nerf wvw rank

[Widmo.3186]

Really? The only thing that is actually considered as „unique” and worthy skin from WvW are those armors and backpack. Maybe lets give all new gw2 players choice of 1 legendary so they don’t have to put any effort and spend time getting it?Those skins are for WvW players if you want to get them then play this game-mode. Its dead, yes, but not so dead that you cannot farm wxp.

[Voltekka.2375]

Change server. Join a ppt server. Problem solved.

[Hitman.5829]

Rank in WvW is there for a reason. It is a measure on how dedicated a person is to that game mode. It would not be fair to take the shortcut because you want to get shiny things fast.

[Notises.4719]

@jyoti.4756 said:all gear is part of the game. for a player like me who actually want to touch mistforged set why i have to waste 5 years to get it ?? i am not asking for free i like when an item has its difficulty but after doing battleground i have noticed very low numbers of players which makes it impossible atm. the last 2 weeks we always get outnumbered buff which makes it like 8 to 10 ppl trying to defend all the time. i personally can barely do something even in the other maps of battlegrounds.

Hmmm, i am not sure what you are doing but i just hit rank 2345 yesterday and my second berfday was in september. Its pretty easy to get there by joining a wvw focused guild. You might even make some new friends.

[clone wars.9568]

Don't forget about the CANDY CORN GOBBLER available around Halloween time in gemstore for 300gems well worth it. It gives 50% buffs to all titles XP inc WXP. 1 hr of spamming it can result in 4-5hrs of the double wxp buff. Has had a lot of nerfs to the buffs lately but still well worth it. I've maxed 3 accounts wvw ranks with it. If you don't have the item yet buy it before it's gone for another year.

[Faffin.6741]

@Strider Pj.2193 said:Two people playing smart can jump borderlands and cap towers and camps.

5? (Never mind 10) can cap keeps, but towers would be easy. There are four BLs.

Get a party together, and bounce maps to create some havoc. If the team with the greatest numbers is there, move. It forces them to react.

If you have 10, split into two parties and spread out but communicate, which allows you to hit two towers at once. Tap keeps etc.

Does it take effort? Yes. And 3-4 ranks every two hours especially with that size group is easily attainable.

It's also doable solo. Slower though. I maxed out attack and defence vs guards to make flipping camps easier. Haven't tried to solo towers though. Add in a few guard points and veteran creatures.

[Strider Pj.2193]

@Faffin.6741 said:

@Strider Pj.2193 said:Two people playing smart can jump borderlands and cap towers and camps.

5? (Never mind 10) can cap keeps, but towers would be easy. There are four BLs.

Get a party together, and bounce maps to create some havoc. If the team with the greatest numbers is there, move. It forces them to react.

If you have 10, split into two parties and spread out but communicate, which allows you to hit two towers at once. Tap keeps etc.

Does it take effort? Yes. And 3-4 ranks every two hours especially with that size group is easily attainable.

It's also doable solo. Slower though. I maxed out attack and defence vs guards to make flipping camps easier. Haven't tried to solo towers though. Add in a few guard points and veteran creatures.

Yeah, soloing a lord is not easy. Done it once or twice, usuallybrun with two.

But camps solo, yaks, sentries etc, can give plenty of WxP along with hitting the occasional roamer.

[Qaju.2058]

box of wvw supplies yield wxp pots:be part of a guild where you can buy up to 3 daily guild commendation items from guild hall trader, always check daily and also after any patch/build reset (resets the rng offerings)protip, you can also be in another guild where they have upgraded trader to 1 and 2 per day limit, they each offer different stuff, so you have more chance to get the box of wvw supplies but remember only 3max daily cap per accountthat HOT rng daily changing offerings with the 4 tabs can also offering it in exchange for HoT nap currencies

not a zergling here, pure roamer

use 18 mighty 1% vs npcs wvw infusionwith power rdps (I'm rifle DE)

max mobility to cross map faster than most other specs but remaining alive is still faster than having to run back from spawn/wp so use a build that allows you survive ambushes or zergs

alpine bl yields easy pve wxp:always check 2 rip grave ghosts south ruin/sentryalways check 3 vet creatures when near the camps3 guarded sides to Bay where you can clear out every guard incl the 2 wiz +archers up top if you know the spotsskritt +centaur camps if bored or going around to ninja NCdon't ignore the 2 sentries on NC entrance gates

always kill first the 2 escorts of dolyaks before the dolly

always clear camps even if under RI

to me, players give peanut wxp. If rng is on your side sure you get the wxp pots from em but almost all players have just died recently so barely give any wxp on kill

also don't hesitate to solo cap any t0-t1 tower and keeps

I've started to actively play wvw on this account a year ago and I've reached almost 2.1k rank. As a non raider, getting the glowing legendary armor was a goal I had set to myself. It's doable, you don't need zergs.

Remember you only need to have killed a guard to get the same full contribution xp of capping a camp, a tower, a keep or sm. So as a roamer you can go around the map tagging everything and then going back to your thing and still reap wxp when stuff gets capped by your server later on as longas you remain on the map ;)So tweak your build like mentioned above, so you're able to kill a veteran guard under 3 seconds without Iron buff upgrade.

candy corn cobbler is your friend for cheap perma xp booster

keep eye out on team chat with stamps so you track opportunities: outnumbered / keeps about be taken

[Jwake.7013]

honestly only thing i wish right now with the rank is that they remove the 10k cap, otherwise the time it takes to lvl is fine imo. Sure more can be done with it and so forth but as far as the scope of this concern, I like it how it is.

[Shroud.2307]

@"Jwake.7013" said:honestly only thing i wish right now with the rank is that they remove the 10k cap, otherwise the time it takes to lvl is fine imo. Sure more can be done with it and so forth but as far as the scope of this concern, I like it how it is.

Removing the cap would be cool, but do you mean just by increasing the numbers? Or the titles as well? I'd love to see more titles like "Obsidian Legend" or something, but I know ANet couldn't come up with titles forever.

[Zephyra.4709]

If you are experiencing low player activity in your timezone you should consider transferring. There is honestly no point popping boosters etc if there's hardly any action going on. If you really want the shinies it helps to be in an active WvW community where you can progress quicker with players. Others have made nice suggestions already regarding containers such as the Ley Line/Karmic converter thing... I forget the actual name of it but sometimes there are Box of WvW Supplies you can choose which grant a chunk of WXP.

I'm not sure how active EoTM is these days but when you see dailies such as tower/keep try and get in there each time it resets to see if anyone is tagged... free WXP retail.

[Jwake.7013]

@"SpellOfIniquity.1780" said:

@"Jwake.7013" said:honestly only thing i wish right now with the rank is that they remove the 10k cap, otherwise the time it takes to lvl is fine imo. Sure more can be done with it and so forth but as far as the scope of this concern, I like it how it is.

Removing the cap would be cool, but do you mean just by increasing the numbers? Or the titles as well? I'd love to see more titles like "Obsidian Legend" or something, but I know ANet couldn't come up with titles forever.

I mean pretty much how the spvp rank is now uncapped if the wvw rank got the same treatment. Sure new higher rankings if they felt like it would be a nice extra but not at all a 'have to' for me. Now maybe get some sort of small chest every title or 100 lvl's or such, kinda like how you get a small couple bags in pvp every lvl could be a nice add as a 'thanks for playing' kinda loot.

[Defias.1892]

I agree with this 100%. Times have changed and EoTM is not nearly as active as it used to be, creating a much slower ranking curve than before.In the past, when WvW was much more active and EoTM was an actual alternative when you didn't have a PPT tag, ranks came in like candy, but nowadays, it seems higher tier tags prefer fights over PPT, so ranks are alot slower.

[Straegen.2938]

@Defias.1892 said:I agree with this 100%. Times have changed and EoTM is not nearly as active as it used to be, creating a much slower ranking curve than before.In the past, when WvW was much more active and EoTM was an actual alternative when you didn't have a PPT tag, ranks came in like candy, but nowadays, it seems higher tier tags prefer fights over PPT, so ranks are alot slower.

They also nerfed EotM WvW gains a while back. Most of the Diamond Legends are either popular commanders or took full advantage of the absurd WvW leveling EotM used to offer. Post nerf, getting Diamond Legend takes years and years. Most players that have it are well over 10k hours in the game.

[googel.3278]

diamond legends are a favorite food of mine, these easy walking lootbags

[Glider.5792]

Last year when the PIP patch came, i started playing WvW regularly. I wanted to get most of the achievments done + work on warbringer and possibly 2k rank. In just around 3-4 months i got from around rank 600 to 2000 (https://prnt.sc/hiv87a). Was getting up to 50 ranks per day (around 8h of time played per day on those days, but overall weekly just the amount to reach final diamond chest, maybe a bit more). This was due to huge wvw hype at that time though, EB was always full, huge blobs fight, TONS of WvW exp. I was using all the available boosters for most of the time(except the 15min wvw booster which you can get from lvl up rewards).

At this moment, i am rank 3078. From around 2700 - 3078 i was mainly doing EOTM (for achievments, finaly done dear god...). It actualy doesnt bring that bad exp.I can only suggest what others have suggested already though, use all the available boosters you have. Try to stick to blobing instead of roaming, getting alot of kills is alot better exp than just caping t1 objectives/camps. EBG during prime time is prolly best way to go. Another thing which you can do is cap EOTM objectives every 4h (reset). You can solo most of them if you know how to. And if there is a commander, follow him, there might be a karma train going (if there are no defenders/other commanders).

WvW mistforged armor set is a longterm reward. It was ment to be for WvW veterans, not players who just want the shinies. If you will want to get it one day, you will have to put alot of time into it and grind ALOT. When alliance patch comes, it will hopefully bring more life to WvW again, so once that happens, you will most likely be able to farm WvW ranks alot more efficently.

Oh and, try to tag EVERYTHING. Even guards give alot of WvW exp if you're fully boosted. If you know how to, ranking up goes quite fast.

[KrHome.1920]

5 years, 2 hours per day average playtime, 90% solo and smallscale WvW roaming, zerging maybe 2 times a month, playing on an EU T3 server.

• Rank 4130
• 5 legendary weapons (all power based necro weapons)
• legendary WvW armor (the rank based version)
• legendary WvW backpiece
• 3 sets of reset'able WvW trinkets

No, rank requirements should not be lowered! The effort is not too high.

[Strider Pj.2193]

@KrHome.1920 said:5 years, 2 hours per day average playtime, 90% solo and smallscale WvW roaming, zerging maybe 2 times a month, playing on an EU T3 server.

• Rank 4130
• 5 legendary weapons (all power based necro weapons)
• legendary WvW armor (the rank based version)
• legendary WvW backpiece
• 3 sets of reset'able WvW trinkets

No, rank requirements should not be lowered! The effort is not too high.

Yeah... The hyperbole in the OP I think has been pointed out to be more of a meme.

I also figure it’s why they haven’t commented much since the first 3-4 posts.

[Victory.2879]

If you focus on it then it's not that hard to rank up, if that is your main aim. As someone who's not that interested, I'm under 3k rank on this account (I have several) as i spend a lot of time scouting/defensive which doesn't earn much wexp, plus spent a lot of time as support backline which also didn't earn much wexp.

As others have said, if you want to go fast then grab every booster you can and tag and flip everything.

[SkyShroud.2865]

Surprised nobody mentioned this, looks like most old wvwers really quit the game.

The requirements was once nerfed, it was 2x iirc of now. You want to nerf it again because of your slow progress playstyle?

[Kaiser.9873]

@jyoti.4756 said:misstyped. even with booster u gain nothing if u dont have enoigh players to capture towers or main buildings around the map*

Technically you can solo a tower pretty easily. It all adds up, and if it's that dead you can move from border to border taking the small stuff.

[Zhaid Zhem.6508]

edit ( someone already said what I wanted )

[Shroud.2307]

@Straegen.2938 said:

@Defias.1892 said:

I agree with this 100%. Times have changed and EoTM is not nearly as active as it used to be, creating a much slower ranking curve than before.

In the past, when WvW was much more active and EoTM was an actual alternative when you didn't have a PPT tag, ranks came in like candy, but nowadays, it seems higher tier tags prefer fights over PPT, so ranks are alot slower.

They also nerfed EotM WvW gains a while back. Most of the Diamond Legends are either popular commanders or took full advantage of the absurd WvW leveling EotM used to offer. Post nerf, getting Diamond Legend takes years and years. Most players that have it are well over 10k hours in the game.

GW2 Efficiency has some of these statistics. Since it only shows the top 25 highest ranks and only those who have registered to the site (+ have their stats public), it's hard to judge exactly how many 10k's are out there. But, going by the fact that I used to be in the top 10 when I was around rank 6k(?), and how I was listed at #32 when I reached 10k, I'd wager there's any where from 100 - 200 players that are max rank.

Of course, that's a very rough estimate. But I just wanted to point out that although it's uncommon, it's probably not as rare as some people think either.

Also, some of the players that grinded the absolute hell out of EOTM only have like 6 or 7k hours logged, again according to GW2 Efficiency. I assume they stopped playing shortly after reaching max.

Still, you can gain ranks pretty fast depending on your server and how often you have XP boosters stacked on you. Some servers are pretty dedicated to their ktrains and it isn't too hard to rapidly gain them if you've got the time to spare. But absolutely I agree that it will take much longer now than when EOTM was active.

[Safandula.8723]

Well u should change server and go other bls, instead of ebg, but i agree grinding ranks take way to fking long. Making 2k lvl without boosters is pain in the assBTW wvw need a lot of qol... More tickets per week, improved peeps system, more gold and some more.

[Timelord.8190]

"nothing to capture nothing to kill nothing to repair"I rly doubt that. You're saying that you own everything and there is no enemies that tries to take it back, not even a camp? I call bullshit.