Players already complained about how long the WvW nameplates were before they added the spvp badges, Removing these badges was a small step in the right direction. If you need some cosmetic to show off how pro you are in spvp, wear the back piece.
Except that you don’t ever need to reach legendary division to make the backpiece, and it was never about skill, reaching legendary doesn’t mean kitten for skill; just that for some people the badge was our sense of reward and to take it away in the middle of a current season is unacceptable. Anet should’ve had the foresight to realize adding badges to already long nameplates was a bad idea since like you said, people were complaining even before the introduction of leagues and never put badges in WvW in the first place, or at least wait until start of season 4 before implementing this change, so that people don’t feel hard done by for achieving something.
They made a simple mistake and have corrected it, all is Ok now.
To the detriment of those who worked hard towards a goal, where is our sense of justice?
Probably sitting in the same place mine was when I got to see all these tournament icons in WvW when my rank was hidden; in WvW. I can feel your pain, but I never went into PvP expecting to show off my WvW rank there, so coming into WvW or PvE to show your league rank makes little sense.
That said they could have waited until the end of this tournament, but at least it has been done.
Well, so we also could remove all pvp/wvw-titels in pve because why should you show them there? If you reach something, you want to show it off. I understand the reason but i do not understand the way its done.
In my opinion, this is not fair. WvW is my main part in gw2 and as a new player in pvp i tried to solo rank for the last 3 weeks. I understand the reason to hide it, especially in big zerg fights to minimize visual clutter…
Could you not just implement something like mouseover or if you click a Character?
It’s like working hard for a legendary and at the end everyone else sees a default skin… :/
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