This, very much indeed.
PvP leaderboards used to be mostly Time InvestedâŠ
âŠthen having a Lower Level + 1/2 to 2/3 Time Invested
âŠnow Bonuses (obtainable with cash) obliterate Time Invested, even IF they eventually fix the VP level unfairness.
PvP leaderboards have joined IP2âs P2W trend indeedâŠ
Yeah, I was gonna put a post up asking why several monoliths give the same buffs, even though you only have enough valhawks to activate 2 at a time (assuming maximum buff), when I realised they want you to spend tons of gold marks on monolith sigils.
Or why the buffs last 5 hours at max level, but you have to use them immediately, meaning they expect players to play for 5 hours? But yeah, if you spend money on gold marks, to spend on monolith sigils to spend on PvP buffs, to then farm VP, to earn gold marks ⊠and thatâs just dumb as a concept, but whatever ⊠then youâd want that PvP buff to last a long time, I guess.
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Yeah, this. Exactly.
Like the double score feature and the hawks not a bad idea at all to be honest im having fun with it. But saying that god only knows how long this will impact on gw. But i do like the mini update
Im with you 100%, but thereâs also kinda no point to pay-to-win in PvP when you can just pay to buy currency to buy the book straight up and skip the process. (so far)
yea, the only real downside to this patch is that any semblance of a fair playing ground is basically out the window for PvP leaderboards. With rewards still tied to placements, this feels terrible. Everything else about the update is great, allowing people to finish their 6500 VP quicker.
If they change the rewards to be based on the league you are in for that week, instead of whether you place top 3, PvP might actually become one of the better game modes.
This. Could someone theoretically buy an absurd amount of Victory Talismans? Sure, but winning the bracket still would take time and thereâs a chance that someone could outdo you. Assuming you spend enough money and time on PvP to blow away the competition, you get 120 gold marks in the best league (Iâm ignoring global leaderboards, which have always required massive amounts of gems/time/money). That nets you about 100 Dragonite or a single book of a random color weekly.
It would be far, FAR wiser to buy Dragonite in the dungeon or buy books of deeds from Legends Reborn events. Again, could someone spend a ludicrous amount of money (and still have to spend time in a lot of battles) to top a bracket? Sure, but it would be next to worthless for them.
Pay for advantage and less time commitment, sure, but not P2W by my definition. When I think P2W I think of those kingdom builder apps where F2P players literally have no chance of being able to directly compete against paying players. Excusing global leaderboards, there is no aspect of GoW that meets this qualification.
does the amount of tailsman gain in the game stay if not used from week to week
And is there a maximum amount of talismans we can have? If so, what?
Talismans will remain in your inventory if u donât use them. (Everything besides the victory talisman is a waste imo, I just have the rest for completionist sake)
And who knows? Maybe a whale can save up 10,000 victory talismans and screenshot it.
maybe i will lol
est ce que vous ĂȘtes sĂ©rieux , oh les gars , rĂ©veillez vous , remettez la gdg au lieu de nous faire des mises Ă jour inutiles
ça devient pitoyable
quel est lâintĂ©rĂȘt de cette derniĂšre , je vais vous le dire moi câest AUCUN
franchement câest une honte
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are you serious, oh guys, wake up, put the gdg [Guild Wars] back instead of giving us useless updates
itâs becoming pitiful
whatâs the point of this, Iâll tell you itâs NONE
frankly Itâs a shame
If we complete the requirements now for these achievements will they pop retroactively later when they finally go live or will we have to redo the requirements?
Any ETA on Xbox getting the achievements? Because this is becoming a joke, does Microsoft know something we donât 
I wonder how much of each playerâs VP comes from the level difference. Right now, this can be from 25-90 VP.
My bonuses are typically something like:
If we simply added 25 to each battle, itâd be 104/79 = 1.31, about a 4/3 ratio. Much fairer. itâd be pretty easy to adjust the weekly pvp goals accordingly.
Iâm surprised that so many people think Central Spire is the PVP zone. For me it is the color regions by far, even after the journey troop nerf. Monuments adds to that.
Region/troop type restrictions deserve better buffs.
I just did some informal experimenting with the bugged âEpic Trialsâ button so consider this a PSA.
If you:
Then:
It looks like this is specifically related to the Kingdom of the opposing team in the prior pre-battle screen â e.g. if you just finished an Explore battle in, say, Vulpacea (regardless of the specific team), then clicking the Epic Trials button will preload your team with Vulpaceaâs trial team.
Note that if you access Epic Trials first thing upon starting the game, it appears to default to Broken Spire.
Somehow, despite being a bunch of bonus stuff, the update makes me way less motivated to play Pvp than before.
Itâs maybe once a year, that I play Pvp for prolonged time, and push towards some top 100 rank. And thatâs not a planned thing, nor something I am happy about afterwards. On most regular weeks, I donât even use the full new weekly one hour income buff.
Being nudged to play this mode daily (usually I dedicate no more than one day per week to Pvp), so that I am getting ârewardedâ with five hours of status bonus, that further âencourageâ me to play the mode every second day, is not helping.
The effect of the update is, that you are making stuff harder, so that you can offer an option to make it easier, with the âbenefitâ, that players get more points to keep up with other players, who get more points too. Running in circles is no progress.
If there were no achievements for it, I doubt I would exchange my hawk tokens even once. At least I wonât get any more of those, once I am maxed out, so it is easier to ignore them altogether instead of being discouraged about it.
And about the changes in the points mechanic, I am confident, those will arrive in the same update, that brings us an ingame message systemâŠ
Iâm not sure if this is due to monuments or Blood Frenzy, but Iâm seeing this when clicking on enemies in pvp.
Yes, please put out the achievement patch asap. ALSO BETA TEST ON XBOX. You would have caught it. No excuse that the platform that invented achievements is broken.
