Guild Wars 2

Thank you to the people behind the rewards for the Festival Of The Four Winds. It allows people to get some skins that they may have missed first time around because of other commitments or they just weren’t playing back then.

Rather than putting these on the gem store and monetising them, I heartily congratulate Anet for making them earnable in-game. I’ll get my Slickpack yet!

I have 26 tokens. Drop rate seems kind of low if you ask me.

Well, depends on where you’re around. I got ~1500 for the meta achievement, another 700 for questing while collecting crystalls in Labyrinthine Cliff and about 600 for standing in the pavillon afk.

Thanathos.2063:

Well, depends on where you’re around. I got ~1500 for the meta achievement, another 700 for questing while collecting crystalls in Labyrinthine Cliff and about 600 for standing in the pavillon afk.

I play only www. Why you get more from PvE?

Junkpile.7439:

Thanathos.2063:

Well, depends on where you’re around. I got ~1500 for the meta achievement, another 700 for questing while collecting crystalls in Labyrinthine Cliff and about 600 for standing in the pavillon afk.

I play only www. Why you get more from PvE?

Because Living Story is a PvE construct.

Guhracie.3419:

Junkpile.7439:

Thanathos.2063:

Well, depends on where you’re around. I got ~1500 for the meta achievement, another 700 for questing while collecting crystalls in Labyrinthine Cliff and about 600 for standing in the pavillon afk.

I play only www. Why you get more from PvE?

Because Living Story is a PvE construct.

Well that is just stupid. Maybe we could use badge of honors.

The question is, what do you want with the tokens if you only play WvW?
You don’t get any blueprints in exchange for them…

Thanathos.2063:

The question is, what do you want with the tokens if you only play WvW?
You don’t get any blueprints in exchange for them…

Uh, skins for World V World?

Well that is just stupid. Maybe we could use badge of honors.

It’s PvE content. Maybe they should give out Badges of Honor and WvW rank in champ trains.

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Ohoni.6057:

Well that is just stupid. Maybe we could use badge of honors.

It’s PvE content. Maybe they should give out Badges of Honor and WvW rank in champ trains.

Sure, but need to remember killing other players should always be more rewarding.

No, killing mobs should always be more rewarding.

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Agree.^

Additionally, the skins say a couple of things: this player is a veteran player, and they completed an event way-back-when. Re-releasing them is a bit ordinary, as it diminishes the rarity of the skins. Someone who’s only played the game for two days shouldn’t be running around with, for example, the fervid censor backpiece that I had to earn by doing a meta-event.

Eh, I can’t say I agree. Those of us who got the skins early had up to a year of having our exclusive stuff. That’s more than enough time to show off. Restricting specific looks from newer players just because they weren’t around at the time feels selfish to me.

Besides, the more variety there is in the game, the less chance you’ll have of someone having the exact same look as you.

You can get lot of token just by trading craft mats,I triad like 50k t6 leather so far and drowning in tokens

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Agree.^

Additionally, the skins say a couple of things: this player is a veteran player, and they completed an event way-back-when. Re-releasing them is a bit ordinary, as it diminishes the rarity of the skins. Someone who’s only played the game for two days shouldn’t be running around with, for example, the fervid censor backpiece that I had to earn by doing a meta-event.

That’s what titles are for… not skins.

eekzie.5640:

RottenRagamuffin.3159:

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

Agree.^

Additionally, the skins say a couple of things: this player is a veteran player, and they completed an event way-back-when. Re-releasing them is a bit ordinary, as it diminishes the rarity of the skins. Someone who’s only played the game for two days shouldn’t be running around with, for example, the fervid censor backpiece that I had to earn by doing a meta-event.

That’s what titles are for… not skins.

Not all meta-achievements have awarded titles, some rewarded skins instead.

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

THIS ! this is why u dont re release skins, you are ruining the rarity of our hard work…..ur supposed to do this after 10 years of an mmo existing not 1.5 years…..

Duke Nukem.6783:

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

THIS ! this is why u dont re release skins, you are ruining the rarity of our hard work…..ur supposed to do this after 10 years of an mmo existing not 1.5 years…..

I’m not sure you have a good grasp of what the phrase “hard work” means if you think that applies to any of the Living Story content.

Some of us got all those skins in the past but we destroyed them because it was waste of space. It’s good to be able to unlock them now in the wardrobe, because we already earned those skins in the past.

Personally I’m extremely glad that this happened. For some reason I thought gw2 was boring back when the southsun event was going, and ever since i really got into it again (approx 200 days ago) I’ve regretted it soo much. now I can finally get the fervid censer to complete my armor set thanks a-net!
(now I just need to get the precursor for kudzu and i’ll be all done…)

Though I did think it was a bit easy, though it might have been just as easy as it was in the southsun event

Nurgle.6597:

I don’t like it, I rarely ever saw anyone running around with fused gauntlets, after this patch everyone has them. Might as well give everyone every skin and make us all look the same

This argument is often used, but is a complete kitten. Why would giving people more options to choose from result in less options used?

(Though i am surprised that, contrary to original statement, there is no living story reward track for this event. Did Anet again create a new mechanic only to forget about it as soon as it got introduced?)

I have every single Living Story achievement skin going back to the first Halloween and the Mad King’s Memories (which isn’t included in this event) and I strongly support bringing them back for this release.

I hate when MMOs have time exclusive stuff that you can always see but never acquire, it really sucks to be a new player, someone who took a break or someone who just missed out on something the first time around and will never be able to acquire it again.

I also find it incredibly frustrating that so many cosmetic items were added to the game but their acquisition methods were removed and no alternative was added. What a waste! I would love it if the Slickpack could be obtained in Aetherpath or the Fused Gauntlets were obtainable by doing a specific challenging achievement during the Molten Facility fractals. Make the Fervid Censor a mystic forge recipe and for crying out loud, return the Catcher skins and the Zephyr Rucksack to their respective mini-games. Guild Wars 2 needs more rewards to obtain in game, it makes no sense that so many of the incentives for participating in content gets stripped after a 2-4 week pressure grind and the content might be around, or returns, but the rewards are not.

Why one earth did they remove the Zephyr Sanctum model from the sky crystal achievement? It’s the same bloody achievement and the model is still acquirable in this release via 800 festival tokens but for some bizarre reason they decided to make the exact same thing less rewarding.

Bring back more skins, but more importantly, keep them in the game.

I completed all of the living story rewards and have most of the stuff, and I have to say these rewards are fantastic.

Especially note:

1. The panda was a huge deal to GW1 players
2. The balloon was a random gift to people in the middle of last year that you couldn’t just earn, plus you can customize your balloon with your guild emblem
3. The sun/wind/lightning helmets are cheap and look good with some armors.
4. The gas mask is really cool looking
5. The backpieces like the karka shell not only unlock the skin but are useable as exotics
6. The dolyak tonic has costume brawl skills

I’m disappointed at how much more expensive the weapon skins are ths year (they aren’t that good looking), but the festival token rewards are great.