Guild Wars 2

The rewards in PvP are lacking. I’m currently rank 33 and at this point those treasure chests I get from winning tournaments mean nothing to me. I have about 50k glory saved up because there is nothing to use it on. Collecting new and cool looking tiers of gear is fine and good, but it’s just not enough. I’m currently playing the game because I enjoy TPvP and because the new map is very fun; the current rewards do not play a part in my motivation to continue PvPing.

Please add something else to give PvP and honor some kind of relevance. I’d even trade in my glory to help my server in WvW or guild in PvE or something like that. Just please, give us something else to use glory on.

I would like to see more effects being used… like particle effect on weapons or effects on foot prints or effects on the whole char

like so you can add these effects to any weapon would give a nice bit of verity

“I’d even trade in my glory to help my server in WvW or guild in PvE or something like that”

the WvW idea is a very good one.. but for pve? the cross over using pvp to help pve doent really fit imo..

Thank you for your response firebreathz. The WvW and PvE glory transfer examples were just quick ideas of different ways glory could be used.

I think the biggest problem is that glory can only be used for one thing – to purchase chests which contain PvP items. I’ve gotten to the point where I open a chest and think “Already got that piece of gear, got three of that one, two of that one, got that one too… Oh, a new shoulder piece I don’t have yet… Meh, might use it.” If glory had more application, then I think it could attract a wider player-base to start trying out PvP.

For example, with proper cost balancing, perhaps glory could be used for:
1.) PvP Treasure Chests (for those who want to collect cool looking pvp gear)
2.) Influence/Merits (to contribute to your guild)
3.) Items that provide temporary upgrades or buffs (to use when you WvW)

In gw1 there was a problem with not having anything to spend Balthazar faction points on (glory).

The solution they came up with was http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen_Chest
Keys used to open this chest were in demand by pvers because it gave a title (and, more importantly, an emote) and the chance for some exclusive loot.

People want a way to get pve money and people also want a glory sink. The z-chest did exactly that.

Edit: Of course, this was back when you could get rewards which weren’t account bound (craziness).

I find this frustrating as well. The aesthetics are completely arbitrarily ranked. The set of armor I’d like on my necro is the Dredge set, which from a bit of googling has never been unlocked and is speculated to be available at rank 70. Rank 70 is probably a couple years of play to unlock some armor I can get in a week in pve. It’s just silly. If it were some super uber looking armor then sure. But it’s just a relatively plain dungeon set which Anet decided should take a ridiculous amount of playtime to get in pvp.

mbh,
Although I have never played GW1, something like that Zaishen Chest is another example of what Glory could be used for in GW2. As of now, PvP is too disjointed from the other forms of game-play (WvW and PvE). I think the entire concept of “What happens in PvP stays in PvP” is really deterring the potential player-base who could be interested in PvPing from giving it a decent try. I would like to hear a developers reasoning as to why they are keeping the time spent in PvP completely unable to interact or cross-over with other forms of gameplay.

dreztine,
In regards to aesthetics, I completely agree and believe this is another reason why gear should not be the only reward obtainable by glory. Aesthetics are arbitrarily ranked, and furthermore, how certain gear looks (what looks cool and what looks stupid) is entirely subjective to the individual. Meaning I may not find the ‘perfect’ set I want until rank 70; but it also means that if I, at rank 33, have customized my character to be ‘exactly’ how I want him to be, and can’t find any higher tier gear that looks ‘better’, then I’m done with the gear collecting aspect of PvP. So what am I to do with all the surplus glory I have then?

yonnystarr.2684:

mbh,
Although I have never played GW1, something like that Zaishen Chest is another example of what Glory could be used for in GW2. As of now, PvP is too disjointed from the other forms of game-play (WvW and PvE). I think the entire concept of “What happens in PvP stays in PvP” is really deterring the potential player-base who could be interested in PvPing from giving it a decent try. I would like to hear a developers opinion as to why they are keeping PvP gameplay from interacting with other forms of gameplay.

dreztine,
In regards to aesthetics, I completely agree and believe this is another reason why gear should not be the only reward obtainable by glory. Aesthetics are arbitrarily ranked, and furthermore, how certain gear looks (what looks cool and what looks stupid) is entirely subjective to the individual. Meaning I may not find the ‘perfect’ set I want until rank 70; but it also means that if I, at rank 33, have customized my character to be ‘exactly’ how I want him to be, and can’t find any higher tier gear that looks ‘better’, then I’m done with the gear collecting aspect of PvP. So what am I to do with all the surplus glory I have then?

but it also means that if I, at rank 33, have customized my character to be ‘exactly’ how I want him to be, and can’t find any higher tier gear that looks ‘better’, then I’m done with the gear collecting aspect of PvP. So what am I to do with all the surplus glory I have then?

tbh i am almost at that point.. not too far off

yonnystarr.2684:

The rewards in PvP are lacking. I’m currently rank 33 and at this point those treasure chests I get from winning tournaments mean nothing to me. I have about 50k glory saved up because there is nothing to use it on. Collecting new and cool looking tiers of gear is fine and good, but it’s just not enough. I’m currently playing the game because I enjoy TPvP and because the new map is very fun; the current rewards do not play a part in my motivation to continue PvPing.

Please add something else to give PvP and honor some kind of relevance. I’d even trade in my glory to help my server in WvW or guild in PvE or something like that. Just please, give us something else to use glory on.

I don’t really have anything to add. I just wanted to say that it is good to see that somebody else enjoy’s spirit watch just like ( are we the only? xD ). I spend my glory on converters and collect as many slivers as i can, but i dont know why. It is just so i have a way to spend my glory, but i dont even need slivers xD. I agree with you on the fact that we need more things to spend our glory on. I would like to see a new tier of weapons/armor that need a tier 4 material (converted from 25 slivers or even 100 slivers). This way u actually need a lot of glory to make it, and not everybody will have it (everybody has orrian). The feeling that u are collecting glory so that u can buy something big in the end will satisfy most players.

I haven’t played PvP for months now because of the lack of rewards. Personally, I want to show off what I have earned in PvP to WvW and PvE.

Since the game is mostly built on cosmetic as rewards, why not have the PvP locker create an account bound skin creator. For instance, if you just acquired a new armor that you think would look good on your toon in PvE or WvW, you right click the armor in the locker, click “Create Skin”, and voila! — you have a consumable which you can apply to your PvE or WvW gear. This should be account bound.

Or you could get the armor from the locker, grab some mystic stuff from the bank, buy a “Skin Ingredient” for glory, and then put them in the mystic forge. Once you give it to Zommorros, he’ll award you with a skin of that armor you just put in. Also, he gives back the armor to you so you don’t lose it in your locker.

This could also work for those who want multiple looks for their character. If I don’t want to look like a stealthy thief, I can change it up to an engineer-ish look with a monocle.

That’s my two cents. It may be petty that I don’t play PvP because of lack of rewards. But the only thing I ask is for cosmetic rewards that can be shown off in PvE and WvW.