Guild Wars 2

Mkalafut.1273:

Achievement points in GW2 are infinite.. you can earn infinite achievement points with daily and monthly rewards. 500 points in the long term is no significant factor. In fact I bet by the time I even see my final set of rewards (7000 at the time of this posting) you will probably have 500 more achievement points to compensate for this.

Yes, dailies and monthlies are inflating the AP pool by about 19 points a day. So all the gw1 players can take a break for the month of February.

And really? You think 1g is an advantage? Spend 10m and run CoF P1 and there – even play field again.

As an established player 1 or 2 gold is not quite insignificant but no not a game advantage. As a beginner though I clearly remember 2 gold being quite significant (e.g. my first character was into his 70’s before I could buy the 2g lvl 60 training manual).

Mkalafut.1273:

Achievement points don’t have an effect on the game.

Since ANet has chosen to make the leaderboard based on AP they in some ways, and for many players, have made them the most important measure from the game.

From what I recall Anet saying pre-launch and what the gw1 wiki still says “The bonuses are not intended to confer a significant advantage for original Guild Wars players over those new to the Guild Wars games”.

With this change it effectively gives gw1 players an instant 2 gold, 1% magic find and all the other rewards from the first 2 ap chests. But more importantly to me a permanent 500 point advantage on the leaderboards which for most of the leaderboard is well over 100 ranks difference. It just gives too much weight to something that is a separate activity from gw2.

As Taegos hints at, a few months back it was changed in dungeons so that you can only revive when your whole party is out of combat.

Keg brawl just worked for me again, going to try crab toss now.

Won twice today, no daily achievement. Really frustrating since I love this activity sooo much to start with. :/

Thorvald.5432”

It is not ELO but a modified version of Glicko

So do we know if that is Trueskill, some other published Glicko variant or there own system?