Pips are fairly hard to get at the moment. I like this. This is meant to be difficult. The Legendary and Ascended items are not and should not be easy to obtain. All we, pvp junkies in WvW, wanted was having intense battles where there are constantly things to take and kill and dominate. We could care less about the rewards than anyone elses. We just want balance. The rewards are bonus boxes that naturally stack up while we were busy murdering each other.
But, we do need to talk about the current match-makers. Bring back the older match making system where we vsed the same server over and over. Use the current glicko system once a month to add variety and possibilities.