Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m not sure if this has been suggested before, as I’ve been away for a good length of time up until two weeks ago but, what are people’s thoughts on adding a Zaishen-like Chest to the game? I really liked the concept in the original GW, and I think it would transfer over to GW2 pretty well.

In GW1, you could buy Zaishen Keys with Balthazar Faction ( think spendable Rank Points/ WXP ) and by doing Daily Quests for Zaishen Coins. Once you had a Z-Key, you’d go and open up a chest that would give you something like a weapon, Title related items, or rare Tonics. It also went towards a buy-me Title.

Strolling around the WvW and PvP forums, you still see lots of posts complaining about the rewards when compared to PvE; and rightfully so in my opinion. I think tying a unique chest like the Zaishen Chest in GW1, into those two areas might help pull people back into those two areas. It could also provide a good way for those that exclusively play WvW and PvP a ( better ) source of income to fund whatever it is they need.

Here’s a few things that I’d like to see in GW2’s version of the Zaishen Chest:

Black Lion Claim Ticket Scraps ( low chance, but higher than general PvE drop rate )
Rare weapons/armor/trinkets etc.
Exotic weapons/armor/trinkets etc.
Maybe a monthly weapon skin rotation? Like one month Tormented, next month whatever. Obviously low drop rate, but still a way to get them from gameplay.
Various crafting mats.
Mini Pets
And then filler.

Anyways, just something I thought about for a whopping 3 minutes while watching YouTube. Would like some others opinion on this, and to see if Anet’s interested. Here’s the link for GW1’s Zaishen Chest: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Chest

First of all Black Lion tickets don’t “drop” in PvE. The come from Black Lion Chests which are cash shop items. I’m pretty sure you won’t find them in any other in game reward.

Secondly PvP has added new reward tracks which give you the sort of stuff you’re talking about, and leveling in WvW gives you chests (and possibly bonus chests). Plus killing champs give you champ bags (and there are plenty of champs).

I’m pretty sure it’s not going to happen, but I wouldn’t particularly mind if it did.

Vayne.8563:

First of all Black Lion tickets don’t “drop” in PvE. The come from Black Lion Chests which are cash shop items. I’m pretty sure you won’t find them in any other in game reward.

Secondly PvP has added new reward tracks which give you the sort of stuff you’re talking about, and leveling in WvW gives you chests (and possibly bonus chests). Plus killing champs give you champ bags (and there are plenty of champs).

I’m pretty sure it’s not going to happen, but I wouldn’t particularly mind if it did.

Actually in a sense there is a way to get ‘Black Lion tickets’ from PvE. By exploring a map 100% you have a chance of getting a key. I though think it is also possible to get a key by doing daily so it isn’t impossible to get keys by only doing WvW and PvP iether :P Though I have been doing PvE, PvP and WvW in GW2 since headstart and got alot of keys, never bought one and I have a total of 5 ticket scraps in my bank :P So doing PvE isn’t realy a good option to get these tickets iether.

@OP: If we talk about loot I get better loot from playing PvP than Playing PvE. I have got 2 ascended trinkets, 2 ascended weapons and 2 Ascended Armor pieces. Not that I do much stuff PvE that rewards Ascended stuff but I have never got an ascended drop from PvE. By playing PvP for an hour rewards me mostly with atleast one exotic drop but playing PvE (Not farming) rewards me rarely with an exotic for a full day. Also by doing PvP even if I loose 100% sooner or later I will get the top reward of a farmed dungeon but if I do a Dungeon PvE and fail over and over again I will more or less never get my dungeon armor or weapon piece.

Rewards in PvP is in a pretty good spot so even PvPers are complaining that PvEers are doing PvP to farm gear.

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Vayne.8563:

First of all Black Lion tickets don’t “drop” in PvE. The come from Black Lion Chests which are cash shop items. I’m pretty sure you won’t find them in any other in game reward.

Secondly PvP has added new reward tracks which give you the sort of stuff you’re talking about, and leveling in WvW gives you chests (and possibly bonus chests). Plus killing champs give you champ bags (and there are plenty of champs).

I’m pretty sure it’s not going to happen, but I wouldn’t particularly mind if it did.

Actually in a sense there is a way to get ‘Black Lion tickets’ from PvE. By exploring a map 100% you have a chance of getting a key. I though think it is also possible to get a key by doing daily so it isn’t impossible to get keys by only doing WvW and PvP iether :P Though I have been doing PvE, PvP and WvW in GW2 since headstart and got alot of keys, never bought one and I have a total of 5 ticket scraps in my bank :P So doing PvE isn’t realy a good option to get these tickets iether.

Yeah I just think tickets would be off the table.

First, deal with “farm” pvp custom servers. Then we can talk.