Max Faction Title Too High?

Originally Posted by Mordakai

Well, I guess this is the future of Guild Wars.

Grind, grind, grind. Grind to get to the highest levels, grind to get the best weapons, grind to get the best PvE skills.

If this is the future of Guild Wars, count me out. The thing is, while this concept may appeal to the hardcore gamers, it will not appeal at all to the majority of Guild Wars players: the casual ones.

Hell, if I wanted to spend my life playing a MMORPG, I would pay monthly for one.

Originally Posted by Risky Ranger

Please take no offense with this question. Do you consider yourself a casual GW player? I play 1 or 2 hours a night, occasionally 3 and 4-5 hours a day on weekends. My point being I don't consider myself a casual gamer and I don't think casual gamers take the time to post to forums.

Originally Posted by Preview

The Reputation System: As you gain reputation with the different races, you will unlock rewards like weapons, quests and even whole areas. There will be minigames to gain reputation.
Duel with AI gladiators in the norn territory, or play "polymock" against Asura:
Both players are sepparated by a rift, so there are no melee attacks. Instead, you first select one of three creatures with ranged attacks - into which your hero then transforms.
Strains toon e.g. transformed into a flying creature which attackt its opponent (a stone giant) with spells. Like your heroes, these creatures have 8 different skills you have to use in a tactical way. And each of your monsters is especially effective against a certain opponent. So you better choose the right transformation if you want to beat your opponent.

Originally Posted by Zinger314

How long did it take you to type that post? 30 seconds? 1 minute?

And you aren't forced to, you know, play the game to post on these forums.

On topic, I'll reference a German preview translated on GWO:



Hook, line, and sinker, IMO.

Originally Posted by Risky Ranger

Why would someone who doesn't play the game and has no knowledge of the game want to post to the forum, other than those who might be going to purchase the game. As for the rest of your post ?????

Originally Posted by ducktape

It's not that they shouldn't be rewarded for it, it's that there shouldn't be any skills whose effectiveness is tied to a 500 hour grind. There should definitely be some sort of cool reward for a 500 hour title, but it should be something like an armor or weapon or aura or emote or minipet, i.e. something that is going to make you have something ultra-exclusive but does not affect gameplay as significantly as jacked-up special skills do.

I think another issue is that people would be willing to grind up points for the titles to power these skills if it weren't 5 million points that they had to grind, or if it wasn't 500 hours to do. 500,000 or 1 million points would probably be plenty high enough to keep your average casual player busy for months. However, they can't lower the title cap at all or make it super easy to get points credited to it because that would make all the people who did spend 1000 hours grinding for 10 million points feel pretty gypped that they had to grind their title so much longer than other people would have to. Either way people will be alienated.

Skills tied to 10 million point title = bad idea no matter what they do.