Guild Wars 2

Goal of proposal
- Giving a long-term goal for players (not only the PvP community, but they are the main target audience).
- Increasing the income from PvP without any significant economical effect.

By bumping nearly every active PvP player to rank 80 in April, the only long-term goal of many people was removed – at the same time, reward tracks got added, and these tracks gave us a way to generate some income, which is nice, but the profit for playing an hour of PvP is negligible compared to the gold one could gain from spending that time in PvE. I want to address both issues with 1 single reward track.

The Zaishen Reward Track
This would consist of 8 tiers, just like every other track. Tiers would award Tomes of Knowledge, Transmutation Charges, some crafting material chests etc, similar to other tracks. At the end of every 2nd tier, the player recieves a Zaishen Chest – one can either open it for the rewards (you can read about this below) or sell it at the trading post.

Rewards for opening the chest
By opening chests, the player gains titles and a Zaishen finisher – the more chests you open, the better this finisher (and your title) gets. Rank1 would require opening 50 chests, and rank 12 (last rank) 20,000 chests, just like in GW1. This is pretty long-term.

Just like you can use the /rank command to display your PvP rank, you could use /zrank to show off your Zaishen rank.

Unique drops from chests
To make them even more appeailing, Zaishen chests would have some unique drops:

• Mini Blue/Red Guild Lord (from Foefire).
• Mini Llama(?)
• 1 new weapon set (also tradeable)
• Everlasting Svanir / Chieftain Utahein / Guild lord (both) tonics.

Other drops

• T5-6 materials.
• Blue/Green/Rare/Exotic items.
• Karma weapon chests (account bound) – none of the karma skins are obtainable by doing PvP atm, for instance Pirate or Ebon Vanguard. So if you get a Pirate Chest, you can pick a pirate weapon skin of your choice. Maybe ArenaNet could also add karma chests to the track itself, maybe as the last reward of the entire reward track? 1 Zaishen Chest and a random karma chest?

But what if I do not want these rewards and only care about the gold?
It’s fine, you can sell them at the Trading Post. The Zaishen ranks and the drops could make it a valuable item.

Best part is, this track does not generate gold directly, avoiding inflation.

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What do you think?

I like the idea, but I think the chests should be account bound. Just put things in them that can be sold for good money. In the end no ones gonna want titles and rewards that all the pve players can get just by buying the chests off the tp.

Or, just increase the rare/exotic drop rates in the current reward tracks. I made a decent amount of money off of the halloween reward track because of the price of the trick or treat bags and now that its over I’m back to getting a ton of greens and not making any money.

huggybear.4960:

I like the idea, but I think the chests should be account bound. Just put things in them that can be sold for good money. In the end no ones gonna want titles and rewards that all the pve players can get just by buying the chests off the tp.

While it’ll lose the prestige by making it tradeable, it’s the best way to make money with the track. IMO you could sell these chests for 3-5 golds each. It’s another thing that you can just farm, so people wouldn’t consider it an indication of anything but time spent anyways.

People went for zaishen rank in gw1, both pve and pvp players.

Finally. Another person who wants to see a Zaishen Chest in GW2. Here I was thinking I was the only one.

assuming you get 1 track done per day that would be 4 boxes, → 5000 days for 20000 finishers. 1000 would be well enough because most of the time you wont do 1 track a day.

those chests have to be untradeable, its a joke if a pvp reward which involves something with a rank is tradeable.

Jekkt.6045:

assuming you get 1 track done per day that would be 4 boxes, -> 5000 days for 20000 finishers. 1000 would be well enough because most of the time you wont do 1 track a day.

those chests have to be untradeable, its a joke if a pvp reward which involves something with a rank is tradeable.

The chests must be tradeable if you want to make a decent profit. Having this rank is a matter of time and gold, in now way an indication of skill (even if it would be account bound) – for something that represents skill/experience devs would have to fix the leaderboards and add rank that can only be earned by winning matches about a given rating, just like gw’s Champion title.

If they can make the zaishen finisher flashy enough, and the drops appealing, the chests will have a nice value in gold. In GW1 an average PvP player earned 1-2 keys a day, while high tier players could easily make 10+. R12 is not for everyone, that’s why it’s even more appealing for some lunatics with a bunch of money who have no idea how to spend it