Debating about old rewards being availible in another topic I might have stumbled upon a hidden gem.
Make old elite transmog sets/mounts/enchants and tabards availible again to motivate people. Hold your horses before throwing tomatoes at me and hear me out.
As someone who cares a lot about transmogs and there are many people like me I consider it a low hanging fruit.
The idea is you get special gladiator tokens at 1800 for one full elite set of your choice, gladiator mount token for 50 wins above 2400 and so on for every other rating gated reward you get the idea. I understand people really like to gatekeep things like this, but fomo is toxic and exploiting players fears isnât nice. Providing only 1 token per season is a soft way to keep some level of fomo, yet at much lesser level. You still lose current set if you buy an old one, but eventually you still can get it. Plus a bad/good looking set can be the only reason for some people when decide if they wanna come back. For me it seems people really like elite sets and often only care about them, because other rewards are too hard to obtain - the rating gap between elite set and tabard is huge and kills any motivation, would be great to add some rewards every 100 rating, but its a whole other topic to discuss.
Next I have a way to solve another bunch of problems by providing one more type of currency. At the moment we are rewarded after some gring with a mount token, some people have them 10+ or simply donât want more mounts for whatever reason. How about the honor bar you fill over season repeatedly rewards you with another type of tokens you can buy old sets piece by piece? With every piece cost differently. You can finish unfinished old sets or collect a whole new one. Yes it has to be a bit grindy and be limited to 1 set max per season otherwise people would farm all at once or gonna feel forced to play without a break whole season - not healthy.
On top of replacing current underwhelming mount rewards we now get a way to motivate people to play on healers by increased token rewards, alts if they are transmog enhusiasts, but canât reach 1800 (or missed the desired set) and ready to grind for it. ALSO gives a reason for people with skill below average to participate in PvP in the first place (1000+ rating requirment still stands of course) and still be rewarded with something meaningful, because we all know elite set without helm and shoulder isnât really a reward lol.
All the people who came for rewards (healers included) might stay and invigorate PvP, some of them gonna improve all in all more participants and a more healthy enviroment for both old sweaty 10 times glads and total noobs who gonna be able to find a partner and improve together.
Im sure all the improvements are worth it and downsides arenât really too big. Id rather see the game prosper, than a bunch of gatekeepers enjoy their 10 years old set transmog no one can has anymore. Feel free to improve my idea.
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Or they could just create way better looking gear/mounts. Everything got so ugly design wise. I have zero motivation to push for glad in 3s, that drake is just cringe compared to wotlk/tbc/cata and we all look like elements if we would transmog that trash.
Would love to see some good class fantasy mogs and good glad ground mounts. Why does it has to be a flying mount all the time.
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Your suggestion would work.
But WoWâs elite base would lose their gamer minds. As someone that doesnât farm transmogs and/or mounts, i think ALL rewards in the game should be available again, not limited to certain events/expansions.
WoW lost a tremendous amount of players and any change that could pull new and old players in would be welcomed.
Imagine buying a game realizing it some rewards in it is not available. Thats just weird.
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i like the base idea but 1800 is too low imo. Back then the sets were 2k+ and some even 2200+.
I think it would be nice if you get an Elite token to buy an old set each time you get the duelist achievement. This would promote alts as well and will keep the ladder healthy, while still preventing that a long term goal to farm everything will be easily achieveable within 1 season. It would still motivate people to play current season as the set is easier to get when itâs at 1800.
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With the introduction of solo shuffle might aswell hand everything out for free lol
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If they are bringing back old things, I would like it to be in such a format. But ideally they just start making cool things again so people get motivation to get it. A problem however, is that there are so many mounts and tabards etc. in the game now that people are always going to be unimpressed, thereâs just too many options at this point
And devaluating all rewards make part of the competition purely pointless.
Thatâs exactly what happened with the gladiator title. Making it 2.4 + wins completely devalued it compared to how it was in the past when it was %-based.
Thatâs exactly why both BFA S4 and SL S2 gladiator are widely considered cheap gladiator seasons, because A LOT more people got those rewards than usual, making it pretty much trivial.
Agree, tbh I liked the gronnelin mount especially the green one, could be an idea to put maybe 2 mount per season.
Your glad comparison is awful. We are talking about unobtainable stuff here.
whats with this ppls fixation with mounts on green its horrible color unless representing the color of money 
the red, black and purple Gronnling look pretty good tho
no bias ofc and there can be only one opinion
In the era of boosting, no title, mount or transmog is worth anything.
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You canât be boosted in solo shuffle though.
Exactly. Perhaps a lot of people complain about this mode because no one will do all the work for them.
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so youâre basically never vaccuuming at your house because the dust comes back in anyway? 
cause the glad mount is obtainable again once the season is over?
you can, itâs just done the good old way, ie. not selfplay.
sadly they boost it too but its another topic
u can find how they do it with short google investigate
one thing i would like to see is blizz implementing like 15min deserter penalty on the que if one does not apply their que when theyre invited
just like for regular arena u get penalty if u dont take the q
but soloq u wont get so they keep fishing
and if someone really was afk then the 15min dont matter if theyre out walking the dog or something anyway
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Thx too the deflation there should be another reward systhem atm if you are 2.29 cr in 2s you are at the TOP 100 player
Mean that 2.1 is like 3k in the most inflated season
Putting transmog and mounts behind a number that mean every season a very different skill level is phatetic
It should be more like gain in the top 30% of active playerbase for the transmog top 20% for the wappon enh and top 10% for the mount
% number can be tuned ofc
Calm down with smileys Karen. You are scaring the children away.
Agree, but the topic isnât really about specific rating. For some reason blizz donât even consider changing rewards to % it seems.