Compensate won Solo/TeamQ with RankPoints?

#1 - Dec. 7, 2013, 6:34 a.m.

With rank points boosted 3x and 5x for Solo and Team arena wins, will we get compensated for our already won matches?
You know, good old GW1 style:

Players who already had acquired Gladiator points before the update on September 27, 2007, had their total number of points multiplied by 6 to compensate for the difficulty and raised tiers.
Players who already had acquired Gladiator points before the update on June 2, 2011, had their total number of points multiplied by 8 to compensate for the difficulty and raised tiers.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gladiator#Notes

so it can actually be FAIR for anyone who invested tons of hours into rated play already?

Quick solution: Like with WvW XP and Levels, Anet give out additional rank points (through the chests) for every Solo/Team Arena Win so far (it’s being tracked in both PvP stats and in the leaderboards).
For example you have 100 Solo Wins at the moment. Thus you should be compensated with additional 300 rank points for each of your 100 wins. That will be 30 000 rank points to get you on pair with the changes. Same thing for Team arena – 800 additional rank points for every win you had prior the change.

But I’m sure they have overlooked this, as they always tend to do with PvP design decisions…

John Corpening

#119 - Dec. 13, 2013, 6:19 p.m.

Hey Guys,

A week ago we were ready to cut ranks. Last week, due to our discussion on the CDI thread, we decided to keep them.

Right now we are trying to determine in what form we are going to keep ranks and how they should be balanced so attaining the rank of dragon is something that you have a reasonable chance of achieving and not a quest that you pass on to your children and your children’s children.

Because we agree with most of you that ranks are too difficult to attain and because it was a very easy change for us we also decided to give players a bonus to players in Solo and Team Arenas.

I’m sorry you didn’t get a response sooner but we didn’t want to jump the gun and say yes or no to this thread. What you are asking isn’t something that we can just turn on so it would have to come in a build later if we decide to do it. At the moment we don’t have a plan to retroactively award points for wins but many of you have brought up some interesting reasons for it so it is something we will take into consideration when we are discussing how to adjust ranks.

Thanks again for your feedback.

John

Josh Davis

#148 - Dec. 18, 2013, 1:18 p.m.

Responding to this thread with thinly veiled ‘bump’ posts is not doing your cause any good. We don’t make decisions based on how often someone bumps a thread.

We’ve responded with our current take on the matter – if something changes, we’ll let you know.

In the meantime, feel free to provide constructive and thoughtful comments.

Josh Davis

#175 - Jan. 14, 2014, 2:23 p.m.

As John mentioned previously, we don’t plan on retroactively awarding rank points for previous wins. We will, however, be rebalancing rank tiers to make them more attainable.