WTF are these bags I can’t open?
If you’re a thief and haven’t
pre-ordered HOT at this point,
save yourself the money and don’t bother.
These bags are PvE items so open them in PvE.
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I dont PvE.
I get PvE rewards are nice for hotjoin for people who want PvE stuff from PvP…but for tournies? I want PvP rewards for doing well in tournaments.
If you’re a thief and haven’t
pre-ordered HOT at this point,
save yourself the money and don’t bother.
Its to encourage pve players to pvp and gives pvp players access to some cash/festival items (they sell for more than crafting dyes). I do think they should maybe give a choice between pvp rewards or pve rewards. Fiddle with it a little but the idea is sound. More players doing pvp means more focus on it because a larger % of the population plays it. I remember when zaishen keys were put into GW1 was a great boost to gvg players.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the PvE items for PvP play incentive.
But tournaments? Do we really need an incentive for PvE players to hop into tournaments? That’s what Hotjoin is for!
Like you said, a choice between the two would be optimal, and make everyone happy. But the idea of incentivizing players with no pvp experience to hop into tourney ques sounds kittening ludicrous to me.
If you’re a thief and haven’t
pre-ordered HOT at this point,
save yourself the money and don’t bother.
Its to encourage pve players to pvp and gives pvp players access to some cash/festival items (they sell for more than crafting dyes). I do think they should maybe give a choice between pvp rewards or pve rewards. Fiddle with it a little but the idea is sound. More players doing pvp means more focus on it because a larger % of the population plays it. I remember when zaishen keys were put into GW1 was a great boost to gvg players.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the PvE items for PvP play incentive.
But tournaments? Do we really need an incentive for PvE players to hop into tournaments? That’s what Hotjoin is for!
Like you said, a choice between the two would be optimal, and make everyone happy. But the idea of incentivizing players with no pvp experience to hop into tourney ques sounds kittening ludicrous to me.
I’d rather run the risk of having the odd bad player in my soloq team every now and then if the same incentive lured some ppl who genuinely had a good experience and took up pvp. If you have decent enough soloq rating you wont likely get paired with pve ppl anyway – i never get put on “noob” teams and my rating aint great. Even more importantly this would be yet MORE incentive for anet to refine their rating system because new pvp players wont like getting matched against ppl who destroy them. Adding more people gives more chances at a thriving pvp community and gives more data for anet, i understand your worries but its big picture stuff.
I do get what you’re saying, but it’s a bit of a catch 22.
I want PvE players to be interested in PvP to bolster the community. However, PvE players with little experience have no business in solo q – it’s harsh to say, but true. The lowest ranks of Solo q shouldn’t be inexperienced players kittening around, it should be filled with players with at least a modicum of PvP experience.
Hotjoin, with all its unfortunate flaws, is the place to learn how to PvP. Anet could certainly do a better job emphasizing smart play in hotjoin, and training players for PvP in general, but the tourney que is for players interested in competitive PvP – its not competitive to fight players who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.
If you’re a thief and haven’t
pre-ordered HOT at this point,
save yourself the money and don’t bother.
