other servers has no place in this game anymore as cross map pve came out years ago, make guesting to OS to other tiers viable, you already removed loot from OS as well as warscore for killing players. Guild hall arenas are complete garbage and way to tiny to fight in and have been since day 1. Making OS guestable will reignite fight guilds passion to fight each other and allow the incoming pve players to not be harassed in ebg for taking up que spots. This would also allow friends from same server to fight each other to test builds and duel.

Aitadis.8269:

MAKE OBSIDIAN SANCTUM GUESTABLE. Guesting to other servers has no place in this game anymore as cross map pve came out years ago, make guesting to OS to other tiers viable, you already removed loot from OS as well as warscore for killing players. Guild hall arenas are complete garbage and way to tiny to fight in and have been since day 1. Making OS guestable will reignite fight guilds passion to fight players and allow the incoming pve players to not be harassed in ebg for taking up que spots.

I agree, that map should become like a guild arena but not pips or reward tracks in that one, as otherwise would be easily exploitable.

ThunderPanda.1872:

Quick transfer to BG first now, ask question later

And then get stuck in queue, you know all the hibernating bg players will come back

morrolan.9608:

ThunderPanda.1872:

Quick transfer to BG first now, ask question later

And then get stuck in queue, you know all the hibernating bg players will come back

HaHa BGer here. I haven’t logged into GW2 since March. Will probably stick my head in when the patch drops to see what all the fuss is about…

so are we able to transfer now or will we be hit with a penalty? i don’t quite understand the 3 week stay thingy

Zackie.8923:

so are we able to transfer now or will we be hit with a penalty? i don’t quite understand the 3 week stay thingy

You will have a penalty if you bandwagon right now which is smart on Anets part.

“Therefore, any players who have transferred after the 26th will not be eligible for Skirmish rewards until they have been on that world for an entire match.”
Read more at http://www.mmorpg.com/guild-wars-2/interviews/exclusive-interview-about-the-wvw-skirmish-changes-and-rewards-1000011772#fylQFfGppyaUmrQL.99

If someone transferred today, when would they be eligible to start earning rewards when the new system goes live?

You would not be eligible to earn pips until the 9th if you transferred today.

From McKenna
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/New-WvW-blog-post-June-1-2017/page/2#post6605384