Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/raid-rewards-in-guildwars2/

And some actually thought there was a significant amount of gold to be gained in raids, lol.

It does seem a little low especially with their previous statement the liquid rewards from dungeons were being shifted to fractals and raids.

ATM, the only gold to be really made is through exchange of gold between players. Doesn’t seem to be much actual gold production going on which is probably what they want. Not sure what the plan is for later on when the gold supply has gone down enough.

At least now we know where all the ascended drops from fractals went to… maybe?

With the first three bosses that’s 6 gold or 12gold with the buff. When we have an entire raid that would become 18g or 36g with the buff. It adds up.

And you can bet your kitten that these raids will be on farm some time in the future.

4g if the content is the latest.

Plus tons of mastery experience, chance for ascended pieces and legendary crafting components. Seems pretty good. I’m glad they’ll keep the gold amount low so we can keep inflation in check. I’d rather have more valuable account bound rewards than gold. As long as it’s enough to somewhat cover the massive gold sink that crafting gear is…

Guaranteed rewards sound pretty bad, depends on if the droprates for the other stuff are good/if we can get something out of those.

While not present at the release of raids, we’ll also be adding new guild decorations that can be built to showcase your guild’s raiding accomplishments.

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

They could just not tell us about it and make you think it’s “complete”. There’s always things “in development” it’s just a matter of most companies don’t tell their player base about these things as early as Anet does.

I guess ignorance is bliss though.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Guaranteed rewards sound pretty bad, depends on if the droprates for the other stuff are good/if we can get something out of those.

While not present at the release of raids, we’ll also be adding new guild decorations that can be built to showcase your guild’s raiding accomplishments.

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

Raid leaderboards coming soon!

Pandabro.8743:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

They could just not tell us about it and make you think it’s “complete”. There’s always things “in development” it’s just a matter of most companies don’t tell their player base about these things as early as Anet does.

I guess ignorance is bliss though.

Sure, there’s always things devs are working on. That’s okay and telling us is nice, too. But if they’re already splitting up raid wing releases + pushing them out after actual release, you could at least expect them to release one wing completely.

Also, yeah, leaderboards are a great example of things that take forever and keep getting pushed back.

Gyler.8150:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Guaranteed rewards sound pretty bad, depends on if the droprates for the other stuff are good/if we can get something out of those.

While not present at the release of raids, we’ll also be adding new guild decorations that can be built to showcase your guild’s raiding accomplishments.

This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?

Raid leaderboards coming soon!

Just a few weeks after the fractal leaderboards!

The blog post also mentions guaranteed rares and exotics, plus additional rewards for completing events in between bosses (in the section about the new currency). I get the cynicism, and it’s not unwarranted, but don’t just ignore kitten, either.

I guess it depends on what their definition of a “Boss” is. If it’s the end of the raid wing boss only that you get the chest/rewards then it’s going to be really disappointing for those that are assuming they mean every boss along the way to the end. I’m not getting my hopes up for good rewards seeing as how lackluster the rewards are for everything else currently.

The three “bosses” before the vale guard aren’t going to be counted as bosses for loot lol..
They are trash mobs

It is doubled if you have the mastery for it AND cumulative after new raids are released. If you want to have more gold quickly, buy gems and convert them as intended.

I am very much excited for this. Everything looks great can not wait to experience raids in GW2. Thank you Arena Net for all the work that has went into this expansion, it has been one of my top expansions that I have experienced.

Also for some of the posters in this thread could you keep the toxicity level down a bit, there is a reason why people dislike coming to the forums. We are supposed to be a friendly community and yet day after day the toxic posts made from some people is getting ridiculous. Devote that energy to actually being a contributing member of society.

We’ll have to see. Too many variable.

1) Speed to kill a boss? At first, it won’t be good gold reward of course. Because we gonna test thing out, wipe and learn. But when our strategy are fine tune, how much time we’ll need to kill them? By that time, we probably gonna be at 2 gold per boss. From what I know, people were doing the first 3 mini-boss in 25-30min and 8min of Enrage timer on the first true boss. How much can we cut down on that. Can it be done in 30min? So we can get around 4 gold per hour. 20min? So we can get 8gold/hour. 6-8 gold per hours is pretty decent since we gonna have more reward after that. It’s seem reasonable IF the remaining reward are decent.

2) How many boss there is in total? We gonna get 3 Wings, so at least 3 boss. But the beta Anet talk about the first encounter, not the first wing. Will there be more than 1 boss per wing? 2? 3? Bosses? At 3 bosses per wing, that mean we gonna be able to get 18 gold from raid per week. Not that much to be honest.

3) What is the droprate of these other reward. If we are talking about pre-hot fractal here, meaning around 1 good drop each 4 boss (Ascended Armor, Asc. Weapon or unique reward). Now it start to look good because each time 1 boss is killed, you gonna have 2-3 person in the group with a good drop. People will link these in the chat, and this gonna boost the moral of everybody, even if you didn’t drop anything at that particular kill.

4) What are those unique reward and what is the variety. Will these miniature be account bound or not? Account bound is great because it give them a prestige value. But at the same time if you get the same mini twice you are screwed. Will there be a way to change those reward? If they are tradeable in the TP, then they lost their prestige value, but if you get several of them or one that you dislike you can exchange them. We know about minis and the unique infusion, but what are the other reward? Will the mini be cool? For now the first boss is nice to fight, but I wouldn’t want a mini out of it. If the only good unique reward is the ghost aura infusion, it’s not enough imo.

5) I wasn’t able to play the beta raid. I don’t know if 3 mini boss before the first true boss gave reward. If they don’t, maybe it’s because of the beta. Will they give small reward each? That adds up if they do.

6) How much of those Magnetite shards will we get? And what will they allow us to buy. Again, linked to point number 4. If the only awesome reward is the ghost aura infusion, the raid won’t have a long life. Will we be able to buy ascended armor/weapon with that currency?

7) The Legendary Armor. For me fractal is less fun than is used to be. But I’m a completionist so I want those golden fractal skin and legendary back item. So I’m gonna do fractal until I have those and it’s enough motivation for me. I have fun going after those and I’ll will have fun going after the Legendary Armor. If it’s good. We’ll see. I have big doudt for legendary armor to begin with. Eventually, you’ll see a lot of people with the same armor, and the fact that you can’t swap runes like stats is annoying. They can still suprise me, but I have my doubt.

So many thing can go right or wrong. We don’t have enough info yet.

I’ve never played an mmo where raiding was meant to give high currency rewards. Raids are where you go to get rare armor/weapon skins and other things that can only be obtained there.