Guild Wars 2

Hi Anet,

I’m going to keep this short and sweet.

I’m a WvW commander, and I am a little disappointed in the quality of loot in WvW.

I’m not going to say that you have not made improvements to WvW loot since i’ve been playing, because you have. Ascended weapons and armor drops are great,

but

I still net a gold loss in WvW, largely due to the siege upkeep that I need to go through.

the issue as i see it is that, making gold in WvW is considerably slower than in other game modes, and at the moment for players like myself who almost singularly play WvW, we are at a serious market disadvantage, EVEN when we can hit an equal number of champions per hour.

(I dont think we should be able to keep up with dungeon runners or the FGS champion farm, but we should be able to at least make a comparable amount of $ for our time instead of how it currently is when we make about 30% of what a PvE-er will make.)

For me, the “reward” in WvW is getting better at playing with my guild, we sustain longer and get more player kills, but I think it would be great if we could get loot rewards that are more equal with what our PvE counterparts make.

THROW OUT SOLUTION (this solution probably sucks)
if your 25 man guild is going against a 40+ blob, wouldnt it be great if your loot value scaled in your favor because you’re fighting a larger force (Like the outmanned buff, but more dynamic in that it is not a global effect, more like event scaling)

This solution probably would require that zerg fights get turned into an “event”

Anywhoo thats the end of my crap solution,

please do improve the loot though.
(Readers, please post your average Gold /Hour in WvW so we can gather some data and compare!)

Depends what I do. Roaming is not much, scouting even less, following the bus, maybe 2 to 4 gold per play session? I don’t really pay attention to gold income.

When I lead, I ask for donations, and many players naturally send me their looted plans, some even propose to make superior.

I usually send some money or plans to leads (when not leading) and/or scouts too, even if they don’t ask, cause I know it’s expensive.
But the problem is not really the loot, wouldn’t mind it being somewhat higher, though, the problem is that, as a lead or scout, we often end-up spending more than our earnings.

Tl;DR
When leading/scouting/defending, loot seems low
When following the bus (attack) it seems somewhat equal to a normal PvE session (not dungeon/champion/world boss farm).

I get around 10-20g per night which is anywhere from 5-8 hours played. That being said I can earn about the same amount in 3 hours of doing my dungeon paths so.