Curse

Warskull · Mar 01, 2006, 11:00 AM // 11:00

/faction simply wouldn't be useful. Faction wasn't designed to be a measurement. People cap out at different levels of faction. I originally capped out at 69k faction. You can grind out faction just by losing over and over again in RA if you have to. In addition you can now farm faction from Zaishen if you want to. Faction just wasn't design to be a measure of anything and as a result isn't useful as a measure of skill. In fact ideally you should be able to churn out a decent amount of faction even if you are losing (because you really need to unlock the good skills in that case.)

The rank system has flaws, but adding /faction won't fix them.

shardfenix · Mar 01, 2006, 07:15 PM // 19:15

So, you want a /faction emote so that more players have a reason to cut people out of their groups? You want to put another useless emote in the game, and pretend it tells you how good you are? Rank means squat right now. What makes you think a /faction emote would help.
Oh, and there is already a top guild emote. It's called observer mode.
Rank has nothing to do with skill. All rank tell you is how much time you spend in tombs. If you're rank 9+, it tells people youre a good spirit spammer, and a crappy everything else.

Shut Your Mouth · Mar 02, 2006, 06:56 PM // 18:56

Well now that we all agree Rank Emotes are pointless anymore can the subject either get dropped or just reset rank/fame for everyone so that all have the same rules apply to their Rank/Fame count. Everyone knows that some skills were overpowering and abused for large Fame counts before they were balanced out properly. As well as now the general idea is that IWAY is overpowering. Which in either case a large number of players have received large amounts of fame due to unbalanced skills. This is unfortunate for newer players that have not had the same chance to get Fame from an exploit. Allowing the same thing to happen with faction would just create another rift in the GW community that is already IMO struggling from an identity crisis. If you want to learn how to play PvP effectively join a guild that does alot of PvP and learn from them. Once your skilled in PvP it should not be that hard to get Rank/Fame/Faction or whatever. It really is not hard to get rank if that is what you want to do.

I do support the wiping of all Rank/Fame for everyone due to the fact that early and current exploits of overpowering skills have given a majority of players an unrealistic Fame/rank score compared to what can be achieved by current skill balances.