Guild Wars 2

Please please please don’t have the Dragon’s Jade Weapon skin tickets be simply RNG drops from crates.

I just read about the tickets here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/june-11-2013/

If you’re going to do this AGAIN – just like the sclerite weapon tickets, you’re going to completely screw over and frustrate a TON of players.. AGAIN. I went 0/70 tickets in southsun and I’ve finally given up, which has really really frustrated me, and many other players. I’m sure this is not the customer experience you’re aiming to have.

If you’re going to have RNG drops for the tickets, at least don’t have them be account bound. I know this will mean that the tickets will probably be REALLY expensive in terms of gold on the TP, but that’s fine! At least in that case people have a chance to work towards them, instead of getting completely screwed over by RNG.

Please, I’m begging, don’t frustrate your player base again with the RNG ticket drops.

And for all of those players who are going to say “they’re supposed to be rare!” – I agree with you, but there are other ways to make these items really rare, but still give players the ability to get them given the amount of effort they’re willing to put into it, not just leaving it to a random chance that even if you spend 100+ hours on it, you may still not be able to attain these.

So you dont want rng, but also they need to be rare. How exactly does this get solved then?

An extreme example for illustration would be (in the case of the southsun sclerite skins) if they made them purchasable with, for example, 10,000 karka shells.

Few people would be able to get them, which would make them rare.

If they insist on giving a random chance to getting these (which I assume is so that casual players have a chance to get them) they should also give a secondary option for those who don’t get lucky with RNG, but who are willing to grind for them.
It’s not a great option, but at least it gives some guarantee that with a lot of time/effort, you can attain them.

I liked how they did it at Wintersday though. They gave everyone a chance at buying the weapon skins outside of the RIG if they wanted. I’m guessing it didn’t sell well and Anet took that as a bad example.
Honestly though those skins for weapons were crap. They were bulky and ugly and just ewww. I’m guessing that has more to do with the fact they didn’t sell well then putting them directly in the cash shop. I have two of those skins from the RIG boxes I got and I hate them and wish I could have sold them on the TP to someone who actually wants them. Now if they had done the quality of skins from Halloween for Wintersday I’m 100% that they would have made out like a bandit with those sales. The halloween skins look awesome all year round and are fairly neutral in color scheme so it doesn’t clash with the armor in terms of color the person is wearing. The bulky wooden green/red wasn’t going to sell well for most people.

I suggest that maybe they go back to the Wintersday idea for this event: Have the skins in the RIG item BUT also purchasable for 400gems directly. It would appease both the crowds of people and as long as they don’t look ANYTHING like the wintersday gem skins we should be good!

I know I want some stuff from this event for sure although am worried with my work schedule I won’t obtain anything.

One thing though, don’t make anything purchasable as skins on Black Lion—it needs to be easier to get, but not that easy. No one wants to showoff something that anyone can just buy.

I would say just make things clearer on how to obtain specific stuff if anything. I still have no idea what I need to do to get anything. Do I do dragon bash to get currency or just wait on drops for wings? do jade items drop in dragon bash or only from candy from other stuff? Is candy awarded on a predictable basis or is it simply rare drops from these crates? Are crates rare drops or rewards? What can I honestly do over and over again to obtain stuff?

It’s all so vague to me but perhaps half of the work is research. All i know is I want some wings, and a staff in jade if they have one—how?

i think a scavenger like hunt with a festival for example would be a nice thing to do , in the end you get a token which you can hand in for one of the weapons that would be nice.

chests are plain dumb and stupid…

tokens are one way to go. If people get lucky with rng, good for them (you kittens…) but if someone played a ton and collected easy to get tokens that guarunteed them the weapon ticket then its fair. As long as the tokens take time, there should always be an option to get something through farming in events like these (wintersday, mad king, dragon bash, w/e else they will release). RNg as the only option is HORRIBLE. Not the consumer pleasing method, to grenth with RNG.

in GW1 we get things through drops or collectors, i really don’t see why it’s not in GW2 that way. (just no like that sab, a stack for one token is kinda ridicules)

The message seam to imply weapons where common drop from rare dragon coffers so you just need to find them.

All I’m sayin is that the new skins look really sweet and I’m 100% willing to farm for it, but if ANET is going to force us to spend tons of cash, or leave it to a random chance that we won’t get it in time, I’m going to be pretty fed up with this game.

One of the best things about GW2 is that ArenaNet releases new content all the time, which was my biggest gripe about SWTOR, but if you can’t get the gear from these new content releases, what difference does it make? I may just stop playing.

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I liked how they did it at Wintersday though. They gave everyone a chance at buying the weapon skins outside of the RIG if they wanted. I’m guessing it didn’t sell well and Anet took that as a bad example.
Honestly though those skins for weapons were crap. They were bulky and ugly and just ewww. I’m guessing that has more to do with the fact they didn’t sell well then putting them directly in the cash shop. I have two of those skins from the RIG boxes I got and I hate them and wish I could have sold them on the TP to someone who actually wants them.

This 100%. The reason, Anet, they didn’t sell is because I literally said to myself “my god. These are the worst skins I’ve ever seen.” I spent gold on my ghastly grinning shield because that thing was so amazing to look at. Seeing just the axe and shield already makes me want them. I will spend 800 gems each on whichever weapon I buy no problem. The RNG is something old school that doesn’t suit your “revolutionary MMO.” In fact I find it to be false advertising.

Please don’t kill your real community like valve did with TF2 and keys/krates. The only people who play that game now are people who like unusual hats… I feel like it’s becoming something similar with this beutiful game.