Guild Wars 2

So just spent a couple hours finishing off Diessa Plateau map completion, including the very annoying broken wall skill point and vista. My rewards? Small amount of silver and exp. 40 logs, a medium armor, a trident and 3 transmutation stones. As a warrior with weaponsmith/armorsmith crafting, none of that is useful to me in any way. Am I missing something? Are there greater rewards later?

Wouldn’t it make sense, like in the personal story quests to be able to choose from a few different rewards so that for all that effort you at least get something worthwhile?

I would love if map completion rewards were geared toward your characters class/crafting selection. Sadly, they are pretty random.

Rewards are definitely scaled better at higher levels. The advantage of some low level maps is that you can receive Black Lion key’s.

I would recommend you sell the items you receive on the TP.

They are probably random because they don’t people making throwaway characters to get guaranteed Ori stacks. 120 Orichalcum Ore would be pretty tempting.

As for Black Lion Keys, those can get gotten from any map not just low level ones. They replace the transmutation stones.

The highest level zones will reward exotics for map completion but none of it seems to be lv80 exotics. On the other hand … if you think 40 logs is bad wait until you get 20 lemongrass.

According to the wiki map completion rewards:
Coins (amount scales with the level of the area)
Experience (10% of level at the time map was completed)
2 random pieces of equipment (appropriate to level of the area)
3 Basic Transmutation Stones or 1 Black Lion Chest Key
40 random crafting materials or 20 random ingredients available in the zone

So you do get better rewards from higher level maps, in that they’re rarer and more valuable materials and items, but the exact rewards will always be random.