In EoTM you would get that bonus chest after killing a champion. When you took a keep you would get around 10-15 BoH from that chest. Now there is no bonus chest and taking a keep only gives 1 Badge of Honor.
As it is now, I am getting more Badges from taking regular towers than from keeps.
Reduced Edge of the Mists rewards.
Reduced event karma, gold, experience, and world experience by 25%.
The number of Badges of Honor awarded for capturing an objective has been reduced to be consistent with other WvW maps.
The chests that spawned on objective capture containing badges and ascended materials have been removed.
The Badges of Honor and ascended materials are now dropped by the objective’s boss instead.
Yeah I’m pretty happy about this. It’s still a decent place for leveling alts and getting wvw exp while you do it. But no more massive amounts of badges of honor.
Reduced Edge of the Mists rewards.
Reduced event karma, gold, experience, and world experience by 25%.
The number of Badges of Honor awarded for capturing an objective has been reduced to be consistent with other WvW maps.
The chests that spawned on objective capture containing badges and ascended materials have been removed.
The Badges of Honor and ascended materials are now dropped by the objective’s boss instead.
Indeed the Edge rewards are now a complete joke. If are a new player like me who still needs badges for gear, you may as well just complete the dailies (half of which are broken now) then log off and do something else. Or go play PvE which gives actual rewards, which you can then use in WvW.
If badge rewards are meant to be nerfed to oblivion like this so you get 1 badge from capturing a keep, then the badge rewards should cost a LOT less badges as well. Ignoring the daily rewards, you could cut down the badge costs of the equipment to 1/10th of their current values and they would probably be at a more sensible place than they are now.
Indeed the Edge rewards are now a complete joke. If are a new player like me who still needs badges for gear, you may as well just complete the dailies (half of which are broken now) then log off and do something else. Or go play PvE which gives actual rewards, which you can then use in WvW.
If badge rewards are meant to be nerfed to oblivion like this so you get 1 badge from capturing a keep, then the badge rewards should cost a LOT less badges as well. Ignoring the daily rewards, you could cut down the badge costs of the equipment to 1/10th of their current values and they would probably be at a more sensible place than they are now.
I never used badges for gear – I crafted and bought mine.
But: Welcome to wvw – that’s what we get and I’m fine with it – I play wvw for the fights and strategy, not really because of the rewards or the karma.
And: I’m saving ~2 gold a day which previously went for upgrades now, so I should be rich soon!
Look at all you idiots gloating over the nerf to EotM.
For years you cried about how kittenty the rewards were in WvW, then comes along EotM and the rewards were better.
And now it’s been nerfed, and WvW’s rewards are still kitten.
They should’ve buffed WvW to be on par with EotM. But you spiteful little kids couldn’t see that. Good job, give yourself a round of applause.
Look at all you idiots gloating over the nerf to EotM.
For years you cried about how kittenty the rewards were in WvW, then comes along EotM and the rewards were better.
And now it’s been nerfed, and WvW’s rewards are still kitten.
They should’ve buffed WvW to be on par with EotM. But you spiteful little kids couldn’t see that. Good job, give yourself a round of applause.
The badge of honor situation made no sense after eotm came out and still doesn’t make sense. Badges should have been equally difficult to get in eotm as they are in wvw (or even no badges in eotm) from the start. Now, after waiting more than a year to fix the badge of honor rewards, it is too late because everyone already received more than enough badges to get their armor and weapons and still have more than enough badges to spend them on whatever weapons/armor they need for the rest of their time on gw2. They also didn’t reduce the cost of sentry turrets, airstrikes, or kodas hammer to account for this decline in badge of honor drop amount so those 3 items are now effectively worthless.
With the old eotm rates, the rate of getting gear with badges was still slower than alternative routes (e.g. gold, or pvp reward paths), but roughly on par. Now they are a complete joke. They should probably nerf the WvW dailies by -90% as well because right now rewards from one daily equates to around 3-6 hours of WvW in terms of rewards.
Look at all you idiots gloating over the nerf to EotM.
For years you cried about how kittenty the rewards were in WvW, then comes along EotM and the rewards were better.
And now it’s been nerfed, and WvW’s rewards are still kitten.
They should’ve buffed WvW to be on par with EotM. But you spiteful little kids couldn’t see that. Good job, give yourself a round of applause.
“If i cant have fun, no one else should”
1. I don’t see how running in a circle avoiding fights should be rewarded at all.
2. Not everyone plays for loot. For me killing other players is the reward.
With the old eotm rates, the rate of getting gear with badges was still slower than alternative routes (e.g. gold, or pvp reward paths), but roughly on par. Now they are a complete joke. They should probably nerf the WvW dailies by -90% as well because right now rewards from one daily equates to around 3-6 hours of WvW in terms of rewards.
lol, no see you tend to get a decent amount in WvW because people in WvW actually fight each other. We don’t karma train in a circle to farm rewards.
Look at all you idiots gloating over the nerf to EotM.
For years you cried about how kittenty the rewards were in WvW, then comes along EotM and the rewards were better.
And now it’s been nerfed, and WvW’s rewards are still kitten.
They should’ve buffed WvW to be on par with EotM. But you spiteful little kids couldn’t see that. Good job, give yourself a round of applause.
“If i cant have fun, no one else should”
1. I don’t see how running in a circle avoiding fights should be rewarded at all.
2. Not everyone plays for loot. For me killing other players is the reward.
This is a great example of folks who trash talk EoTM and never step foot in there. I play both WvW and EoTM. and there are more ‘avoiding fights’ in Wvw than there is on EoTM on ANY given day. I get in more fights roaming EoTM than Wvw, more zerg fights, etc. Granted I am on a tier 1 server, but none the less, EoTM is much more diverse than ‘running around in circles avoiding fights’. And this was before the map change, which will make WvW even more of a karma train map. I’m already seeing mesmers hiding in the keeps easily, waiting to port folks in for the stealth cap..
But hey, think what you want. You got your nerf. But don’t expect to see the majority of EotM folks flock to WvW to put up with these elitest attitudes (especially with the new maps). They will leave either stop playing EotM and go Pve, or just stay in EotM and grind it out. So in the end you cries for nerf didnt help your preferred game mode either. Your efforts would have been better served asking for buffs to the WvW rewards.
This is a great example of folks who trash talk EoTM and never step foot in there. I play both WvW and EoTM. and there are more ‘avoiding fights’ in Wvw than there is on EoTM on ANY given day. I get in more fights roaming EoTM than Wvw, more zerg fights, etc. Granted I am on a tier 1 server, but none the less, EoTM is much more diverse than ‘running around in circles avoiding fights’. And this was before the map change, which will make WvW even more of a karma train map. I’m already seeing mesmers hiding in the keeps easily, waiting to port folks in for the stealth cap..
But hey, think what you want. You got your nerf. But don’t expect to see the majority of EotM folks flock to WvW to put up with these elitest attitudes (especially with the new maps). They will leave either stop playing EotM and go Pve, or just stay in EotM and grind it out. So in the end you cries for nerf didnt help your preferred game mode either. Your efforts would have been better served asking for buffs to the WvW rewards.
Not my experience and I’m on my fifth server right now.
Whenever you see a really high rank in wvw you can bet that it’s an EotM player and an easy kill – so I guess we guys are good without “the majority of EotM folks flocking to WvW”. And see, that is what is kind of insulting. The rewards in EotM were too high – and yes, I forgot that most of the badges come from killing enemy players anyway – one could argue whether or not that’s fair to those who roam and scout but you guys in EotM should still be fine if you fight.
I get in more fights roaming EoTM than Wvw, more zerg fights, etc. Granted I am on a tier 1 server
Um, you do realize that EoTM is organized kind of like the megaservers right?
Your tier in EoTM, aside from designated colour, means nothing. You’re merged in with all the blues, all the reds, or all the green servers. Tier only has impact if you actually WvW.
Honestly lads, they should have retroactively reduced all badges, karma and cash gained from EOTM and then tossed all the cowards that go there off one off the cliffs.
And if you couldn’t pay back the coin you earned from that sordid place, they should put you into indentured servitude and force you to follow around the real WvWers while wearing a fool’s outfit (the one with the bells on the head piece).
It’s great for people who already have way more badges than they’ll ever need, it’s terrible for those who don’t already have a ton of badges.
I’ll say it again… badges of honor is a terrible k-train currency.
People who mindlessly zerged have stockpiled massive amounts of badges and never had an important reason to spend them before now.
The people most likely to spend badges on things that REQUIRE badges are the people defending objectives with supply traps and siege disablers, and the sad guy who gets left behind to search for mesmers and thieves who finally sets a stealth trap.
Defenders who’ve needed badges… got no badges from defend events. This never made sense.
Look at all you idiots gloating over the nerf to EotM.
For years you cried about how kittenty the rewards were in WvW, then comes along EotM and the rewards were better.
And now it’s been nerfed, and WvW’s rewards are still kitten.
They should’ve buffed WvW to be on par with EotM. But you spiteful little kids couldn’t see that. Good job, give yourself a round of applause.
“If i cant have fun, no one else should”
1. I don’t see how running in a circle avoiding fights should be rewarded at all.
2. Not everyone plays for loot. For me killing other players is the reward.
This is a great example of folks who trash talk EoTM and never step foot in there. I play both WvW and EoTM. and there are more ‘avoiding fights’ in Wvw than there is on EoTM on ANY given day. I get in more fights roaming EoTM than Wvw, more zerg fights, etc. Granted I am on a tier 1 server, but none the less, EoTM is much more diverse than ‘running around in circles avoiding fights’. And this was before the map change, which will make WvW even more of a karma train map. I’m already seeing mesmers hiding in the keeps easily, waiting to port folks in for the stealth cap..
But hey, think what you want. You got your nerf. But don’t expect to see the majority of EotM folks flock to WvW to put up with these elitest attitudes (especially with the new maps). They will leave either stop playing EotM and go Pve, or just stay in EotM and grind it out. So in the end you cries for nerf didnt help your preferred game mode either. Your efforts would have been better served asking for buffs to the WvW rewards.
I actually leveled my last toon entirely in EotM. " (insert color) is being slow someone drop a merch till they show up." happened in almost every match I was in. From the way you make T1 sound I’m glad I never felt compelled to go there if all you do is avoid fights. 2 people who know what they are doing can derail the blob with an ac and a treb because the EotM Ktrain doesn’t want to take the time to do anything other than PvD.
I’m happy for the nerf and I don’t believe it was enough. Gaining ranks for fighting doors is in my opinion stupid.
To be clear I don’t care about WvW rewards at all. My reward is sneaking something away from my enemy, Killing them or defending an objective with just a few people vs a map blob.
I’m a little put off by this change. I was never the type to farm much, but EoTM was a fun place from time to time. I’m not sure what will come of that map now. Also all those players who stockpiled badges are going to have a never catch able gain on other players. I got 2k badge, while it seems nice for now, I know some players have 200k, etc. The currency didn’t mean anything before, and suddenly its valuable to some players and worth very little to others. Very strange change.
