Guild Wars 2

Zorby.8236:

I’ve done like no WvW and I now have well enough for the gift. While I won’t say no to free badges I too was pretty amazed at this decision. Now I definetly have no reason to go WvW, and they’re trying to get people out there…But then I thought, if you hand out some freebies some people will buy some stuff, wet their apetite. They’ll run out of badges and need more…Admittedly, it’s a silly reasoning but it’s the only plausible :p

Well, it wouldn’t be a totally silly reasoning if they handed out 50 badges in total for instance, if they really really had to! But hundreds!?

Esplen.3940:

It gives you random PvP items out of any available PvP items (don’t think it drops limiteds, though).

I know that’s how it’s been programmed, but don’t you think they should exclude the starter stuff you get for free in the beginning? I mean it’s meant to be a ‘rewards’ chest after all!

So, opened my achievement reward chest today, only to find I got 3 basic PVP weapons – the ugly ones you can get for free anyway from the PVP vendors. Isn’t this an odd reward for accumulating points?

So, assuming you decided to make a legendary weapon yourself, you’d normally need to grind to get a series of items and gifts, including the Gift of Battle which costs 500 Badges of Honor.

Am I the only one left absolutely flabbergasted that ArenaNet has decided to hand out free badges through the achievement rewards system? What about those of us who had to grind WvW to get these? Most people already have more than enough achievement points to get hundreds of free badges without EVER having to do any WvW! It’s like randomly handing out specific dungeon tokens to people who don’t have the faintest idea what a dungeon is!

Not only is this unfair, but I also think it will decrease WvW participation, as most people will already have the badges they need.

Open on Desolation now!

Yeah, it’s been stuck in the same place for a while now! :-/

Well done everybody on Desolation!

I definitely support this motion!

You’re right. And many other elixir skills don’t even display a reduction in cooldown, let alone a real change in cooldown. Very annoying!