There is suggestion for Realm(Server or World) rank with not game-breaking reward specifically for WvWvW if anyone would like to partake in conversation
However I think this thread is talking more along the lines of server-wide reward instead of individual reward, I don’t think it makes sense to award EVERY player on server for winning.
Great, we’re all in agreement for WvWvW reward shouldn’t give additional stats/abilities to players.
This is what I would love to see in this game related to RvR ranks
Cosmetic gear per rank
Titles
Website that display top contributor (Not rank) or guild per week for battlegroup(?)
I don’t think it’s enough for players to have just serverwide accomplishment, there needs to be some sort of individual accomplishment reward for WvWvW no matter how trivial that may be.
Yea …adding something like RR would be end game for me. As in I will leave this game if they do.
I left DAoC because they added an additional RR grind after the level grind.
One of the reasons I bought GW2 was because they stated they would NOT add additional layers of grind to the PvP except for cosmetic things. This is done purposely so that causuals and new players will never feel like they can’t catch up. Also if players take a break from the game they will not fall behind.
I can only hope ANet politely ignores suggestions like these and sticks to their core design philosphies as these are what make GW2 unique.
While these design decisions are not popular with everyone their is a large loyal playerbase that does appreciate it. Becoming a grindy MMO would be a big mistake and place in them in the dime a dozen category of MMOs.
RR in daoc was game breaking, it doesn’t have to be for GW2. I think what you mean to say was you don’t want PvP grind where it drastically affect player stats. I agree with you on that completely, I don’t want having MoC from RR in daoc to be ‘the end’ for casters or some ridiculous RR ability you get just to be competitive
I just don’t get the reasoning here. The game has been out for less than a month. Why are people trying to change an aspect of it before the matchmaking system has even reached a stable set of matches?
You can’t possibly call WvWvW boring already. Lopsided? Perhaps. But again, the matchmaking system hasn’t had enough time to settle on a stable set of server groupings. The lopsidedness of the groupings will disappear over time.
But trying to change WvWvW after three weeks on the basis that people are bored? Nonsense.
3 weeks after MMO release on this scale is very critical point for lot of MMO players on whether they want to stay or not.
All the incentives ANet is throwing to WvWvW players seem lacking, this is a valid point. This is not trying to change fundamental idea of how WvWvW should work, RvR Rank could be just title
Hate to break it to you man but take a vote who really uses their karma in WvW for gear or badges for the gear hardly anyone does
This is definitely true for me, I have 1000+ badges sitting in my bag and 150k karma doing nothing, I just buy siege with them. I am hoping ANet gives players ability to purchase commander with badges, otherwise it seems like it’s just taking up bagspace
I think this topic has been talked about to death.
Yes, daoc had RR system, it was fantastic, lot of people loved it, lot of players in GW2 agree with you on implementing something like this, opening 2 threads regarding same thing in 24 hours probably won’t help it’s cause, I recommend posting on original thread to keep lively convo going
You jumped around on so many points so I’ll address what I think you mean
Night time capping on off-peak time is controversial topic, no firm stance from ANet yet however they seem confident that accelerated matchmaking (1 week instead of 2) will balance itself out
War is not fair
Joining a guild is easy, there are tons of guilds recruiting, easiest way to find one is by going to guild recruiting forum as casual, this is mmo.. social challenge? There are ton of casual guilds out there
Hardcore players waiting in queue is something I can agree with because I see bunch of lv.5 running around in circles in WvW all the time or AFKers
Nothing you listed has valid point of WvW not being PvP activity, if you said something along the lines of WvW being siege vs. siege – otherwise it’s bunch of sheeps running around zerging (not objective) and thinking it’s accomplishing something.. then I would’ve supported you
WvW is not suppose to be balanced, large portion of WvW methodology comes from daoc where you represent your faction (Server in this case), it’s not about just you. The idea is you help your faction whatever/whenever you can to fight off invaders which expands beyond just in WvW – if some oceanic WvW member transferred over to my server right now, I will gladly help him in anyway I can so we are successful as server to fight off invaders
If you want fair fight then there’s always sPvP/tPvP
I would like to see in-combat weapon swap for elementalist but there should be heavy downside for doing it because having weapon swap for elementalist would be HUGE advantage. I’m thinking something along the lines of locked out of all attunements for 10sec, can’t swap back for 10sec should do it
It’s okay, both us Blackgate and Gates of Madness are getting roflstomped by Crystal Desert that keeps recruiting oceanic members. Either face server with exploiters or server that has tons of oceanic player that roll through at night
As a Staff Ele, what was really missing from the toolkit was a long range single target damaging skill. It’s sad, but aside from auto-attacks there are none whatsoever. Staff needs one badly, so that’s what I would put in place of Flame Burst. I would make it an attack very similar to Fire auto-attack (Fireball). It would be single target, explode in a small AOE on impact, have a 5-8 second cooldown, and be about 3 times as powerful as Fireball.
This. I find it amusing that squish caster with staff at 1200 range (compared to 1500 from eng/ranger/war) has to settle for mere auto-attack for single target damage
3 times seems a lot of damage, I would change it to 1500 range for double
I thought I was the only one who thought this was extremely strange, lack of single target dps at long range.
I understand rangers getting 1500 with long bow due to it’s inherit nature of not doing max damage <1000 range but eng and war? not elem? wtf Anet
As I am typing this there is a ranger from Gate of Madness just circling around our zerg teleporting around at incredible rate, going from melee range to 1000 then to 2000 etc. His character disappear completely and reappear 1000 range away
One person in the zerg said this is speed hack and there’s no way to report this type of behavior?
How would I go about reporting this exploit and how can I find out name of this player? on my screen he just displays as “Invader X”
EDIT: He is now currently farming Quaggan camp in Blackgate Borderlands
All we need is vertical camera offset just like horizontal camera offset in game, no need to argue about ‘feel’ of your races, I can smell your RP all the way here
I hope official would respond to this thread and let us know if this was intentional for balance or unforeseen side effect of shorter/taller race
For now, I am using horizontal offset under camera options which feels kind of odd but it’s the only way i can play my asura on keep siege.
I hope ANet change this sometime soon but seeing as how they put in horizontal offset and not vertical offset.. I imagine they already know of this issue and decided to come up with less difficult solution.
I started rerolling same profession as human even though my asura has almost all exotic at 80 because of this issue, it doesn’t help the fact everyone on asura community is obsessed over aesthetic and not promoting thread that actually affect gameplay..
Lol this guy is complaining 2-3 elem can take out one siege weapon with 4-5 sec channel spell from squishy class that stands still in least defensive attunement in game.
Here is a thought, why not interrupt or pull in some dps on them so they never finish channeling, as a ranger when I see elem channeling meteor shower, all I can think of is “FRESHMEAT”
Maybe they should put in some sort of profession that can aoe defend siege weapon against these “really OP meteor shower”.. WAIT, there is!
On topic though, Asura does show less detail on armor and although I think it was intentional, the graphics detail on SOME items between any other race vs Asura is huge.
Yeah I played WvW on many different races and asura is the only one that I have trouble with in terms of camera angle pivot being so low to the ground.
I think they need to introduce vertical camera offset in game, they already have it for horizontal
