Guild Wars 2

At this point in the game, the PvE gear that you buy with shards is simply just a grind. People do farm runs all the time, trying to maximize their income of shards per hour because it takes so long to get all the pieces.

Lets look at the legendary as somewhat of a contrast however. Although it also requires quite a grind to get it done, one of the requirements is 100% map completion which says a lot about the person who has it. That person pretty much knows the entire map, has been just about everywhere, did all the quests and so forth.

Why not bring that same feeling into PvE gear. Instead of having to grind 1500 shards to get your entire set, why not cut that down to 750 but have each piece of gear require a certain path completed. This way, when you see a person wearing a full PvE set, you know he’s done that place entirely and he’s pretty much an expert. This would actually add meaning to someone who’s wearing the gear and would show an accomplishment and not a 2 boss 30 hours grind.

At this point in the game, because how things are done, many people don’t even care or want to do full runs. They might do them for the first 100-200 shards and then they say “this isn’t worth it” lets farm the first “x” number of bosses, it’s quicker that way.

Thanks for taking the time to read my suggestion.

Good point. Now it only shows which players had more time to waste on grinding than how good they are.

Ronah.2869:

Good point. Now it only shows which players had more time to waste on grinding than how good they are.

Exactly. It’s not really anything to be proud of. I don’t think there is a set of gear in the game right now that shows skill as opposed to a grind and that’s a shame. This is the one MMO that feels like its based on skill and agility and not on a boring rotation.

A quick comparison to WoW would be that PvE tokens or certain PvP gear required either some bosses to go down or a certain rating. I feel like that was done right and I’d really like to see something similar brought into this game.

I’m really happy with it so far, I feel like its YEARS ahead of anything else in this genre right now and this would be a really good step in the right direction.

Since we just had one of these threads. Where exactly is there a grind? You can quite easily complete an explorable set in a week and that’s playing “casual hours.” Additionally since you have to actually clear the dungeons now for the tokens, I’m not sure where your point is going.