Guild Wars 2

One easy to get version for the masses, and another extremely rare version that’s a different color but is otherwise identical for the folks with the necessary time/skill/gold to acquire them. So even if someone can’t manage to get the extreme ultra rare baby kitten green Sword of Skull Kittening (imaginary item used for illustrative purposes, not an actual in-game item), they can still have the plain version.

(If this has already been suggested, please accept my humble apologies not only for being redundant but for my astonishing lack of forum-searching skills as well.)

I don’t see a reason to make Halloween weapons so exclusive anyway. The Halloween and X-mas weapons in GW1 were always easily available to everyone, and everyone had fun that way. Why make them so rare? The game has only recently been released, so the amount of players with a vast amount of wealth will be limited.

I probably have enough gold to affort one of the weapons, but it doesn’t seem in the festive spirit to make these items so expensive (so I’m not wasting gold on it).

It has been suggested many times on the forums and is met with mixed opinions.

In my opinion Id rather them work on one set and make them all good (my poor D/D thief is sad at the lack of good dagger skins) rather than release two different versions. I like to think that Anet wouldnt be halfkittened about it and just change the colors, just doesnt sound like something they would do.

They just need to let you get soulbound versions by completing certain special tasks like with the clocktower, but with the other parts of the event as well. Like giving a soulbound version of a skin of choice by winning the pvp games or doing a certain achievements or whatever.

This way the skins are still rare because only the most dedicated people will be able to work towards getting them, right now it’s just all about having money or dumb luck, neither of which are fun or show accomplished something during halloween. The second improvement for having them soulbound is they don’t allow people like me to abuse the market for them and make insane amounts of money.

I would love to collect pieces of weapons with the Halloween events, to assemble my very own Halloween weapons. That would also encourage players to work together and help others with the same quests.