Move tiered gold farming into the competition phase of events

[Draebatad]

This is a suggestion to move the tiered gold farming from the reward phase into the competition phase of events that offer a gold farming component. This would shorten the time required to invest into events by 2 days, reducing them from 5 days to 3 days total. This would be easier on the community, a kill "3 birds with 1 stone" approach: Earn event points, a chance for rare loot, and gold all at the same time.

How would this work?

The gold farming maps we are used to running during the reward phase could be removed entirely. Once a tier was achieved, a player would start looting gold associated with their current tier.

No Tier: There would be no gold until the minimum tier threshold was reached.

Bronze Tier: Once the Bronze tier was reached, gold associated with that tier would start to drop during event map runs.

Silver Tier: Once the Silver tier was reached, the increased gold associated with that tier would start to drop during event map runs.

Gold Tier: Once the Gold tier was reached, the increased gold associated with that tier would start to drop during event map runs.

Platinum Tier: This is a new one. Some players reach Gold tier 3 or more times, and as in the case of the last event, Pinkbugga reached gold tier 11 times with an impressive 388k event points! The idea here is that players who reach, say, 100k event points are awarded the Platinum tier, which could possibly include a slightly more generous gold farming buff as well as slightly better prices/discounts from the prize vendor and when rolling enchantments.

Other thoughts: The amount of gold awarded for each tier would need to be nerfed to compensate for the extra possible day of gold farming and the fact that more people would spend more time farming gold since it would be a component of the competition phase. The basis of this idea is really just to optimize the event. Shaving two whole days off will be refreshing and allow a better balance between gaming and life for everyone. It will also be even more fun to be able to farm gold while you accrue points and farm for rare event vanities

Thanks for taking the time to read this.