Guild Wars 2

Quick Mouse.7635:

People who have been playing longer will have more achievements, and rightly so. Should someone who just started spvp have rank 40 just because people who have been playing longer have rank 40?

I don’t agree with you here, and think you’re analogy is completely off. In sPvP, can’t anyone starting out aspire to level 40 and achieve it? For leaderboards to have any purpose they should really be something that anyone, no matter when they start play, should be able to aspire to. Certainly, the people that have played the longest will always have an advantage – simply because of having spent the most time in the game. However, it’s different when people who are just starting out literally can’t get enough achievements to get near the top of the board. Especially since people who are competitive about these types of things had no idea when they were deciding whether or not to do these dailies and monthlies that they would be counted for LBs.

To use your example of PVP it would be a bit more like Anet announcing without warning one day that they had just made rank 79 the highest attainable PvP rank but anyone who was 80 already got to stay 80.

I tend to think that daily and monthly achievements shouldn’t be counted on the LBs at all – past or future. Both for the reason above and the fact it encourages unhealthy playstyles for gamers – if you want to be top of the LB you can never take a day off from the game for any reason or you lose out on achievement points that you can never, ever get back.

Totally support this.

I don’t see how you could reasonably be against this. I don’t think the game should have an automated Dungeon Finder system like that in WoW, SWtOR or Rift where you get placed in a group and ported there (although the lazy guy inside me does wish it sometimes). However a UI element to adverstise that you are LFG that people forming groups can look at and invite people from seems like a no-brainer.

As well as GW1 most other games started out with a system like this – it’s what WoW used before Dungeon Finder – and the only weakness of such a system was that it would be full of DPS and no Tanks (who could always get a group without listing themselves on the tool). In this game, with no holy trinity of class roles, that weakness wouldn’t be there and this system would work exceptionally well, IMO – possibly even better than a computer-automated system since the variances in group makeup are more subtle here and better to compensate with a human putting their groups together.