Guild Wars 2

These are beginning to anger me like nothing else in this game. The tickets are needed to access the Queen’s Gauntlet, a difficult set of gladiatorial fights. What frustrates me is that the Gauntlet, which is difficult temporary content, is being gated by soulbound items that seem to require a significant amount of grinding to obtain.

I don’t think I’m very good at succeeding quickly with the Queen’s Gauntlet fights. It’s fine that they’re difficult. What’s frustrating is that I don’t feel like I can practice, really, because I’m consuming tickets at an alarming rate. The tickets don’t seem to drop very often either. You get 1 from each Legendary enemy in the Crown Plaza, correct? I’ve gotten some there and only 4 as drops after completing all my Emissary kills achievements plus some while farming.

Lastly, if I farm for hours to get a handful of tickets and later discover that I need/want a different character in order to complete a fight, I’m out of luck because they’re soulbound. All of that farming time went to waste.

What I’m trying to say is that I’m not sure that gating difficult temporary content behind soulbound items that are seemingly rare drops is a good idea.

Am I missing something important? I really hope that I am, because completing the gauntlet as is seems daunting with the ticket gate.

You can buy tickets for 20 silver and 15 sprockets for 5 tickets.

Well, each section of the arena downstairs (where all the bosses spawn) have glorious chests (1 per) hidden somewhere in the area, that will give you a ticket. So the boss + this = 2 ticket (dont know how fast chest respawn though, dont think that fast at all). Still not that efficient though. I hear ya because I was thinking the exact same thing. I wouldn’t even mind all the dying and difficulty but, I’d love to be able to keep at it without having to worry about the tickets.

Another thing is that you can buy them from the emissaries at the waypoint, for I believe 15 sprockets and 20 silver for 5 tickets. I ended up spending at least 3g to finish Liadri.