Guild Wars 2

I would like to know more about the WvW ranking system that is going to be implemented next patch.

Can you lose ranking at all? By dying etc? On the flip side, can you cause others to lose ranking by killing them?

If not, this is just going to turn into yet another grind.

Reikou.7068:

I would like to know more about the WvW ranking system that is going to be implemented next patch.

Can you lose ranking at all? By dying etc? On the flip side, can you cause others to lose ranking by killing them?

If not, this is just going to turn into yet another grind.

There is not much information available, but considering the point system is based on kill tags, the most worthless and zerg friendly metric you could possibly come up with, I think it is safe to say that this system will not implement a way to lose ranking.

Niim.9260:

There is not much information available, but considering the point system is based on kill tags, the most worthless and zerg friendly metric you could possibly come up with, I think it is safe to say that this system will not implement a way to lose ranking.

You didn’t read the blog post, did you?

Its not measured on only kill tags.

People don’t really like to lose things when they die, have you seen the amount of complaints about repair bills in wvw? :P

Anyway, personally i don’t think losing points when you die would be a good idea. Lets say you have a crappy connection, you suck at 1vX, whatever, but you’re always there for your team, scouting, killing/escorting yaks, building siege, defending, etc… Don’t you deserve to be able to move up ranks just as fast as a guy who sits inside the zerg spamming 1 at whatever he can see and getting rank points for everything the commander takes him to, even though your k/d is no where near as good? IMO a penalty on death would encourage zerging even more.

No you cant lose them by dying