Guild Wars 2

I don’t know how to start a thread so here we go -

I was reading a thread in the HoT forums and I felt sick from reading it. I probably sound elitist for saying this, but I beg players with similar thoughts to chirp up and let them know that it’s simply not fair to reward people who run easier content the same as harder content.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Some-people-don-t-like-hard-mode/first

Please, go read this forum, or just TL:DR and reply to the OP like I did. I would love you all forever if we could get ANet to read some of our dungeon/fractal/high-end pve/difficult content searching player’s Ideas and thoughts.

Thanks guys,
Love Cell

And they wont havent you read the fractal and spvp high end stuff will get exclusive rewards. Since fractals are the new 5 man dungeons you already got your wish

I think it’s important to recognise a hopeless situation. I read about 70% of that post and I’m shocked I lasted that long. Forget that, don’t waste your time replying to somebody who thinks that easy and difficult content should give identical rewards.

My god… the gaming community these days… sigh.

Purple Miku.7032:

I think it’s important to recognise a hopeless situation. I read about 70% of that post and I’m shocked I lasted that long. Forget that, don’t waste your time replying to somebody who thinks that easy and difficult content should give identical rewards.

My god… the gaming community these days… sigh.

It disgusts me, I cannot even read counter-arguments to my own posts because they have no point. One counter to a comment I made was just “No they shouldn’t” …
I find it pathetic that players want things handed to them for doing easy things, that other players have to do hard content to receive

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I have no problem with not having exclusive rewards. If there are still rewards worth getting then that’s good by me. Personally I actually prefer the stuff I can sell on TP. Freedom to do what I want to do and get the rewards I want… now that’s assuming it goes across all content and not just no exclusivity in hard content.

I personally have no problem with a guy farming SW for days and days to buy the new Fractal skin I’d be selling for instance.

Now, actual prestige items where it’s “this player did this cool thing” I do think are cool, and I understand the counter arguments to what I said, and I wouldn’t really argue my point, just it’s my personal preference.

As long as I look pretty and fashionable… /shrug

I’m very favorable towards unique titles and minis, tho.

I’m totally with this. Players who do the hard yards and conquer the higher level of difficulty*should* get better shinies.
In GW1, I saw lots of ppl roaming around with Obsidian armour, tormented weapons etc and I felt no envy for them, rather a quiet admiration that they tackled those dungeons.

It’s not about elitism, but just rewards.
A work place analogy would be a low level technician being rewarded the same bonus as the CEO.

I don’t really give a kitten about rewards tbh, after three years I just want something new to do.

But yeah. Harder content should be more rewarding. It’d be interesting to watch some of these players try to beat super mario brothers on NES. They’d probably start crying after 10 minutes :P

dlonie.6547:

It’d be interesting to watch some of these players try to beat super mario brothers on NES. They’d probably start crying after 10 minutes :P

First world, second level. At the second gap with the falling platforms jump up onto the top of the screen and run to the end and grab the warp tube. Dead easy :-P Can’t remember where the one after that was though…

There isn’t much to add… Doubt we will get it designed our way to be honest.

Wanted to write this before but didn’t think anybody cared in the post you mentioned.
Just a little rant:

This issue would have been absolutely out of the question not so long ago. Now though, everyone seems to feel entitled to everything almost instantly after joining an MMO.

I do enjoy people with rare and expensive skins even if I do not own them myself. Rare stuff like the Grinning Shield shouldn’t become avaible to everyone.
It is a reward for veteran players for being around in the old days. If you were there but didn’t bother to buy it like me then that is your own fault. You can still get it for the current price if you feel like it is worth that amount.

And even worse if those rewards had to be earned by outstanding play in PvE or PvP.
People should be able to gain some idea of what type of player you are by just looking at your character or title.
Why shouldn’t outstanding players look and feel special in some way. There is a lot of work involved when you try to improve at something.
This game has gone so far from the idea of giving powerful and unique looking gear only to those few who are actually good enough to kill some endgame boss or to reward the rare few who are able to dominate the PvP leaderboards as it gets.

Only those who managed to slay the lion should be able to wear it’s skin.

Higher difficult should always mean better rewards simple as that, if it was the case of same reward for any tier of difficulty then noone would ever do the hardest tier. There wouldn’t be any point.

Yup there should always be a good ratio of time invested vs reward vs difficulty

Exclusive rewards are actually pretty bad, especially if you can’t sell them. My favourites are things like getting uber loot you can’t use.

I’m all for better rewards for harder content but exclusive? That needs some careful consideration. What happens when you get ALL the exclusive content from something? Do you stop doing that something and complain it’s worth your time to do that hard content because of exclusive loot you don’t need? No, I think that’s a bad route to take.

Obtena.7952:

Exclusive rewards are actually pretty bad, especially if you can’t sell them. My favourites are things like getting uber loot you can’t use.

I’m all for better rewards for harder content but exclusive? That needs some careful consideration. What happens when you get ALL the exclusive content from something? Do you stop doing that something and complain it’s worth your time to do that hard content because of exclusive loot you don’t need? No, I think that’s a bad route to take.

I agree. At least let me do something with rewards other than wear it. Salvage it, exchange it for tokens or a non-trivial amount of gold, something…Otherwise the new “AMAZING AWESOME REWARDS” will just be the next version of ascended ring drops. Yay, 5s. Woot?

It’s like those account bound exotics that drop in fractals for some moronic reason. At least they can be salvaged, but it just makes no sense.

Yeah, ’cause exotics dropping with the frequency at which they dropped when they STILL WERE BIS GEAR totally makes sense.
I see non-acct bound exos like… 2-3 times a month? when it goes well? Pfft.

Purple Miku.7032:

I think it’s important to recognise a hopeless situation. I read about 70% of that post and I’m shocked I lasted that long. Forget that, don’t waste your time replying to somebody who thinks that easy and difficult content should give identical rewards.

My god… the gaming community these days… sigh.

As elitists we should not talk to the filthy peasants, they live in a different world than us :P
I always feel ill after seeing people complain about xyz is too hard while I find it mindnumbing easy.

deSade.9437:

Yeah, ’cause exotics dropping with the frequency at which they dropped when they STILL WERE BIS GEAR totally makes sense.
I see non-acct bound exos like… 2-3 times a month? when it goes well? Pfft.

Can’t help but say that if they do put in exclusive rewards, if they’re RNG based…. kitten

Well, we know for sure that the new fract rewards will be rng and require some… key to open the chest (gemstore?), so that is one. Dunno about the new… /cough “challenging group content”.

Practically, current hardest PvE content is higher level fractals. Rewards are unique skins and better-than-average access to top tier equipment (ascended chest + rings).

Also evident from TT and Tequatl both of which have some unique skins attached to them (although I am not sure higher access to ascended enters there).

I would expect the upcoming raids to follow the same formula. Some unique skins will be available, but doubt anything past that.

Today’s the 29th, I’m praying and hoping for these raids to be difficult, numerous, and lengthy or with some repeat value. Despite the hatred towards RNG rewards I would love to have something I can grind to earn my gear like I’ve done for FotM to earn my ascended armor/weapons. I can only hope that the Devs haven’t based these raids around the casual “1111111111111” zergers we all know too well (teq with pugs comes to mind)…

Here’s hoping for at least some farmable RNG based loot, as well as raid currency, as well as decent drops from mobs with raids.

~Cell

inb4 CGC is alllllll underwater.

Ascended aquabreather hype!!