Guild Wars 2

I don’t know how the rest of you feel, but I’ve been playing this game for a long time and unless I’m doing PvE content, I just feel like this game is really lacking in rewards. Other than getting more skilled just to be more skilled, I feel like there’s real point to playing, and when I take that step back to see that fact, I usually just logout to go do something else.

Needless to say I’m just bored. There’s a lot to do as far as chieves and such, but for PvP and WvW, the game feels like there’s no reward. I’d love if there were more ascended items given through PvP and WvW, and more gold, or more items to sell for gold, because as it is now, if you just PvP or WvW, you’re going to be pretty broke. WvW used to be fun, but with population issues, it just sucks all the potential fun away.

Bai! o/

I know what you mean. Five minutes of PvE gets you more stuff than an hour of WvW. In fact, you will often pay extra there, as siege, food and stuff isn’t cheap.

Anet announced a rework of the reward system for WvW, and I have created a thread in the WvW forum to collect ideas and opinions on how to change the rewards there. Unfortunately, participation was very sparse, so please share your ideas there. The devs do seem to read the forums at the moment, so your ideas will be heard.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/What-rewards-reward-tracks-would-you-want/first#post6043440

Sphinx.8014:

I know what you mean. Five minutes of PvE gets you more stuff than an hour of WvW. In fact, you will often pay extra there, as siege, food and stuff isn’t cheap.

Anet announced a rework of the reward system for WvW, and I have created a thread in the WvW forum to collect ideas and opinions on how to change the rewards there. Unfortunately, participation was very sparse, so please share your ideas there. The devs do seem to read the forums at the moment, so your ideas will be heard.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/What-rewards-reward-tracks-would-you-want/first#post6043440

I think I may have added some ideas there already, but all it boils down to is more rewards via ascended gear acquisition, fix the population imbalance, and smaller maps that are flatter.

I don’t play PvP for the rewards. I play PvP for the 5v5 fights (I only play Arenas, actually, I used to only play ranked Arenas, even before reward tracks).

This game has turned into “I want presents for everything I do”. Which if that is what you need, that’s your opinion. I don’t feel that. I want to win in PvP. If they went back to the old system, I wouldn’t care. As long as they never get rid of the 5v5 arenas, I’m happy.

I dont care how shiny a reward is.
it will not get me to play anything if im that bored of it xD (RL is a different story)

Ellieanna.5027:

I don’t play PvP for the rewards. I play PvP for the 5v5 fights (I only play Arenas, actually, I used to only play ranked Arenas, even before reward tracks).

This game has turned into “I want presents for everything I do”. Which if that is what you need, that’s your opinion. I don’t feel that. I want to win in PvP. If they went back to the old system, I wouldn’t care. As long as they never get rid of the 5v5 arenas, I’m happy.

For PvP this is totally fine as you have very little expenses in general. You don’t need to buy ascended armor, weapons and trinkets, various consumables and siege equipment to play optimally. WvW, however, can be very expensive. To be competitive you need ascended gear which currently costs a few hundred gold per character, you need food and nourishments (~1,5g/hour), you need to upgrade your guild hall (gazillions of gold), you need siege weapons (up to 3g a piece) etc. You need some income for this, and sadly, it doesn’t come from WvW itself. You need to play PvE to pay for all of this. If WvW was self-sustainable I guess many WvW’ers would never set foot on Tyria.

Tl;dr: Be happy that you don’t need rewards to play PvP. WvW’ers don’t have that luxury.

Sphinx.8014:

Ellieanna.5027:

I don’t play PvP for the rewards. I play PvP for the 5v5 fights (I only play Arenas, actually, I used to only play ranked Arenas, even before reward tracks).

This game has turned into “I want presents for everything I do”. Which if that is what you need, that’s your opinion. I don’t feel that. I want to win in PvP. If they went back to the old system, I wouldn’t care. As long as they never get rid of the 5v5 arenas, I’m happy.

For PvP this is totally fine as you have very little expenses in general. You don’t need to buy ascended armor, weapons and trinkets, various consumables and siege equipment to play optimally. WvW, however, can be very expensive. To be competitive you need ascended gear which currently costs a few hundred gold per character, you need food and nourishments (~1,5g/hour), you need to upgrade your guild hall (gazillions of gold), you need siege weapons (up to 3g a piece) etc. You need some income for this, and sadly, it doesn’t come from WvW itself. You need to play PvE to pay for all of this. If WvW was self-sustainable I guess many WvW’ers would never set foot on Tyria.

Tl;dr: Be happy that you don’t need rewards to play PvP. WvW’ers don’t have that luxury.

Isn’t the point of WvW also to have the big fights and to win? I know I WvW a lot. Actually, I’m a perma scout. I run around and guard a keep or tower. Do you know how rewarding it is when you only get 1 fight in a 4 hour time spam? You barely get anything. But kitten , letting your group know the tower is under attack, and they show up in time to defend and save it. That’s my reward. So yes, I’m also very aware of the WvW “rewards”. I play for the fights. And I play for the defense. Everyone in my guild gets bags upon bags from the fights. I might get 5. The fights and winning is the reward. The loot is bonus.

That’s why this game is great … if you’re burnt out playing it for whatever reason, you can leave and not feel like you’ve wasted some money maintaining your access to it because of no monthly fee.