Guild Wars 2

Bhawb.7408:

Destromestro.9428:

What does the PvP rank mean now??? If you cant do anything specific to your rank or if you can’t show it to other players what does it mean to the player?

Its the stuff you unlock with each new level, plus the feeling of “progression”. That’s about it really, and honestly that’s mostly all its ever been.

No not really. We had level based vendors and level based crafting ( I mean you can’t gather materials to craft Tiger gear without hitting Tiger ) . There were many times I looked up to superior ranked players and learnt from them. It meant something to many players before. This is not a complain . As I have said in a previous post , I’m thankful for the changes that happened recently to PvP. But if people are saying that PvP Rank meant nothing well then I have to step up.

kito.1827:

showing ranks at the end of a match did nothing good for any player, not for a single moment since implementation.
it is a well thought step forward to not show them anymore; they were only food for flamers.

i thought at least in tournament matches they will implement leaderboard ranking. big shame they didn’t.

people were always complaining about meaningless ranks, that they were not showing player skill in any way, just some kind of time investment.
true.
so anet changed the way ranks are like pve-lvl’s work, thats fine for a time investment.

now there are people getting from complaining meaningless ranks to complaining meaningless ranks. complainers always complain i guess.

on the other hand i have to say that it’s a bit anets fault, because they have to deliver a replacement for players to show off how good they are.
that is just because people need to do so (i dunno why but most people do).

and anet never mentioned any kind of replacement. i’m talking about an ongoing process, nothing like leagues or anything mentioned to be seasonal.
something like titles for tournament matches won. maybe separated solo/team.
too many really good suggestions already on this forum for skill-showing titles.

I agree with some of your points. However ,This game has a community and its a social game . If you ask the question " I dunno why people wanna show how good they are?" or " I dunno why people have to show rank?" then you also should ask the question " Why would someone want to go through a hell of a paint to get a legendary weapon?" . Imagine you obtain a legendary and you can’t show it to anyone and you are the only one who can see it in a private instance . “Why is there a star sign on top of the players name who have done 100% map completion?” . Following your logic , I can also ask what good it does by showing it to other players ? Same as all that ,PvP rank defenitely reflects the commitment you made to PvP. Other people know that atleast you have been playing it for a while .

Bhawb.7408:

Because all it lead to was more toxicity, something the game has too much of already. Seeing the rank at the end of the match did nothing important, there was nothing gained. It did however give people who were already annoyed something to rage about.

I’m a hardcore PvP player and someone who is really happy with the changes Anet made with PvP . I understand that a change is never easy and all PvP players should have little more patient with new PvE players in our tPvP maps and I know that some PvE players don’t listen to experienced PvP players and it irritates people.

This reminds me of the first few weeks of the launch . PvP looked just like this back then because all of us were new. But we learnt it after a while. The difference is we had no one to tell us ‘what to do’ or ’ noob don’t do that! fight in the node!’ etc. In time, they will learn how to play it and I’m kinda happy we have new players.

However , non of this answer the question I made in my other post.

What does the PvP rank mean now??? If you cant do anything specific to your rank or if you can’t show it to other players what does it mean to the player?

It is very clear that Anet want to drag more PvE players in to PvP . So I think they removed rank from the score board to

1) Prevent hardcore PvP players from discovering that they have lot of newbies in their tournament team ( imagine seeing a score board with following ranks 48, 5,6,5,5 )

2) Prevent PvE players to feel like they are newbies in PvP (imagine a PvE player having all that flashy gear with legendaries discovering that another guy in the same team with ‘crappy gear’ has a far more superior rank)

I made a post about the same thing in the morning

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/What-does-PVP-rank-means-after-the-patch-1/first#post3944908

Aryith.2504:

So I havent played in roughly 6-8 months and I just got a new PC so i can play the game flawlessly. But I logged in and was a little overwhelmed by some changes. Is there anyway someone could enlighten me on the updates the game from the past few months.

For example

I logged on and I was spammed with notifications about my wallet and that I had gear equipped with no stats and that I needed to double click to change it.. I was just utterly confused. Any help is appreciated.

Hi Aryith,

Bro you gotta lot to catch up I guess. I’m a PVP player so Ill fill you in with + some+ info regarding that area. Here is a list of things that have been changed since you left

1.) Glory
Glory has been removed completely from the game. You will see nothing not a single thing related to glory including vendors.

2.) PVP items and gear
PvP items and lockers have been removed. If you owned any amount of PVP gear in the past, they all have been converted to skins and placed in your + wardrobe + (you can access wardrobe by hitting H)
So technically actual PVP item vanished in to thin air and the gear your characters have are the gear you got in PVE. Therefore when you go to the mist you will carry out your PVE gear. If you want your old look back in PVP you have to apply the skins to the PVE + gear using the +wardrobe . These skins have an unlimited use however, to apply a skin to gear, it will cost you one Transmutation Point
At the beginning you will be given Transmutation Points equal to your PVP level and there are several ways to earn more of them in the game or alternatively you can buy them in gem store.
However, in PVP items will lose all the stats and they will appear back when you go to PVE

3.) Underwater Combat
You will be glad or sad to hear that underwater combat has been removed from PVP

4.) PvP rewards
Since there are no PVP items You will be rewarded + PVE+ loot, armor ,weapons and GOLD when you play PvP

5) Traits
There are new traits. Basically every trait line has a 13th ability which you need to unlock by meeting a trainer or doing a specific event

6) Runes, Sigils and Amulets
PVP will still have its own Runes, Sigils and Amulets separated from PVE
Runes
Can’t apply mixed runes you have to apply 6 from one kind. However it’s more rewarding.
Sigils
Two handed weapons can be applied two sigils and there are few new sigils
Amulets
There are two new ones you need to unlock
Can do all this by clicking the PVP Build button on the top mid when you are in the mist

7) Ferocity
More of a general change. Chrit damage is connected to a new stat call Ferocity . Just like other stats (Toughness ? Armor or Power ? attack power ) Ferocity will decide the Crit Damage

There are many more but these are essentials to know for PVP

Good luck and welcome back!

Zach.3264:

MM is extremely easy to play because of how bad the target system is in this game.

What would be a better system? Just asking out of curiosity.
Thanks!

Angelica Dream.7103:

I am pretty new to PVP so this may not be an issue with experienced players. But it is really annoying that after the match is over that people are still trying to kill me.
I want to look at the board, see how many points I got, see what place I ended up in. Mostly to see if i am improving.

I have even congratulated an opponent when I had a really knock out drag out fight and lost. (of course when not tying to be murdered after the event is over LOL)

Hi Angelica,

It’s great to hear that you are enjoying and improving. I have a hot fix for this problem .

I G N O R E

It takes time to get use to it. But now I just open the score board and don’t care if someones killing me cuz, the game is OVER

wish you luck with PVP and try my method LOL

Cheers!

Thanks for the response guys!

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

rank means time spent playing also experience. it was never the base of skill like others trying to imply.

No offence pal, but you came up with the basic explanation of what a ‘Rank’ means.

But what is the use of it if a player can’t

1) Do things based on that level
2) At least show the level to other players since they removed it from the sPvP score board.

At this point rank seems to me as just a number that I only can see. I am not complaining and as a hardcore PVP player, I really appreciate the way ANet buffed the PVP rewards . I’m Just trying to find out if there is anything out there that’s connected to the PvP rank or if they have any future plans with it.

Hi all,
This is my first post. Maybe this might sound stupid or maybe it has been discussed already. My question is what does PVP rank means now? In other way, what a lvl 80 can do differently than a lvl 1 ? I understand that higher ranks will be rewarded better items when they go to the next rank. But other than that what are the things that are connected to the rank? Before the patch, there was glory and there were lvl based vendors so the lvl made more sense . Can someone please explain what it means now?

Thanks!