Guild Wars 2

Just finished my third ranked win and just got trick or treat bags. Anyone know if this a bug or intentional??

I wish it was a bug. I’d rather have PvP salvaging materials over useless Halloween crap.

Justin ODell.9517:

No, not a bug.

Please share your feedback if you would like this changed, or not.

Just give holiday bags in addition-to. I don’t think you’re at any risk of over-rewarding PvPers right now.

ronpierce.2760:

Just give holiday bags in addition-to. I don’t think you’re at any risk of over-rewarding PvPers right now.

Yeah, I don’t see any reason why it’d be bad to get more rewards, even if they aren’t considered helpful.

Worst case just deposit them and sit on them until next halloween (like I did) and sell them for 1-2g per stack.

Justin ODell.9517:

No, not a bug.

Please share your feedback if you would like this changed, or not.

Absolutely do not like. The mats aren’t the kind of Halloween rewards people care much about, and I’m giving up PvP materials that I could use to craft cool gear I actually want.

Like others said, I also don’t get why we can’t get the Halloween rewards on top of the typical PvP rewards. Are we really at a risk of being over-rewarded in PvP?

If this is a sign of future reward schemes.. O.O.

Justin ODell.9517:

XGhoul.7426:

If this is a sign of future reward schemes.. O.O.

No, this was a temporary change because many people were asking for holiday rewards.

Thanks for the response, hopefully if future iterations of holiday rewards could be closer to gw1, where we got both minimal holiday rewards and the normal everyday stuff.

Ah well, I see, thanks for the speedy response. I feel like there is no reward to winning solo queue games now though, the baggies have like 2-3 candies that sell for like 20 c each instead of the cool new gear I could be collecting. Oh well I guess its still better than no reward from hotjoin..

Justin ODell.9517:

XGhoul.7426:

If this is a sign of future reward schemes.. O.O.

No, this was a temporary change because many people were asking for holiday rewards.

We wanted skins not candy…unless you can get skins from candy…

righteousness.6028:

Ah well, I see, thanks for the speedy response. I feel like there is no reward to winning solo queue games now though, the baggies have like 2-3 candies that sell for like 20 c each instead of the cool new gear I could be collecting. Oh well I guess its still better than no reward from hotjoin..

Save it. It goes up to 2s or so later in the year.

Bhawb.7408:

righteousness.6028:

Ah well, I see, thanks for the speedy response. I feel like there is no reward to winning solo queue games now though, the baggies have like 2-3 candies that sell for like 20 c each instead of the cool new gear I could be collecting. Oh well I guess its still better than no reward from hotjoin..

Save it. It goes up to 2s or so later in the year.

Thanks for the advice, I guess I’ll just bank them all

Why not the weapon skins? Why do we get jipped with pve mats we don’t want. Give us skins instead of forcing us to pve or buy gems.

Would be nice if it were weapons skins instead of useless halloween materials. Even though gold chests were still just as useless if not more so.

But, Anet has to make money somehow and I am sure that is why those skins are not available via sPvP.

Justin ODell.9517:

Lux.7169:

Why not the weapon skins? Why do we get jipped with pve mats we don’t want. Give us skins instead of forcing us to pve or buy gems.

Reply hazy, ask again later…

I realize it’s a complicated design choice for the dev team, but I (and a lot of the others in the pvp community) would really appreciate it if you guys would re-consider your decision not to implement Weapon Skins in chests this year. We loved that we had that chance last year so it would really mean a lot if PvP’ers had access to these skins outside of being forced to pve or pay real money. PvE’ers can at least transfer gold to gems to buy BLC keys whereas the pvp community cannot turn our currency into gems.

I do really appreciate you communicating with us though. Not so easy when we are pretty toxic in here.

I do pve, wvwvw and pvp. If I do pvp I want pvp items. I want PvP salvaging mats, and with this i feel i dont wanna get them until the next patch.

Displeased with this addition.
Constant people going AFK in matches just to get PvE crafting mats.
Past 4 games I played there were at least 2 people AFK the whole game.
Keep PvE in PvE.
As suggested previously, RNG chance weapon skins would be nice as a win reward.

I was very happy to see ToT bags drop as a reward in update notes. But i didnt expect them to replace reward win chest.
I think that is a fail since 10s reward after 10-15 mins you spend for tpvp is a bit low and you also have to win.
I think you should make either reward:
ToT bags + Reward win chest
or
Make reward win chest drop festive stuff

Please change this asap. Don’t really think it’s a bad idea to add some holiday rewards to the normal PvP rewards, but switching them and removing what little reward we do get from sPvP? That’s downright ridiculous.

Despite the mostly negative feedback in this thread, I have to admit that I’m different.

I was playing a lot PvE till I got kinda bored of it and started tPvP – as a result I have 300+ of any craft-material in PvP except the rank-tokens lying around being useless. The trick or treat bags on the other hand are something different – yes, I even need some of these for the meta (indeed, I’m slow, but that is a result of PvPing).

Short: I like the basic idea!

Since the whole skyhammer glory farm that made ranks pointless. A lot of players started showing off their skill by pinging “match win reward chests” but now we get ToT bags.
And now PvE players will come to PvP with their stacks of ToT bags like “look at me i am pro i got 50 000 ToT bags” ;D.
So it again fells like pvp got overrun by pve x).
Also they can not be opened in pvp area which is kind of silly.

love this change – finaly something new in the chests^^ and can sell them atleast for 2 silver in AH

but i have a suggestion because i was yeserday in wvw reset and became for first league archievment a tome of wisdom (+1 lvl on whateverchar i use it)

how about you make every 10th tournament chest to give a tome? so pvp player can lvl for pve too – much slower tahn they would by doing pve but i would like it^^

edit: before i forget^^ when you are on it sell this tomes for 5 skillpoints so i can use my skillpointz to lvl my twinks^^ – so i have to make 5 lvl on my main to get 1 lvl on my twink

Do not like.

SPvP already has so little reward value and ToT bags feel really bad. If it was in addition to your normal reward it would be okay.

I quite liked the change.

1) Although perhaps it is slightly underwhelming
2) Even more underwhelming to newer tourney players- who get no tourney chest.

Perhaps it is a precaution against encouraging leechers.

I do tpvp to get skins.

Thus I really don’t like this change.

I will rather it to be a additional reward than a total replacement.

So.. It’s impossible to get paid/free tokens for skins now? I think that this was a step in the right direction, BUT now we just lost access to tournament only skins..

Justin ODell.9517:

XGhoul.7426:

If this is a sign of future reward schemes.. O.O.

No, this was a temporary change because many people were asking for holiday rewards.

I think many were asking for weapons not bags.

This is only going to be around for 3 weeks…then back to the normal rubbish loot…

I like the temporary change…

You can exchange the candy for skins from the vendor in LA, you can see vendor from where you exit the mists even…

The skins are HUGELY overpriced however and you may after farm PvP 24/7 for the next 3 weeks to get them.

i dont like the temporary change , i dont want pve items as pvp reward. and i dont want arenanet to make pve items as a reward in pvp because this will make unexperienced pve player doing pvp and then i have to play with those unexperienced pve players in pvp because of broken matchmaking system.

I see this change as something different, just a test.

They probably want to add ways for PvP players to gain gold unifying the reward system across the whole game and they will probably do so not adding direct gold as reward but valuable items, so they won’t completely devalue the currency.

But before they do so, they are probably testing how tPvP rewards will affect the overall economy by adding temporary items as a reward, so if this change will let the price of said item fall, it isn’t a real issue because that item will be out of the market as soon as the event ends.

As you can see here, the addition of ToT bags as reward didn’t left the market unchanged.
http://www.guildwarstrade.com/item/36038-trick-or-treat-bag

Let me give a complete different perspective: if most of the pvp rewards were substituted by pve rewards, players like me would absolutely love it. Why? Because I have almost every skin I have for my rank level from opening so many chests, and all the duplicates salvage to worthless (to me) pvp materials that can’t be sold or used elsewhere. The difference between pve rewards and pvp rewards, to me, is the difference between making real gold and actually advancing my characters across the entire game, versus even more useless salvage materials stacking my storage.

That being said, I don’t plan opening any chests or wasting any glory until the reward system is revamped. I’m hoping that my dedication to pvp for the first year of the game’s life will be worth something to my character as a whole (pve, wvw, pvp, online shop, etc).

can I just have my normal reward chest back please? unless you give skin from these holiday bags in addition to their pve reward, otherwise most people that does only pvp may feel useless and under rewarded,

Really? Only tot-bags from tournaments? Think to pass tournaments until normal chest at least back there! But dont mind if there is also some extra for holiday spirit! Like some people might have asked.

Justin ODell.9517:

No, not a bug.

Please share your feedback if you would like this changed, or not.

I feel like I’m being mocked.

Justin ODell.9517:

Reply hazy, ask again later…

Yes, definitely being mocked.

Right direction, but please don´t give us mats, since some of us only play pvp and they don´t need them, i would prefer some rare skins. they do not need to be custom and for pvp only, which ofc would be nice, but you could give us skin like lord taeres shadow. i mean this as a pvp skin would be amazing!!!
ofc only give the skins for tournament wins and you could make the dropchance scale, so you have a drop chance like 1% if you are rank 1 on the leaderboard and 0,01% if you are at the very bottom of all.

idea is good, but to remove the chest for it, was not really necessary, as the rewards in general are nearly not existing.

Edo Tensei.8254:

i dont like the temporary change , i dont want pve items as pvp reward. and i dont want arenanet to make pve items as a reward in pvp because this will make unexperienced pve player doing pvp and then i have to play with those unexperienced pve players in pvp because of broken matchmaking system.

This.

I had 4 rank 10 in my last tPvP match yesterday ( it was not prime time of course) and i really have no idea how to carry 4 PEOPLE.

Give rewards FOR WINNING if you really need it, or remove them.

I had 2 matches with people afking on the other team just to get that crap corns, it’s ridicolous.

i cant even open the trick or treat bags. whats up with that?

Grisu.1753:

i cant even open the trick or treat bags. whats up with that?

You need to leave the mists to open them. I’m not even going to ask why its even like that.

Not sure why they didn’t keep the chests and added the bags for a bonus for the duration of the Halloween festival. Not really surprised anet doesn’t even seem to play their own game or they are completely oblivious.

Grisu.1753:

i cant even open the trick or treat bags. whats up with that?

You can’t open them in a PvP map or heart of the mists. Try going to a pve map to open them

I like it. At least some nice feature and gold from sPvP

and you use gold for what purpose in pvp?

kardinal.3051:

and you use gold for what purpose in pvp?

Additional Characterslots, Eventskins!
Beat that.

Sir, was it hard to add additional reward to tournament chest? i think nobody wants bags instead of tha chest.

“omg why didnt u just giv us dis instead”, seriously guys just chill. They are still working on the pvp reward revamp (which they say will surprise our socks off), so they are just doing this for I don’t know, holiday spirit.

I haven’t logged in and played yet but people are saying that you can get the bags without winning? Now that right there is bad news. Pvp is competitive, one group wins while the other one loses. Therefore the winning team should get a reward. I don’t mind if pve players come to pvp, but I don’t want farmers coming to tpvp to purposefully lose.

well, there is no pleasing everyone. I think its awesome that coin can be gained from a pvp chest now.

I definitely do not like the change. Give me back my pvp rewards.