Guild Wars 2

First of all I want to apologize in advance for my English, I’m Italian so bear with me if I’ll make grammar mistakes

Now let’s get down to business: I wanted to point out few annoying things I noticed during the last months and suggest possible solutions.

Anet is doing a great job with PvE.. but imho they’re not focusing enough on PvP, I don’t wanna talk about the meta being stagnant, skill balance, new maps, new classes, expansions and things like that, I just want to talk about few very basic aspects.
PvP PLAYERS ARE NOT MOTIVATED AND REWARDED ENOUGH.

PvE/WvW players have much more purchasing power and opportunities than PvP players. Why? Well if I play pve/wvw I can loot, craft, and buy any kind of object/skin for pve and pvp. If I want, for example, the CoF armor the only thing I have to do is farm CoF and gather all the tokens. But while doing this I also collect drops, rewards for completing events, gold etc. So with the money I earned I can buy stuff at trading post… even pvp skins like, for example, the ghastly shield, the super adventure box skins, the living story skins etc. and I can also trade my gold for gems and buy any kind of object (minipets, cosmetics etc.). I’m a pvp player, I have basically no chance to collect money, and the only things I obtain are pvp reward chests and glory booster from the daily pvp mission. I can’t play 10 hours a day, I like pve but I prefer pvp and I try to dedicate time to improve my ability and my coordination with my team, so basically I cannot dedicate the same amount of time to pve… so I don’t have chance to make money and interact efficiently with the trading post; we could say that I’m forced to play PvE. In the beginning anet gave, as a reward for paid tournaments, gems. That was fair, they gave pvp players a chance to unlock skins, maybe expansion slots etc.. but they removed this feature, and especially now, with the arrival of the custom arenas (and they seem to be pretty expensive to buy and extend) pvp players have absolutely no purchasing power at all.

What puzzles me is that Anet already had to face this problem with Guild Wars 1 and they found a brilliant and efficient solution: as you should know, in gw you had the possibility to create a pvp only character, but for few years, we were forced to play with basic skins (both armor and weapons) until anet decided to introduce the tournament points and gave us the possibility to buy/unlock even super rare skins (fow armor, frog scepter, voltaic spear, vabbian armor etc etc) in pvp, so we didn’t have to play not even a second of PvE. And they solved the “money” problem with the Zaishen Keys, so pvp players had the same opportunities as pve players.

For the “skins” the solution is pretty easy: introduce as random loot from pvp reward chests, ALL the rare skins (Super Adventure Box, Fused etc etc). For the “money” problem I think that the wisest thing to do is to reintroduce the QP, and finally introduce Weekly Tournaments and Monthly Tournaments. This would be good for SOOO many reasons: 1) as a reward for both weekly and monthly they should give us a small amount of gems, so even hardcore pvp players can buy stuff. 2) They’re desperately trying to revive the attention of the community on pvp…. the monthly tournaments will do the trick… especially if Anet will reintroduce another very cool feature from Guild Wars 1: THE CAPES. I’m talking about the gold/silver/bronze capes as reward for monthly tournaments. Let’s face it guys, if you love pvp, you love competition, and in guild wars1 being able to obtain a “reward cape” was kinda big deal. It was like a “medal”, something that proved that you were part of the best 16/8/best guild in the world (or in this case of your continent). IMHO this will reignite the pvp flame for sure, no doubt about it. The idea is pretty easy: if you win a regular tournament you get 1 QP, if you win a Weekly Tournament you get 10QPs (for example), To participate to the monthly tournament you need to invest let’s say… mmm 50 QPs? Ok, so you pay the fee and you’re in. Considering that now they’re trying to promote streams and shoutcasts, monthly tournaments would be a HUGE, MASSIVE, GREAT success.

Another important thing: this will put the emphasis on guilds and teams again, and will help players to promote and magnify the game as an esport: sometimes I still talk to my former GW1 teammates, and after almost 8 years they still remember teams like rawr, supernova japan, last pride, war machine, esoteric warriors.. they still remember how we won 2 bronze capes and how close we were to the silver one…and do you wanna know why? Cause Guild Wars1 created a lot of attention around tournaments and pvp teams, was truly addicting and encouraged competition.

I’m not a genius, I’m not suggesting anything radical or new, just few small adjustments, and this ideas taken from the predecessor of this game.

That’s all folks, thanks for the attention, I hope that someone else will find interesting my ideas and share my point of view ( I REAAAAALLY hope that someone from Anet will read this..)

Have Fun guys, c u in game!

I think that every time you level up (rank wise) you should get a random weapon or armor skin or a random backpiece. That way you are motivated to get to the next level, not just the next game.

There should also be ways to convert glory into other currencies like dungeon tokens and skill points that way people can get rid of their excess glory/gain benefits in other modes.

There should also be some way to earn custom arena time tokens that way a player can sustain one just by playing the game regularly.

Also separate solo que from premade que.

Super Riceman.8702:

There should also be some way to earn custom arena time tokens that way a player can sustain one just by playing the game regularly.

I agree with you, i forgot to mention another idea: as reward for monthly/weekly tournament they should give players that “items” (i’m sorry i don’t remember the name) to extend the custom arenas.

I miss this tread,Gw2 need more attention from Dev to the tournament….there is no monthly,no AT,and ladder works really bad in this moment,no soloq….DEV WAKE UP