Guild Wars 2

Reading the blog post for whats upcomming in 2013 really has given me some hope for sPvP https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/.

One of the biggest drawbacks for the entire game not just pvp was the lack of incentive to keep playing. In PVE most players still have going for the legendary to complete/fractals/ ect but in sPvP there really is not anything to strive for besides grinding ranks.

Anet devs please don’t just give out more RNG rewards that some players can get luckily on one match and decide to never play again. Don’t make it a glory grind because frankly when I see a player with CoF gear I don’t see them as a good sPvP player just a good grinder.

It’s already too bad orrian armor and other sets were given on a silver platter for just playing spvp in the first place now. At least with Paid tournaments in the begining (which was horribly desgined but potential imo) Gems and getting Orrian armor for example was some type of incentive.

All im saying is make something for sPvP players to actually strive for. Give them the type of rewards which doesn’t show that they grind a lot or are lucky… but actually have skill. The first step is splitting solo queue and getting the leaderboards right. From there on adding a functional daily/monthly tournament system that doesn’t fail which rewards for example ascended gear sets or something is the second step.

Ya I agree. I would like to see the rewards based on skill rather than RNG or grind.

OP I don’t have any hope that pvp rewards will be tied to anything other than grind or rng. What should happen is some kind of real tournament system that enables the winners to receive a special kind of token that can be collected in small amounts to redeem elite rewards. That’s not going to happen. Why am I so confident? If they had the infrastructure to promote proper vertical progression they would have done so already. Brace yourself to be underwhelmed.

They need to get it right because this is actually one of the most important factors for retaining and growing the population. Atm you’re NOT rewarded in any way for playing the tournaments except for the “champion” titles. Everything else is farmable through hotjoin and often much faster. Leaderboards are worthless because of the lack of a split.

So they better get this right, or gw2 pvp will never grow.

milo.6942:

OP I don’t have any hope that pvp rewards will be tied to anything other than grind or rng. What should happen is some kind of real tournament system that enables the winners to receive a special kind of token that can be collected in small amounts to redeem elite rewards. That’s not going to happen. Why am I so confident? If they had the infrastructure to promote proper vertical progression they would have done so already. Brace yourself to be underwhelmed.

I doubt they will ever consider this. . . because it is actually a key-incentive for every PvP.

butch.8136:

They need to get it right because this is actually one of the most important factors for retaining and growing the population. Atm you’re NOT rewarded in any way for playing the tournaments except for the “champion” titles. Everything else is farmable through hotjoin and often much faster. Leaderboards are worthless because of the lack of a split.

So they better get this right, or gw2 pvp will never grow.

Exactly, look at all types of mmos not just mmorpgs games ..there’s always some type of end game goal or multiple goals to strive for. The main reason pve players don’t even bother with pvp is because lack of rewards or things to complete.

When I look at that article … I see the amount of importance they put in PvE over PvP. I’m not really sure what to say … that PvP ‘bit’ looked like mostly filler, like all they’re really doing to change PvP is give us actual incentive to play …

What about more focus on balance? All the other bonuses / “updates” to PvP are just things they’re adding to PvE carried over into PvP. I’m not impressed in the slightest. All this talk about PvE release schedule, things for PvE’ers to do, progress their characters, PvE PvE PvE …

It realistically matches how much effort / focus they put into PvP. All talk, no show. Disappointed in Arenanet, as always. =]

They did say in there we should expect a pvp blogpost. So let’s hope we get that sooner than later.

butch.8136:

They did say in there we should expect a pvp blogpost. So let’s hope we get that sooner than later.

yes!

Just a guess, is it possible that the current Rank 60+ gears will be added into the solo-Q rewards, suppose there is one?