Hero - Most important title? Why the emote?

I was wondering, when ANet designed the game, which of the titles/type of combat they considered the most important.

Looking at the highest organized PvP, we have HA and GvG. It seems strange that Hero titles lets the player display an emote, and the GvG one doesn't.

If the game is named "Guild Wars" - i.e. GvG!, wouldn't GvG have the most importance/relevance? It is arguably the most strategic/complex form of PvP yet it doesn't grant an emote, which HA title does, and it seems to make the Hero title a little bit more special, no?

Even Zaishen title has an emote and Champion title doesn't. Also weird that Zaishen is a reputation line similar to Lux/Kurz in progression and those don't have emotes.

Some may say emotes are overrated, yes they can be, but they definitely set their titles apart from the others.

What's your opinion on this? Please discuss.

It's anet, who knows why the do half the stuff that they do lol. Guess they wanted people to do HA more so they added the emote. What they need to do is add a emote for kind of a big deal titles.

emotes were originally implimented to help form PUGs in tombs before titles were even put in the game.

They decided to make a zaishen emote to shut people up who got pissy about HAers getting emotes that they couldn't get cause they were bad at the game.

Because they took away rank sticks to help form teams and replaced it with the emotes.

Bingo.

It's not because it's the most important, it's because it helped form pugs.

Also, e-peen.

Interesting, I wasn't around back then. How exactly the emotes helped?

Because showing your emote gave the group an idea of what level you were (ie bambi 3,4 or 5) etc.

If you werent the level they were seeking or didnt emote, then you were likely kicked.

as opposed to being able to play IWAY? o.O

Because having a hero title automatically makes your e-peen's power level grow to over 9000. And because HA is srs bizness.

Because titles didn't exist. The Hero Ranking was the ONLY "title" in the game, and there was no way to display it below your name like you do now. As such, the only visual way to show your rank to somebody else was with emotes.

Hero emotes were implemented way before the implementation of titles. It is not intended to designate hero title as the most important. The main purpose of them was a visable symbol of a person's skill level and rank in Tombs/HA. Of course, because of certain team builds that people consider "gimmicky", most people no longer go strictly by a person's rank when judging their skill lvl. The reason why an emote isn't available for GvG i can only speculate is because there is a guild ladder. If u want people to know what rank u are in GvG, they only have to look up ur guild tag online. The zaishen emote is meant to be a global pvp emote for the players who do nothing but pvp. Of course, it doesn't have much weight to it because z-keys are capable of being traded to pve players. z-rank is very rarely a good measurement of a person's pvp abilities.

Some people think it actually means something, those are the ones ranking random people in PvE outposts and calling them noobs because they haven't grinded as much fame as them, or don't have a certain skill or weapons, ect.

Don't you know HA is srs, prestigious bsns?

Feels good bro.

Actually, if you research the history of the game (articles, interviews, videos, the freaking Prophecies box...) Heroes Ascent/Tombs was touted as the NEW SUPER AWESOME PVP MODE!!!! and so they had fame to go along with the idea of rl countries at war in a videogame (a way to show ones devotion to their country, and to help form PUGs as someone said). This ultimately backfired on them and now HA really isn't this SUPER AWESOME PVP MODE. Fame just shows how much devotion you have to that choice mode (like Gladiator, Commander, Champion, etc), and now it really just prevents PUGs to new players. HA became a less prominent mode because due to the nature of skills in the game and the nature of HA, it is more conducive to gimmicks and broken builds than any other game type.

Also the game is called Guild Wars cause of the Guild Wars that happened in Tyria long ago, not because of Guild versus Guild battles (which are not part of the Guild Wars.).

Tombz.

srs bs(ns).

so i herd hero required the less skill and the most grind so u culd fap at ur big e-peen

Feels good doesn't it Chocobo?

iono man. ra and ab looks like it takes even less skill.

GvG Fellas got their Cape trims, its way cooler then some emote

bingo.
no need to spiff it up more.