Guild Wars 2

Boss tokens are boss drops that players can use in the mystic forge to create different weapon skin or the same skin but each weapon will have different dyed skin.

They are the middle ground between Dungeon/crafted exotics and prestige exotics. Prestige exotics is too much grind and isn’t really fun for casual players like me. I would like a gradual progression since it is more fun that way instead of an exponential progression from crafted/dungeon exotics to prestige exotics.

Boss tokens will be account bound to encourage players to go out and go to the lower level tiers to look for the skin they want.

For this to happen, there needs to be named bosses and more mini-dungeons with raid-like bosses that needs at least 10 people to complete. Mini-dungeon’s bosses will play similar to the God temple in Orr. They will be similar to raids and dungeons except an limitless amount of people can join. There are some aspect that works like the Flame Temple tombs and such.

What makes this different than bosses dropping weapons? No one will farm these unless someone post it on a website advertising how cool it is. After they get it, they won’t bother going back again. However, with boss tokens, no one will farm them until someone helpful will post them on the wiki, but they will still go back to farm some more,

There are different tiers of weapon skins that players can acquire. Every one of them will be account bound on acquire.

1st tier
-3 boss tokens put inside the mystic forge. Each boss tokens requires one token each.
-One dowel/swordblade/etc piece.
-Creates a blue/green/yellow weapon skin. The blue/green/yellow is RNG. But the skin/dyes you get are in the recipe.
-Level will be set to player’s level
-Uses generic skin but dyed a different color.
-Must be easy to get and very common.

2nd tier
-Requires x mystic coins/Eldritch scroll
-Requires a weapon. If you put an exotic, you will get an exotic weapon. If it is rare, you get a rare skin, if it is masterwork, you get a masterwork etc. Weapon skins do not matter on that slot.
-Requires a boss token
-Requires a boss token from a mini-dungeon
-This is an introductory way to get people to mystic forge crafting.

3rd tier
-Requires Eldritch scroll
-Requires a boss token from a mini-dungeon
-Requires dungeon tokens.
-requires the weapon skin.
-May use a few lodestone, cores, etc etc. But not 250 of them like prestige exotic gives you.
-Only way to get different dyed dungeon skin.

Of course, I suck at balancing. But the first tier needs to remain easy difficulty, and 2nd tier/3rd tier will need to be moderate difficulty and some organization. Prestige exotic will require hard-core grinding.