Petition to prevent rank emote from being flashed in RA and TA during battle

While I can see some use for being able to use the /rank emote in random arenas such as being able to signal to your team that you are an "experienced" player, though I take only moderate stock in this. I think it is serious issue when a melee player such as a warrior or thumper gets up in the monk's face and spams this emote while hitting them. My main issue is that it is distracting. I have set up my user interface to attempt to optimize the visual space for kiting and movement -- by placing the spell/skill bar, hex/condition/enchant indicators on the fringes allowing for the center space to be used for character movement which is very important to me. Large glowing emotes take away from my visual space while playing the game.

I see no functional reason that this emote should be allowed during the battle of any of the competitive PvP setting -- GvG, HA, TA, and RA. The emote makes quite a bit of sense for teams attempting to form in HA (and to some degree TA). While this has never been a problem for me in GvG, it seems to have become quite a fad in TA of late.

Looking for /signed or /not signed responses to my petition and any logic behind each response.

Moved to Sardelac.

/signed, I REALLY hate elitesits, and that just shows their class during battle.

/signed

Perhaps just make it so that it can't be used when an enemy is in the aggro bubble? Either way, spamming it at your foes is kinda stupid, i think. It really doesn't mean you're better than your opponent, just that you have enough rank. Eh, meh. I agree, the middle of combat isn't the place to be able to flash such emotes.

EDIT: To clarify my position, I'm refering to living opponents, not dead ones. Shouldn't be usable while engaged in combat (like ID kits can't be used in combat, for example).

but then we can't watch power of my rangers do the rank 12 emote on pvp justice's body.
If you earn rank, you should be able to use it.
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Notice his tag.

Anyways /notsigned if you work for it why not?

/NotSigned
It's fun doing the rank emote -_-

Lol tag isnt everything. I have 3 fame.

/notsigned

Stop whining. I'd rather have someone flash me with their rank than straight up call me noob... though either way, who cares? Get over it.

/notsigned

If someone calls you a noob monk etc. in RA then it's fun to flash the rank.

Its distracting? It lasts for 5 seconds. I dont think a lil flashy thingy will screw you up.

/notsigned

lmao this sounds stupid, just get some glasses it's not a problem at all, it's not even worth complaining about.


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I support all of your logic. However, people did work hard for those emotes and Anet limiting their use would result in 200 threads on here about how much that change sucks. Too much trouble for too little result. If you really want to beat them just get a higher emote. ^.^

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Again, you earn the emote (unless u darm it...) so it should be allowed to use it. However, perhaps some limtation on how much you can use it in a given time, to stop ppl spamming it. Perhaps a 10 second delay, which wont hurt too much.

edit. missread post. Disregard answer

/not signed,
People dont exactly start randomly emoting while intense fighting is going on so it doesnt really matter- I cant wait till I get my r3 one anyway

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I think the problem here is you're using "first person" view...

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/not signed, you earned your rank, and it is your free will if you want to flash it, its a free country. Maybe there should be a feature in options to disable /rank emote for peopel like OP, who either does in fact get distracted by rank or is jealous of not having one.

/signet

This game is about skill using skills, not about skill using tricks.

Nevertheless, I doubt that something like that might implemented. As it is a similar case than using the general chat to insult or any other way of emotional manipulation attempt, or to try to distract from fight; and general chat is not goin to be censured, I think. Think you can toggle it, anyway, but you can not toggle emotes.