Guild Wars 2

I meant to post this earlier but I have been busy for many many weeks, actually forgotten all about it.

Anyway, WvW team should consider adding a special WvW tokens (which can be weekly capped) to the WvW itself. We can earn these special WvW tokens from special WvW reward tracks and those tokens can be used to purchase ascended boxes just like pvp shards, raid shards and fotm pages.

Then make these WvW reward tracks earnable only in WvW and not EOTM. Doing these will kills three birds with one stone. You will make the WvWer slightly happier by giving them a option to get ascended gears that cost less. You will make WvW more rewardings. Finally, the increased rewards can appeal to more people to try out WvW.

SkyShroud.2865:

I meant to post this earlier but I have been busy for many many weeks, actually forgotten all about it.

Anyway, WvW team should consider adding a special WvW tokens (which can be weekly capped) to the WvW itself. We can earn these special WvW tokens from special WvW reward tracks and those tokens can be used to purchase ascended boxes just like pvp shards, raid shards and fotm pages.

Then make these WvW reward tracks earnable only in WvW and not EOTM. Doing these will kills three birds with one stone. You will make the WvWer slightly happier by giving them a option to get ascended gears that cost less. You will make WvW more rewardings. Finally, the increased rewards can appeal to more people to try out WvW.

i have like 700 wvw ability points sitting in my toon. i have all wvw masteries topped up so i can’t do anything with those.

You get 1 ability point for each new level. If we were able to buy elonian leather, deldrimor steel, damasks or spiritwood at 1\2 points each we wouldn’t need to get the full piece in any track.

Just make those ability points and abilities account wide and all problems fixed.

Uh… we already have this. In fact we already have two WvW currencies (three if you count ability points). Anet has just chosen not to let you buy any ascended other than trinkets for it, on one of the currencies.

Hello,

I agree that WvW should provide better rewards, access to ascended boxes and gear more consistent than drops etc.
Yet, I’m fondly against a new currency : we already have 3 of them (insignas, proofs, tournament tokens) + ability points. One of these currencies is “dead”, yet it’s the only way to get specific gear… I don’t want to grind again for another currency to get specific rewards, while the other ones are underused.

They better should merge most tokens to clean all these things up. And add better rewards indeed.

Hold on a minute while I check my WvW currency totals.

OK, back. Took a while to find my number of badges of honor.

Here’s the totals.

1048 unused World Ability Points
33887 Badges of Honor

Those currencies serve different purposes but it isn’t a big deal either since currency doesn’t take up your bag spaces. PvE has way more currencies, it isn’t abnormal for WvW to have more than current either since WvW is a entire mode by itself.

Dawdler.8521:

Uh… we already have this. In fact we already have two WvW currencies (three if you count ability points). Anet has just chosen not to let you buy any ascended other than trinkets for it, on one of the currencies.

Ascended gears are different from discounted trinkets which is pretty common. I am sure anet do not want people to be farming those ascended chests easily just by farming badges so we will need a cap just like the cap in PvE. One can argue to use weekly cap on purchase but that is not thoughtful because it uses up bag spaces while currency doesn’t use up bags space so it is more logical to have a currency that is weekly capped to serve that purpose.

SkyShroud.2865:

Ascended gears are different from discounted trinkets which is pretty common.

Which matters how?

They could easily do it so that for X amount of hero badges or XX amount of honor badges or XXX amount of skillpoints, you can either buy a chest or – if cheaper – an ascended insigna. And they could easily add other ascended materials for purchase in the same way so you can balance and reduce costs. Just like how the newer sPvP ascended aquisition works. It doesnt have to be easy. The costs could be like 1000 hero badges. It would however be an option, yes.

But Anet havent done this because clearly they dont want to or they dont think ascended stuff should be in WvW.

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

Ascended gears are different from discounted trinkets which is pretty common.

Which matters how?

They could easily do it so that for X amount of hero badges or XX amount of honor badges or XXX amount of skillpoints, you can either buy a chest or – if cheaper – an ascended insigna. And they could easily add other ascended materials for purchase in the same way so you can balance and reduce costs. Just like how the newer sPvP ascended aquisition works. It doesnt have to be easy. The costs could be like 1000 hero badges. It would however be an option, yes.

But Anet havent done this because clearly they dont want to or they dont think ascended stuff should be in WvW.

You got a point there but as mentioned, it serve different purposes. If tokens are to be universal, then why would we have so many different type of currencies? There is reason behind it, we want people to grind for it now and not use whatever reserves they already have or it simply defeat the purpose of getting people in.

Btw, your last statement is unnecessary because is just your own negative perception of anet and also has nothing to do with the suggestion.

The main question to you is, do you want ascended gears to be added into WvW or not?

Edit: I too have a lot of abilities points and badges but that is not the point. It isn’t about selfish gain, it is about sustainable future. On a side note, they could also make HOT insignia and inscription purchasable through the same currency, likewise hot trinkets. I think that would make wvw even more rewarding and really helps in getting the newer wvwers players to gear up easier.

Something like this is something I’ve outlined in the beginning of the year but I haven’t found the right time to really share it the way I want to, so oh well here’s the link — https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jqPcPov3oSmJVwt5RWE3z8gbzKp8xtQipexJ8oBn_xY/edit?usp=sharing

Here’s the text:

Legends Never [DIE] WvW Proposals – 01/15/17

Rewards Proposal:

Introduce same sPvP reward-track / PIP progression reward system
PIP Reward Track Reference Here
Rewards Reference 1 (Shards Of Glory & Tournament Tickets)
Rewards Reference 2 (Ascended Shards of Glory)
Reward system (PIPs) is driven by “Participation Points” the more you participate (flipping camps, sentries, towers, keeps, ppk, stomping) the more you’re rewarded.
There is a max Participation level per participation period.
Rewards Reference 1 (WvW Seasons) see also Rewards Reference 1 (Shards Of Glory & Tournament Tickets)
There’s currently no “Ascended” Rewards Track as per sPvP see also Rewards Reference 2 (Ascended Shards of Glory)
An ascended reward track would need to be added to follow the same suit as sPvP; repeatable content after all initial rewards are redeemed.
WvW exclusive skins are preferred
WvW Reward Track system is unchanged.
Rewards Reference 1 (WvW reward Track)
Skirmishes will also reward PIPs, but this reward is the same for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place to discourage stacking a single server.

That’s great, we do need more rewards that is comparable to what offered in other modes. I hope more people will speakup and support this idea of adding more rewards through new currency so we can actually get more positive attentions.

I don’t think this is hard to add since we can reuse the assets (meshes, textures etc) already made available in the other modes.

PS: Did you have that in the wvw initiative? I think I come across it before.