Guild Wars 2

The biggest reason that I don’t spend a lot of time in sPvP, is that none of the progress in there has any bearing on your character in the rest of the world. This is something I really like about WvW, that it’s the same character from PvE, so you’re progress in either area carries over.

I like PvP in general, but the competition in WvW is not exactly balanced and most of the time it’s just a mass of aoe spamming zergs… not as fun as small structured competitions.

I understand keeping things separated and having a separate set of armors and weapons etc. to keep thing balanced. But I really like the other areas of the game a lot (PvE, WvW) and I hesitate to spend time in sPvP when I could be playing WvW and making progress towards the gear that I want.

So I was thinking, maybe if we could earn gold for our wins in sPvP, then at least it helps our regular character out. If this was implemented, I would be probably start playing a ton of sPvP…

I doubt that will ever happen. You don’t use gold in PvP and therefor you shouldn’t be rewarded with it for playing PvP.

What CapN said, basically if you started to earn gold doing sPvP you should stop being given everything for free in sPvP and get charged for it same as wvw and pve

The achievable items in sPvP aren’t free. You still have to earn those. You’re just given the same baseline as everyone else to keep things fair. I’m not sure why this would mean even the starter equipment has to be earned… It’s gold for winning matches.

And I’m not sure I see the logical step that says that just because we don’t spend the gold in PvP we couldn’t earn it there as a type of reward usable in PvE.

So, I’m sorry but I don’t get either of your arguments, respectfully. I think it’s a decent suggestion. Not that I think it will happen either… So I agree with you there.

I agree that it’d be cool.

The reason I found this thread is because I searched on Google whether earning gold through sPvP is possible, so it’s something I’d like to see.

I’m not very competitive. I do enjoy other aspects of the game a lot just like D Rod.

I don’t agree on rewarding gold for spvp. But I had an idea to give that extra incentive. Since this game is “Guild Wars” and the recent attention to guild’s has sparked some interest, tpvp with guild members should reward a good amount of influence. The more guild members, the more influence gained if you win that is. This allows (if any exist) spvp guilds to gain some rewards for being together which in turn grants them bonuses for being in a guild which may push them to explore other content. On the other hand it would give pve/wvw players an incentive to step outside their comfort zone and work on getting influence from every source. It’s a win win imo. Plus it gives spvp focused guilds a reason to exist/continue considering how little reward spvp offers.

I totally agree! Like 100%.
First off sPvP really doesn’t offer rewards. You get two things out of it. Gear being one and that is all just looks which don’t get me wrong is great and all. But once you found the set you like (which might be in the lower tiers) That entire aspect of the game is now useless. And then there is your rank. Which is useful for getting previously mentioned gear (so easily useless) and doing /rank. I’m sure they are thinking of things to improve the pull sPvP but right now its just a rigid grind of rank points.

But your idea. I’m not saying it should be alot and like everything else it should scale with your level. And i do agree with what they said before about nothing in PvP costing gold. I think it should. Not gear but other things.
Add in things like PvP only minis. Allow us to get our glory boosters, salvage kits, and finishers though gold as well. (cheap of course)

Add in currency to the pvp we have now would at least triple the amount of reasons to play. I pvp (mostly because its my favorite part of the game but also) because i need a break from the grinding i’d been doing. When i’m tired of fractals i run regular dungeons, when i’m tired of both of those i do world event farming, then when that is done i do orr events and then WvWvW and when all that is boring i go to sPvP and i spend alot of time there. With all the things before i have something to show for it when i’m done collective gold, items to sell, karma i’ve gained. But with sPvP when i go back to my main goal (making a legendary) nothing. literally nothing.

I don’t think adding in gold gain to sPvP solves the stale problem but i think its a heck of a good start

CapN Biku.6024:

I doubt that will ever happen. You don’t use gold in PvP and therefor you shouldn’t be rewarded with it for playing PvP.

You could get zKeys from Jade Quarry, which were basically money.

Didn’t destroy the GW1 economy.