Guild Wars 2

This is the only solution to the massive Ascended foul-up.

As the main WvW dev said in another thread, the format of WvW Ascended awards is being dictated by PvE, to avoid “devaluing” the efforts of PvE’ers. The end result of this is scr*wing gear acquisition for WvW’ers.

The time has come to stop treating WvW’ers as the 2nd class citizens of GW2. Separate the gear.

Personally, I never thought it would come to this. But it became necessary when Anet scr*wed the Manifesto by introducing a gear treadmill.

Most modern games with some form of RvR have RvR-specific gear or stats (e.g. SWTOR, LOTRO). I always hated that, but now I understand why. It’s not an elegant system, but it satisfies PvP’ers and PvE’ers enough to keep playing.

Separating gear will create a barrier for mainly PvE’ers entering WvW. But that is what Anet is going to have to do to keep dedicated WvW’ers in the game.

It’s their choice.

Personally, I think that gear in this game is quite balanced, PvE and PvP wise.

Why do you think WvWvWers are being treated like second class citizens? Ascended gear is available via WvWvW now and the weapons you get in WvWvW can be acquired in PvE.

Modern games like SWTOR and WoW that have separate gears for PvE and PvP is one of the reasons why they can never balance PvE and PvP in their games.

The op is soo wrong and has no real facta

Nope, my facts are correct.

Gear has to be separated, or PvE is going to be forever dictating the rate of gear acquisition in WvW. That is unacceptable to dedicated WvW’ers.

Also, tying gear acquisition to totally anonymous, bland daily quests is one of the worst mechanics I’ve ever seen in a game.

It is clear it was added in a panic to the original game, because it is so antithetical to the rich underlying event system. Why else would they would replace a dynamic, innovative system with a hackneyed, dumb one? They needed that gear treadmill fast.

If gear was separated, then Anet could go back to using events for gear acquisition in WvW. That would be far, far more fun.

WvW isn’t like regular PvP and success isn’t generally dependent upon gear it’s mostly dependent on tactics and numbers. There doesn’t need to be a separation of gear. What would that add to the game?