Guild Wars 2

Please, the rate at which we gain ascended shards of glory is kittened. It goes three, four, five, five, five, six in terms of tier completion and all of these give 50 shards. Now I pvp quite a lot, got 200 matches this season and that means 3 gear pieces for one character. That’s not enough to entice anyone to do anything.

Three, four, five, five, six with 50 shards for the first two, 75 for the middle two and 100 for the last feels more appropriate.

The point of this, I’d imagine, was to reinvigorate the pvp community with an influx of new players. This misses the mark by a mile. What’s more, because current ranking is so random between placement and team composition, etc., low individual representation in any given match and no regard whatsoever for individual performance, chances are less people will PvP than they used to. This new system makes people salty, that much is clear, and the rewards are lackluster to say the least.

Exactly the opposite will happen, if it isn’t already: less people will pvp.

People are still playing ranked PvP for the rewards? I played enough to get all the chests once, and I have now gone to playing 1 game every 3 days, but will probably not even bother with that after today. the match quality is much better in unranked these days. there is zero reason to play ranked. and the salt and general bad temperament of people playing ranked is way, way worse than unranked.

Yea, adding the grandmaster marks to the vendor balanced the price out. Nerfing the acquisition rate of shards so much alongside that was too heavy handed (though that’s to be expected I guess). Anet should either increase the rate of shard acquisition for S7 (back to S5 levels for first completion of each tier, subsequent completions of byzantium chest could only award 35-50 shards) and raise the ascended shard cost of the skins only, or they should cut the ascended shard cost of the ascended gear by 50-75% for S7.