Doing events in lower areas still don’t feel rewarding. I think that it’s good that you can’t get lodestones from events in low level areas. But atleast giving more of the low tier loot would do good. The system was created to encourage players to cooperate in doing events. But in my opnion it just encourages champ farming in cursed shore and frostgorge sound. Giant eyes, charged lodestones, charged cores and ancient bones as rewards in curshed shore, really?? This would mean that the prices will drop (which is good), but also thousands of brainless zergers farming it. Farming in higher areas is really already rewarding enough.
Furthermore I agree about the interface. I would like to see a progress bar and maybe some fancy chest showing up in my screen. And rewards for jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons sound good too. Because they don’t feel rewarding at all. Some decent loot for the effort would be great.
But, anet, please don’t make it so that everyone is going to farm this 24/7, but more like a daily reward. Which isn’t repeatable, just like gathering.