Guild Wars 2

It would be great if we could get some use of all those tomes that the reward track spams out to speed up wvw ranking, but would still require playing in the game mode. Those tomes are currently just piling up, and changing the item so it can be used to rank up would make the wvw reward track to feel a bit more rewarding.

I dont think thats a very good idea tbh, yes there needs to be a way to get rid of them other than lvling alts but free ranks is not the way.

I’ve got over 2k tomes, it’s not a good idea

Huttunen.8309:

I’ve got over 2k tomes, it’s not a good idea

Same, but it would get me from Mithril Knight to Diamond Major really fast.

Huttunen.8309:

I’ve got over 2k tomes, it’s not a good idea

Why not?
There is no real meaning to ranks in WvW besides the backpack/armor anyway.

Terrible Idea, No.

Convert tomes to spirit shards. As if the EotM heroes sitting at diamond was not bad enough…..

Jethro.9376:

There is no real meaning to ranks in WvW besides the backpack/armor anyway.

True enough. The loot might be a bit excessive on the backlog but its not like WvW has ever been particularly loot heavy.

Nope, work your ass off like the rest of us

Definitely do not agree with this despite all the tomes I have laying around. You can already convert the tomes to spirit shards and make money off that.

There already is an item that does that and it is called Potion of WvW Rewards.

If you want to rank up faster waste your irl money on xp boosters, that’s what anet wants you to do. If you don’t want to waste your money just keep on playing wvw and rank up as everyone else.

It doesn’t really matter what your rank is as long as you know what to do. And if you want it for rewards, well, tough luck.

The amount of grind to rank up in order to get some ascended amor skins is far too high compared to what legenday items require.

Tomes of knowledge are kinda usless and many players have more than they can spend. I like the idea of using them to rank up in WvW (x amount of tomes for 1 rank) but a lot of high rank players (and EotM exp farmers) will attack this thread because they think that players from other game modes do not deserve this armor.

Presteige is important after all.

To put some direct numbers, 5 tomes and 500 badges per level. All it would do is increase the leveling speed to similar that of a booster, but paid through game play rather than cash.

Novahh.7426:

Presteige is important after all.

How?

Jeez the salt in this thread. It’s almost like some WvW veterans don’t want new players around. Don’t you realize that the more people are gonna have reasons to join, the more incentive it will give anet to improve WvW? Shouldn’t that make you happy? Also easier kills for you?
Can we at least agree that this new system, as it is right now, doesn’t offer great incentive for brand new players? You get to play a full job of WvW every week to get close to decent rewards, isn’t that enough for you to be considered “hard work”?

I don’t think using tomes is necessarily a bad idea if done right, you could for example have to combine 5 proofs of heroic + 5 tomes to get a WvW level. You are still required to play WvW but are leveling a bit faster. Is it really that bad?
To compare, the fractal backpack is a joke to get.

Tomes of knowledge let you auto-level for your pve characters faster as well. Let’s also not forget that obtaining high levels wasn’t always done through “hard work”, if you know what I mean.

I just don’t get this. Really I don’t.

Hey WvW Team, you’ve been incredibly responsive compared to the other teams. Care to give us an opinion on this? Thanks <3

pve players are always looking for short cuts. Come on

Not just pve. Pretty much everyone want shortcuts in gamemodes they don’t really want to play.
Raids is pve and yet people want it to be faster

But like, objectively, it takes less effort to get fractal backpack than wvw.