Guild Wars 2

In terms of the short term…

“Gold and Experience in PvP
- In the December 10th update, you’ll be able to earn gold in PvP as a match reward. As an extension of that, you’ll also be able to spend glory and gold to purchase account-bound Tomes of Knowledge, which grant a level each and will allow you to level up any of your characters. The Tome of Knowledge will be found on a new glory vendor that has several items available for purchase with both glory and gold.”

For those of us playing multiple accounts, and particularly for those forced to by region reward bugs; will we be seeing rewards that would benefit accounts we would consider playing PvE/WvW on?

Second accounts are common amongst the more hardcore of us, and I’m sure we’d all like to consolidate our rewards for time-investment.

Thanks

I don’t see that as being really possible.

Account bound is about as transferable as they can make it. For this to work, you’d have to be able to ‘gift’ the Tomes of Knowledge to people, and that seems like something that Arenanet totally didn’t intend, and would probably have more harmful exploits than helpful consolidation to multi-account users.

Chaith.8256:

I don’t see that as being really possible.

Account bound is about as transferable as they can make it. For this to work, you’d have to be able to ‘gift’ the Tomes of Knowledge to people, and that seems like something that Arenanet totally didn’t intend, and would probably have more harmful exploits than helpful consolidation to multi-account users.

Yeah this is working on the assumption that the tomes won’t be the only reward offered ultimately for glory (understand why they would be account bound to avoid P2W in PvE – TMA I know!)

Phaeton.9582:

Chaith.8256:

I don’t see that as being really possible.

Account bound is about as transferable as they can make it. For this to work, you’d have to be able to ‘gift’ the Tomes of Knowledge to people, and that seems like something that Arenanet totally didn’t intend, and would probably have more harmful exploits than helpful consolidation to multi-account users.

Yeah this is working on the assumption that the tomes won’t be the only reward offered ultimately for glory (understand why they would be account bound to avoid P2W in PvE – TMA I know!)

I am not certain if the Tomes of Knowledge will stick around, once the new reward system is in place. Without the Glory component, why would Arenanet allow players to directly buy levels for gold and bypass PvE, WvW and PvP?

Personally, I think that the new Glory Vendors on the 10th that will sell items that cost Glory and Gold will be disappearing after players have a chance to spend their Glory, so it can be properly phased out. This time period will be from Dec. 10th to whenever the rewards system comes out.

If anyone has any info to the contrary, I would like to hear.