League chest progress in Unranked?

[DoomNexus.5324]

I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but look.. I'm tired of the clownfiesta ranked has become (quite some time ago) and just want to get into some chill matches of Stronghold or unranked Conquest and get my loot.
All the stuff will still be time gated to the season (which I think is the main point?) and I don't really see a good point for further gating it behind ranked-only.

As a bonus for the competitive ranked players: all the casuals who are only there for loot can simply queue unranked and don't bother you laddering anymore.

[maxwelgm.4315]

Is this really an unpopular opinion? I would drop ranked in a heartbeat and let the more competitive players have their fun. I play meta builds and drag my way into top 250 every season because I believe some people actually enjoy it as a competitive mode and to be honest yes I have a bit of performance anxiety, but I'd certainly rather be playing more variety of builds in unranked where I wouldn't be ruining people's grind. I find it particularly egregious that I enjoy queueing for several matches in a row and yet the leaderboard play is exactly the opposite and you should have the least amount of matches possible - this actually means matches are  more random for me because I never know if I'm gonna go against the #1 player fighting his decay or a silver 3 in a winning binge.

It's about time especially with a new mode potentially with its own leaderboard being tested, that Anet allows people to legitimately farm in sPvP since they were so inclined to yield PvE rewards on it (we even have uniquely PvP/WvW rewards now with Woad armor!).

[calva.2914]

Well I mean It would prevent afking in ranked from people who just want their leggy gear. Won’t completely fix the problem though. I would probably drop ranked too. This is probably why it won’t happen as they are trying to get more people into ranked and not less. 

[Multicolorhipster.9751]

Hardly unpopular, it should have been like this from the start.
There's barely any reward beyond dailies in Unranked so that's where all the tryhards and sweats go, and freebie rewards in Ranked that are some of the easiest gold per hour and leggys to get in the game so all the PvE casuals go there. It's completely 🍑backwards

[Gotejjeken.1267]

Casuals should be bracketed to their own rank, if that's not working it's a bigger issue than opening up ranked rewards to unranked.  

[Bladestrom.6425]

5 hours ago, scerevisiae.1972 said:

doesn't need damage, it needs utility/survivability - a reflect/block or a movement skill. it's way too squishy. 

 

16 hours ago, Gotejjeken.1267 said:

Casuals should be bracketed to their own rank, if that's not working it's a bigger issue than opening up ranked rewards to unranked.  

99% of players in GW2 are casual.  honestly this 'casual' rhetoric is a decade out of date

[Gotejjeken.1267]

32 minutes ago, Bladestrom.6425 said:

99% of players in GW2 are casual.  honestly this 'casual' rhetoric is a decade out of date

Sure, but in GW2 not everything is for everyone.  A middle ground here would be able to pip ranked chests in unranked, however you give double rewards for playing ranked.  

[maxwelgm.4315]

22 minutes ago, Gotejjeken.1267 said:

Sure, but in GW2 not everything is for everyone.  A middle ground here would be able to pip ranked chests in unranked, however you give double rewards for playing ranked.  

kitten man then I'd just play ranked anyway it's still the best-in-slot farming. Just let unranked PvP become the legit liquid gold source, then start giving tiered color titles to all the X of the arena up to the first 250 players for all I care