Guild Wars 2

Jest.9276:

I’m not really sure what the spirit behind this is. Glory rank is pretty much just a gateway for aesthetic gear… but you get higher level aesthetic gear from winning tournaments. So is the glory point distribution primarily for earned progress for the teams even when they don’t win?

I know why it’s a concern in SPvP just doesn’t seem like it should be that big of a deal for tournament play.

While it is, in the end, a gateway to better looking gear, it’s also a sign of progression. Why should one role be punished more than all the others in terms of this progression, even when they may be doing their specific job just as well? In terms of tournaments giving higher tier aesthetic gear, that is true. But, what may be aesthetically pleasing to one person may not be the case with another. Your options are also very limited with the tournament gear, as it basically only gives one “tier” of availability. If you check out the PvP locker, you can preview some of the gear you can get at higher levels of glory, and to me a lot of those pieces are very aesthetically pleasing.

I’ll have to disagree with you on your last point. It would be even more beneficial for this change to occur in tPvP than in sPvP because of the coordination involved in one and the lack-of in the other. This lack of coordination is caused by winning actually meaning something in tPvP while this isn’t the case in sPvP. You don’t really gain anything extra by winning in sPvP, so I’ll bekittenif I’ll sit and guard a point and gain next to no glory instead of roaming to accrue massive gains in glory.

This change would also be better suited for tPvP because unless you’re solo queueing, which defeats the purpose of tPvP to begin with IMO, you know who you’re playing with. They’re all probably around your skill level and so in an ideal world you would all gain a similar amount of glory. In sPvP, I don’t want to be punished by sharing all of my 250+ glory with someone I don’t even know, who more than likely is running a terrible glass cannon build and is rocking 50 points.

This was a good read, because it mimics most of the threads on these forums. It’s literally get sad when I click a post and see everyone spouting ignorance and stupidity while claiming to be in the right.

Well played sir.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. As a guardian who’s job is to protect points, I usually end up with 100-200 less glory than everyone else on my team. Sure, winning is rewarding in itself and getting chests is great, but seeing everyone else on my team acquire all this glory while I’m sitting at a point by my lonesome for extended periods during the game can be quite discouraging.

As far as I’m concerned this should be a tPvP only fix, as sPvP lacks coordination anyway and most smart players will run around trying to get as much glory as possible, win or lose, because winning does essentially nothing for you in that environment.