Guild Wars 2

One of my favorite things in many MMOs I’ve played is obtaining things like Pets, Titles, Mounts, Toy items, and so on.

While many of these do exist in GW2, they seem to be often bound to the gem store or achievements. The ones I’m talking about are Mini Pets that have a 2% drop chance off specific bosses, or Titles earned for doing strange things in a dungeon, like getting through TA without setting off a single Deadly Blossom. These make me want to go back and replay content for pointless cosmetic rewards, and theres so much potential there, but I feel its untapped still.

Also add things like Toy Items to crafting maybe, the Unbreakable Choir Bell is the only one I can think of, and it was from the christmas event. In WoW I literally spent like 10+ hours fishing in a fountain in Dalaran, just to get a worthless coin I could flip.

While I agree with you that hidden or difficult to obtain rewards are fun, I would suggest that for every player like us that enjoys things like this, there will be a dozen players with very vocal objections. Just look at the way people respond any time ANet releases a new mini or weapon skin that cannot be obtained immediately. If the content is somehow gated by RNG, whether it is a low chance drop or a BL chest gold sink like the fused weapons, or a skill gate, e.g. the Mad King JP achievement contributing to the halloween title, many, many people will be up in arms because they don’t like that there are achievements or rewards that are actually difficult to obtain. Maybe you’d say who cares about the people complaining, but if I were ANet, I’d be trying to avoid having my official forums explode with nerdrage they way they seem to with every event or content update.