Guild Wars 2

Anet has been trying to make WvW more rewarding lately, but I think they could do more to improve the rewards system without hurting the game’s economy.

I would like to see a reward track similar to that of SPVP implemented to reward players. I would like one of these reward tracks to have good looking armor as a reward, similar to what is found in SPvP’s glorious armor.

This will help for two reasons:

1) Unlike every other game mode, the rewards in WvW feel almost completely random. As a player you don’t have a long term goal which you are working towards such as the balth backpiece, Fractal weapons, etc. Adding reward tracks that don’t hurt the in game economy, but offer dungeon armor, etc would reward players for effort without increasing monetary gain.

2) Unique rewards will bring more players to the game mode as they hunt said rewards. As a game mode that has been taking a serious hit lately it would be nice to bring the fashionistas of Guild Wars 2 into the mode, if only temporarily.

Implementation

Different tracks require different types of objective completion. For instance, a combination of sentries captured and camps captured contribute to one track.

Not only would this break up zerging a bit, but players would be pushed to contribute in different ways, spreading them over the map and making small fights more common.

Lastly, I would add a bonus track progression buff which is based on how long your server holds an objective. Hold lots of objectives for long periods of time? you get more exp. There would need to be a cap, but this would also give players a reason to defend objectives instead of k train.

Let me know what you think!

Reward tracks for unique WvW armor and weapons would probably be well recieved. Different tracks for different stats? I don’t see any harm in that.

Good point.

WvW Rewards are so lame, that i resort to spamming DS for good stuff.
I mean, if they’re okay giving out humongous rewards in the 4 new HOT maps, i wonder why they didnt do the same for the new HOT WvW Map…?

Guess you can really tell where their priorities are.

(Sorry… Trying not to be negative, but i’m so fed up with the lack of proper attention and comms from anet.

I’ve only played this for a year and a half, but have logged over 4,000 hours in WvW

ive moved to BnS and it will take a big update to try and win me back…
So far, BnS is getting all my $$, too bad anet lost a guy that spends $$ for FashionWars2. I’m a good customer…)

Reward tracks for WvW have been asked for ever since PvP got them. I am guessing there is some reason we can’t have them . . . hopefully that is just yet and being worked on but who knows anymore.

Chiccotot.7296:

ive moved to BnS and it will take a big update to try and win me back…
So far, BnS is getting all my $$, too bad anet lost a guy that spends $$ for FashionWars2. I’m a good customer…)

I hate what they;ve done to WvW but I don’t see why BnS is attracting WvW players. There is no large scale PvP its all just open world pvp or small group deathmatch. And the PvE is kittene.

Tbh, BnS is something new… so it’s shiny.
WvW has been so frustrating to play that it’s a challenge just logging in to the game to just get daily chests. I have lost all taste and faith in GW2…
Until they fix WvW ENTIRELY (and not the bull update they planned for tomorrow, then i wont be coming back anytime soon.)

I love the idea but anet doesn’t care about wvw so we cant have it like SPvP

Chiccotot.7296:

Tbh, BnS is something new… so it’s shiny.
WvW has been so frustrating to play that it’s a challenge just logging in to the game to just get daily chests. I have lost all taste and faith in GW2…
Until they fix WvW ENTIRELY (and not the bull update they planned for tomorrow, then i wont be coming back anytime soon.)

BnS is not a replacement for WvW game mode, CU or CF is probably the better alternative.

There is no point in trying to lure people using rewards. Because at the same time these same rewards will be added to EOTM. And EOTM still will be the fastest way to get these rewards. So yet again people will pour into EOTM and not WvW…

kroter.1326:

There is no point in trying to lure people using rewards. Because at the same time these same rewards will be added to EOTM. And EOTM still will be the fastest way to get these rewards. So yet again people will pour into EOTM and not WvW…

Not necessarily. It all depends how they’re acquired. For instance in PvP, the custom arena’s reward track progress caps out each day, while unranked and ranked doesn’t.