Guild Wars 2

Make wxp account bound.

You are punishing those that run alts, and now with stat bonuses from applied stacks you are creating an a grind based advancement system.

If i had to play only 1 class in wvw id have quit already, recognise that alts keep the game fresh for a significant portion of your playerbase.

- WXP ranks should be account based in my opinion

- When will we get WXP rank resets? I’m sick of seeing new ranks come out because we don’t get a refund of points to redistribute them accordingly. Case in point: Catapult Mastery, Build Mastery, Repair Mastery, to name a few examples (and most likely more ranks to come in the future that we won’t be able to get until there’s another overpowered arrow carts shenanigan, and we eventually get another reset). WHY come out with new ranks and torment us with them, knowing full well that most of us cannot benefit from them because we 1) have already spent our points, or 2) cannot mind read?

A simple rank reset option each time a new rank comes out would suffice – it’s that simple, it’s not rocket science people.

- When will match ups be fixed? Piken Square is against Desolation YET AGAIN this week, and it was bad enough losing 95% of everything last week, but this cabbage of a match up makes me not want to WvW at all any more – and I basically only play GW2 for WvW. I thought you guys want to encourage people to play WvW, not deter them? Because right now, you’re doing a very good job at making people hate WvW – this needs fixing.

i think it would be nice if there will be an NPC that can reset your WXP points for some fee, like it is for traits.

I agree with everyone else here that world xp should be account bound, there is nothing preventing having this system whilst allowing different distributions of the skill points on characters. I play multiple characters evenly to fit whatever gaps my guild needs, I shouldn’t punished for it.

Also, is there a reasonable possibility of getting one achievement point per rank, which is hardly unfair considering the horrific state of WvWvW achievements.

Matt Witter.6982:

Q: Does Siege Might stack with the damage boosts in the cannon and ballista mastery lines?
A: Yes.

- Please do go into details! Does it stack additively or multiplicatively?

Yes, WXP should be account based. Feels so grindy to have to rank up all alts.

Totally agree on WXP being account based, specially now they have the account wallet and thus sharing the Badges of Honor among your account.

5 supply make so much different that it takes forever to get, it’s extremely important especially in big zerg mob. I wonder what was in the head of the guy who created that one, something very dumb definitely.

Wiseman.4075:

Please make wxp account bound! How are any of our alts supposed to ever compete against someone that has Full stacks of 250+Power, 250+Vitality, 250+ Condition dmg and have time gated ascended gear/legendaries?

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To play wvw nearly exclusively and always feel under classed, even though account wide you have more levels than other people, is just lame and a terrible mechanic.

+1

how come there’s no reset for WvW traits like there is for PVE ?
are you planning to ever implement one so we can respec or correct mistakes ?

Honestly I don’t think they should ever give Wxp resets. Forces people to actually think and do research and punishes them for being careless.

Omne.4603:

Honestly I don’t think they should ever give Wxp resets. Forces people to actually think and do research and punishes them for being careless.

Which would make sense in a static game. The dev team though releases new mastery skills quite often. In my opinion, it should reset anytime ANET makes a change to any mastery skill.

i like how ranks are character bound. just like daoc. you become renowned for your rank. daoc did rvr/wvw correct.

Assassin X.8573:

i like how ranks are character bound. just like daoc. you become renowned for your rank. daoc did rvr/wvw correct.

How to you become renowned for rank? Outside of playing one character for a long period of time it means little. Only advantage are the extra ability points.

Assassin X.8573:

i like how ranks are character bound. just like daoc. you become renowned for your rank. daoc did rvr/wvw correct.

It would be a whole lot easier to become renowned for your rank if people on your server could see your rank. Since only your enemies can see your rank, however, and they’ve taken pains to make it difficult to communicate with your enemy, it doesn’t really translate to much.

one thought that I wanted to throw out here. No one likes to be an invader everyone likes to be a legend.

Why make the ranks go Invader→Legend, Bronze Invader→Bronze Legend, etc.. Why didn’t you make it go

Invader, Bronze Invader → Diamond Invader, Assaulter → Diamond Assaulter, etc…

Matt Witter.6982:

Q. Do Experience Boosters work with WXP? And if not, will WXP Boosters be introduced at some point?
A. No and yes.
Experience Boosts will not increase your World XP rewards and we do have intentions to add a World Experience Boost in the future.

Isn’t there a WvW exp booster now
[&AgH1rwAA]
so this should be updated NOW

If fractal level is now account-bound so that players can do fractals on their alts, why not do the same for WvW? I have 8 level 80’s and play all of them in WvW. If I stuck to one toon, I’d be over world rank 300.

Why should each of my characters have a separate WvW ranking? All that does is penalize me for creating, leveling, gearing and buying skins for multiple toons… It makes no sense at all. Please consider changing WvW ranking to ‘account-bound’.

After no less than ten thousand cries of anguish from players, and devs vehemently protesting anything like this ever, you have finally caved in. Excellent. Progress. If we kick up an equally large fuss will you give us account bound dyes?

DevonCarver.5370:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

WXP will be account bound soon.

slow clap I finally see progression from anet. What about that precursor scavenge hunt and advertised “farm-free”?

Brutal Arts.6307:

After no less than ten thousand cries of anguish from players, and devs vehemently protesting anything like this ever, you have finally caved in. Excellent. Progress. If we kick up an equally large fuss will you give us account bound dyes?

Only one of those things affect the economy unless you know of a way to turn ranks into gold.

DevonCarver.5370:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

WXP will be account bound soon.

Anyone else remember when this same guy was the one that said, this will never happen and there was no plan of doing? Because some of us still do, although it will be a nice update when it happens.

kamedin.4698:

DevonCarver.5370:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

WXP will be account bound soon.

Anyone else remember when this same guy was the one that said, this will never happen and there was no plan of doing? Because some of us still do, although it will be a nice update when it happens.

I do remember some dev was saying that but I couldn’t find that thread anymore. I had some really good arguments on it but when I check my thread history yesterday, it’s all gone.

DevonCarver.5370:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/world-xp-and-you/

WXP will be account bound soon.

Don’t forget to make the WXP Mini-Boosters Account Bound while you’re at it!

So when the ranks become account bound. Say my total rank is 400. does that mean I have 400 points to put into each character, or does it mean I have 400 points to split between all my characters.

AcFiBu.9624:

So when the ranks become account bound. Say my total rank is 400. does that mean I have 400 points to put into each character, or does it mean I have 400 points to split between all my characters.

My interpretation is each character will have the “400” to spend individually. (the former)

Some of my friends interpreted this the other way. (the latter)

The former seems to make more sense to me, it would be strange seeing Bronze/Silver Legends running around without points invested in anything (eg Guard Leech/Applied Fortitude)
It would also have a bigger impact, making those wxp earned on alts more rewarding. crosses fingers

DevonCarver.5370:

AcFiBu.9624:

So when the ranks become account bound. Say my total rank is 400. does that mean I have 400 points to put into each character, or does it mean I have 400 points to split between all my characters.

It means that you have 400 points for each character and can spend them however you want on each.

Wait wait wait. This still leaves me slightly confused.

I was under the impression that if I have 400 points, and spend 50 on character A, I could only spend 350 for character B. Then I have none to spend for character C.

Are you saying that if I have 400 points account-wide, I can spend 400 for character A, 400 for character B, 400 for character C, and I can create a new character D, and spend 400 points on them? (Yes for 400 points per character; No for 400 points spread between all characters)

Thank you for the clarification.

Devon,

Are you aware of the bug in WvW that makes an Elementalist worth no WXP whenever they use their downed state mist form?

So all Elementalists are worth 0 WXP.

Submitted to the bug forum, but heard nothing back about it.

Will we get a WXP Skill Tree reset when this account-bound WXP arrives?

Will the sum of all my alts add up to the pool level when it is account bound? So say i have a 25 20 5 10, will i be 60?

TimeBomb.3427:

DevonCarver.5370:

AcFiBu.9624:

So when the ranks become account bound. Say my total rank is 400. does that mean I have 400 points to put into each character, or does it mean I have 400 points to split between all my characters.

It means that you have 400 points for each character and can spend them however you want on each.

Wait wait wait. This still leaves me slightly confused.

I was under the impression that if I have 400 points, and spend 50 on character A, I could only spend 350 for character B. Then I have none to spend for character C.

Are you saying that if I have 400 points account-wide, I can spend 400 for character A, 400 for character B, 400 for character C, and I can create a new character D, and spend 400 points on them? (Yes for 400 points per character; No for 400 points spread between all characters)

Thank you for the clarification.

To me the wording is clear that all WxP you earn is account wide, but they can be distributed uniquely on each character. So YES, it would be 400 points that you can spend differently on each character, not points that would be used up by each character.

Personally I’m excited about this and it will bring me back to WvW. Now not only can I play whatever class I want to or my party needs without being stuck with 8 low rank builds instead of one high rank which crippled my WvW abilities, but they took it a step further with being able to individually build the characters for the WvW. I cannot click +1 enough for this change.

So assuming im not missing something here this is basically what will happen:

All earned WXP will be consolidated into an account WXP meter. So, Char A has 100WXP, char B has 100 WXP (100+100 = 200) Account WXP = 200. both characters gain 200WXP and you can attribute whatever this equals in rank points separately to each character for different purposes. Assuming you have more than one character every character will rise in WXP/rank to the bare minimum of what ever your highest already character Rank is. If you only have one, it will stay the same.

Right?

DevonCarver.5370:

AcFiBu.9624:

So when the ranks become account bound. Say my total rank is 400. does that mean I have 400 points to put into each character, or does it mean I have 400 points to split between all my characters.

It means that you have 400 points for each character and can spend them however you want on each.

Where an answer brings more question…

Nebilim.5127:

Will the sum of all my alts add up to the pool level when it is account bound? So say i have a 25 20 5 10, will i be 60?

No. You will be 48 due to how levels 1-4 cost the same as levels thereafter.

Avigrus.2871:

Devon,

Are you aware of the bug in WvW that makes an Elementalist worth no WXP whenever they use their downed state mist form?

So all Elementalists are worth 0 WXP.

Submitted to the bug forum, but heard nothing back about it.

Recently killed players give 0 wxp. How many Ele’s live long enough to be worth any WXP?

elderan.2638:

300 ranks for 5 extra supply is just ridiculous, that costs as much as maxing everything else combined. Either lower the cost substantially or raise it to 10-15 extra supply.

I’m at plus 4 at the moment. Easy for me since I have no need for the other buffs. I do have the recovery buff too. I was able to repair a door with 23 supply(19+4). If everyone were to carry 15-20 supply, only 4 or 5 would get supply instead of 10 from a camp capture. I like the supply at 300 ranks as is. Ranks the way they are now(5000 wxp), most players will have 1000 ranks within a year anyway. I felt the same way as the OP at the beginning as why so many ranks to carry more supply. But now that I did the grind, I have no regrets.

Thank you for the upcoming change to make wxp account bound. I would like to request a reset of wxp traits so I can spend them properly.

Can we have an ETA on acct bound wxp devon?

some corrections to the faq are in order:

Q: Do Objective Leaders or lords count towards the Guard Killer or Defense Against Guards abilities?
A: [Previously: No.]
A: Yes, with appropriate level of the trait.

Q: Does Siegerazer give me more than 10 supply if I have Supply Capacity unlocked?
A: [Previously: Siegerazer gives players 100% of your maximum supply.]
A: Siegerazer gives you 10 supply, specifically, your supply is set to the greater of 10 or the amount of supply you have on hand.

So the new patch has come and gone and the WXP being made account bound hasn’t been done yet. Which means we now have a large wait until the next patch. Could we get an update on when it will happen please.

yeah when when when,

since this is announched im playing on my alt characters more and more.

but patch gone and alts still on wvw level 15

can anet give us an estimated time window?

Anet said that there will be no updates until LS season 1 is finished. At least there will be no update until 21th January. Maybe they talked about major updates, but this change may be in column “place it asap”
Time window in this case is somewhere between 1 month-6 months

I’d like ANet to enable our WvW ranks to be seen by our allies. Only the enemy can see if, but you most likely never to see that person again and they will only recognise you if your rank is like Diamond Legend. I think they could give you titles each time you reach a rank that gives you a new one. Or they could automatically give you your rank. So you could have your name then your chosen title and below that your WvW rank. As much as I like WvW I would have more of an incentive to play WvW if my team could see my rank. Also I I’d be cool for the ranks to be account bound.

Make ranks acct bound already! Cant wait lol

Are there plans to introduce new mastery lines?

Looking forward to this. Can’t wait.

CrazyBeast.5379:

I’d like ANet to enable our WvW ranks to be seen by our allies. Only the enemy can see if, but you most likely never to see that person again and they will only recognise you if your rank is like Diamond Legend. I think they could give you titles each time you reach a rank that gives you a new one. Or they could automatically give you your rank. So you could have your name then your chosen title and below that your WvW rank. As much as I like WvW I would have more of an incentive to play WvW if my team could see my rank. Also I I’d be cool for the ranks to be account bound.

Would be awesome if they had a little rank insignia for each rank attached to the tag (maybe visible only to allies).