Guild Wars 2

How naive i was to think Anet would not be one to stoop to something ilke this. I typically have no problems with the gem store prices, i was fine spending 10-20 bucks occasionally on permanent stuff. Its part of what kept me interested since i hate grinding. Then i came across the black lion chests.

I decided to change up the look of my toon, spent a bit of cash to get crafting mats for the Synergistic tempered blades (50 sprockets for 10 blades, when you need about 800 blades makes no sense). I messed around with some colours and weapon previews and then got around to working on my decision.

It all went well until i started on trying to acquire the tickets for a weapon skin i wasn’t interested in before. Here i was thinking well 5 tickets doesn’t seem so bad, with Anets decent pricing, $20 should be enough, so i went for it. 20 bucks and some spare gems spent on keys, I got 1 ticket and 2 scraps which is apparently a Godsend from what i found about the drop rate. There are a few 100 black lion weapon skins, if you buy the keys, it will cost you around $300 to get 5 tickets for ONE weapon skin out of hundreds and with surely more to come. What if i want to get a second skin? so i have to blow through another $300? I’m sure as hell not going to zombify myself to farm for 250 keys each time i want to get a weapon skin.

If there were like 10 skins i can understand this level of greed, but theres at least 200. How is that right by any standard?

I would very much like someone from Anet to comment on this.

$300 is like 1500g. 1500g is worth 5-18 skins from the trading post.

RNG is RNG.

As a general rule, never trust anything RNG in GW2 :P

But, if you have the money, you can just outright buy the skins off of the tp. They’re pricy, but they’re cheap enough that if you really want that skin it’s not out of the question

the skin I’m looking for isn’t available in TP right now. I seriously hate games that pull money grubbing nonsense like this. Even If i somehow get around this problem, i will probably find a look i think is better in future. Will i have to go through the same thing then?

And that’s why it’s cheaper to take you cash, buy gems, convert those gems to gold and to use said gold to buy the desired skin off the TP to reward some other player’s good fortune of getting enough tickets and choosing to buy a skin to sell rather than use themselves.

Right now the cost in gems of one twenty five pack of BLC keys can be exchanged for about 134g. There are only 75 of the 206 skins on the TP that cost (current sell price) more than that. And 25 chests don’t really give you a decent chance for even a single ticket than the multiple tickets you need to buy one of those extremely high priced ones directly from the ticket vendor.

Welcome to the obfuscated GW2 version of EVE’s monocle debacle. These skins got nothing on an $60 eyewear.

The number of times this topic is brought up warrants a sticky….ANet, could ya?

Cassocaster.4576:

The number of times this topic is brought up warrants a sticky….ANet, could ya?

There are no stickys in the trashcan.