Hoof and BigGrim, while I think that inventing gear can be good, I don't think that requiring the old ladder tokens in the recipes is a good idea, lots of people dumped them when you said that they were going to be totally worthless shortly, and others, like myself, never had any to begin with. And I honestly think that the invented items should be bound, you should only get this new gear, if that is what ends up being a prize, by having competed in, and winning, seasons. If the gear is too good, and not bound, it will just encourage collusion, and those with the biggest stam banks, most likely eoc's, will dominate the winners list.
Sigh...this.
No prestige...no titan hunting enhancements. BOUND PVP sets and potions.
If you make this a race to make profit, which is what happens when you make unbound sets, it doesn't encourage more participation over the long haul...it encourages those with the largest stam banks, at the highest levels, with more relic stats, to dominate that portion of the game for a couple of months, until it no longer becomes profitable, and then it turns into a wasteland(see: old pvp ladder).
Make the rewards beneficial to those that want to continue participating in the seasons.
I'm not going into sets as rewards. My level bias would do no good, and HCS has proven pretty competent at creating these(the original pvp sets were really nice...their downfall was what I've noted above).
I would ask that special attention be paid to large level ranges where sets of a particular sort are completely missing(I can't remember the range now, but I remember some time ago, I went looking for a set[say, boots+shield], and couldn't find one that carried armor for like 600 levels...that's silly).
Potions:
Loss multiplier(could also apply to gold) if you succeed on an attack through deflect
Loss multiplier for successful hits on targets a % higher in level that you
Enhancements:
The ability to tax gold stolen into guild bank(we talked about this years ago, and it never happened)
Edited by fusionj, 28 July 2015 - 14:40.