User talk:Ryan Scott

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Hey all, I've moved the Gladiator Discussion to an archive, which you can see in the box on the right.

As for the Gladiator title changes I worked on awhile back, I'm pretty happy with the results. I think the hardcore Arena and Team-Arena players are still differentiated from the casual, but the casual Arena player has a good way to make partial progress and get something for their time. I still play RA and TA a reasonable amount, and so overall it's pretty positive.

Note: Anything signed "Morello" is also me. I'm newb @ wiki, so I'm still finding all sortsa good stuff here :)

There is some stuff I'm working on where a good sampling of feedback would be beneficial;

1) What are your favorite GW1 skills? Why?

2) What types (new or existing) prestige rewards drive you personally as a player? Prestige rewards are any reward that does not effect your power or ability. Examples would be PvP skins, titles, or rank emotes.

3) PvE players: What has drawn you into PvP in the past? What factors deter you from PvP?

Ryan Scott 19:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 Fox007's answers :) 2 Ryudo's Answers 3 Prestige rewards 4 Silverleaf's answers

[edit] Fox007's answers :)

1) What are your favorite GW1 skills? Why?

• Warrior's Endurance because of the enormeus Energy gain of the skill.
• Word of Healing is a great healing spell no matter what you are playing.
• D-Shot how doesn't love that skill :)
• Meteor Shower insane AoE damage and KD.

2) What types (new or existing) prestige rewards drive you personally as a player? Prestige rewards are any reward that does not effect your power or ability. Examples would be PvP skins, titles, or rank emotes.

• Getting my hall full i really want to see how my hall looks like when i got R6 in Maxed title's track.

3) PvE players: What has drawn you into PvP in the past? What factors deter you from PvP

• Just messing around with your build without anyone complaining about it (AB mostly). and what factors deter me is the fact that you need to be experienced to get in a good team and i good teams you will get experienced.

Fox007 20:12, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ryudo's Answers

1.My favorite GW1 skills and why:

• Melandru's Resilience. (too often ignored, makes for great lol moments in FA when playing it on a warrior)
• Ride the Lightning (Weak, yes, but funnier than it is weak.)
• Rodgorts Invocation (BOOM!)

2. Types of prestige...etc...etc... I dont play for prestige, hence why I have over 3,000 hours, and around 700plat to my name, and no fancy titles, no mulitple sets of 15k/FoW armor, and no ranking on any of the pvp areas.

3. Pve players in pvp: I play FA and sometimes AB as my pvp. The reason I stay away from most pvp is because of the highly elitest attitude of "you like FA and dont HA or GvG or have titles, your a noob." Also, fame emote spamming is easily the most annoying thing in the entire game.

Im just a werid player though I guess.--Ryudo 21:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prestige rewards

Though getting a way to wear some of the otherwise-inaccessible armor skins in PvP was good, the method via which they are obtainable is unfriendly. There's something nice about a getting a clean unlock on one's account, as though it can never be taken away no matter what happens. Even if measures would need to be taken to increase the Tournament Reward Point cost of every non-standard piece of armor, I would still pay an exorbitant price for an irreversible improvement to my wardrobe options in the form of a skin unlock. My twenty-six PvP characters would stop having to share outfits and envying my two PvE characters.

Skin unlocks for the second and third Hero Armor options would also be nice for Hero Battles. -- Dashface 14:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree there's a barrier to PvP skins because they're "soft" unlocks (instead of account-based ones). Hypothetically speaking, if the unlock mechanics were more desirable, you'd say you find PvP skins to be a pretty heavy motivator for you? Morello 22:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

For sure. While I wouldn't be crazy enough to try and unlock every option out there, I would probably go for many pieces in a few classes—Monk, Elementalist, probably some Ranger and Ritualist stuff. I always hide headgear, but some of the highly-visible chest and leg armor I would unlock in a heartbeat. Necromancer Istani armor, for instance, is not prestige and not hard to acquire, but I don't think I'll ever get to use it because I don't envision ever making a PvE Necromancer. If a points system was available to make armor unlockable per piece, per gender, and with costs relative to chest/leg/other-ness and PvE obtainability, I can see myself PvPing solely for armor skins. (And working towards one of the pre-existing titles along the way would be nice.) -- Dashface 12:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silverleaf's answers

1) What are your favorite GW1 skills? Why?

• Splinter Weapon for the added damage it does in HM and very nice spike graphics. Works great with all weapons or animal companions/heroes.
• Glimmer of Light is a great healing spell no matter what you are playing.
• Charm Animal for the Animal Companion no matter what proffession.

2) What types (new or existing) prestige rewards drive you personally as a player?

• Now, if ever i could be able to be active in Hero's Ascent. That Phoenix Emote is Out-Of-This-World!!!
• Have 25 title's now and the other 5 will be added too to gain top KoabD rank but ohwww my that HA emote rulez.

3) PvE players: What has drawn you into PvP in the past? What factors deter you from PvP

• I Wanted to have the emote from HA and go fight and enjoy it. (Zaishen doesn't appeal to me at all) The very surprising use of manners or lack-of-them makes it a less-enjoyable experiance. -- Silverleaf 22:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)