Thread: PvP Rewards; 6.1 and beyond.

Originally Posted by Shirolumi

Isn't that the same with PvE though? Ppl taking time off for raiding etc. I understand that those rewards are there all the time of course, but I'm thinking of world first races etc.

It's exactly the same except for one key point: the rewards are time limited. I can go back to an ultimate today and get the weapon if I get good enough. I can NEVER get a cool floating magitek chair regardless of how good I get.
If you want to make the rewards avalible with equal difficulty as before... well I'll still complain because having it limited to a certain number of people per world has its own problems, but at least I'd have a chance of getting it ever. As it stands I have none.

A couple things about rewards. First Garo is/seems popular. Why can't they design an event like it for every expansion? It doesn't have to be a collab and then remove the items for a time. Then reintroduce them again some other way 12+ months later.


A PvP based weapon upgrade per expansion should happen. It could thematically match whatever the new map/mode they add. So this expansion crystal based weapons for crystal conflict last expansion dip into the lore from Onskal and come up with something.PvE gets a upgrade, crafter/gatherer gets one. It doesn't even have to be super complicated, win X amount of matches with weapon, or buy X amount of item to turn in from vendor.



They put so much less in since 2.0 that they should put higher quality in.

Originally Posted by Sinstrel

With the current reward structure and present obtainable rewards, I feel a lack of incentive to continue playing Crystalline Conflict after achieving Crystal Rank. The series pass offers 1 gear set per series, but there are two Crystalline Conflict seasons in one series. This means that after obtaining the series pass gear set in the first season of Crystalline Conflict, there is nothing for the player to achieve for the entirety of the 2nd season especially if one has deemed that the top 100 rewards are even less desirable. This could lead to only odd numbered seasons being active while even numbered seasons lack participation as many have already received the rewards during the first Crystalline Conflict season.

To remedy this I would re-iterate the suggestion of making re-named, re-skin versions of past Feast rewards available for purchase for wolf collars (not the original rewards, so that the older Feast players can still enjoy the exclusivity of their reward from the seasons they played). The current trophy crystal HW re-skin sets are a perfect example. This could be accomplished by making the reskins cost a large sum of wolf collars per piece (30-40 per piece) and then also increasing the amount of trophy crystals you obtain in crystal conflict based on your rank. At the diamond and crystal level you should be given a large sum of trophy crystals per win.

This would make the re-skinned reward less obtainable by casual play and almost exclusively obtainable through winning many games at the high ranks of Crystal Conflict. With some fine tuning this could be as hard as it was in the past, or even tuned to be harder depending on how many trophy crystals you want to award diamond/crystal ranked players.

Furthermore, this would provide incentive for players uninterested in the current seasons top 100 reward (I personally like the Crystal framer plate better than the top 100 framer plates) to continue playing Crystalline Conflict. Otherwise once achieving Crystal Rank, there could be players who stop playing altogether, or only play ranked casually with alt jobs which severely lowers the quality of ranked games for players actively trying to achieve Crystal Rank and top 100 rewards

I would like to one again re-iterate this suggestion to the development team. As predicted, Crystalline Conflict ques have dropped off dramatically and furthermore there are players actively avoiding ranked que in order to get the framer kits from Diamond and below.

Now that you'll be getting all the boarders, I'd like for them to add a true battle pass for filled with rewards to keep the players interested because just boarders and backgrounds wont cut it. Give us mounts, emotes, weapon cosmetics, dyes, hairstyles. Go ham with this PvP it had such a huge turnout at the start because we finally got started on the right path to make PvP great so keep at it that way when people ask about FFXIV pvp the majority of us can answer with "its pretty good now"

MMOs where everybody needs everything otherwise he feels scammed even when having already 20 good looking titles, mounts and glamour.
Plus points if you involve your kid as an execuse why you shouldn't even have to lift your hand to receive something and a big win mega bonus
if you need to collect everything to feel complete like a walking fight club meme.

As a player who joined at the end of 5.9, and practically played with the EW release, I believe The Feast rewards should remain exclusive to the PVP players who earned them.

Either that or re-release the rewards by placing in the CC top 100 (through a token/totem you receive by mail that can be exchanged at a vendor for a Feast reward of the player's choice), which I doubt will happen.

This way, players who were not around during The Feast or just did not participate would have the chance to obtain those rewards the same way Feast players did (through blood, sweat and tears).

Although for this to happen, I believe there needs to be a strong leaderboard moderation.

That's just my solution, but yeah, I don't mind if they remain exclusive.

Originally Posted by boxbrosg

You aint playing enough then.

On Aether the #1 player (Technically I think he is tied for #1 at this moment) is win trading with himself. Queuing 2 accounts at the same time as NIN and afking on one account while the other boosts. I ran into him 4 times this morning alone (all on the losing side which is just bad luck really). Mr. Happy, a popular streamer, has run into him multiple times and has needed to basically make sure that dude is already in a match before queueing. That is 1 guy with multiple run ins on YOUR data center. Grats on not playing at the same time as him but stop claiming you have never seen it like it somehow invalidates others run-ins.

You in any of the PvP discords? People are coordinating queues all the time to get on comms to work out wins. There is also a whole section on add-ons and scripts for auto poly/silence on certain skills, auto LB's at certain health percentages, ect.

Also, you say you hit top 100 but never stayed there for the end of a season...how can you accurately state what the end of the season rankings really look like then?

If you see clear wintrading, report it through the sqex website for it, we got #1 trader kicked out of the leaderboards in Light during season 1.