Guild Wars 2

With the current achievement system I have seen some rather questionable means to gain achievements much faster than usual.

Just today I was in keg brawl and saw 2 people outside the ring tossing a keg back and forth while they were on opposite teams, gaining an interception for the achievement each time and also 5 rank/glory for those achievements. by the end of the match, they both had 400+ rank points gained from that 1 match.

This is not the only shady farming Ive seen done. I have seen it strictly for rank points in spvp matches, all the other activities except bluff, and one extremely clever individual who by now I’m sure has maxed out all of his weapon master achievements by akitteng overnight with a 1-button macro.

I am of course not going into full, bloody detail about how these people are farming; suffice it to say that they are using the game in a way that is clearly not intended to get something faster than average. Is this allowed? Should it be reportable?

of course, if you think its wrong and you are doing it anyway, plead the fifth. I would like a civil discussion on this, or perhaps clarification from a GM. After all, this is a grey area: nothing is being done to manipulate the integrity of the game, there is just, as I said, a few questionable items ive seen over the past month.

Solo Syncers [SS] is a brand new guild looking to recruit NA players interested in spvp and tpvp, wanting to learn or willing to teach.

all styles of play and all levels of skill welcome, this is (hopefully) a teaching guild with a question-friendly environment.

if you are interested in joining or would like more information, contact me in game (UberNoob.2947) or send a message.

<ego> Just got all 8 champion titles. </ego>

has anyone else done this yet?

and since “pics or it didnt happen”: http://oi44.tinypic.com/70xb92.jpg

since I’m sure there will be a few questions:

1) the characters I used, in order of completion, are:

• Geeohdee – necromancer (wells)
• Fireproof Toast – engineer (HGH grenade)
• Killer Snail – guardian (shout bunker)
• Outlaw Inlaw – thief (backstab)
• Soli Lightborn – elementalist (puissance)
• Kindia – warrior (bursty bow)
• Ubernoob – ranger (spirits)
• Questionable Potato – mesmer (phantasms)

2) yes, I pugged most of it. I rarely have the patience for teams, but I will not say I did it entirely by pugging. I dont hate myself that much. That being said, a huge thank you to anyone that grouped with me…the list is too long for a forum post…and an especially large thank you to the people that carried my mesmer.

3) yes, I will give out more detailed information on my builds on request. send a mail in game or a PM if I’m online. dont send a forum message, I’m not on often enough.

4) no, I’m not looking for a tpvp guild or a static team. didnt I just say I dont really have the patience for that?

anyway, if anyone else has managed to do this, I would love to see your screenie too.

I’m willing to bet people that have a few hundred tournaments under their belts have a few stacks of rank tokens and nothing to do with them.

if there was a system in place to either upgrade rank tokens to the next rank with some diminishing returns or a way to make them tradeable with substantial diminishing returns (either way via the forge), this would be a great way for people to get rid of tokens and a way for higher ranked players to earn gold through spvp.

additionally, it would enable the fashion police that patrol the game to dabble in spvp when they have never entered, because I know a few people that refuse to do spvp because “their character doesnt look nice in hotm.” of course, these are the same people that have a full set of t3 on every character they have made.

so if tokens were tradable or upgradable, this would allow more people to get interested in spvp, be more friendly to new players trying it out, and increase the pool of people doing it.

I’ll preface this by saying I enjoy the current setup of paid tournaments, except we should have one of the maps randomly instead of a featured map every week. but thats not the point of this post, the rewards you get from paids is.

so what we see is that with the current setup of rewards, the only thing we gain from winning a paid over winning a free is 1 QP and different skins, and if you already have all the skins from frees and paids that you need, then the chests amount to diddlysquat, and the QP is currently quite meaningless until they can be used as entry fees for bigger tourneys. That is coming, right anet?

if paids are supposed to be where the good teams go, why not make them a little more risk/reward based?

this would be a good reward for winning a paid:
300 rank/glory (have the same amount as before for winning 1.)
1 QP (may as well keep them coming.)
chest (ofc.)
10 gems (I’ll explain further down.)

Keep in mind for this next part that a ticket costs 12 gems to purchase.

with this setup, it will not only allow more players to acquire gems through in game means (and freebies for casuals is never a bad thing…give a sample of cash shop items and they might buy more), but also have more money circulating and allow for a much healthier in game economy than we already have. the biggest barrier with the previous paid tournament system is that 40 people needed to get on and have the time commitment for it. with the current system, paids pop far more frequently and will allow for a lot more movement in that market, since only 10 people are needed to get going.

So I lurked in this forum for a little bit but didnt see this as a suggestion. thought I would go ahead and chip in my two cents.

anyone who has done TPvP knows the map rotation: forest, ff, kyhlo. quite honestly, they are good maps, but the other 2 maps (raid and storm) are also very good. what I’m proposing is a way to get the other 2 maps into the rotation but still keep the 3 round single elim format.

once all 8 teams are formed, a popup comes to select and rank the 3 maps they want to play in. first rank gets 3 points, second gets 2, third gets one. then there is a cumulative tally of all 40 people in the tourney, and the highest ranked map (based on points) goes first, then the second ranked, then the third ranked map.

anyone else agree?