Guild Wars 2

With the possibility of pvp content being in the gem store, I began to wonder how pvp-oriented guilds/teams could benefit..

Why not award Gold in tournament?

IMO this would bring 3-round tournaments into relevence, give pvpers a way to buy gems and possibly swell the community.

“But you can’t use gold in PvP.”

• Whether gold or silver, any kind of coin reward could be saved to use in the Gem Store, or for weapon skins, or additional character slots ect.
• Many PvPers who also play PvE/WvW end up feeling like they’re falling behind on their other endeavors while enjoying sPvP. Gold, with the addition of laurels, would help alleviate that burden and make sPvP more enticing.

Thoughts?

Still trying to rationalize how this is not already in place. If I could run PvP, and get the gold, then I could buy the dyes I want on all my characters as well, while still playing the aspect I enjoy the most. Not that I don’t like PvE, but I just enjoy PvP more…

Make it happen A Net.

Probably because there isn’t enough Gold sinks to justify it.
Not that Pve is doing any better.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

With the possibility of pvp content being in the gem store, I began to wonder how pvp-oriented guilds/teams could benefit..

Why not award Gold in tournament?

IMO this would bring 3-round tournaments into relevence, give pvpers a way to buy gems and possibly swell the community.

Thoughts?

Maybe make it so its for 8 team tournies ONLY, only first place gets 2 dungeons worth, second gets a dungeons worth, lower than second does not get money (hell maybe only first place?).

I’m surprised why it’s not there either… I mean c’mon, 8 teams need -something- u haven’t been able to get into an 8 team match since 2 teams went free…

2 team tourny is too fast paced, there shouldn’t be any gold reward. Now 8 team tournament I wouldn’t mind gold for 1st place team and nothing else but chests for the 2nd and 3rd. Or maybe an even bigger tournament like Halls of heroes style.

change the word “gold” into “gems” and we’re fine.

Change “gold” into “silver” and we’re being more realistic.

With SPvP being segregated if you gave people gold or silver for wins, there would need to be something for them to spend it on in PvP. Currently, there is 0 reason to spend gold, therefor, given them 0 reason to give gold.

I like the idea of adding some extra incentives to winning the 3 round tournament, but gold probably isn’t one that’s needed.

Whether gold or silver, any kind of coin reward could be saved to use in the Gem Store, or for weapon skins, or additional character slots ect.

“Let’s not give gold as reward to pvp. Players would be able to farm gold while having fun! They should be forced to play stupid pve and grind dungeons!”

Anet/Pve centric mmo logic.

i wanted to make same topic today XD
give us gold for tourneys and second thing exchange glory for gold
it is not fair with me or players like me that play spvp only ,people playing pve can have
lot of gold from farming ,selling weapons on trading post ……………….
i got like 60 gold , and only becouse i was extremly lucky with dyes,and i played like 1300 hours !!!!!!that is bad

could someone from Anet give us answer?

Bad idea, would be easily exploited. And u cannot use gold in pvp so its completely unrelated.

so give us gems ,u will need them for custom arenas

Covis.6037:

Bad idea, would be easily exploited. And u cannot use gold in pvp so its completely unrelated.

How would it be exploited? And like I said, you could convert gold in the-… Matter of fact, let me just throw an edit into the original post.

I don’t see how it can be exploited if it requires a win or second place in a 3 round tournament. The chances of actually rigging that are next to nil and you can’t afk farm your way there or bot it.

Even still, 3 round tournaments are a silly idea. We need a random map generator for single round tournies and a reward of 5 gems per win. With roughly 10 wins per hour being the most possible, it would still take 2 hours of solid play to net yourself a max of 2 gold depending on conversion.

You can’t afk or bot wins in a tournament, at least it’s highly unlikely. 2 gold for 2-3 hours play depending on wins is pretty fair and would be far less then PvE players get. The gems rewards is a perfect way to offset the costs of the upcoming custom arenas and for cosmetic and upgrade purchases (bank space if needed, bag space and character slots and even server transfers in the long run).

Edit to above. 10 gems per win, maximum of 5 wins per hour.

Typing on phones is frustrating as hell.

Gems yes, Gold no.
But A-Net mentioned this probably won’t happen again.

Gems and Gold are pretty much the same, you can trade them for each other.

Also it’s not entirely true that you get nothing for doing PvP, you can get/transform quite a lot of dyes and sell them on the TP. In relation to the invested time it’s less than you can make in PvE, but it’s still something ;-)

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

Gems yes, Gold no.
But A-Net mentioned this probably won’t happen again.

…. Why not gold, but yes to gems? They can be exchanged for one another, so it doesn’t matter -which- they award…

They just don’t want to give gems/gold to the pvp community hoping to force them into pve/wvsw bullkitten….but sorry, this will never happen…at least for me.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

With the possibility of pvp content being in the gem store, I began to wonder how pvp-oriented guilds/teams could benefit..

Why not award Gold in tournament?

IMO this would bring 3-round tournaments into relevence, give pvpers a way to buy gems and possibly swell the community.

“But you can’t use gold in PvP.”

• Whether gold or silver, any kind of coin reward could be saved to use in the Gem Store, or for weapon skins, or additional character slots ect.
• Many PvPers who also play PvE/WvW end up feeling like they’re falling behind on their other endeavors while enjoying sPvP. Gold, with the addition of laurels, would help alleviate that burden and make sPvP more enticing.

Thoughts?

I feel like I’m falling behind on my sPvP endeavors while in PvE. They should give me all the PvP exclusive rewards for my PvE achievements… or we could keep the two separate (laurels are already a terrible idea, they should never have been added to PvP and if they did they should be mutually exclusive with the PvE ones).

The reward systems are separate for a reason. You can’t bring your PvE loot into PvP, you shouldn’t be able to earn PvE loot in PvP. I already disliked doing the PvP monthly just to get laurels, I’d hate to feel like I need to chase gold as well.

Some people don’t understand, that there are players, who do both – pve and pvp. I kinda like playing pvp, when pve starts making me sad. I would totally love getting small rewards for winning tournees in pvp, which I can use in pve, just to reduce the feeling of misery from not choosing most profitable activity. 10 s for 2-teams tournament would be cool already – since you can do cof#1 and earn ~60s in less time. You can do anything in pve to earn more in the time of one tournament.

I just don’t want to be punished for playing pvp – especially if I only need to farm rank points to get new skins, because I’ve got almost everything on my rank.

I completely agree, it would revive 8 team tournaments.

What I advice is 50 silver for first position, 25 for 2nd and nothing for others.

gold/gems may be a problem because pure PvPers may give all their gold to friends playing PvE. Sounds like it may cause inflation.

But sPvP vendors could sell various account-bound currencies & items, like f.e. Jug of Karma. Can’t go wrong with that. Adding laurels was great, Anet needs to add more stuff like that.

I have to agree this is a good idea, but needs to be toned realistically (silver? small amount of gems?).