Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m playing WvW-only since I hit 80 with my toon. After playing DAOC RVR for years this is the first MMORPG I’m really enjoying. But unlike the good-old DAOC time my played-time is very limited now (~1h a weekday, few hours on weekends).

I’m at 3000 player kills in WvW atm which took me forever. Also getting all full exo stuff on my 2 toons took sooo much time while playing WvW only. I’m really concerned that I once again have to start at ZERO with the upcoming WvW prestige update.

I mean all those 24/7 bandwagoners with their pve legendaries/ ascendants or rr40 spvp experience will join WvW once there’s progression to farm.

tldr; Any chances the upcoming WvW prestige update will be some kind of retrospective (factoring in the existing WvW achievements)?

I would really appreciate an official statement on that.

TIA

have been wondering this myself.

I hope they do retroactively allocate prestige based on what players have achieved on their current server, so the players that have played on one server since day 1 are fully rewarded, and the server hoppers are therefore penalised for the annoyance they have caused to those for whom server loyalty means something.

@Biganorak – Great idea to reward server loyalty this way. But I dont think Anet will do something like that. I dont like server hopping (playing on the same server since head-start), but its sadly a valid feature of the game.

Hopefully we get an initial prestige bonus for playing WvW for month. But Im afraid we all start at zero. ;(

….Are you saying that all those pve players will come and farm….what exactly? You?

You see people come to take your precious achievements, i see walking lootbags.

If you´ve played 1000h of wvw, there´s no way that you´ll start on the same line as someone who hasn´t played a single minute. If you really haven´t learned anyhting and aren´t infinitely more skilled in the game mode than random scrubs then you deserve to be left on the curb.

It’s not really about lootbags or any WvW stats. Can’t you read ?

It’s about TIME spent for nada. Lol @ Experience bullkitten

Good move would be a bit of retrospective for old players and some new gearmill/Prestige grind to keep everyone playing.

I’m hoping badges will be useful to either buy the gear or buy the prestige(with no badge sink).

etrigan.4213:

I’m hoping badges will be useful to either buy the gear or buy the prestige(with no badge sink).

The problem is your approach would punish all players who already have bought siege or exos for their badges.

IMO it would be better to use WvW achievements for a retrospective prestige bonus, e.g. convert WvW player kills into a certain amount of prestige. The problem is that WvW achievements are account-bound not char-bound.

Prestige won’t be retroactive. I don’t think it should be, and I’ve been wvw’n for a long time

Prestige being retroactive would not be fun for me.

I play for progression, and I want to progress from 0, not from retroaction.