Guild Wars 2

It is great WvW at last has decent rewards, but not only are the costs of the rewards too high but the ability to earn them is so extremely time gated it feels almost pointless to aim for any of them, this is in dire need of a rebalance by team members that actually play WvW and understand the effort that is being asked of the player base. For example it takes less time to earn legendary armour than ascended WvW armour.

Most people already have full time jobs and obtaining diamond each week is literally just that.

Also the whole point of the last update was to make WvW feel more rewarding, but with some actions offering zero participation and others only thirty seconds worth. It makes players feel compelled to zerg in order to keep participation high, but even then if you need a toilet break you are punished severely by being relegated to zero participation again.

One of basic tenants of Guild Wars 2 has been play how you like, but the last few changes to WvW has gone against that philosophy. If I want to capture camps, I should be rewarded, if I want to run dollys I should be rewarded, if I want to defend a tower I should be rewarded, if I want to join a zerg or scout I should be rewarded just the same as every other player contributing.

As for players AFKing for ten minutes while participation drains, making it drain faster was not the correct solution, the correct solution was to let players keep that level of participation when they leave WvW rather than removing it entirely. What the WvW team did was punish everyone rather than fixing the cause of the AFKing.

I had fun for a good while, I used to log on each day for a couple of hours in WvW get some track progress and earn my dailies. But since the new rewards and the lack of satisfaction it has given has killed my enjoyment for it all. WvW needs from real solutions and I am taking a break from it till that happens, I would not be surprised if others are in the same boat as me.

Aedelric.1287:

As for players AFKing for ten minutes while participation drains, making it drain faster was not the correct solution, the correct solution was to let players keep that level of participation when they leave WvW rather than removing it entirely.

Oh look someone that wants to keep Participation going while not in WvW, so now we have people asking for WvW participation rewards for not participating in WvW vs the new change of having to ACTIVELY participate to maintain participation and receive rewards.

Every piece of Participation rewarded is based on the difficulty/importance of the activity/objective being done i.e. Escorting a yak does not equal the same importance as taking a tower or camp, killing a sentry doesn’t equal the amount of effort as taking a keep, pretty simple.

Everyone receives the same Participation for doing similar activities i.e. Taking a camp rewards the same Participation to everyone…..

Smh.