Prepare for a wall of text. Most game balance and features have already been suggested but no one really talks about the other side of things which is rewards.
Right now, the entire gain system is built upon solid grind. Kill -cap points get glory till your head falls off and eventually after a week of solid grinding (or more as you rank up) you wil get access to new gear. This is essentially the only progression currently in the game and by game i will only be referring to spvp. So here are some suggestions.
New ways to earn the gear
Yes, cosmetic gear right now as i mentioned before is a pretty boring and pointless system. Its built upon grind but further more some one came up with the idea of this mystic forge and to be fair…its just another pointless time sink to get what i want.
No fun is being added by its existance. i know the recipe to get what i want…why cant i just flat out buy it? Why do i need to save up random crap and destroy crap to get what i want. I’d rather just go up to the vendor with the appropriate glory and buy it….or how about…
Gear be given for acheivements
If you have played team fortress 2. You already know where i’m going with this so you may skip this paragraph. Their system involves earning new gear by completing neat skillfull acheivements in the game. Now i’m not saying we gotta get as crazy as TF2 did, but a few acheivements like (rez X amount of players while under fire) etc would be kinda neat. Is it still gonna suggest people grind, probably…but it gives a little extra flavor to earning stuff for examp… You always can be updated when you progress so far on part of an acheivement, so after i kill my 200th necromancer i see something pop up saying “way to go!” and it feels good…i feel rewarded i’m on a roll, much more exciting than “oh wow i destroyed enough crap to go put in that forge and get my pants!”.
So…are there cons to this? Sure, there is to most things…but overall i think this would increase the fun factor and seeing someone with a certain peice of gear might make you say “oh, he must play hunter a LOT hes got that bow from 1000 kills as hunter” etc …or it could just say he has a lot of free time….which …glory already kinda does this anyway so no real change.
More fun things to buy off BLTP
Its neat when you threw in the downed finishers on the holiday event etc. I’d like to see more things like this. I think this needs to be taken one step further. Purchasable custom weapon/armor skins that are exclusive to spvp perhaps. Maybe purchasable or unlockable taunts. (with a cd of course). Also most the cosmetic stuff like dyes is completely pointless as your only time spent in a social environment is the mists (which is boring) and you are forced to be red and blue in games anyway.
Anyway to close, i know tournaments will put in some new ways to get cool stuff…but some of us suck or simply cant get enough players to form a team that we get along with. So it cant be a solution to it all. Hopefully something out of all these suggestions was usefull. Ty for reading.