How Important are Veteran Rewards?

Deciding on whether to upgrade characters with Veteran Rewards to Heroic (from mid-70s) or to make new ones (different classes or different servers) heroic that will not have Veteran Rewards (assuming that deleting old Vet rewards characters does not free an open spot ... is that correct?)

How important are Veteran Rewards (and LotD) at 85+?

Thanks.

Veteran rewards are to me very important. I look almost daily at the AA window in the hopes of seeing #15 and #16 magically appear, because I am greedy and 14 is not enough.

Regarding your question and game play? No idea sorry.

Started a second account to finally be able to box, and I miss those rewards quite a bit.

I don't think they're very important at all.

Do you plan on raiding with the character? Then you might be more motivated to get Intensity. Wanting to run an experiment and die an obscene amount of times? 100% all-corpse rez. Need to vendor/restock reagents/aug in the field? You've got all those.

None of them are critical and mostly come down to "how impatient do I want to be". Lesson is easily the most coveted of rewards but a 30 min double XP bonus once a day is kindof 'meh' with the easy access to XP potions and the fact that gaining experience is so trivial. The HA dailies, Teek, etc. will let your XP soar at a rocket's pace. Of course, popping lesson at the end of some high XP runs will net you an even more insane amount but it's pretty fast regardless.

When I re-rolled a new character on an account and it didn't have vet rewards [whereas the previous toon did] I was a bit sad. Then eventually I forgot about it and that was that. It's had 0 effect.

1. Deleting a character does not give a player additional Veteran Rewards on an account. There's a fixed number of grants.

2. Most Veteran Rewards are courtesies like giving a veteran PX privileges. Others are trivial or the outcome can be achieved by other, less convenient, means.

Those that are not include LoTD and Intensity of the Resolute.

LoTD -
a. Lower level players have Hot Zones, dallies, and over rewarding HA's. LoTD is for 1/2 hour a day. Hot Zones are all day long.

b. High end players have their AA and normal experience bar stalled out for the majority of each expansion. The frequent double experience days - we get nada, lower end players get Rocket Powered Progression Boots.

c. You get LoTD after only 1 year. Accounts less than a year old have other exp acceleration available to them.

Intensity of the Resolute -
Also called 7th Year. Veteran Reward/7th Year. Veterans get one (1) thing that's worthwhile and not able to be replicated by other means.

(I realize it's a fixed number per qualifying account. IMO each toon should have to qualify. This is one hill everyone should have to crest by walking uphill in the snow. DBG is generous.)

Does it make a difference? Sure.vs. one raid mob a night. (If you need it and would use it vs. a group named you have a small stage on which to demonstrate your abilities).

In short (too late I know) IMO if you have to ask the price you haven't paid it.

If I combine what you've just said (a nice corollary to "if you have to ask, it's too expensive") with Silv's comment on raiding, the answer would appear to be . . . not all that important as I do not raid.

Thank you for your responses. It made my decision much easier.

IMO that's a fair conclusion. LoTD is about the only great appearing Vet AA for a non-raider. But HoT zones, HA's, double experience weekends, Heroic Characters, and Autogrant AA's allow for far greater acceleration. Before I'd pay a year in advance to get LoTD on a new account (if you still can do that) I'd get a Heroic Character and use Autogrant. Much better bang for the buck.

A year later, when you get LoTD, you may well find yourself stalled at max AA/max exp most of each expansion and hardly ever use it.

They are always nice to have, but yeah if you aren't raiding probably not the most important thing to you..Although LoTD is a great tool no matter the player.