Guild Wars 2

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that there needs to be some sort of Herald for the WvWvW system that gives ranking for players/guilds for each server. Ranking that involves top kills, keep defense, keep takes, tower takes, tower defense, orb takes, how long orbs have been held, etc. The system would display the top ten players/guilds per server and also it would be nice if it showed the current WvWvW state for the servers so people away from the game could check on it and see how their server is doing and have something to dabble in while waiting to get back to the game. Also an in-game /stat system that showed players total kills/badges earned for the day would be fun.

This was one of my favorite things about DAoC. I hope they plan to implement this in the future.

I can’t agree more, not only a Herald – but in order for WvW to keep my interest (keep playing basically) – I want to see Realm Ranks. As someone said in another post here, I don’t care if you copy DAoC. The Realm Rank & Realm Ability system in DAoC is the reason that MMO has been able to keep my attention for over a decade.

I know Guild Wars 2 is brand new, and I know the business model is based off of expansions which is excellent. Hope we can see it sooner than later.

I do like the Realm Rank (rr, whats ur RR bro?) system in DAoC but if they did it here it would have to be done really well because the system from dark age just provides too much power to a players character that has most time played. Titles and cosmetics would be just as effective I think and more player friendly. They could even add a realm rank system that could act like a separate character progression route for WvWvW in which you increase in rank based on point earnings. That also has its own list of titles based on number of players killed, or number of points you have for killing enemy players, taking keeps, etc just with no extra abilities or stat boosts.

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I do like the Realm Rank (rr, whats ur RR bro?) system in DAoC but if they did it here it would have to be done really well because the system from dark age just provides too much power to a players character that has most time played. Titles and cosmetics would be just as effective I think and more player friendly. They could even add a realm rank system that could act like a separate character progression route for WvWvW in which you increase in rank based on point earnings. That also has its own list of titles based on number of players killed, or number of points you have for killing enemy players, taking keeps, etc just with no extra abilities or stat boosts.

Agreed, I’m all for Realm Ranks being cosmetic. It would add flavour to incentive, and some rivals on home servers too, which is always healthy.

Realm Ranks would definitely be interesting. They would just need to make sure that they were only able to be used in WvWvW and maybe PvE. I don’t think anyone would want Realm Ranks in sPvP. Warhammer had a pretty good Realm Ability system that was a bit toned down from DAoC if I remember correctly.