Guild Wars 2

PvEer are complaining since the beginning of the game about the WvW part of the map completion as part of their Gift of Mastery. With the ninja requirement of WvW Rank 30 for the Gift of Battle, the situation is not getting better.

Personally, i don’t really mind all of this. I love pve and wvw so rank 30 is done a long time ago. I didn’t had that much difficulty to complete wvw map on two character and the 500 Badge of Honor (before we get them so easily in achievement chest) was one of the coolest part of my first legendary. But this is not the case for everyone. For some of my friend, the WvW is a pain and just don’t want to put a foot in it anymore. So my idea is to have 2 recipe for the gift of Mastery. 1 PvE version and 1 WvW version. I tried to keep the stuff equal in term time to acquire.

Gift of Mastery (PvE)
- Bloodstone Shard
- 250 Obsidian Shard
- Gift of Exploration (only PvE map completion)
- Gift of Dungeons (500 Dungeon token of each dungeon)

Gift of Mastery (WvW)
- Bloodstone Shard
- 250 Obsidian Shard
- Gift of Scouting (WvW map completion only)
- Gift of Battle (requirement for that one need to be work on)

For my idea to work, some balancing need to be done for the Gift of Battle. Several example could work. But i think that right now a requirement of Rank 60 in WvW with a cost of 500 Badge of Honor would be good. The problem with that is that only the first legendary would take time. Once you get to rank 60, its pretty easy for the second legendary. So at this point, maybe each legendary make this requirement go up. At your second legendary you need 120 Rank, at the third its 180 rank, etc. On other option would be to nerf the income of Badge of Honor from achievement chest. With only loot, capture and Jumping Puzzle to get your Badge of Honor and with a requirement of 750-1000 badge of Honor with no rank requirement, this would be more balance compare to PvE version. The dungeon token would be faster to get that 1000 Badge of Honor, but in return WvW map completion (for WvWers) time less time that PvE map completion.

These numbers are probably not perfect, and maybe other ways could be better. But the good point of that would be the possibility to eventually add a sPvP version of the Gift of Mastery. Anet already talked that they want people to be able to have Legendary skins in sPvP.