Guild Wars 2

Dusk is now up to 700 gold, making it even harder to buy ( not that i could have afforded it at 500 gold anyway). So the only way to get it is to be insanely rich or to be very very lucky with time and money sucking RNG. I know the topic of dusk and other precursors has been discussed to death, but I think something needs to be done soon about precursors. there are a lot of annoyed players out there ( like me) who play this game a lot and still don’t have their precursor that they want. I know the scavenger hunt is coming….(sometime) but it would be nice to get some sort of reassurance from anet that a way to get precursors ( that doesn’t involve the 2 ways I’ve already mentioned) is fast approaching, and isn’t going to turn up 6 months or even more away. I love GW2 but I’m getting less and less motivated to play. In guildwars 1 and in other games I love working towards achievements and items, even hard to get ones. But a precursor just seems so impossible after so many greatswords chucked into the mystic toilet.

ehhh sorry for the rant, just wanted to say something

They don’t care about it, play tp or pray to rng gods to get one. I got all 3 gifts i need for my twilight for over 3 months, wasted too much gold in mystic toilet, and so on im sick of farming as well playing this game, if they don’t care, i don’t care too.

i have all 3 gifts aswell and burned over a thousand rares into the forge, there seriously needs to be a fix

The precursor prices are all determined by gold sellers and will continue to rise as long as people are willing to buy them.
You can order the precursors from the goldsellers websites – Dusk for example would set you back a little over £160 (which is still significantly cheaper than buying gems and exchanging for gold to buy it off the TP).
If you want a completed Eternity then you are looking at over £1100. Yes you read that right £1100!
While there is real money to be made from these items a normal player will never be able to afford one using regular gold making methods.

The reason for this is not to over populate people wearing Legendaries. If that would be the case then the Legendary will not be so legendary anymore. I got my Dawn in Ta Chest and Colossus out of Cof P1. The precursors come to those who least expect it. Think about WvW when all people wearing Twilight or Sunrise. LOL. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to achieve.

Hope that helps Cheers!

It just blows my mind that people think everyone should have a legendary.

Don’t get me wrong. I get it to an extent. I was envious of other people I saw with twilight. I didn’t come complain about it though. I just put my nose to the grindstone and went to work on it.

This isn’t a welfare program. Either you work and work and grind excessively long, ridiculous hours to get it or you give up and don’t. They’re not supposed to be, nor should they be, easily handed out. That’s what keeps them rare. That’s what makes them legendary. That’s your reward for being so dedicated.

They are going to be changing stuff. Just be patient. Play the rest of the game and don’t be in such a rush to get a legendary. Get everything else first, but do it at a steady pace. Play other characters to level 80 and stuff. Eventually you will get there or they will release an update or updates which make acquiring a precursor less RNG/being rich based.

Shadowfist.2708:

It just blows my mind that people think everyone should have a legendary.

Don’t get me wrong. I get it to an extent. I was envious of other people I saw with twilight. I didn’t come complain about it though. I just put my nose to the grindstone and went to work on it.

This isn’t a welfare program. Either you work and work and grind excessively long, ridiculous hours to get it or you give up and don’t. They’re not supposed to be, nor should they be, easily handed out. That’s what keeps them rare. That’s what makes them legendary. That’s your reward for being so dedicated.

They are not rewards for the dedicated, as many people have been tirelessly grinding away against RNG and have still made no progress, while others just get lucky and find one. Their rarity is based of a bad design. Their legendary status is built on RNG. People are not asking for hand outs. They are (justifiably) angry at an irritating design choice that rewards luck instead of determination.

Bhargo.5306:

They are (justifiably) angry at an irritating design choice that rewards luck instead of determination.

I disagree here – if you’re determined enough, you’ll keep forging weapons until you get it. Sure, there’s luck involved. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t determination.

A lot of determination is needed to make a Legendary no doubt but it is 95% luck based, many players will never wield one and it’s not because they are not good skillful players but because they have a bad RNG based account that will hinder any and all progress towards their goal. The only option players with bad RNG accounts have is to scrounge every last copper in hopes the things they need on the TP are cheap enough on that given day to make progress, but the way inflation is going these days these players will always be behind.

Working towards a Legendary should be a journey of skillful feats and achievements over time throughout the world of Tyria, not who has the better RNG account.

Yeah I’m in the same boat as a lot of people, I have everything I need for twilight except dusk. getting a legendary should be down to hard work and difficult tasks, not hoping you get stupidly lucky. And I want to do other stuff in game but everytime I play a new toon or whatever I just keep thinking about getting dusk and switch back to my twilight hungry guardian I just think this precursor business has blown way out of control and its just so frustrating as I’ve spent so many hours trying to get twilight ( and not doing heaps of other stuff) and I still haven’t got it.

Gene Rojo.4207:

The reason for this is not to over populate people wearing Legendaries. If that would be the case then the Legendary will not be so legendary anymore. I got my Dawn in Ta Chest and Colossus out of Cof P1. The precursors come to those who least expect it. Think about WvW when all people wearing Twilight or Sunrise. LOL. There’s a reason why it’s so hard to achieve.

Hope that helps Cheers!

YOU GOT A PRECURSOR OUT OF COF PATH 1 CHEST?! omg I didn’t know you could xD

I’m surprised people think that only the elite few should have a legendary. Who cares if alot of people have em? Does it hurt your kitten and make you feel less superior in a video game? Does it diminish your real life meaning? I got a Kudzu and almost a Bifrost as well and personally i give a rats kitten less if i see 100 people with Kudzu. It doesn’t make me feel any less or affect me IRL either way. If you are judging your accomplishments by a legendary in GW2, you need to back up and re evaluate your life. I vote they should reward the dedicated and hard workers over the lucky.

Shadowfist.2708:

Bhargo.5306:

They are (justifiably) angry at an irritating design choice that rewards luck instead of determination.

I disagree here – if you’re determined enough, you’ll keep forging weapons until you get it. Sure, there’s luck involved. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t determination.

You mean determined enough to get lucky at the MF? Cause we all know there is no skill involved in it. And out of curiousity, do you have a legendary? And if so how many times did it take to get it from the MF? And would you still be saying this if you had blown 1000g at the forge and still didn’t have a precursor? You will prolly say “yes” but i highly doubt you really would….and that’s where to problems really are, people who get in 10-20 tries saying “its ok” and those who havn’t gotten it in 100 tries. Put yourself in the poor guy who has spent hours/months and hundreds of gold at the MF and still have nothing to show for it.