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Originally Posted by Fitz Rinley
A friend of mine as a brilliant young man for a son. When about 7 or so, he was at the Renaissance Festival and wearing a Robin Hood costume. He met another little boy wearing a Robin Hood costume and said, “I am Robbin Hood.” The other little boy responded with, “I am Robin Hood.” And my friend’s son, without batting an eye or pause of any sort, said, “Great! Lets go get the sheriff.” He had no problems sharing the fantasy of being the hero. He had no ego to disappoint by including others.
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You are a... good story teller lol.
First, I try to point of view what of the PvEr of AB are feeling without looking at the PvEr point of view since I am speaking on behalf of the PvPer ABer.
Then as I edited my main post that the current Alliagence titles could not be changed anymore since it has PvE skills in it. Therefore I edited keep the double faction and instead perhaps give respected titles for PvPer AB only. Since Alliance Battle are both a bit of PvEr and PvPer now.
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The game is in its last phase. Soon there will be a new engine where the characters we have made will make no difference and will not be able to continue. In the short time we have left it is in the interest of a great many players to obtain as much as they can for the Hall of Monuments. For those who are playing the game, all 10 character classes, the cost of maxing many titles in game gold (huge amounts of time farming) and in time for points (Balthazar, Alliance, Sunspear, and Lightbringer) is outrageous – and in most cases always was.
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I can't point that enough, so many people are in the "hyped" state of the new engine and the new Guildwars will come out. Again, we pointed out that we may be too late to make any changes now, but we can always make room for improvement now before the new engine comes out, so Anet wouldn't make the same mistake and will have better ideas/experiments on the new engine to deal with the matter of creating world for both PvPer and PvEr.
I myself, as a pure PvPer, only have 3 PvE characters and the rest of my slots are PvP. It just gets repetitive for me in the PvE missions other than farming that is.
I don't think it costs that much to get Allegiance titles. You can create PvP character only and join a guild which has the faction alliance in it and start ABing.
If you want the easier way, you can Faction Farming. But that is boring in my opinion.
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The point requirements for scoring appear to have been made under the impression that a person would have only one character and would only ever seek 2-3 titles, minimal armor, and maybe one nice item for that character in the 6 month period between releases. That has been utter balderdash. All titles and all rewards are serious grind fests for no reason. As antagonistic as I have been toward many GW decisions and failures, I have been and remain a fan who has purchased every game and expansion available
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I respect your statement by this. It is hard for full-time worker(if you are that is) players who play GW only when they are free to concentrate and play to earn more titles.
It takes ridiculous amount of time yes, the point that Anet make this title are hard to increase people to play Guildwars longer, thus what you called it "addiction". You ever see that Korean kid on the news? Yes they want us to be like them more or less. *I am just joking* :P
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I would suspect that the gracious gesture of increasing rewards was to try and lure more of us into PvP.
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You are absolutely right with this. But they should think of the AB PvPer point of view as well. As you can see Alliance Battle has both PvP and PvE aspects into it. I am disappointed that they walk over us like that.
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Something else that would increase my interest is if PvP points could be spent to obtain things of value in PvE. That would increase a lot of interest. If through PvP Faction points one could mod or purchase a PvE weapon and skin of the colors one chooses then I would have more reason to PvP.
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NO NO NO NO NO NO.
I don't see it fit in this, if your HoH rank can use to obtain skills in PvE, and if they double the fame gain say to make to get that paticular skills/euipment faster in PvE world, all HoH players would be mad with this since the amount of dedication and time to reach that rank is very hard compare to PvE.
Why? Because PvP is different than PvE. Please do not combine these two things together for example in HoH. But for AB, it was fine I suppose to combine both PvP and PvE till they introduce that PvE skills to the Allegiance titles , since AB "was" PvP and less PvE back then. Now it is going towards PvE favor which we the PvPer are kinda sitting in a boat between two big waves.
As I mention before, Alliance Battle now is for the both enjoyment of PvE and PvP. But with the titles that they change it to increase PvE aspects in game, we deserve our own title for PvPer AB only in my opinion.
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In my opinion, those who have spent 5 to 10 thousand hours PvPing for so little return
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We never ever ever ever have this thought for "so little return". Why? Because once we finish PvE (campaigns, get all armors, have money, etc). We stop PvEing and go to PvP to seek titles.
As for you, maybe your friends into PvE and you guys are PvEing together. No offence on that. Our own view are we play guildwars since their PvP aspect of the game are widely popular in MMORPG community even perhaps the best. In Guildwars 2 maybe they would increase the PvE point of view to balanced
between PvP and PvE. Thus not all people will play Guildwars 2, it all depends on the outcome of the game and interfaces.
As for AB we only AB to donate the faction to the guild while at that we increase our Allegiance title as well. Back then, I was in guild that hold one of the main towns in Luxons. As I donate, my title increases. Those satisfy me well enough that I always see my bar slowly increases from hard work and gain some titles that people from PvE doesn't have (because it is impossible if you want to earn these titles just by bribing those priests. In Kurzick it is easier to get through faction farming* note that.)
Therefore Anet wants PvEr to come to AB to experience some PvP point of view towards this Allegiance titles. Think of AB as a stepping stone to the higher PvP world such as TA and HoH.
That’s another reason why we AB instead of HoH. Less pressure, we can laugh, relax and enjoy PvP more without “ahhh catch that spike”. Spike in 3,2,1 *SPLAT* or “infuse on 1!”, Im sure there are more… lol
What more is that these AB titles are account based which adds to my motivation. That was good ol' time back then (2-3 months ago I think before the changes).
Now that these Allegiance titles are already wrecked. We'll leave it as that and move on. If our voices are heard by Gaile or other developer, hopefully they can introduce new titles for PvPer AB only. So there will be room again for PvP in AB not just for PvE. We doubt this will happen, but it is never too late. Nothing can be hard to achieve if you work hard on it such as (hardcore gamer like us).
Thank you.
PS: I would shoot every Robin Hood in my neighbourHood.