Guild Wars 2

One of the things that I recall Arenanet pushing for in the creation of guild wars 2 was to really allow players to do what they want to do. I, and many others who PvP, love doing just that, however there is also an occasional taste for PvE and WvW. However, there is an issue we have when we seek to enter WvW (and some PvE dungeons). Unless we take on the task of grinding dungeons for gear (which I very much dislike doing), we are at a severe disadvantage to those who haven’t spent their time sPvPing. An active PvE player will have top gear (ascended included) and that will carry over into WvW, however someone who only actively PvP’s, will have nothing when moving to WvW and will be an a very large disadvantage (not to mention they can also earn gold which sPvPers currently cannot, ability to craft account bound unidentified dyes excluded).

My suggestion is that a vendor is implemented that will sell all kinds of exotic level gear for level 80’s that are account bound (since glory is shared across accounts this seems most reasonable) or soul bound at the cost of glory and/or the PvP materials. I leave price speculations to Arenanet staff, but I think this would be a great addition that would make a lot of PvPers game lives much happier and give us something to actually spend our glory on (since most people have no need to buy chests due to surplus of the materials, and now we are stacked on glory too…) It also might just bring more players to the world of sPvP to try an alternate method of gearing up those 80 characters.