People come into borderlands looking for fights. The problem with the DBL is that its so big that it’s impossible to find enemies and good fights.
The solution is to create a system that would incite fights and draw them to where they are happening.
SOLUTION: THE INFAMY SYSTEM
Players now gain infamy for killing others in WvW. As you kill more players, your level of infamy rises (sort of like a mini xp bar). Killing the same player more than once within a 15m period yields reduced to eventually no infamy. Killing the same player repeatedly increases the duration to prevent kill trading.
Infamy Level 1, You are no one: Gain 10% more WXP
Infamy Level 2, People are talking about you: Gain 5% magic find + 2% more for each person you kill until you reach +50%. Stacks with all other magic find bonuses.
Infamy Level 3, Now they know your name: Gain +10 vitality for each enemy (player or guard) you kill to a maximum of +200. Now each time you kill an enemy player, your location is pinged to all adversaries on the map for 1 second.
Infamy Level 4, Now they fear your name. Gain +10 power for each enemy (player or guard) you kill to a maximum of +200. No each time you kill an enemy player, your location is pinged to all adversaries on the map for 15 seconds.
Infamy Level 5, Tyria’s Most Wanted: Greatly increases the quality of loot obtained by killing enemies. Enemies also gain an increased chance of gaining rare loot for you also. Your location is marked on the map for all adversaries permanently.
Being killed (fully dead past down state) reduces your infamy to zero.
For commanders that want to control their infamy level, a new consumable called a “Writ of Pardon” can be bought from the WvW vendor that reduces your infamy to zero and prevents you from gaining infamy for 15mins. “Timeless pardons” can also be bought that prevent you from gaining infamy until you swap maps or leave WvW.
PURPOSE OF THIS SYSTEM:
To create fights. Well known killers and havok groups will mark themselves on the map as they continue to kill, leading to hunting parties and inevitably funneling players into confrontations.
This will also create known WvW names and can possibly be tied into leaderboards. Players that reach level 5 infamy and stay there will become WvW celebrities and high value targets, making the game more interesting.
No longer will people wander aimlessly around huge maps not having fun. The infamy system tells you where to go to kill and get killed. As good players make more kills and get themselves in more hot water, fights will come to them and naturally happen.
The system will allow for creating nemesis encounters where popular WvWer’s that reach rank 5 are repeatedly hunted by their equals. Players that do reach rank 5 also gain the old guard killer bonuses to make them tougher to kill and more deadly to face.
Players that want to opt out of the system can simply use a writ and enjoy wvw as they normally do. I highly doubt people outside of commanders will writ much once they see how the system works. People will want to be rank 5 and known, good players will rise up to be constantly hunted -a position they will like because targets come to them.
(edited by lordhelmos.7623)