Guild Wars 2

We asked for rewards; for PvP players to get something for their time invested, instead we have a what I would like to call “Lets get PVE players to play PVP” patch,

Road Plan for PVP rewards is heavily PVE biased and some crumbs have accidentally fallen to the pvp community.

*PvE players will be able to use their PvE skins in PvP
*PvE players will gain access to high tier PvP skins through gold.
*PvE players will be able to convert their 100s of skillpoints gained in PvE into PvP
*PvE players will be able to use skyhammer farmed ranks/glory to devalue prestige of PVP

What do Pvp players get?
*A fresh start with an empty bank account!
*A fresh start with 20 skill points if you played for a year and have a birthday gift!
*Gold! That is really an incentive for PVE players to play pvp..
*Magic find! For a mysterious system that may or may not be in place!
*Noobs with Legendaries to farm! Okay this last one is actually pretty good.

Okay it may not be as bad as it sounds but can we please call this the PVE incentive patch? Not the PVP rewards patch?.. because the pvp rewards patch would be paying reparations for all the thousands of tournament wins with no real reward especially now since rank will become meaningless with gold > skins.

if it would a pvp reward patch, pvp players would get rank and glory from new system for old wins.

One of the most telling things I heard on stream when they were going over the PvP exchange rewards for glory was the statement along the lines of:

“We don’t want people with tons of glory to just buy everything, we want you to put the time into it.”

So basically, because of skyhammer farmers we (your average non-exploiting PvP player) get kitten exchange rates. Apparently a years worth of playing PvP isn’t good enough time to be able to get reasonable rewards/skins and like you said, PvE players will walk in with everything PvP players were working for and more. The only good thing about the exchange was the levels you can get for PvE, which are very good imo.

It’s like time-gating time-gating.

I’m really upset with all these changes. I worked hard and played a lot to get to rank 40, (especially after the crap of everyone getting the same rank points, even though I score way higher than others in most games.)

Now they are going to take away all the glory of being a good PvPer by letting all the PvE script kitties getting all my rank and gear overnight. Gear that took me a year to get.

Though I like being able to get gold when I play, because I don’t do PvE at all.

I have 150k Honor, and 130 Glory boosters. I assume this will be meaningless after the “PvP” patch.

While we may be getting the shaft in the sort term, this may be beneficial for PvP as a whole in the long run. Say what you will, this will encourage PvE players to give PvP a shot. More players in PvP will make them put more focus on it (hopefully).

Having shared gear between PvP and PvE is nothing new, you could do it in GW1. How all we need is the return of some of the PvEvP modes like Alliance Battles, Fort Aspenwood, and Jade Quarry.

Mixing the game modes is a good way to encourage people to cross over.