NO
wvw points should be toon specific. Not my problem if you only want to grind the ranks once but my Warrior is a higher level because I use him more than my Necro. My Necro is only 20 something in ranks and should NOT be 50 something because it is still being leveled and not even level 30/80
wvw rank represent the toon NOT the player or the account
Also you do NOT need wvw ranks, it is a measure of what each individual toons are doing as a progression. If you make a level 3/80 ranger and you get attacked the player will see that you are a noob as a ranger. It would make no sense to see that you have the rank of (whatever) when you have just started playing that profession.
What if I have more than 1 guardian but i like my other guardian better or something like that. Also, i’m pretty sure the system is more of a way for other players to see what rank you are in wvw, not necessarily how good you are as that character. Besides, most wvw ranks comes from running around in a zerg, not 1v1 fights here or there, which zerg fights dont require too much skill in except not dying and sticking to your commander.
if you don’t want to rank up alts, don’t make them.
Well im sorry if i like playing the game through multiple characters and dont want to spend every waking day playing the game in wvw on one character just to get the last tier in a rank thats at level 150. But oh well, i guess other people dont mind spending every day on guild wars just doing wvw and nothing else on 1 character. I guess i’ll just change my personality and become just like them!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but not everyone is like that, some people like variety. Me personally, I enjoy playing all my characters, which is why i made them and i would love to take them into wvw without feeling like its a waste of time because im not getting any rank points on the character i have the most rank points on.
I’ll just put this here.
The Official Answer: From Arena Net Themselves
“The goal for this system is to ensure that players always have something to constantly work towards. We want each character to have a unique experience in WvW, so World Ranks and WXP are all character-based values rather than account-based. We believe that in the long run, this will actually help incentivize players to experiment with various different ability builds for each character. It also creates a long term goal for players of multiple characters, as they can strive to rank up multiple characters to help show off their dedication to WvW.”
The reality is it removes any incentive to play a different character for a myriad of reasons but the two greatest are:
1: If I play my alt, I do not display the rank of my main, and it is a rank that only enemies can see. This negates the design goal of an ability to “show off” my “dedication to WvW.”
2: If I play my alt I must progress through the trait lines all over again. There is not a limitation to the number of trait lines I can have, so ultimately the goal is just to gain the best ones first and then, “in the long run” obtain them all. This negates the design goal of “experiment with various different ability builds for each character.” as every player is running on the notion that they will just have to get them all on a long enough time line.
The Actual Answer: Arena Net utterly failed to achieve even a remote fraction of their goals with the design of WxP, Traits, and Ranking, and persist to ignore the community on the subject, who have time and time again called for this system to be account bound.
that is all.
As for this, sure they stated it, but they state a lot of things and things always get changed. Just cause they said it doesnt mean its going to be concrete and they can never change it. Look at Ascalonian Catacombs, that dungeon was drastically overhauled from the original. Also siege, was never sell-able or mail-able, but one day it just happened.
