Frontlines Roulette rewards

[zeopower6]

PvP gear is actually extremely good. A lot of it before 120/130 gear was BiS.

And as for level 51 or whatever being better than level 50 stuff, I believe they said that it will not be the case for most of it.

[Geologo]

PvP gear is actually extremely good. A lot of it before 120/130 gear was BiS.

And as for level 51 or whatever being better than level 50 stuff, I believe they said that it will not be the case for most of it.

But to wear it you need an high pvp rank and to max it you need really a lot of time, so when you have just reach 50, hardly you will be able to use it :/
Anyway they said that the Reward would be adjusted and I hope they will do it soon.

For example up to now I'm using my wolf mark for levelling Desynth and it work very well for blacksmith and armorer.

[Synestra]

Marks would be nice addition as exp is useless when you are already rank45, same goes with challenge log.

[Buff_Archer]

They really do need to change the roulette bonus, and soon. I guess it's not a priority because it's not Triple Triad.

Sure the i110 gear isn't bis in PVE anymore based on ilvl. Some of the gear we get in the future might be though. And I like being able to wear gear most others can't. When Poetic/WoD gear came out I wore it a little while, but got tired of wearing either puritanical B&W outfits the same as everyone else, and I'm not going in total drag when I get the WoD healing gear. So after a couple of months of Ironworks/Demon gear, roughly half is glamoured back to my PVP set. And there is still more I'd like to get, but it takes a long time for each match based on bad design choices we've already discussed ad nauseum (on the player side anyway), and I have no incentive to run Frontlines Roulette as it stands because it's a high chance of a loss. Last one gave me a 100% pug team vs a full premade in Slaughter, so we only came in second.

[Geologo]

Marks would be nice addition as exp is useless when you are already rank45, same goes with challenge log.

Anyway I think that they should add an EXP bonus too, and make the bonus switch if you are rank 45, like the Low level roulette work, if you are already lv50 they earn Tomestone instead of EXP.
Up to me they can even add a company seal bonus considering that they would mantain the lore related on the 3 GC that is crapping the queue time.

Ps. up to me the reward switching should be applied for the Roulette, Levequest and Challenge log entries.

[Buff_Archer]

Yeah, I was surprised when I noticed one day challenge log was exp only, no WM's. Back before I hit R45 when I still tracked it. Seems the community prety much agreed from day 1 what bonuses Frontline Roulette should confer vs what it actually does... perhaps focus groups should be used for some future content, in light of obvious misses like this where practically everyone expects it would work one way, and we get something else.

[Sanghelios]

2.55 is out now and rewards still belong the same. Thats sad somehow.

[Geologo]

2.55 is out now and rewards still belong the same. Thats sad somehow.

Really disappointed

[kisada]

SE's execution of PVP has been a complete joke thus far. I don't think anyone should be surprised.

[Nyalia]

I thought the devs were actively looking into it? Why was this not changed? PvP rank is a huge grind for a casual player. I'm not complaining about the grind, but isn't the whole point of a daily bonus to mitigate the gap between hardcore and casual players? Not remove it, just lower it a bit by giving a major boost for doing something once while still giving plenty to people who grind after that.

The worst part of the tomestone-only bonus and the high light payout for minimal time invested is that it encourages PvE players to join Frontlines, play terribly, and get rewarded for it. The PvE rewards are the exact same whether you come in first or last. Only the people who are actually interested in PvP and the PvP rewards get extra bonuses for coming in first and actually working as a team.