Are there any plans to improve the rewards?
Short answer is: probably not.
Last time they discussed the subject they went on about how WvW having good rewards would result in people buying less glider skins. Well, that’s not really what they said but it’s the truth.
They said something like they have to be careful for WvW not to be “too rewarding”, they “feel it’s in a good place” and will “just be making tiny changes to game mechanics like the siege disabler and golem event”.
The way I interpreted this is: No hope left, better to leave the game. I mean at this point even ESO’s AvA is starting to look more interesting:
https://youtu.be/HdEcsz5V-hE
https://youtu.be/wm5xjSQM1rQ
(edited by Xillllix.3485)
yeah, probably from a straight gold point of view, WvW rewards are fair-ish. But if you are interested in anything besides blues, greens, yellows, and the very rare gold drops, WvW is terrible. Just ask anyone who runs fractals regularly, or PvP about ascended drops…. you get almost none in WvW, a ton in Fractals and quite a few in PvP….
The only problem I can see with Anet improving rewards is it might draw people to WvW away from precious PvP e-sport. If this is a risk of happening I doubt they’d contemplate doing it. T.T
The way I interpreted this is: No hope left, better to leave the game. I mean at this point even ESO’s AvA is starting to look more interesting:
https://youtu.be/HdEcsz5V-hE
https://youtu.be/wm5xjSQM1rQ
No it really doesnt -_-
Looks just as floaty as I remember with no real weight to combat or any noticable counterplay. Hell if anything it look even worse than I remember. Hm. Guess I really tried to like ESO back then.
WvW is a fun aspect of the game but the rewards is so bad that it discourage you from wanting to stay there too long. I know other friends who would play WvW more if the rewards were good. I know ArenaNet is working on overhauling the WvW system and I hope they don’t forget about improving the rewards system so that it will be somewhat comparable to PvE and sPvP. Hopefully it will be the kind of reward system that encourage players to fight each other rather than taking turn capturing things.
I am pretty sure they are but will likely be giving away weekly/monthly tournament tickets which give junk rewards. When hot was released Anet nerfed EOTM rewards by 25% to be on par with wvw instead of increasing wvw rewards to be as rewarding as EOTM. Just goes to show exactly how much they believe wvw should be rewarded.
Short answer is: probably not.
Last time they discussed the subject they went on about how WvW having good rewards would result in people buying less glider skins. Well, that’s not really what they said but it’s the truth.
They said something like they have to be careful for WvW not to be “too rewarding”, they “feel it’s in a good place” and will “just be making tiny changes to game mechanics like the siege disabler and golem event”.The way I interpreted this is: No hope left, better to leave the game. I mean at this point even ESO’s AvA is starting to look more interesting:
https://youtu.be/HdEcsz5V-hE
https://youtu.be/wm5xjSQM1rQ
Anet has chosen a side, and that side is “esports”.
I also will be moving back to ESO (loving my x1 and couch) as they have drastically improved the game since a very bumpy release. I’m not too sure if Anet is ready/wants to take on CF & CU on the pc front of RvR/WvW/AvA, however you want to call it.
JQ Druid