Guild Wars 2

Jeffrey we are asking you about the time the update goes live, not loot, cause we hope is not November like someone stated for a fix of a story quest, which is a bit to much :/

Foronisus.4138:

i hope that is today

I hope it’s this week but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

More likely when they ignore us like this is expected for November patch update, HOPE I’m wrong, if that’s the case, is a bit shocking, since he stated that they have the fix already for it.

Well, it’ll probably Oct 29th at the earliest.

Hey what do you know, it was actually tonight. Miracles can happen.

I must be missing something though. Just rushed off to see this guy and he offers me level 80 rare items. Why rare and not exotic? Rare means it’s weaker than my current weapons, and being level 80 means I have to spend gems to use the skin?

I have completed the story TWICE and have received no token. My patience is at breaking point.

Like bwilb said, the pact weapons are rares (with prec/vit/healing power stats) so they’re just “insert t-stone” skins.

They’re selling for 1g ish per piece atm and i suspect the price will drop fast, so i’d still recommend others to ignore the story-line when they are max lvl.

And why aren’t these at least exotics with usable stat allocations?

I saw the pact weapons just now and I facepalmed so hard when I saw the stats. Rares with Precision/vitality/healing power stats. Really? Not even an exotic? No various versions with different stats?
What if I’m dualwielding the same weapon?

Sigh, why do I still bother I wonder. Is it really too hard to ask for a single exotic for saving the world from an elder dragon?
And to think we had to wait so long for this.

Exotics aren’t meant to be handed to you on a silver platter. Get the Rare, transmute it to your exotic. There, problem solved. It’s what I plan on doing with mine.

Right, cause expecing a suitable reward for finishing the story is being handed something on a silver platter.

Oh well, I’ll just go and craft 4 or 5 exotic weapons instead, because that takes real effort.

i got my token the other day (i didnt even know ya got one for completing the story). Since i already had exotic weapons I looked at the sweet looking skins instead. Those crying that it should be an exotic kinda need to stop with it.

The reward is what it is. Deal with it and stop acting like children.

Im starting to hate Anet.
Rare? wtf, came here just to see what others players think of that.
Coommon devs, 1g u can get our Exotic at the TP.
2 days dungeon we can get our perfect-stat-good-skin with our DESIRED stats.
U should just……“Delete” Personal History.
Really, really?
Who’s making this game? nerds that dont play MMO?
ANY, ANY, just ANY of you DEV played GW1 before? no? not a single one? really?
U SHOULD!
I usually sign “Peace”.

War
Gyn Bound Soul

Jeffry, you should probably add the new Jumping Puzzle in Caer Avil to the patch notes, as it is the only way to get out of the instance.

I just have to say I think most of you completely miss the entire reasoning of the pact and the story in general. The story isnt about you, AT ALL. Its about a defining moment in a generation of new heroes where ALL of the races come together to battle an elder dragon and win. The old races had to do it and then said the new races had no chance, that we didnt have the ability…the pact weapon is a momento, its a trophy on a wall, a medallion you can use and wear with pride..you took part in changing the history of Tyria forever. You didnt do it ALONE, you didnt save the world..you were a part of a larger force that did. Even in the last battle..its you and like 20 other ships firing down ball of asuran/charr/sylvari death upon the dragon. The weapon skin isnt a reward for killing a dragon, its a symbol of all the nations saying thank you by creating a gift that just like the pact, was created from all the races..not just one. Guess what heroes get when they save a city? they get a medal and a golden key sometimes, the weapon skin is recognition and that’s all its meant to be.

Really Ditton, then why is it called “Personal” story? and why does the tagline of this very forum say ‘it really is all about you’?

And judging by the competency of every single NPC you were fighting with, you very much did it alone.

Exotics aren’t meant to be handed to you on a silver platter.

And that, my friends, is the kind of thing that can make this game fail. They’re adopting the attitudes of WoW-style MMOs instead of keeping what worked in GW1. Just wait until expansions start coming out and lv 80 exotics are no longer the strongest weapons…

Lutharr.1035:

i got my token the other day (i didnt even know ya got one for completing the story). Since i already had exotic weapons I looked at the sweet looking skins instead. Those crying that it should be an exotic kinda need to stop with it.

The reward is what it is. Deal with it and stop acting like children.

I could handle it not being an exotic if it were a usable skin piece like the heritage gear instead of requiring a gem-store transmutation stone. It would still be kind of a crappy reward, but at least it would be usable.

Actually finished the story today just for this reward and quite content with it, the staff looks nice for necros we actually get something good, dont care if its rare or not could’ve been white it still would’ve been worth it so thanks for fixing this.

Its personal because its your part of a grander story, you arent the lynch pin, you’re just another cog of the wheel. I like it.

Ditton.3149:

Its personal because its your part of a grander story, you arent the lynch pin, you’re just another cog of the wheel. I like it.

That’s how the NPCs try to characterize it, but in actuallity I’m Batman and I have a few barely-useful employees that give me new gear every now and then.

3 greens…2 of which are unusable by my profession. I saw this coming

Thats decidedly impersonal and again, to paraphrase, “Its really all about you” care to address that or just ignoring evidence that doesn’t fit with your interpretation of what its “meant” to be like?

Well I’m not pleased. first they give us greens and blues than promise us some compensation.
Then they get us a token and don’t tell us what to do with it. When we searched Fort Trinity cluless we got the message on the internet from unofficial sources that we can’t get into the instance where we should get our reward.
After the new patch we finally get our reward wich is a yellow worthless junk we usually salvage and sell the orbs from them for 13 silvers.
Of course you can put it up on the TP for 1 gold than get it back after some time cos u will realize noone wants these items. So you take the transaction fee and then salvage it.

What token are you guys talking about? I have two characters with the personal story already finished and I got no “token”.

EDIT: Just checked the inbox of those characters and got the tokens.

Uhh, got my token found the pact man holding weapons, dont see any of them actually beneficial to my character/build. what is going on here? would have been better off choosing a gem that suits your toon/build but strict vitality gear? didnt make too much sense… not mad at all though to be honest. i enjoyed the Personal story and everything BUT got nothing out of it but a good time and nothing to build my character with (except a back piece). not like they will reverse the decision they made and compensate but its whatever its a solid game only issue i have is there is no point to dropped gear other than salvaging the items, so why not just drop ectos and random mithril/orchi ore and not pointless gear..

hmm would of been nice if the reward was an exotic with a choice of stats or as bwillb.2165 up above said, an item that transmute the skin like heritage items so you don’t have to use a fine transmute stone. Pity oh well.

Gotta agree, the items being Rare vs Exotic & the stat’ing is very disappointing. Completing the high level zone maps reward 2 exotics, yes not of your choosing, but the point is the effort/time involved of completing a zone pales in comparison vs the effort/time put in the Personal Story.

As one of the major tenets of the game IMO it is completely reasonable that a single exotic should be the reward.

So the new one token is that it one wepon thats all we get ok so you fecked up to start with now you think this will save it but..hay you dont care if we keep playing you have had our money

Amakusa.1529:

hmm would of been nice if the reward was an exotic with a choice of stats

I agree. That would’ve been excellent. :/

if you don’t want to reward us with an exotic it’s fine but at least give us some tier 6 material (gossamer, ecto,orichalcum ) for a total amount of 1.5- 2 g and a souldbounded zaithan-themed ring with nice stats instead of a medium specs, only rare, pact weapon..if generally a map completion is awarded with 2 exotics, it seems to me that there is a quite big difference of behaviour from your side.

so that token was the compensation for personal story ? rofl want a joke anet.

Not really, guild wars one was a weapon of your choice, same thing here, just its transmute bait, I like the look of the pact weapons.

And we have dungeons, karma, and crafting, or you can buy stuff to get some exotics.

I may be late to this but am running around in circles and need help. I finished the story while bugged now I have no idea where to redeem the token. I hear a pact NPC QuarterMaster Hargrove. I Just cant find him. Please help.

After all the hype about GW2 not being about gear or it’s progression, why Arenanet are you being so stingy about gear.

Agree i’ve not finished mine yet but i have very little need to it seems, what a joke.

Reuniting a fractured group of hero’s, surviving missions you’re not expected to return from and stopping a force that makes most uneasy at best, and quake in terror at worst and expecting a little better than greens and blues is not “Wanting things on a silver platter.”. In every guildwars campaign, at the end of your hard fought battle against whatever evil was plaguing Tyria, you received a max level weapon that was relevant and useful, AND it had a pretty nice skin. It’s really not expecting much. Telling people to suck it up and just use a fine transmutation stone is just ignoring the issue. I will do that, but I’m still going to ponder “Why the hell didn’t they just give me a decent weapon?” Anyhow I personally am not attacking arena net on the issue but I will say that this isn’t like the insightful arena net I grew to know and love while beta testing the first game.

Well said i agree Norelation

I may be late to this but am running around in circles and need help. I finished the story while bugged now I have no idea where to redeem the token. I hear a pact NPC QuarterMaster Hargrove. I Just cant find him. Please help.

I’m VERY VERY disappointed Jeffrey, catering to the WoW audience that considers finishing your personal story to be “free epix” and “handed to you on a silver platter”

GW1 gave max stat greens (which meant unique items back then), not non max stat purples (the equivalents of greens/yellows in gw2).

For all those ex WoW players who didn’t get to see how the system worked in GW1, I already had an exotic dagger, and guess what? It was easier to make than completing my story. In the time it took to FIND A GROUP I got enough mats to make another exotic weapon. So at best, this pact weapon would be a sidegrade, hopefully with the same stats..

Not only were the stats a mix that I had no interest in (healing on a dagger?), it was also a direct downgrade to my crafted item.

So all i got was a skin..

That I had to use a fine transmutation stone on to even use, lucky I had some stashed away, they cost like a dollar a piece.

Just to be able to use my story reward.

They should have been exotics with a selection of appropriate stats.

Or if you’re REALLY worried about the World of Warcraft crowd.. freely transmutable skins.

I highly doubt anyone is actually going to wield the yellows

Everyone is just transmuting the skins.

It’s shameful that that there’s a cost to be able to even do that, you might as well have put pact weapon skins in the gem store, since that’s really what it is… then just made a forum post: “Hey guys, your reward for the personal story completion is in the style tab of the black lion trading company. You’re welcome!”

Anyone know if this loot bag bug has been fixed yet?

I was hearing that the loot bags were giving out lvl 20 green items and such, so I was wondering if it actually gives out lvl 80 items before I use them lol

i got 3 bags from completing story 2 days ago and there was 3 green lvl 80 garbage items…

soooo thats it??? i am very disappointed

Just to clarify what rewards do we get for completing our personal story?

I see mention of vendors and tokens and posts implicating that 3 lvl 80 greens isn’t enough and something else is being implemented…I’m a little lost and would like to know what kind of reward to expect when I finish my personal story.

BabelFish.7234:

Just to clarify what rewards do we get for completing our personal story?

I see mention of vendors and tokens and posts implicating that 3 lvl 80 greens isn’t enough and something else is being implemented…I’m a little lost and would like to know what kind of reward to expect when I finish my personal story.

bunch of worthless items and one ‘Pact victory token’ which can be traded for a RARE weapon with UNIQUE SKIN near the fort.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_weapon

Well I GUESS I could use the skin from the pact needler but all my weapons are faaaar superior to any of the pact weapons…I’m a little surprised their stats aren’t on par with exotics and that they don’t even come with a superior rune…I expected something on par with exotic gear for “beating” the game.

apparently ANet is scared to death of giving exotics, be it through cultural armor/weapons (which cost more than the orr sets by far), be it by finishing the personal story.

D il Mietitore.7018:

..if generally a map completion is awarded with 2 exotics, it seems to me that there is a quite big difference of behaviour from your side.

I agree there is quite a bit of inconsistency going on in the rewards. I would suggest a choice of a few various legendary precursors to make them “less unreachable” as I’ve heard they’ll be doing in the next build. I also favor the suggestion of an exotic skin that’s not terrible and choice of stats.

So much to say… so little room… I’ll just summarize it with this: No.