PvE players farm r50 in 2 weeks, disgusting

#1 - Sept. 25, 2013, 12:17 p.m.
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Many say ranks mean nothing. I agree rank =/= skill, but rank still used to measure some sort of routine. Hotjoin was still a problem, but with this skyhammer gloryfarming, PvE players can achieve r50 in 2 weeks.

If I’d abuse a forgiving totally flawed PvE feature i would get a permanent ban and the method would be fixed in some days.

But after MONTHS, the problem was “mitigated” by removing the /gameend command. Now people just leave and rejoin the server. Still gives the same amount of glory.

PvP rank is all that PvP players had. Only had. Rank didn’t mean much, but it was the only thing we’ve got in a year. Now the last PvE farmer peasant can get r50 in 2 weeks without knowing anything about PvP.

You think this is fun? Is this how things work here? PvE players are holy and if they want Pvp rank oh they shall have it without work? Then give me my approx. 2000 gold i could have easily made by investing my time into PvE rather than PvP.

Also, people can no longer group up with others in Team Arena by rank because they lost faith.

Solution?
Remove glorygain from hotjoin.

If i want to keep up with the Pve farmers I have to farm Skyhammer in hotjoin 6 hours a day. Is this how you imagined PvP to be?

Edit: oh I forgot to mention. Now that Pvp reward overhaul is coming, guess who will benefit the most, No, not the PvP players. The PvE Skyhammer farmers. Unless they start rewarding tournaments.

#12 - Sept. 25, 2013, 12:56 p.m.
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We have more changes coming to further hinder this type of behavior.

#104 - Sept. 26, 2013, 1:13 p.m.
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We’re changing it so that glory is only rewarded at the end of a match, which should stop the exploit where players leave and rejoin the match. We are also actively looking into other options to prevent this exploiting.

Thanks for the report!

#118 - Sept. 26, 2013, 3:52 p.m.
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Like I said, we’re looking into other options to prevent the exploiting.

#185 - Oct. 1, 2013, 12:42 p.m.
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The patch notes are missing, but glory and rank points are awarded at the end of the match now. This means no more rejoining to reset your glory cap. This still is not all the changes we’ll make. More to come later.

#276 - Oct. 10, 2013, 1:25 p.m.
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We’ve taken a few steps to address this so far (turning off tournament commands, disabling glory gain if tournament commands are enabled, rewarding glory at the end of the match), and we are continuing to work toward completely stopping this behavior.

#311 - Jan. 14, 2014, 1:56 p.m.
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The abuse of Custom Arenas and the Skyhammer map in particular has been fixed.

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