Well, as someone who’s come in to the game and played only a few hours of PvP, the discovery that rewards are purely cosmetic has pretty much killed that half of the game for me.
Cosmetic rewards may as well be no reward in GW2. My character is at level 25 at the moment and to be honest dosnt look that different than when she started at level 1. She is still wearing a variation of the same few styles of gear back and forth no matter what new gear I find. So, just about every other Necromancer I see looks pretty similar to me. Also, there dosnt seem to be an option to "inspect" another character that I see like there is in WoW. I teamed up with a lvl 80 Ranger the other day and he didn’t look like a max level mmo character. He just looked like an NPC or something.
So, if all I have to look forward to in PvP is some uninspiring minor cosmetic changes I’m left hoping that the PvP gameplay makes up for it. Unfortunately my first couple of hours isnt too encouraging on that front. I can hardly tell what profession anyone is as everyone looks similar on the game.
Years ago I played GW1 and left because it just wasn’t as good as WoW. It’s incredible that years later GW2, the next big "innovation" in MMOs is still unable to stand up to the original WoW. It’s not as if Arena Net are going head to head with project Titan, GW2 is struggling to look good against an eight year old game.
