Guild Wars 2

I told Anet it was a really dumb idea, but they went ahead with it anyway, and now they’ll face the onslaught of people’s rage (yet again). If WvW wasn’t unloved as it already is, you go ahead and nerf it some more… I only have 4 words for this whole thing…

Big Mistake. Big. HUGE.

Please stop nerfing WvW. In fact, the best thing you can do right now is just not touch it (maybe add in new rewards though because, well, when was the last time it got additional rewards? Oh that’s right, WvW seasons that were TEMPORARY CONTENT). The new borderlands are a ghost town, chests of the mists now being soulbound, is there anything else you want to ruin?

Most of the time I get to play GW2, I WvW. It was nice to be able to use the ACCOUNT BOUND chests to help level Specilizations on my other characters, so that when I did get time to PvE I could play them.

Alot of WvW Guilds have certain setups when they run and people play specific classes 95% of the time they WvW. Which means now when you WvW we are forced to rack up tons of Proofs of Heroics on one character and are being punished for WvW’ing with organized WvW Guilds.

Thank you Anet for dropping the ball and forcing Account Bound items to become Soulbound (the Chests of the Mists).

Thank you for once again punishing the WvW Community just because you felt like it.

No this out right a silly point of view to the point of madness. Right now in pve all your hp are soul bound you MUST play each hero to get there hp to unlock things you cant use though points to unlock things for others. Now we have the abitly to get 7-9 (it seems) per rank up in wvw. WHY would you give wvw the added advantages over pve players to get hp from every hero of there (allready faster then pve)?

90% of the game has been converted to account bound. But for some reason, only WvW players need everything soulbound (the ones with many alts who NEED accnt bound stuff)..

I have useless WvW rank points stacking up being worthless since I’m maxed.. Now more items in my inventory that can stack and be useless yay.

Why don’t you add a few more things for me to click too because having to click through 3 chains of items from every chest I get isn’t enough fun.

Ashadow.6874:

Most of the time I get to play GW2, I WvW. It was nice to be able to use the ACCOUNT BOUND chests to help level Specilizations on my other characters, so that when I did get time to PvE I could play them.

Alot of WvW Guilds have certain setups when they run and people play specific classes 95% of the time they WvW. Which means now when you WvW we are forced to rack up tons of Proofs of Heroics on one character and are being punished for WvW’ing with organized WvW Guilds.

Thank you Anet for dropping the ball and forcing Account Bound items to become Soulbound (the Chests of the Mists).

Thank you for once again punishing the WvW Community just because you felt like it.

Yeah when they were account bound it actually gave us the freedom to use them on whichever alt we wanted, and encouraged people to play WvW.

I couldn’t be more disappointed with Anet by today’s changes. And if that wasn’t bad enough, not even a fix for all the HoT legendary collection items. Things just get worse and worse :-/

Zaoda.1653:

Yeah when they were account bound it actually gave us the freedom to use them on whichever alt we wanted, and encouraged people to play WvW.

I couldn’t be more disappointed with Anet by today’s changes. And if that wasn’t bad enough, not even a fix for all the HoT legendary collection items. Things just get worse and worse :-/

No what it would encouraged ppl to do is to pve in wvw it dose not encourage them to play wvw.

So this is greed pure and simple. Before this there was no way to get hp in wvw at all (just the few maps ones like pve) they made the rewarded for rank up a lot better by letting ppl get hp in wvw. Now they made them even more rewarding and the best thing ppl can do is complain about something they knew was going to happen becuse Anet even said it was a bug.

dank.3680:

90% of the game has been converted to account bound. But for some reason, only WvW players need everything soulbound (the ones with many alts who NEED accnt bound stuff)..

I have useless WvW rank points stacking up being worthless since I’m maxed.. Now more items in my inventory that can stack and be useless yay.

Why don’t you add a few more things for me to click too because having to click through 3 chains of items from every chest I get isn’t enough fun.

Exactly. We definitely need some way of spending extra rank points too.

I could be wrong but don’t these come from wiggle chests and those chests show up on every character you log onto until you open them. What is to stop someone from leaving the chests “wiggling” and logging onto a different character to get them?

Tofu.1978:

I could be wrong but don’t these come from wiggle chests and those chests show up on every character you log onto until you open them. What is to stop someone from leaving the chests “wiggling” and logging onto a different character to get them?

That always been soul bound for wvw.

Today I accidentally got a rank up chest on a temporary character that I will delete later, and the chest is totally wasted.

Jski.6180:

Zaoda.1653:

Yeah when they were account bound it actually gave us the freedom to use them on whichever alt we wanted, and encouraged people to play WvW.

I couldn’t be more disappointed with Anet by today’s changes. And if that wasn’t bad enough, not even a fix for all the HoT legendary collection items. Things just get worse and worse :-/

No what it would encouraged ppl to do is to pve in wvw it dose not encourage them to play wvw.

So this is greed pure and simple. Before this there was no way to get hp in wvw at all (just the few maps ones like pve) they made the rewarded for rank up a lot better by letting ppl get hp in wvw. Now they made them even more rewarding and the best thing ppl can do is complain about something they knew was going to happen becuse Anet even said it was a bug.

A lot of people play almost only wvw. A lot of them are asked by their guilds to play certain classes.

You might think it reasonable to soulbound the only way to open up HP’s for those toons you don’t use so much in wvw but want to have handy, but I think it’s a really stupid idea.

And they release a new way to get a legendary for Pvp today- how come everything you earn in pvp isn’t soulbound? Explain that to me. Or why pvp even awards level up books when a pvp toon is auto 80 anyway? That’s right. BECAUSE YOU CAN USE THE STUFF ON OTHER TOONS.

So why have Anet yet again shafted wvw players- it’s almost as if they want to close it down, so they drive away as many as possible beforehand.

ok.

Comparing PvE character earned HPs and soul bound acount wide earned wvw chests may be apples and oranges.

The wvw account wide earned chests appear on the character you are playing at the time of the rank gain. This character could very easily be a profession you are only playing to help your guild or server composition in a fight or wvw raid.

Making the chests soulbound, is an act that removes incentive to be a team player and rewards selfish play ie switching professions just prior to each rank and being carried.

If you see the issue this way it becomes simply a question of, Do you support incentives for selfish or incentives for team play?

I rarely post, but this reallllly rustles my jimmys.

This is one of the few QOL changes added with HoT — and it’s being changed to the opposite of what it needs to be: chests and token being Account Bound

Jski.6180:

No this out right a silly point of view to the point of madness. Right now in pve all your hp are soul bound you MUST play each hero to get there hp to unlock things you cant use though points to unlock things for others. Now we have the abitly to get 7-9 (it seems) per rank up in wvw. WHY would you give wvw the added advantages over pve players to get hp from every hero of there (allready faster then pve)?

You’re wrong cause it is far quicker in PvE anyway so no its not greed. Your white knighting of even this is whats silly, as has been noted numerous times in the original thread, the WvW progression system is an ACCOUNT BOUND progression system, what they are doing is making the progression system rewards character bound. It is a contradiction, anet even said when they made WvW masteries account bound that they agreed that the nature of WvW progression was more account based than character based. Now they are going back on this.

Ashadow.6874:

Most of the time I get to play GW2, I WvW. It was nice to be able to use the ACCOUNT BOUND chests to help level Specilizations on my other characters, so that when I did get time to PvE I could play them.

Alot of WvW Guilds have certain setups when they run and people play specific classes 95% of the time they WvW. Which means now when you WvW we are forced to rack up tons of Proofs of Heroics on one character and are being punished for WvW’ing with organized WvW Guilds.

Thank you Anet for dropping the ball and forcing Account Bound items to become Soulbound (the Chests of the Mists).

Thank you for once again punishing the WvW Community just because you felt like it.

100% agree guild only wants me on my ele when we zerg which is where i get most of my wxp because i roam the rest of the time

They should just make the contents of the chest of the mist into a wallet currency and be done with it.

Every birthday so far each of my veteran characters gets an instant level to 20 or 30 new character only xp scroll . Then there is the level 20 exotic armor chest you get when you finish a character’s persnal story.
ANet are positively encouraging you to make alts and then you get stuff like this – a soulbound chest of the mist that is the reward for leveling up an account based WvW mastery.
So make up your minds ANet, is GW2 meant to be alt friendly or not?

Can we just have HP account bound in PvE & WvW please ?
You only gain them once per character but they are usable by any character.
Thank you.