6 hours of wvw for 22 dragonite ore

#1 - Oct. 18, 2013, 6:58 a.m.

Getting all needed dragonite in wvw is hardly doable for new players.

If a person needs 4 weapons, that means 2000 dragonite. At this rate it will take 545 hours of wvw.

Yet I have 50 bloodstone bricks in my bank (5000 dust i will never use up) and 15 empyrial stars plus a stack of fragments. So nobody can accuse me of not playing enough!

3 or 4 ore for a keep that might take hours to take is just not enough to get 2000 ore in half a year. And how will I store all the bloodstone dust that i no longer need, waste obsidian shards to make room? The rewards are TOO GOOD to be able to store, but just THE WRONG KIND.

I don’t like camping dragons so I am chipping away at this, but it will take me months more to get my daggers at this rate.

DevonCarver

#8 - Oct. 18, 2013, 10:57 a.m.

The rewards included in season 1 achievements should help to address this. Very specifically the ascended crafting materials. It is also the case, that we want people playing all the parts of the game, so there are always going to be optimal ways to get specific rewards and those may not always include WvW. We are building the whole of GW2 and we try and balance things across all the game types.

We will continue to make strides, however, to make WvW feel more rewarding, especially in this type of area.

DevonCarver

#22 - Oct. 18, 2013, 11:29 a.m.

Sanduskel.1850:
DevonCarver.5370:
The rewards included in season 1 achievements should help to address this. Very specifically the ascended crafting materials. It is also the case, that we want people playing all the parts of the game, so there are always going to be optimal ways to get specific rewards and those may not always include WvW. We are building the whole of GW2 and we try and balance things across all the game types.

We will continue to make strides, however, to make WvW feel more rewarding, especially in this type of area.

Thank you. If you want people to play all parts of the game, when will the vial of essence be available as a drop at the same rate that it is in the fractals? It currently appears that you want to force people to do fractals, even though some of would rather quit than do those. Thank you for your perspective.

We are in the process of making a change to the requirements for most things that take the vial of essence to make them acquirable outside of the fractals. We don’t have more to announce right now. We 100% agree with the premise of that statement in regards to fractals, however.

DevonCarver

#23 - Oct. 18, 2013, 11:30 a.m.

Vol.5241:
I really hope the crown jewel of winning seasons isn’t stacks of ascended materials.

I have at least 5 stacks of fragments and ores and I don’t need to be making ascended weapons since I have legendaries.

The ascended materials are in the chests that are awarded for completing specific achievements in the WvW Season 1 achievement group. They are attainable by anyone and are in no way related to your placement at the conclusion of the season.