Guild Wars 2

I am finding that I am not motivated to play ranked PvP anymore since I have finished the season reward track and received all the ascended shards that I am going to get. The
repeat rewards are not enough to keep me playing.

Even 100 ascended shards per byzantium chest repeat would be good. Since you need approximately 18 wins to complete the chest, this doesn’t seem like it will shower the world with ascended stuff. Especially given that most people will be close to their actual rating level by the time they complete it once, and thus will have a winrate closer to 50/50.

I enjoy PvP, but only in limited doses, so I need some incentive to keep playing and right now I just don’t have that. Also, inb4 “GTFO pve n00b”-type comments, I’m actually a semi-competent player and climbed from 750 rating low point to 1200.

If PvP is only interesting to you for the PvE rewards, then there’s not much anet can do about that.

I think 5/6 ascended armor pieces of any stat combo, and a ton of gold, is more than generous enough.

You should even honestly be lucky that ArenaNet decided to implement new awards. Awarding PvE Gear to a scene that doesn’t even need it at all was plenty generous enough.

go back to pve c:

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I can see why the gw2 pvp player base is so very, very small.

I’m a pvp vet and in plat and i would also like to get shards on repeat from byzantium. I would even be happy with just getting 10 shards since i know it’s infinite.

Mushin.3928:

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I can see why the gw2 pvp player base is so very, very small.

I think they were being sarcastic.

But in seriousness, I understand your concern. I’m an unabashed PvE player dabbling in PvP, but oh boy, did this season pique my appetite. PvP is just an intrinsically fun game mode. It’s like any old school fighting game – the reward is the activity itself, the challenge. At best, keeping track of points or ratings is a bonus.

Aside from the ascended shards, you could also collect the various reward tracks. Maguuma and others can drop pretty awesome stuff, so it’s not like there aren’t any other rewards aside from ascended shards.

Frankly, even as a mostly PvE player I have to say that the idea of unlimited ascended shards for gear is not very appealing, because it dilutes the value of ascended gear in general. Why bother grinding or gathering mats at all when you can simply wait for a PvP season, play nonstop until you get all your gear, and you’re done forever?

On all counts, it makes sense that ascended shards are a limited reward, IMO. Just my $0.02.

Mushin.3928:

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I can see why the gw2 pvp player base is so very, very small.

very, very small huh? The PvP player base I can assure you is healthy and alive, unless you play on North America then that might be the problem as that region typically has less players to the flood of NA players transferring to Europe. PvP was better off without PvE reward gear, and it always will be better off without it. Like I said, why are you complaining about this? What did you expect to happen when you complained about not getting enough shards for your precious PvE gear on the PvP section of the forums? The hate that PvP’ers have for PvE based players are at an all time high right now due to a lot of PvE’ers queing for Ranked just for Ascended Gear and dragging people down because they just rush into Ranked without a clue what to do. Just be thankful that ArenaNet gives you Ascended Gear in PvP, because trust me if PvP’ers had it their way, we would vote for Ascended Gear to be taken out immediately from PvP as it is useless utter garbage to mostly the entire PvP community.