Guild Wars 2

Taken from the blog post:

“Gold and Experience in PvP

In the December 10th update, you’ll be able to earn gold in PvP as a match reward. As an extension of that, you’ll also be able to spend glory and gold to purchase account-bound Tomes of Knowledge, which grant a level each and will allow you to level up any of your characters. The Tome of Knowledge will be found on a new glory vendor that has several items available for purchase with both glory and gold.

Also in this update, the Skills and Balance team will introduce new healing skills to the game. To acquire new skills, in both PvP and PvE, players will need to spend skill points to unlock them. Unlocking the skill unlocks it for all parts of the game. Going forward newly added skills will require skill points. Existing skills will remain unlocked for PvP."

Now that PvP is shaping up to look like it will be more than just a “mini game for when you’re bored,” how do people feel? With a proper reward system in place, and the ability to use earnings to level yourself and other characters, is this going to be a place you invest your rangers time in to?

Does this change anything for you?

Discuss.

My Ranger is definitely going to be spending more time in there yeah. I like the condi bunker build but it doesn’t have many uses in PvE and while PvP can be fun it did kind of feel like a minigame diversion as you said.

The main thing that puts me off PvP though is the community.

Nothing… a sPvP game doesnt become good just tossing rewards, it needs to be fun, have diferent maps, diferents gamemodes, give you the feeling that you are actually in a league earning respect like in GW1 with the GvG…
Now.. you have to grind the same boring Spvp.
At the very least they are doing something.

Overthrust.2659:

Nothing… a sPvP game doesnt become good just tossing rewards, it needs to be fun, have diferent maps, diferents gamemodes, give you the feeling that you are actually in a league earning respect like in GW1 with the GvG…
Now.. you have to grind the same boring Spvp.
At the very least they are doing something.

Fair enough, I see your point.

I’m just very excited just to know that all of the time I’ve spent PvP’ing (and on my ranger) can finally be used for something. I only have like a million glory, I’ll finally be able to do something with it.

Well ive been playing Ranger in spvp since the beggining…
Sure the new rewards made me happy but do you know what will make me really really happy?

Build diversity and rework on the current conquest game mode..

Dardamaniac.1295:

Well ive been playing Ranger in spvp since the beggining…
Sure the new rewards made me happy but do you know what will make me really really happy?

Build diversity and rework on the current conquest game mode..

Also agreed, I’m in the same situation as you. But at least now, we have a reason to deal with it other than trying to squeeze what little fun we can out of it.

Now at least I’ll be able to finish leveling my last 2 underleveled chararacters, and then take them into WvW when I’m not PvPing to humiliate all of the players there than think they’re good because they can autoattack at you in a blob of people, but get picked off and call whatever profession did it OP.

That and I can finally start making money the way I like to play the game, so that maybe one day I might finally be able to buy a legendary.

I think they mentioned that they will also add new healing skills at dec 10…Cross finger for active cond removal skill (doubt cause we suppose to have HS for that but a man can dream)..
I would like to see a teleport like healing skill too..
You teleport 900 range and you will aoe in the end of it

I honestly don’t enjoy sPvP. I’ve never liked the take and hold game mode. I much prefer CTF. I feel it’s more aggressive and more engaging. I honestly don’t have any intention to play sPvP more often though I am eager to get my stalwart’s armor from PvP into PvE. Double popped collar for extra edginess.

Dardamaniac.1295:

I think they mentioned that they will also add new healing skills at dec 10…Cross finger for active cond removal skill (doubt cause we suppose to have HS for that but a man can dream)..
I would like to see a teleport like healing skill too..
You teleport 900 range and you will aoe in the end of it

I’d love to get a withdraw sorta heal….

There’s nothing really to say. sPvP was always a intrinsic experience for me, I never really cared about reward apart from the profession specific Champion titles. Adding gold is nice I guess, but c’mon there’s already plenty of ways to earn gold. I was kind of hoping they would retain glory as a currency and just allow more rewards to elicit from said glory.

Oh well.