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WoW did this and it's been working fine. It also killed almost all of the faction balance problems they were having. There's is fee based and there is a cool down so that people don't jump faction...

PANDA!

Oh wait...

That's not a class.

Do we really have to have this discussion again?

Keota, a suggestion.

I know it would be a long shot, but invite a dev to one of your 5v5 outings.

If you're lucky enough to drag one in, you might end with a man on the inside, so to speak.

1) They abandoned the normalization, although they did say that would still look into ways to make entry level PvP less brutal.

2) Current gear and ranks should have no effect on level 60 PvP...

^^ This ^^

"Real" PvP, to me, is not about farming. It's PvP'ing for the enjoyment of PvP.

Once rewards are introduced to a PvP system, the entire mindset changes. It becomes more about "How...

MMO's went mainstream. Now most people look at MMO's as just another console game, only there are more people standing round. This is why MMO's have become more casual and single player friendly. ...

This would make sense except for the timing. 90% of MoP was probably a done deal long before GW2 was released.

The problem is that Blizz has no clue what they're player base really wants.
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I've seen pictures of her without the makeup and she is actually kind of pretty, in a :alien: kind of way.

Classes are due for some retooling with SL. It will be a whole new ball of wax once we hit 60.

I honestly don't know why this is so hard to understand.

First, the expansion is adding 10 levels, not 10 ranks like we've had before.

Second, Trion has stated that high end level 50 gear will...

The prevailing opinion is no new or special gear from arenas. Playing in arena would get you the same rewards as WF's and CQ, favor and prestige.

Ranks and grinds are going to happen regardless.

When I refer to a reset, I mean a rating reset. When new gear gets released, everyone goes back to the same rating and the competition starts all over again.

This would not be connected to or...

Actually, I was thinking of an entirely separate system, not based on the current ranking system.

I'd go with a rating system similar to WoW's based on win/loss (hence the premades), but nowhere...

I understand that lot of people play just for the fun of it. I'm one of them, in fact. It's just that the general impression I get from most people is "No cookie, no play!". I seriously don't...

You're right.

But the 'ground' I was referring to was the grind. Naturally this wouldn't be an issue for anyone who already has all the gear, but anyone trying to grind out their gear, and keep...

(aherk aherk, screwed that one up...)

I think you guys are pursuing a pipe dream. Every indication points to Trion not wanting to go anywhere near any form of arenas. If they somehow change...

Unless they can come up with something that can blow WoW's arenas out of the water, I really don't see a sudden massive influx of players. You might grab a few people from GW2 or SWTOR, but I...

1v1 and 2v2 were just examples.

Rift has 4 classes, each of which has 8 different soul trees, effectively giving us 32 possible classes, plus a large number of permutations. Just because there's...

I think you're confusing ranks and levels, either that or your assuming that they will only add 10 ranks when the expansion drops.

When the game first came out we had 6 ranks, which was...

At this point it's all speculation. Trion hasn't released any hard info yet. But it does make sense that they would do it that way.

The problem with most changes to game mechanics is that, well, it's change. A lot of people don't like change.

Very often, after given time to adapt, the player base finds that the change that...

@Laeris
Thanks for the more accurate numbers.

@ Seebs
Like I said, " ...something like a billion dollars a year..."



You and I are arguing basically the same thing. As WoW became more...

I'm pretty confident that you will not need level 50 gear to buy level 60 gear. I mean, why make people stop at level 50, grind a full set of gear and then make them do it again at 60. You'd...

What I suggested is exactly what I described, 5v5, group queue only Warfronts. "Warfront" as in a battle the has objectives other than just killing your opponents. To me, that is not a TDM.

I...