Guild Wars 2

Rather than Gold, something hard for pvp players to earn, how about we use Shards of Glory to fund Custom Areas/Tokens.

Give those suckers some use/a sink to give them value.

Anyone have any ideas on why this might be a bad idea?

Edit: How many Shards of Glory do you get a Day? How many days should it take for an average player to buy an arena token with shards?
http://www.strawpoll.me/10603938

Also while I’m making suggestions, please allow us to queue up while inside of custom arenas. Let streamers entertain viewers while waiting for pvp queue.

100 copper = 1 silver
100 silver = 1 gold

2 gold = 200 silver
2 gold = 20,000 copper

say average 20 copper per shard

1,000 shards of glory per time token sounds right.

That math is off, since shards will gain value as they are used up.

When the shards where introduced and we didn’t know how much you need for the legendarys and if you could use tgem for something else, the price was around 20 silver for one shard – but because you can’t really use them for anything and get them for everything – the value droped (and it will drop even further)

And i’d say 250 sharda one day would be a good number

I didn’t go into actual figures because I feel like Anet will have metrics already, but I’m curious what the community thinks is acceptable in terms of how many days it’d take an individual player to buy an arena token (if this ever becomes a thing) through normal pvp game play. 1 token a day? 1 token/3 days? 5 days? It shouldn’t be so accessible that everyone can have their own private arenas (like everyone has their own guild bank), but I think if a committed small group wanted to, they should be able to fund an arena through regular play.

For that purpose I also created a straw poll asking about how many shards of glory you get per day:
http://www.strawpoll.me/10603938

I am personally sitting on 4 stacks of shards, but the numbers you guys are citing would use that up in 4 days.

Just give me to option of getting a lifetime subscription.

Arcadio.6875:

Just give me to option of getting a lifetime subscription.

alemfi.5107:

It shouldn’t be so accessible that everyone can have their own private arenas (like everyone has their own guild bank)

Don’t know if you were serious or not, but there is likely reason that anet had given it such a steep gold cost, so not everyone could own their own personal arena (likely some form of server cost/impact). I think there needs to be an ongoing commitment to keeping an arena up, but it really ought to be something that makes more sense than gold. Shards of glory IMO is a good solution as it requires ppl to progress through reward tracks, and increases the value of shards which are right now in a huge surplus.

They need to add more to the reward list….
Season Tickets…
Shards of Glory…
After you get the back piece they really serve no value.

Your only other option is a Llama with very small cosmetic differences each tier.

I know I reported on a ton of options they could have done for a reward table but I guess we will wait and see if they will do anything about it… if not next season will be the same as this season for me.Ranked PvP just for fun and when i’m really bored

Wolfey.3407:

They need to add more to the reward list….
Season Tickets…
Shards of Glory…
After you get the back piece they really serve no value.

Your only other option is a Llama with very small cosmetic differences each tier.

I know I reported on a ton of options they could have done for a reward table but I guess we will wait and see if they will do anything about it… if not next season will be the same as this season for me.Ranked PvP just for fun and when i’m really bored

I don’t see how expanding the options on what you can spend your season tickets on is relevant to the topic. As you mentioned, there is the llama which is already a (finite) ticket sink. Would expanding the options you can sink your tickets into be nice? sure. But they don’t take up inventory space, and a sink exists already.