Guild Wars 2

I’m surprised there is no thread on the first page addressing this issue.

When the feature patch hit the sPvP reward Balthazar skin could be bought from the trading post when it was intended to be an account bound reward. Of course ArenaNet changed this, but I believe that the “town tonics,” the tonics that were previously discontinued town clothes, are also part of the same mistake that affected the Balthazar back skin.

These items costed gems. These items were discontinued and we were told that they will no longer be available starting December 17

200 gems. 400 gems. Gems were not cheap back then with gold and players spent real money on those items. You can buy items such as the Khaki Cargo Shorts for less than 2 gold, other items such as the Casual Hoodie cost 5g.

So ontop of giving us a dead line and discontinuing these items claiming that they would no longer be purchasable after the 17th of December, 2013.. anyone can buy them now for less than when they costed gems AND they were turned into tonics?

Nice way to treat your players, why not make an announcement declaring that as of April 29 we will no longer be able to buy finishers off the gemstore, only a couple months later they can all be bought from the TP at 10g a piece.

These items, now degraded into “clothing tonics” were not able to be traded amongst players when they were actual town clothes, in my opinion they should be reverted back to being account bound.

I agree that the way the town clothes were handled was very poorly done.

And while I myself was never into town clothes, I think what they should have done was turn the town clothes into skins applicable to both PvE and PvP gear.

No one wants clothes to be tonics, because 1) you can’t mix and match, and 2) you can’t admire them whilst in combat.

I do think they should be tradeable or purchasable by the gemstore, but turned into skins, not endless tonics.

Zaoda.1653:

I agree that the way the town clothes were handled was very poorly done.

And while I myself was never into town clothes, I think what they should have done was turn the town clothes into skins applicable to both PvE and PvP gear.

No one wants clothes to be tonics, because 1) you can’t mix and match, and 2) you can’t admire them whilst in combat.

I do think they should be tradeable or purchasable by the gemstore, but turned into skins, not endless tonics.

Purchasable through the gemstore for sure, but I think it’s a little too late to be changing them into skins after that.. what was it.. 30 page thread on their decision for town clothing? I also remember them mentioning their opinion regarding those clothes, themed “unfitting for combat” or “too casual for combat” according to ArenaNet. I have no link to the interview, but it was an interview prior to the launch of the feature patch.

I disagree with these items being purchasable through the trading post, I find it as ridiculous as allowing players to buy the sPvP Balthazar back piece that ArenaNet recently corrected into being account bound. These items shouldn’t be tradeable because they were not tradeable prior to their change into tonics AND because they were mentioned to not be available pass December 17, 2013.

This is just messed up. Not only did our clothing get forced into being tonics that cannot be dyed or mixed around, they can be bought right now for easy gold when they costed alot more back when they were gems?

Nobody sees an issue with this?

They completely ruined social armor for me.

First they removed the option to wear it in WvW, which is all I do and there was no defensive argument to do so.

Then they made this fail system, making sure that ya can only be as creative as their own designers.

I asked for a refund of my sets as that is all im eligible to get refunded.. My pants, hats, gloves and tools are mostly as useless as the sets now, but cant get a refund for that..

Stop ruining ya game!