Guild Wars 2

So i realize this game was marketed to not be a gear grind, but lets face it, it is. The only difference is that it is a grind for appearance rather than stats. I don’t consider myself a hardcore player, and as such, i find it pretty silly that after only several weeks of being level 80, the only upgrades i have left in the game are cosmetic and a couple of rings from Fractals. I think there should really be something more to strive for stat-wise, even if it’s only marginally better. Here are my 2 suggestions:

1) Dungeon Master Armor and Weapons
Have a set of armor and weapons that are only like 5% better than current exotics with a cool new skin, but each piece of armor/weapon costs lets say 250 tokens from every dungeon in the game. It would be pretty serious to get a full set of it, and would only give you a marginal advantage over others. Hell, even make it unusable in pvp if need be.

2) Dungeon Drop Armor and Weapons
Have a set of armor for each dungeon that uses the same skin as that dungeons current armor set. Have it so that it is a random small chance to drop off any trash mob in said dungeon (also fixing the issue of people skipping trash mobs) and make it 5% better than the token purchase set. It would also be quite hard to get as the drop rate is low, is soulbound or account bound and could be of any of the 3 stat sets available for that dungeon.

Anyhow, I don’t know how the community feels about this, but i know for me personally, it would prevent me from the inevitable quitting of this game cause i feel there isn’t any reward left for me other than aesthetically.

Thanks for reading!

They need to balance out the different paths first

cough Arah path 4 cough

They don’t even have to make the stats better. If it looks cool it will be worth getting.

I agree have a cooler looking dungeon armor that takes ages to get and not afew days like the current dungeons. However, they do not need to have better stats at all unless they bring it out as a way to obtain ascended gear when they’re all released, but then they’d have to make it very hard to get.

Yes, agreed with EliteZ. I would like so see some awesome looking armor put in that actually takes time to get. It would make it more rewarding.

I like this idea for the most part but I think people should have both 100% world completion and Dungeon Master. To me that means they are at the end game of the PvE aspect of the game.

I also think it should be purely cosmetic and should stick out like legendary weapons. When you see those people you know they have worked for it.

Maybe put new items on the dungeon vendors that you would buy with tokens then have to take the the dungeon master vendor in exchange for what you want.