Hero Battles Rewards - are they serious?

I agree with the OP...the rewards seem really crap to me. You get more out of playing RA!! I'm sure Anet will make some kind of title for Hero battles, but if they really wanted to spice it up they'd make a hero battle ladder or something of that nature. =p

Well, i think that you can hero to hero with guildies that can easly put thier heros in passive with no skills while you pommel them. I don't think that giving higher point rewards for hero v hero is going to be that useful. I think the hero v hero thing is going to be much more geared toward pve ppl that just like to play, then the harder core pvp competitions.

Pfff.. the rewards like Emotes & Titles are pointless. What do they do for you again? Oh yeah. Nothing. It's a game. It's supposed to be fun WHILE you play. Especially in this game, it's so easy to get all the stuff you need/want, what do you need uber haxx0r 1337 rewards for?

You are totally clueless about PvP 'reward'. You 'just don't get it'. I suggest staying with PvE because loot drops and meaningless title actually means very little to the PvP crowd unless it helps them PvP.

I'm happy with my Team Play title.

I guess the PvP Titles & Emotes are vital to people who need to feel important, i dunno.

On the contrary, I play a whole of lot of PVP and have mastered PVP for eons which is precisely why the "Faction reward" of winning Heros battles is pointless to me. Getting all the Faction I need to unlock stuff is easy as pie, hence there needs to be more rewards for the rewards to be worthwhile. Maybe for those who are not PVP veterans and mostly just play PVE then having Balt Faction from Hero Battles might be a reward worth getting "excited" over, but for others it's not.

Yes, Hero Battles is PVP like those modes you mentioned, therefore it should give rewards equal to or better than those modes you mentioned; namely, Fame, Emotes, Ladders, and Titles.

@Navaros: you have to either be kidding or trolling. Your argument is completely incomprehensible otherwise.

Do you even understand the concept of a competitive game? Do you think that player vs. player Starcraft is "not fun" because it offers no reward? What about Street Fighter? Counterstrike?

The top GvG guilds don't care about the titles or emotes. The vast majority of serious PvP players don't even get faction rewards for any of the PvPing they do because they are all UAX already. What we get from high-end PvP is experience and skill, infinitely more valuable than any shiny emote.

Navaros, this is your most intelligent post so far. Well done!

They won't give people fame for winning hero battles because that's silly. If you hate the idea this much, just don't participate.

You're mistaken. Sorry.

i haven;t tried the hero battles yet, but we don't get Fame and ladders in TA and Ra which i would say a huge part of PVP. Titles and factions are the standard for all modes of PVP, so i would expect those for Hero battles.
Overall the faction now is a reward that benefits PVE jsut as well as PVP as it allows you to unlock skills for Heroes to use in PVE. As far as PVP goes... the bottom line is PVP is for fun the rewards are secondary and most of them were added way after the original release anyways.

i would prefer if they give gold for reward..

Anyone who claims to have "mastered PVP for eons" cannot be taken seriously at all and should remain in the fantasy role playing world of PVE where he can role play being a master PVP'er.

People who say PvP players play for no rewards are kidding themselves. HoH you gain fame sigils and gold items, GvG you gain ladder ranking. Both of those you gain massive amounts of faction as well. Those are rewards. Also the best teams in the world play for money at the championships which is yet another reward. Hero battles having so little to offer is the reason so many of these players while thinking the idea is cool overall, will not flock to it.

That's crap. Plenty of people also play RA and TA and those have just as little rewards as Hero battles. And NOT everyone wins halls and still tons of PVP'ers play. Same goes for GvG. I shouldnt even have to say that not everyone makes to the top of the list of the ladder.

My guild for instance has never made the top 20. And yet we love playing GvG.

I willing to bet that Navaros has never played sports. What's your reward for beating someone in HORSE or raquetball? Nothing. And yet people still play. For competative types, winning never gets old, even if you've done it thousands of times.

after you unlock all, wtf can you with factions?

You play for rewards? LOL!
This game is about fun, fool.

Our undying gratitude?

I take it you've never been to Jade Quarry then?

The reward sucks, yet for some reason it was always full of people playing it... it was amazing how many districts it had.

Oh wait it actually had 3 poeple max in it, usually afk or there for exploration purposes.

I'm sure that the guy who created this thread didn't put any attention that when you win, you get 500 faction. THAT is a lot, I've gotten 20k faction since this morning in there. For players who never wanted to play HA, GvG or wait for groups in other types of PvP, getting 200-500 faction every 5-10 minutes is heaven in order to be able to unlock everything they want.