Guild Wars 2

OK I know this has already been suggested, but I’m hoping if it appears more then maybe anet will be more inclined to listen.

People should NOT be able to buy legendaries, the whole point of them is that they represent the time and effort you have put into a game, they are supposed to be hard to get, not offered up to the highest bidder.

If people can buy them it diminishes their value and worth, even to someone who may have taken the time to make it. It means that you are no longer in a renowned group of people who spent their time on the game. Yes I know you can essentially buy one anyway by buying the materials needed to create it but atleast even then there are some things you can’t buy.

There are already rare and powerful weapons that people can buy for inordinate sums of gold on the trading post, people can still buy rare weapons instead of working for them but please dont put the legendaries in that category. Something isn’t legendary if you bought it with real money by using the gem exchange.

It’s also a way of slowly breaking the economy, there’s one on the trading post now for 9500 gold. If someone buys that then the seller has more gold than they could possibly need and slowly more and more people do that and you just get insane inflation, this kind of thing has ruined many MMO’s in the past. Yes again people can do this anyway by simply buying gems and exchanging them and having more gold than they could possibly need but people are far more likely to do that to buy a legendary than for the pure sake of it.

I know it’s a way of enticing people to buy things with real money, and thus giving anet profit, but if you do want to do that then make 2 versions, or something. Just don’t make the best things in the game more likely to be held by people with money than dedication.

Personally I would prefer accountbound as if you stopped using a character you could take your time and effort with you to your other character but if your going to make it soulbound make it soulbound on aquire not on use.

Yes I agree, being able to buy legendary’s doesn’t make them as special.

There’s a delicate balance between players who buy gems with cash and players who don’t buy gems with cash.

How do you propose we reconcile the balance if gem-buyers can’t buy Legendaries anymore?

There isn’t supposed to be a balance with legendaries. You simply don’t buy them, you earn them. That’s the whole point.

If people insist on buying something they should earn by playing the game then you can buy most of the materials. That still requires them to do some things themselves however which they can’t buy, as is the point of a legendary.

They can still buy rare and unique items in the trading post, but for something like a legendary you should only be able to get it through dedication to the game not money.

draywin.5218:

There isn’t supposed to be a balance with legendaries. You simply don’t buy them, you earn them. That’s the whole point.

Except ANet clearly didn’t see it that way during beta-testing or at launch.
If you can’t work out some compromise, say good bye to your suggestion.

Such is life.