Guild Wars 2

Skirmish Tickets
Currently
Rate of acquisition is 175 tickets per week.
Wood Final tier. (10)
Bronze Final tier. (15)
Silver Final tier. (20)
Gold Final tier. (25)
Platinum Final tier. (30)
Mithril Final tier. (35)
Diamond Final tier. (40)
25 is the average per chest , with the bulk of the tickets placed in the second half of chests.

Suggestion

• I propose that the tickets for each chest be evened out to 25 for all chest instead.

• That tickets are given for each rank of chest. For wood/bronze chest the ranks would give 5-5-5-10, silver/gold/platinum 5-5-5-5-5, mithril/diamond 5-0-5-0-5-10.

• I propose the repeatable diamond chest hands out 1 ticket every time it’s completed.

The purpose of these changes would be to make it friendlier for players who don’t have the time to earn all tickets for the week. Even if they earn mid rank of a chest they still get something for it rather than having to wait for the last rank. The main wvw players who spend a lot of time in wvw are going to get their 175 in any case.

Pips
Currently
+1 Your world has the least amount of War Score in the current Skirmish.
+2 Your world has the second most War Score in the current Skirmish.
+3 Your world has the most War Score in the current Skirmish.

+1 Bronze WvW Rank (150-619)
+2 Silver WvW Rank (620-1394)
+3 Gold WvW Rank (1395-2544)
+4 Platinum WvW Rank (2545-4094)
+5 Mithril WvW Rank (4095-6444)
+6 Diamond WvW Rank (6445-9999)
+7 Max WvW Rank (10000)

+1 Commanding a squad with at least 5 people.

+1 Played on the same world for three or more weeks. (Must acquire all four tiers of wooden chests each week to maintain this bonus.)

+5 Playing on an Outnumbered map.

Suggestion

• The +7 for max 10k ranks probably benefits very few players, I would be shocked if there were more than a dozen players who have made it that far, and all most likely from eotm. I would take this point and place it at a new rank wvw(50-149) and move all ranks up another point. Same amount of points in the system but starts earlier.

• The outnumbered bonus is nice, and helps those truly in bad situations with their server, but there’s also room to abuse gaining these extra points. I think a point or two should be shifted from this over to the loyalty bonus instead, in which more players will earn this in general.

• Would like to see eotm count for pips, but only a maximum of 1 pip, no matter how many other pips they qualify for (so if they qualify for pips from rank and commanding they still would only get 1 pip max). Right now servers are experiencing queues again, and the one map created to help with the queues doesn’t even help those players stuck waiting in line to get on the main wvw maps. Most players would probably rather sit in lion’s arch afk waiting. I would also suggest raising the minimum participation level to 5 in this case to counter afk pip farming.