Guild Wars 2

That’s right, I said it!

#1: It enticed me to join in on the WvW Action (Mainly sPvP, PvE, Fractals, You know the rest of the GAME!)
#2: It enticed my Guild to join in the WvW Action
#3: Anyone who’s completed any Event/Living Story understands that ANet doesn’t give you the world. Welcome to the reward system WvWers ;0)
#4: I’d do it again regardless if my Server place 9th (again :P)

LOL @ Request For:
#1: Ascended Weapons

Props @ Request For:
#1: Special Finisher (Mainly because it’s consistent with the sPvP Rewards)

Congrats to the Season 1st Place Winners! Keep on being Smexy!

BeerNPeanuts.4573:

That’s right, I said it!

#1: It enticed me to join in on the WvW Action (Mainly sPvP, PvE, Fractals, You know the rest of the GAME!)
#2: It enticed my Guild to join in the WvW Action
#3: Anyone who’s completed any Event/Living Story understands that ANet doesn’t give you the world. Welcome to the reward system WvWers ;0)
#4: I’d do it again regardless if my Server place 9th (again :P)

LOL @ Request For:
#1: Ascended Weapons

Props @ Request For:
#1: Special Finisher (Mainly because it’s consistent with the sPvP Rewards)

Congrats to the Season 1st Place Winners! Keep on being Smexy!

Welcome to the reward system? WvW doesn’t get anything close to it. PvE players like you are spoiled.

It’s better than it was a year ago, we used to barely be able to afford repairs. But it’s still far from the reward level of PvE.

I agree with you in that it enticed everyone to play WvW, i was just annoyed that the rewards had hardly anything to do with WvW :/ all that was relevant to WvWers was the finishers (that only a few servers got) but from a WvW achievement chest i didn’t get any blue prints from it nor did i get any badges.
So i was shocked to see the reward for playing wvw had almost nothing to do with the actual content. I do play WvW and thats my only problem with it, that the rewards weren’t related or even relevant in wvw.

Agreed, I thought they were completely acceptable, though like the above I would have liked something a little more wvw-flavored … and I think it would be absolutely fair to make those finishers permanent, because seriously, why not? Beyond the season chest, gaining 50 levels meant 50-150 chests depending on your previous week’s standing, and I know I got at least a few decent things out of them. Not to mention all the loot bags I got over the course of the season. Besides that, five level boosts to one of my alts was nice, as was the 3 free ranks in wvw (which also came with chests), though as far as the achiev goes all I really wanted was the title and to have a good time, so the box of rage was little more than a nice bonus to begin with. I understand that a lot of people are disappointed, but in the end it’s because the game didn’t live up to the scenario people had envisioned.

Personally, I can’t believe anyone legitimately expected to get a guaranteed ascended anything, much less a ton of overly rare/expensive stuff. Given the number of people that participated (seriously most of LA has had votm titles hanging over their heads forever), flooding the marketplace with (maybe tens of) thousands of exotics and whatnot seems like it would have thrown a wrench in a very carefully controlled economy. Plus, it seems a lot of people see the season achiev/chest as that magic carrot to get pve’ers in and potentially interested in wvw, so by that logic, wouldn’t it make sense to have something to drag us into the rest of the world in return?

I think people were going to be mad, anyway. If the rewards were too good, they would have been the new reason ~wvw is dying~, due to people stacking harder for the inevitable season 2 and further crippling smaller servers. If they were mediocre, as they were, then … well, they are apparently why wvw is dying? It sets the stage for next season, I think — now that people know roughly what they have to do to get what was given, I doubt we’ll see the same level of server-jumping, nor nearly the number of shiny-grinders spending an hour draining keeps to grind out those repair achievs. Seriously, in a lot of ways, I think they’ve given us what a lot of vocal hardcore wvw’ers have wanted/been asking for. Mediocre rewards is just the price we pay, lol.

As a side-note, it made me really happy to not see our map chats flooded with rage over the chests on reset night. :> I’m sure it was out there, but given the forum explosion I was braced for epic fury and was really pleasantly surprised.

That’s what really struck me too, it wasn’t even how worthless the rewards were it was how thoughtless and… lazy they were. It was like someone at ArenaNet just grabbed a bunch of items off a spread sheet and decided they were “good enough” and tossed them in a chest. There was no thought at all about “what would WvW players appreciate getting as a representation of their hard work.”

It’s like we’re all little kids again on Holloween, and after working really hard to hand make our costumes show up at ArenaNet’s house and they give us a box of raisins, some old bittersweet chocolate chips that have clearly spent too long in the cupboard and a fridge magnet. It’s not even the items themselves it’s just the sheep indifference and lack of thought paid to them that really hurts.

Honestly and I’m not saying this as a threat or anything but, you guys need to treat your playerbase better if you expect to survive, you’re already in a downhill slide and you don’t seem to want to put in the effect to stop or reverse that.

Or maybe Scarlet was behind the rewards too?

BeerNPeanuts.4573:

That’s right, I said it!

#1: It enticed me to join in on the WvW Action (Mainly sPvP, PvE, Fractals, You know the rest of the GAME!)
#2: It enticed my Guild to join in the WvW Action
#3: Anyone who’s completed any Event/Living Story understands that ANet doesn’t give you the world. Welcome to the reward system WvWers ;0)
#4: I’d do it again regardless if my Server place 9th (again :P)

LOL @ Request For:
#1: Ascended Weapons

Props @ Request For:
#1: Special Finisher (Mainly because it’s consistent with the sPvP Rewards)

Congrats to the Season 1st Place Winners! Keep on being Smexy!

1. You didn’t know what they would be so how could they entice you?
2. They didn’t know what the rewards would be so how could they entice them?
3. Agree
4. Agree

Point being we weren’t enticed by the rewards themselves. We were enticed by speculation that something on such a scale would reward better than things of lesser scale. Going by #3, we should have known better. Overall I love this game, but wow is it ever so UNREWARDING!

bump… (Tired of seeing all the negatives still being popular)

I grinded the achievements out (because of leaving the game for a large duration of the season, although I normally only play WvW), not for the speculation of awesome loot, but because I would finally get a WvW title. Something that would show people that I actually do something in the game, because pre-season title, people who played WvW all the time had nothing special except maybe a blue Dorito (commander Tag). Now I can be proud of my new title that I won’t take off until I get a new WvW title (C’mon Yakslapper!!), and the people who grinded it out for hopes of good loot will move on and find a different title that doesn’t leave a bitter feeling in them.
Plus C’mon guys, give it up for Steve!! (The mini yak). Although I do want to admit it would be cool if he let us carry an extra supply (11,16,21) which was suggested in one of the other threads.

I thought the rewards were pretty nice on top of all the sub-category awards along the way, and the loot I got from killing people too. My favorite reward was the +level scrolls because I was so close on getting a character to 80 and it just let me skip the last 5 levels of grind! That alone made me happy!

One idea I would LOVE, however, if they gave everyone who participated an exotic back-piece that could be upgraded similar to the beta fractal capacitor. Perhaps you would have to get 2 of them over a couple of seasons, or combine them with stuff you buy with badges or something, but it would be cool to reward a component that can let you get to an ascended backpiece through wvw.

Perhaps next season.

Expected? Yes. Acceptable? Bleh, not even close. It didn’t cost what I spent in siege or upgrades. And +1 to the “thoughtless” comment. I suppose the devs thought the level up scrolls were pimp, considering their rarity, but thanks, I’ll ignore your subtle hint to start another alt. I could have used some siege or badges (for siege), but that would have taken someone making the rewards who plays wvw.