Guild Wars 2

Ref: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_versus_World#Tournament_system

So Anet, are we ever going to have another WvW tournament? The last one was back in 2014 (2-years ago). I’ve had hero weapons floating around in my Bank for 2-years waiting for the next tournament so I can upgrades them to mistforged weapons and it’s starting to look like it’s not going to happen again.

Might just be worth throwing it out there as well that currently WvW is the only game type that is still to get a legendary backpack…

Who else would like to see the WvW tournament return?

I believe the last Dev statement indicated that Tournaments weren’t really something they were considering.

You might try the WvW sub-forum.

Good luck.

It’s a bit silly really don’t you think? Having an entire set of weapons being unobtainable for something as simple as a WvW tournament.

I guess the only other thing Anet can do then is add in a new reward track to gain tournament tokens so the mistforged weapons aren’t completely redundant.

The game is nowhere near tournament ready.

There is a rewards track for the rare version and the devs are working on releasing the exotic versions. Iirc the dev mentioned these would be rank dependent purchasable items.

The dev comments on that are buried somewhere in the dev tracker.

Coopziana.1802:

Ref: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_versus_World#Tournament_system

So Anet, are we ever going to have another WvW tournament? The last one was back in 2014 (2-years ago). I’ve had hero weapons floating around in my Bank for 2-years waiting for the next tournament so I can upgrades them to mistforged weapons and it’s starting to look like it’s not going to happen again.

Might just be worth throwing it out there as well that currently WvW is the only game type that is still to get a legendary backpack…

Who else would like to see the WvW tournament return?

ANET answer this question before:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. Presumably this was due to players burning themselves out during the tournament.

However, we can still run a poll to see if the majority of the community wants another 4 week tournament, even if it might be bad for the long term WvW population numbers. Though even if ‘running another tournament’ won the poll, we’d probably hold off until we get the scoring updates in.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The Tier 1 Weapons will be made available in an upcoming Reward Track, much like the armor already is.

We haven’t fully decided how to distribute the T2 Weapons and Armor yet. Though, we are currently leaning towards players purchasing them with a currency that they’d earn as a match reward. We may also set rank requirements for the various pieces, so you’d need to be a relatively high rank(1-2k) to purchase a full set.

LINK https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Whens-the-next-WvW-tournament/first#post6159463

Thanks @Jcsk

Good to know!

They usually say that a wvw tournament gives a spike in player activity which then drops down by a lot because players are burned out. This is something they don’t want.

Also they’d at least work of the list of planned wvw features like scoring changes and all the qol features before they’d work on a tournament but I doubt they’d do it.

Also a longer tournament would interfere with the current cycle of linkings and encourage bandwagoning even more which really is the last thing this game needs right now.

Now that I’m thinking about it… What would a tournament even show? With linkings there is no more way to show who the best server is so it would be really unfair to give out rewards just because you had the better linking not the better server. I think they should instead focus on rewarding every players contribution like they did with reward tracks.