Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I like Fractals of the mists. It’s fun, and challaneging. Currently I am on level 32 in FotM, and have tons of tokens. I already got my Beta infused capacitor, my infused rings and everything else. I have plenty of skillpoints too, and I’m not really interested in crafting legendaries, so I don’t really need obsidian shards (and if I did, I can get them easily from my 750,000 karma).

As the conclusion: i have tons of Fractal relics lying around, and I can’t do anything with them.

SUGGESTION:

It would be nice if these tokens could be sold directly to a vendor or be exchanged for ‘Bag of coins’ or even ‘Large bag of coins’ at the corresponding salesman.

This would not only apply to FotM ofcourse, but to all Dungeons. I can even imagine that the more difficult the dungeon is, the more the token costs – this would give more reason to do dungeons like Arah.
Eg.: An Ascalonian Catacombs token could be sold for 3 coppers each, while an Arah token would be 10 copper or so (so an AC run would get you about 2 silvers and 10 coppers plus an Arah run would get you 7 silvers bonus).

OR

You could exchange every 60-70 AC token for a ‘Bag of coins’, 30-40 for Arah tokens, 50-60 for FotM tokens.

Alltogether this would give people a bit more motivation to do dungeons alltogether, and would give a nice new way to spend tokens. At least my heart hurts when i have to destroy 250 FotM tokens:(

I agree with fotm tokens, because once you have everything you want (fractal capacitor+gift of ascension you cant do anything with it (well buy fractal capacitors to alts maybe), but not dungeon tokens. Dungeon tokens are fine as they are imo.

Why not the others too? It would be just an option for you to spend your tokens as you want. As you can see in the examples these are not too great rewards, just something you can do with them, if you dont want to hpard dungeon exotics (and why would you?).

No love for this idea?

I know it might sound like a first world problem, but it still would be ice for lots of people. I think.

There is currently a way to do this with regular dungeon tokens (kind of). If you’re one of the lucky ones and get a special dungeon recipe, you can turn dungeon tokens into items and sell them on the AH.
I’ve been doing this with HOTW tokens, turning 200 tokens (a days worth) into 3-4g basically.

Which recipes are those for example?

Make them all tradeable, problem solved. You might want to spend all your time in FoTM, I don’t want to spend any, there could be a decent market if ANet wanted it.

couldnt you just trade dungeon tokens in and salvage for ecto? any dungeon with (is it) 68+(?) rare gear means its 30 tokens for a chance at ecto

ive barely done FotM at all though; so cant comment on over abudance of relics

There is already a way to convert tokens into coin.

Trade in for a cheap rare -> Salvage -> Sell mats
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Many items/currencies are intentionally not tradeable so that your achievements of doing the dungeon are exclusively presented by your gear or items.

If you see someone walking around with a set of that dungeon gear, you know they worked their —-- off in that dungeon.

Soulbound currencies and gear are meant to give value to certain aspects of the game.
To make them tradeable or convertable (in economics, that is to liquidate them) further then is already permitted, is to reduce their overall value. That contradicts the feature’s intended purpose; the only reason they have to do so is your petty desire to save a few tokens, which is a terribly weak reason.

And no, they can’t go improving the salvage rates. The reason conversion rates are intentionally bad is two-fold.

1. Reduce inflation / market saturation rates.
2. Give players incentive to buy gold with gems.

And there is no sort of argument you can make to trump a double-sided goal of long-term-game-health AND company-profit. You can’t beat that~

All the tokens in the world can’t buy you a life.

i’d rather see them use FotM tokens as currency for fractal skins.

@DreamOfACure:

Ok, now wipe off the foam from your mouth.

I don’t think that low exchange rate as I said in the example would ruin the whole economy of the game, plus would destroy Anet. As you said, it can be currently traded in for rares, that can be salvaged – thus probably giving more in-game money then I implied in my example. This would only be a matter on convinience. If you can exchange it anyway (sort of), why not just have an easier way to do so?

I also don’t see why this would interfere with people wanting to run around in full dungeon gear (I do so myself). It’s not like you would HAVE TO sell your tokens. It just would be a convinient way to deal with them.

By the way, you do know, that company profit, and ‘game-health’ go hand-in-hand in this kind of game, right? It’s not like they sold you their copy, and they don’t give a kitten afterwards.

All this still doesn’t solve the FotM tokens issue. I still would not like to destroy them.