One thing I'm not looking forward to in Storm Legion is continuing to grind out Conquest Power to maintain Readiness stacks. It's a significant boost for PvE and warfronts that you can't get any other way-- in fact, Readiness 3 is roughly equivalent to having an extra equipment slot.
I don't enjoy Conquest. I realize that some people do, and that's great for them, but attaching a reward that's useful for everything that you can't get or make up for in any other way is frustrating.
There are two potential solutions that I think would do a good job of resolving this issue.
The first option is to change the name of Conquest power to something else--let's say "Rift Power" for the sake of argument, although that's a pretty terrible name. Make it so that you can earn it from other activities as well-- IAs, rifts, and zone invasions. This way, you have a lot of options to earn those rewards, and you can pick the one you enjoy the most, but it still keeps the design of rewarding you for broadening your horizons (as opposed to just raiding or just doing warfronts). You could even tack on a big Rift Power reward to PvP rifts, which might encourage people to do them more often, because right now, it's very rare to see any.
The second option is to change what Readiness actually does. I'm thinking something like a (fairly substantial) multiplier to PA experience and coin looted. It's still a useful boost, but if you don't like conquest, you can still get PA exp and platinum even without the buff. The drawback is that Readiness then becomes a LOT less valuable when you're PA capped, but I don't know that's a huge issue-- after all, warfronts become less rewarding when you're prestige or gear capped, zone invasions and IAs are largely pointless after you've maxed PA and have your essences, and dungeons are somewhat obselete once you've bought all of your set pieces with marks.
I prefer the first solution, but I feel that either one is a significant improvement over what we have right now.
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