Guild Wars 2

So in WVW to unlock the elite spec players essentially have to spend more time grinding constantly in order to get enough hero points to get just one elite spec. I know in PVE the main grind seems to be the mastery gate, then world completion nonsense, but seeing as many PVErs have already unlocked their elites through the new zone it seems that WvW and other game modes are getting the shaft. (I will just highlight my thoughts on how the WvW spec gaining could be fixed-not touching on any other game mode.)

Make it so that upon each WVW rank up the chests will grant 10 hero points, leaving WVWers with 40 WvW levels to reach the elite spec per character.
-In map completion they have to do 40 of the challenges, some of which are just communes, each probably taking around the average amount of time to get 1 WvW rank, especially with world exp gain nerfed a bit. It would be reasonable to say that there should be some sense of equality behind each game mode you play to get the elite specs.
-This can help alleviate the fact that folks are being forced into ktrains essentially to unlock their elite specs… 40 WvW levels would be reasonably attainable through just normal WvW play more so than 100+.
-Also get rid of the badge of honor cost on top of the hero coins, this really causes the players that don’t do much WvW, but see it as a more enjoyable alternative than the map completion, to be unfairly gated, and for folks who spend badges often on siege etc… and then need to get multiple classes to the elite spec they will be at a massive net loss., 2k per spec is quite a large amount, and is really unnecessary, we work hard enough to get the coins.

Getting hero points through WvW, both EoTM and normal WvW is not bad, the rate of proof of heroics is ok since you get ~3 each rank meaning 3 ranks = 10 hero points from personal experience . This will roughly give you 120 ranks to fully master which isnt terrible and can be obtained easily in ~3 days of heavy wvw farming. While it COULD get cut down a bit more 40 ranks is way to easy to get.

My main issue is that the scrolls you can purchase are SOULBOUND rather than ACCOUNT BOUND. Changing them to account bound would be great as it would allow people to use their main character to purchase the scrolls and train their alts with time.

Do you know if the tokens you get from the box are account bound? I haven’t checked, maybe before purchasing the scrolls send the tokens over to the other character?

hurrado.2346:

Do you know if the tokens you get from the box are account bound? I haven’t checked, maybe before purchasing the scrolls send the tokens over to the other character?

Tokens are unfortunately also soulbound.

Turamarth.3248:

hurrado.2346:

Do you know if the tokens you get from the box are account bound? I haven’t checked, maybe before purchasing the scrolls send the tokens over to the other character?

Tokens are unfortunately also soulbound.

Dang, well was planning on getting one spec then sending over the tokens to alts when I can be done with the ktrain nonsense. this new system is mind bogglingly poorly designed in my opinion.