Guild Wars 2

Rank 11. I haven’t really done any purposeful rank specific. The ranks just came with playing.

Though, admittedly I gained about a rank and a half or maybe 2 whole ranks from sitting on an arrow cart as a what had to be a whole server zerged hills keep and got wiped over and over.

Raniri.6178:

Thirborn.4035:

Just reached rank 50

= footman still 5k per rank

I´m proud of u my homie

worldwide first ???

nope. Vi Au was a footman this morning ~12hrs ago when i saw em..not sure when he actually got it though.

Got Rank 69 tonight.

Fuzzion.2504:

Got Rank 69 tonight.

ss or it didnt happen

Too bad ArenaNet took down their blog because it was full of little gems like this:

http://www.gw2fans.com/misc/news/images/resized/2010-07-30-levelling2.jpg

You know, the flat levelling curve with a bunch of words they didn’t really believe in because 7 months out from the gate and they supplement their levelling curve with a tonne of systems which exactly mimic traditional MMO skinner box progression?

We moved level grind progressions into WvW ranks and real time gated gear grinds. Look at how unique and innovative we are as a company. It’s totally not the same thing that’s been done before that we criticised for prioritising time sinks and psychology tricks over fun and engaging content you want to play rather than feel obligated to repeat to advance.

Promote and launch the game on one philosophy, develop and grow the game on the one you said you set out to avoid. I wish there was more integrity in GW2s continued development.

Shiren.9532:

Too bad ArenaNet took down their blog because it was full of little gems like this:

http://www.gw2fans.com/misc/news/images/resized/2010-07-30-levelling2.jpg

You know, the flat levelling curve with a bunch of words they didn’t really believe in because 7 months out from the gate and they supplement their levelling curve with a tonne of systems which exactly mimic traditional MMO skinner box progression?

We moved level grind progressions into WvW ranks and real time gated gear grinds. Look at how unique and innovative we are as a company. It’s totally not the same thing that’s been done before that we criticised for prioritising time sinks and psychology tricks over fun and engaging content you want to play rather than feel obligated to repeat to advance.

Promote and launch the game on one philosophy, develop and grow the game on the one you said you set out to avoid. I wish there was more integrity in GW2s continued development.

^this^

ANet has resorted to useless and mindless progression because they are neither clever enough nor sufficiently resourced to do anything better. They either cannot or are unwilling to fix the fundamental issues of WvW and make it more inherently enjoyable … so they added distractions instead. GW2 is a sadly unfulfilled promise and has become simply a placeholder for me until TESO arrives.

Shiren.9532:

Too bad ArenaNet took down their blog because it was full of little gems like this:

http://www.gw2fans.com/misc/news/images/resized/2010-07-30-levelling2.jpg

You know, the flat levelling curve with a bunch of words they didn’t really believe in because 7 months out from the gate and they supplement their levelling curve with a tonne of systems which exactly mimic traditional MMO skinner box progression?

We moved level grind progressions into WvW ranks and real time gated gear grinds. Look at how unique and innovative we are as a company. It’s totally not the same thing that’s been done before that we criticised for prioritising time sinks and psychology tricks over fun and engaging content you want to play rather than feel obligated to repeat to advance.

Promote and launch the game on one philosophy, develop and grow the game on the one you said you set out to avoid. I wish there was more integrity in GW2s continued development.

Moving on from this totally off-topic post in a thread which has nothing to do at all with leveling…

I’m rank 4, despite the fact that WvW is all I ever used to do. Been too busy with my legendary grind. Almost done.

Rank 8 i really don’t like the ranks though wish they were account bound or felt like i was actually designing a role for myself instead of grinding threw all these ranks until i reach the end.

Otokomae.9356:

SmokeyNYY.7841:

Urrid.4593:

bradderzh.2378:

Around lvl 5-7 on a number of alts (yeah I ain’t gonna stop playing them all just because Anet wants me to)
It’s a broken system anyway. Just got to rename karma farm to Wxp farm and we are good to go.

Anet missed an incredible opportunity to reward the guys who defend those camps, buff those yaks, build oil, and all those little things that make those wooden structured turn into actual fortifications.

A million times this…. THIS!

Building up a broken cannon/oil should = WxP. Repairing a gate is currently the only outright “defensive” thing that currently rewards WxP if a tower/keep/castle is defended.

Then you would have people repairing garrison walls against trebs for hours long wasting all our supple when we don’t want you to repair just so you get some wxp? No thank you, way too many ways for this to be abused.

Yeah, as much as I would love to see these kind of things rewarded with wxp, people would ruin it, I’m afraid. And not a few people, but massive numbers. There’s a reason why escorting Dolyaks currently gives no rewards whatsoever; you used to get karma/silver/xp for escorting Dolyaks, just like any other event, until people figured out that Dolyaks could be used as a never ending karma train that way! We ended up with massive zergs of 50+, often 50-90% of the entire que for a map, just running Dolyaks back and forth and nothing else. I remember seeing nearly an entire week’s matchup, right before the Dolyak escort event rewards were removed, where all week long we had 3 Borderland maps that stayed full-capped at 1 color each, because once the Dolyaks had somewhere to go, each Dolyak seemed to get its own massive zerg assigned to it running non-stop, leaving little to no room for an organized guild who wanted to play for points to all gather on the same map.

We essentially have the same thing going on right now, with massive zergs flipping everything in sight, and asking people NOT to upgrade, siege, or defend anything, because they want to lose each point so they can come back and flip it again. But even this is less disheartening than seeing nearly the entire que for a map walking dolyaks in day after day.

If they can figure out a way to prevent this kind of abuse, however, I’d LOVE to see people being better rewarded for actually working on things that help the server, such as upgrading, repairing, and so forth. I’d also like to see the tag-based reward system reversed somewhat; currently, WvW gives greater rewards based on the number of people involved, such as giving MORE points to s large group killing a Dolyak than you would get for killing the same Yak with a small group (or solo). This really should be fixed, so that a Dolyak always gives the same number of points when killed, or gives more points based on how small the group is; example- 10 points for soloing a Dolyak, but only 1 point for killing it with a group or 10 or more. Right now it’s the opposite of this; currently you get 10 points if 10 people tag a Yak, but only 1 point if you solo it, so groups smaller than 10 are actually penalized, and hurt their server by costing them potential points.

Easy fix to the problem

diminishing returns on quests you complete over and over and over and over and over in a period of time. So lets say if you complete a dolyak escort you get rewarded the full amount the first time half the second time half of that the 3rd and so on till it gets to an extremely low amount then it just sits their until you stop escorting dolyaks for a cooldown period.

Seriously don’t take away a reward make it so they can’t consistently farm the same reward force them to add variety to their game play. All they do when they take away rewards is take away variety.

Easy work around to your fix- when returns start diminishing, switch toons and work on the next one for x minutes or however long the diminished returns last for, switch back.

Go Go you Rankers!

At my current rate of progression I reckon I will hit rank 30 on at least one of my mains around Xmas:-)

give us some updates you frontrunners

I know Vi Au passed 100 already, can’t remember exactly what he said his ranking is at.

The highest we have on SoR is 120 which is ‘Legend’ i personally gave up serious grinding for Ranks when no Rank Leaderboard came out.

from what i know 60 knight 70 major 80 collonel