Guild Wars 2

Today for 4-5 hours I earned 11 scrolls and 3 tomes from the reward track and ~4 gold.

Justin ODell.9517:

As I understand it though, we try to tune the price by the time it takes, so that paying in gold takes just as long as obtaining it through PvE.

Never mentioned anything about how long it would take to get the skill points. GG WP

I have mentioned it twice already but for people complaining about not having shoulders and helmets for pvp you can port to your server’s home borderland after finishing the tutorial quest and buy karma armour from the merchant beside the laurel vendor.

The helmet and shoulders are both 126 karma if I remember correctly. You can also buy weapons there for similar karma costs. Even if you only PvP you should have some karma laying around just from dailies.

i dc’d while thte items were unlocking.. so don’t have all my pvp skins either

The one thing I noticed last night is that Anet secretly removed the rank at the end of the match. Maybe this is how they fixed the unbalanced matches that are still happening. SoloQ especially is awful right now. I thought with more players that would bring this secret formula they have for the matchmaking to balance however its worse IMO. Removing the ranks just tells me that someone thinks we the players are stupid and by removing the ranks at the end of a match will make us think everything is fixed. I want the ranks back!

Basket of Boxes.1976:

I have mentioned it twice already but for people complaining about not having shoulders and helmets for pvp you can port to your server’s home borderland after finishing the tutorial quest and buy karma armour from the merchant beside the laurel vendor.

The helmet and shoulders are both 126 karma if I remember correctly. You can also buy weapons there for similar karma costs. Even if you only PvP you should have some karma laying around just from dailies.

Considering they didn’t want to "confuse the new players, that sounds pretty kitten confusing.

I really, really like the changes to PvP. . . Dragon Finisher need a lot of polish though.

I love the changes to PvE! Now I can get CoE armor without having to run CoE over, and over, and over, and….

Thanks Anet!

Justin ODell.9517:

JinDaVikk.7291:

Horrid dragon finisher.

We can’t please everyone.

Pretty sure the dragon doesn’t look like a typical spirit.

Malchior.5042:

HomelessMeh.4172:

Most of the skins i had unlocked via spvp are now gone

Where were these skins when they disappeared? Did you have a slew of skins sitting in your character’s inventory while you played your matches (pre-patch) or were they in the PvP locker?

Everything I had in the locker transferred to the new system IMMEDIATELY when I logged into the Mists. I’m sure you must have noticed all the skin unlock popups on the right of your screen.

If you say you had just for example, Dredge complete set in your INVENTORY, but none of the pieces unlocked in your wardrobe, then we definitely got a bug on our hands.

The more descriptive we can be with our reports. The better chance Anet has to reproduce it and determine a fix.

So only the items i actually had stored in the locker updated in my wardrobe? For example my necro was in full arah set when the patch hit, my thief once used that set but i didnt save it in wardrobe and after the patch i dont have access to that armor set even though i had that unlocked ages ago? Shoudnt all the armors i unlocked via ranking in spvp be available to me and not just the items i actually stored? Kinda silly.

HomelessMeh.4172:

Malchior.5042:

HomelessMeh.4172:

Most of the skins i had unlocked via spvp are now gone

Where were these skins when they disappeared? Did you have a slew of skins sitting in your character’s inventory while you played your matches (pre-patch) or were they in the PvP locker?

Everything I had in the locker transferred to the new system IMMEDIATELY when I logged into the Mists. I’m sure you must have noticed all the skin unlock popups on the right of your screen.

If you say you had just for example, Dredge complete set in your INVENTORY, but none of the pieces unlocked in your wardrobe, then we definitely got a bug on our hands.

The more descriptive we can be with our reports. The better chance Anet has to reproduce it and determine a fix.

So only the items i actually had stored in the locker updated in my wardrobe? For example my necro was in full arah set when the patch hit, my thief once used that set but i didnt save it in wardrobe and after the patch i dont have access to that armor set even though i had that unlocked ages ago? Shoudnt all the armors i unlocked via ranking in spvp be available to me and not just the items i actually stored? Kinda silly.

The armor you unlock are those that were on your character Or in the PvP or bank storage. So if you unlocked it but deleted it, you are out of luck. Also you did not technically unlock any armor before the 15th. You only got a skin held in storage. So if you delete the item you are out of luck, this applies to everything in Cash shop armor.

This is based entirely on how I understood the way you described your situation, so i could be wrong.

Going forward:

TL;DR: Can we expect exclusive pvp ‘stuff’ that is skill-gated? (legendaries, armor sets, etc.)

We’ll eventually have ladders/seasons. Regardless of implementation, will you consider, as we have this beautiful system of reward tracks now, putting these in the ladders?

For example (just to show the concept): Three leagues (bronze, silver, gold) with a low barrier of entry into bronze.

Why this barrier to bronze? People have reported pve’ers afking Tpvp matches to avoid the hotjoin reward lock and making it a quicker match. People should also have some experience in pvp so you don’t throw them to the wolves.

I would love to see several reward tracks PER league but I realize that won’t happen. Most of the new armors in-game are being put in the gemstore so I have little faith that we’ll get lots of pvp exclusive options.

You could do one or two per league. When you progress to silver you keep the ones from bronze unlocked and you’ll unlock the ones of silver. The same for gold, etc.
Only playing in those leagues will progress the reward track.

I would also suggest to find a better balance between the loss and win-rewards. This again would add more incentive to actually try and win, etc. You can’t overdo it ofcourse, it’s about finding the right spot.

You can tie in titles, finishers and whatnot for the top players of each league, etc.

This way you create a competitive infrastructure that’s rewarding and skill-gated. It creates incentive to win, get better, etc. Everyone playing leagues will also get rewarded for their time.

It will also cause a kittenton of QQ from pve’ers, wvw’ers and hotjoinheroes. But w/e, show us some love please. Give pve’ers and wvw’ers some exclusive’s too then, I’d say.

My biggest fear is the focus on gemstore and thus hindering armor/legendary/exotic creation thats achievable ingame + the ‘casual’ mentality that everyone should be able to get the same stuff, etc.

What do you guys and Anet think?

2s fear = instant death? wat?

If you’re that concerned about fears, you should be packed with stun-breakers and/or stability …..

silvermember.8941:

The armor you unlock are those that were on your character Or in the PvP or bank storage. So if you unlocked it but deleted it, you are out of luck. Also you did not technically unlock any armor before the 15th. You only got a skin held in storage. So if you delete the item you are out of luck, this applies to everything in Cash shop armor.

This is based entirely on how I understood the way you described your situation, so i could be wrong.

Okay, thanks for clearing things up, so my mistake, great.