Guild Wars 2

Hey folks,

after my first year as a PvE gamer, i finally discovered the joy of WvW and got stuck there now constantly.

After now getting Bags and Bags from our opponents, and therefore also a lot of “Badges of Honor” (also from EotM) i feel that there might be an inbalance in the different awards, namely Token.

If you are in PvE and farm Dungeons you will get Gold + Tokens which you afterwards can invest in Armor or Weapons and here it goes – those Items are salvageable and you can get Inscriptions, Ecto etc. out of them.

On the otherside in WvW if you spend your token on Armor or Weapons its NOT salvageable.

So here i got the question if this might be imbalanced? As in WvW you also dont get 1g55s after 5min speed run in a tower or such and further your specific reward “Badge of Honor” is less worthy than any other token.

Am I missing something out here on the possibilitys for spending the Badges in any efficient way or might there be a possibility to change the items to a more aligned system in salvaging them?

What do you think about that?

See you on the Battlefield!

Kaito

We are trying to suggest improvements to the devs but they dont care too much. Badges are harder to farm and worth less.

Welcome to the rewards imbalance. We have ask and ask but are not able to get a reply based to why the wvw badge weapons are treated like karma weapons. It was not as annoying until the recent wardrobe change at least before then we could transfer expensive upgrades

Well, if they made WwW badges a good money making process, everyone playing for a bit will suddendly get rich. You get more tokens by achievement chests and eotm ( both non WwW related activites) than by playing WwW. That’s the main problem, imo.

They made it worse by handing them out like candy on Halloween in EotM. Now the largest badge holders are PvE players.

Badges skins rival Dungeon token skins for how good looking they are.

Get the Badges skins now (seriously some of them are pretty sweet) before anet realizes that they are priced way too cheaply.

I want more stat combos from the armor vendor

I play WvW so much i have quite a number of badges but no stat combos that i want. Maybe even have a vendor for selling soulbound runes/sigils. Would make my life as a WvW more rewarding.

You aren’t supposed to be do doing WvWvW all the time. The core game is Living Story and PvE. What you describe is one of several mechanisms pigeonholing you into dungeons and PvE; their target market. They must keep that partition as healthy as possible for the gem sales.

WvWvW is niche. I don’t believe ANET is dumb or ignorant. I think they made a design decision, are living with it, and operating under a smart economics policy As WvWvWers at heart, we have to accept the fact that WvWvW and all it’s peripheral aspects will never be what we want it to be.