Guild Wars 2

The reward tracks from PvP certainly are not bad, but there are a few things PvPers are not concerned about that WvWers would love to have.
1. Ascended gear tracks: This could be a reward track that provides mats for crafting Ascended gear, random Ascended gear drops, and maybe at the end of a longer track, guaranteed Ascended weapon or armor. One of the things WvWers have trouble farming are any materials that are not t5 salvage mats, so having a reward track that helps us get these materials without leaving WvW is very helpful.
2. HoT stat combinations: stat combos like Marauder are pretty good for WvW. Too bad they are expensive and require going to the HoT maps and seeking put vendors that only appear after meta events. Why not make individual reward tracks for these stat combos?
3. Suggestions? The patch notes stated that the WvW reward tracks are in beta, so this is the time to ask about getting things in WvW that we otherwise have to spend a lot of time in PvE for.

Ascended weapons shouldn’t be gated behind a reward track. They should just have proof of heroics /memories of battle req instead of badges (to make more use of those). OR JUST have them with the same base stats / bonuses as Exotics when in WvW.

Same thing goes for HoT stat combinations on exotic armor at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armor_Master (A complete set of armor costs 5 Gold coin 44 Silver coin and 950 Badge of Honor)

I agree with both of you.
a) some WvW reward tracks with ascended pieces at the end would be very welcome
b) HOT stat combinations attainable from said vendor for the exotic versions

I certainly agree with the ascended weapons option, ascended mats too.

While some things could easily be changed over to WvW currencies for legendaries it should still include a lot of effort to make.

you got my vote!

all that will make WvW better, i’m for :-)

And if it brings players back to WvW that decide to stay and play the game like its meant to be players its all for the better and an added bonus!

It would be really nice to have a higher chance to receive ascended chests in WvW. It comes back down to being forced to PvE if you want nice things like Legendary weapons or Ascended gear/weapons. Currently we can only get ascended trinkets in WvW, it would be very nice to be able to spend badges/proof of heroics or something on ascended armor/weapons.

They recently fixed a bug with ascended drop rates in fractals, and even increased it. Maybe they should look at the drop rates from rank up chests as well.

Would be nice to get ascended gear off the reward tracks, but they haven’t done that to the spvp tracks to this point, so doubt they would consider it for wvw.

Reward track feedback:

The system itself is good. Participation based rewards is good, the 15 minute time period is appropriate. I would suggest that participation decrease at a regular rate and at an increased rate after a period of inactivity. This is to address the issue where people max out and have less incentive to fight to maintain their higher rate of rewards.

The rewards themselves need some retuning. I’d like to see reward tracks with crafting resources and materials. I’d like to see reward tracks with legendary crafting materials. I’d like to see some guaranteed rare loot bags. Generally, I’d like to see greater rewards paired with a greater drain on participation in order to pair effort to reward more explicitly.

Chances are you’ll get some ascended drops within the reward track.. Haven’t done much wvw yet as I’m semi waiting for Friday but I did the last pvp season and got 3 rings and 2 armor boxes from those reward tracks..

I would like to have something to spend spare wvw rank points on.
But not paper siege or salvage kits. Runes, sigils, ascended accessories perhaps?