Guild Wars 2

Many people have been complaining about legendaries being rewarded to the top teams from NA and EU in the upcoming tourney. To you I have this to say…
1. Registration is open to everyone, PvE, WvW, Spvp, anyone can compete for their share of a legendary
2. PvE and WvW players complain that the competition is not fair due to the fact they arent used to conquest…. I guarantee that is the least of your worries, as I am confident the best teams would win every single 5v5 death match vs anyone in this game
3. The rewards in PvP have always been terrible and after 2k hours PvP I have almost nothing to show for it…
4. People complain legendaries are extremely hard to get, require map completion, etc etc, what they don’t think about is anyone can buy a legendary with gold… 100 gems -7g, 10$ that’s about 450$ for a legendary with gems….. Would everyone rage if they offered 500$ to the top players of each top team!!?! They already did this with PAX… Its what every competitive game does….. IF anything giving legendaries is worse for PvPers, not that I am complaining, I understand PvP doesn’t make much money and 3k$ in prizes is unreasonable for its current state so in game rewards are acceptable. SO next time you go to rage, just think
-Backpack (AkA soon to have Sunrise)

The big mistake they made was giving out pve legendaries in pvp. What they should do is make it a unique legendary pvp skin.

Don’t bother explaining to pve people why rewards for tournaments can be legendary items – they still think killing mobs/doors (in wvw case) are harder in comparison to actual people.

lol, the top teams should be awarded with 1 of each legendary.
Seriously, we don’t even get chests for winning tournaments anymore.
so playing without any mentionable reward.

I don’t understand why there wasn’t an outcry over pax where the winning team members each got 1500$…that’s enough to straight up buy 3 legendaries by converting gems into gold.

These PvErs aren’t very smart.

I would prefer if they would give out cash prizes. The winners could still buy a legendary with it if they want, but at least the legendary wouldnt be created by Anet out of thin air.

Pyriall.5027:

The big mistake they made was giving out pve legendaries in pvp. What they should do is make it a unique legendary pvp skin.

This ^^. I can’t say it better.

There should be PvP specific legendaries. This way once the gear cross-over happens, you know how someone received the legendary. Is it because they were a PvE champ, or because they were a PvP champ? It really gives PvP people something that identifies them as one of the best.

@ANET, as an easy fix, maybe make the particle effects/footprints a different color. Again, differentiate PvP from PvE.

for me a legendary its just a worthless skin that shows how much u like to grind/run arround in gw2, if some1 gets it for winning a tournament good for them i mean its not like they are rare or something.

i doubt that the “best teams” would be any1 in 5v5, 1v1 probably. other than that you are rigth lol

OP hit the nail on the head, legendaries aren’t unique items. Its a stack of T6 mats, a few stacks of ectos, world comp, a few specific stacks of mats, and a rare exotic. It’s the most uncontroversial reward I’ve seen, I’m more bothered by the fact they’re giving out legendaries instead of prize money. Also in the invitational tournament people got exclusive trophy finishers. All of us have two finishers we can’t use that are reserved for a grand total of 10 people. Where were all the upset people back then.

Malediktus.9250:

I would prefer if they would give out cash prizes. The winners could still buy a legendary with it if they want, but at least the legendary wouldnt be created by Anet out of thin air.

In gw1 the top pvpers had the most pve money from automated tourney reward points converting into tons of zkeys, people could bet on the tournies and also get reward points. This wont effect the economy even a little bit, there is already 100s of millions of gold, 10k worth of legendaries added to the market (even though they are probably going to equip them) wont change anything. Also 200 hours max to farm a legendary, 2000+ hours of pvp to win this tourney while making no gold or getting any reward other than free 18 slot bags and account bound dye. All of your points have been baseless, exaggerated and horribly wrong, please go back to farming achievement points.

Free legendary for NA players
Well earnt legendary for EU players