The gains are very bad for the effort you put in. I got 2nd place and hardly got any renown, getting top 3 should reward quite a bit of rep. This is not worth the grind especially if you hate these stupid trendy battle royales. What a disappointing patch.
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As it stands, yeah, it should reward a lot of rep for winning or placing in the top 3.
However, you gain rep by picking up coins. Apparently beating other players doesn’t really award you anything. So you’re actually kinda of incentivized not to fight.
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Winning the match gets you a temporary eye-patch, a temporary tabard, and a permanent FoS. The stuff is temporary because next time you die in a match, they disappear.
The real bread is doing PVE stuff: killing monsters, “elites” and looting all the chests you can find.
It’s amazing everyone is focused on the PVP aspect of this, and crying foul about having to engage in something they don’t like for the rewards – but all the rewards will be gained by doing mostly PVE things 
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Until I load in and wind up against three other players who for some reason target my running away butt instead of fighting amongst each other…But of course you bloody know that dont ya.
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That’s cool and all but the pvp is often forced on you. You can try to avoid it but sometimes sooner and sometimes later you have to engage. When it’s sooner it’s game over.
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Got 5th once but I stopped getting any gold about 5 minutes before I died. Definitely better to just do the WQ and get out as fast as possible.
So then you load again. Even if you could collect plunder for all 10-15min (assuming others are there so you won’t get everything) you still would walk away with half a renown level at most.
If things go badly early, you just start over. You don’t lose any collected plunder when you die.
I don’t love this content, but it’s a nice change of pace every once in a while between other things. I don’t think I’ll max renown, and that’s okay.
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Wait wym you don’t lose it? Mine resets I thought?
Nm you don’t mean towards next match.
Yeah I did the math before even starting this and if you do it 2 hours a day every day it will take you around 3 weeks. That’s nuts!
Wait so winning the match is just an achieve? No permanent mogs to use in retail?
Of course the PvPers won’t let us PvEers do that.
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That is the main issue with this. This is something you do a few times here and there in small doses. Not something you grind. It should be much easier to get rep.
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I sure hope so. PvPers are being catered to enough with this event. Giving them transmog items for winning would be a bit much.
THIS x100!!! I never once understood why hardcore PvPers do that. Like when you’re obviously running away and making it clear that you don’t want to engage they pounce on you like sharks who smelled blood because they know it’s going to be an easy kill since you’re not going to fight back. I know it’s just a game but, my god, I just know these people used to pull wings off of insects as kids! 
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That’s why they made it FOMO. Can’t have people consuming this content casually. We gotta have numbers to show.
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Hands down worst thing ive ever done in this game and 40 renown levels? wtf is wrong with this company??!
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Yeah…that’s not gonna happen, lol. There is maybe an hour of gameplay here, at most. Even that’s being a bit generous. I’ve done it like 6 times (not all in a row), and I feel I’ve seen absolutely everything. It wasn’t completely un-fun, it was ok. But there’s really nothing here. Just killing other people while a counter counts down. Even from a purely PVP perspective, WSG has significantly more actual gameplay than this, and it’s just one battleground.
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So avoid them? Most “PvPers” are going to be in the middle of the map looking for fights.
It’s so easy to avoid fights until there’s only like 1/4 of the map available from the encroaching storm, so you can’t hide from others. By that time, you should have a good chunk of plunder collected.
“Collectors” and casuals realize not every single feature needs to revolve around them.
Don’t want to potentially have to PvP? Don’t participate. It was not for you. Grow up. Go do something designed for you, or go kill some old raid boss with a single button.
There’s absolutely an issue with how steep the renown grind is though for how little time there is. An hour a day seems pretty reasonable give or take, but when actually killing other players doesn’t award anything additional, it can turn into a bit of a slog after a while.
Enjoying it otherwise.
Stop walking into PvP features and areas. Nobody owes you anything. This isn’t a collect the coins simulator. It’s not for you.