Campaign Leaderboard Reward Re-Work?

Zheg · June 2015

While I realize not every pvp set can be made valuable (though I feel like all armor sets should actually serve a purpose) because of balance limitations, I'd still like to see the rewards be re-worked when a campaign ends. First of all, the gold is laughable. I got about 1.2k gold I think for being #1 DC on Haderus for the previous campaign. I spend that in about 10 minutes repairing a single wall.

The gold is just a minor annoyance, the real issue for me is the gear you get. I would argue that staying on top of the leader boards is quite difficult and requires a commitment (1 week, 2 week, or a full month). I now have, I think, 5 helmet's of Cyrodiil's ward, and more Curse-Eater pieces than I'd know what to do with. I once had a campaign reward from Azura's that gave me 3 helmet's of Cyrodiil's ward. Here are some suggestions on what changes could be implemented to actually make these feel like rewards:

Gold rewards should only be pvp jewelry or master weapons. We can upgrade any of the purple pieces to gold pretty easily thank you. Campaign rewards are the only place you could theoretically get a gold jewelry piece like ravager's, and would make it a hard to get reward that certainly wouldn't have a big impact on balance but would still feel worth it and rare. If the potential to get 5 gold rings on the month-long campaigns is too much, maybe reduce it to 3 and add in a separate reward with 2 or 3 purple gear pieces or something.
You should NEVER get the same piece more than once in a single campaign reward for chillrend/thornblade/azura's.
I'd argue the % chance to get a masters weapon should be higher than it currently is.
The main regular pvp sets (curse eater, cyrodiil's ward, cyrodiil's crest - though I use this for the 2 piece) should be improved. Who in their right might would actually wear a 5 piece curse eater when you're running purge in PVP any way?
There's a chance to get the vicious ophidian set pieces (as well as the upgraded version of the light and heavy set I believe) from pvp campaign rewards. The only other source is SO. Given the RNG, it would be nice to see these more prevalent as gold reward tier pieces. I like that they're rare, but you could end up getting 5 helmets or something dumb like what happened to me with the cyrodiil's ward pieces and they're bound on pickup from the mail.

Agrippa_Invisus · June 2015

They just need to implement a token based system like every other modern MMO.

You get a number and quality level of tokens based off your standing on the leaderboards. You go to a vendor and exchange them for the gear you want.

Undaunted chests and Trial run bosses (and DSA chests) should all do the same thing.

The 'gear chase' that ZOS has us doing right now is a placebo attempting to keep us running the gerbil wheel longer than usual as they've added no new content to game since Sanctum Ophidia. The focus of all their development talent on Console, while perhaps a financially sound decision for them, has come at the expense of adding value to the current playerbase.

So they keep the gear spawns utterly random in hopes you'll keep running old content forever.

Beesting · June 2015

I wish zos would implement in the interface so you can see if you are currently in the top 2% or in the top 5% on the campain

With only the top 2% getting gold items it is valuable info , i dont understand why this is still missing, now i have to rely on asking friends that join late in the campain what rank they are to work out the position for top 2%