Guild Wars 2

I have noticed that in gw2 with the lack of in game team finding mechanics that a lot of people use the third party gw2lfg.com site. If you monitor this site regularly for groups you often see some dungeon teams posting pre req’s to join their team, or hours passing with no teams organising a dungeon run of a specific dungeon. This at times can prove frustrating for players wanting to explore dungeons, but just not being able to find a team. The main reasons for running a dungeon are; fun, exp, reward. The reward coming in drops and armour/weapon tokens for vendors.

I have also noticed that once a player has accumulated enough karma to purchase various things they want, after that the karma just accumulates with no real items etc for them to purchase with it.

Would it be game breaking to have a dungeon armour converter that uses karma as currency? If you’re able to achieve independent pieces of dungeon armour you can take them to the vendor and use karma to transmute the skin to a different dungeon armour even though the stats on it may not change and that would still require transmuting crystals.

It sounds entirely vain to say, but there is something a little irksome about desiring a certain skin from a dungeon and just not ever being able to get a team, or if there is a team they insist you ping your gear and play a specific profession in a very niche traited role that you may or may not have already leveled for that purpose.

It allows joe average player to keep obtaining items or skins they want, but it requires karma and at least doing some form of dungeon to obtain enough tokens.

I understand that some skins are meant to represent a level of prestige,..but also some form of latitude to compensate for lack of teams doing dungeons would also be helpful.

My prime example is taken from gw2lfg.com;
CoF-lf1m Path 1 full zerker. Ping gear
CoF- farm run. Must be able to repeat for at least 1 hour.
Honour of the waves
Crucible of eternity-lf1m guardian. At final boss.
CoF-Path1
Ascalon Catacombs-any path. PM join
Honour of the waves-Speed run P1
Rinse-repeat

A lot of CoF and HoTW..but no Arah…

All the complaints about people needing to ping gear isn’t the fault of arenanet though, it’s the fault of the community with certain elitist players.

If you are looking for players to do dungeons, your best option is to do a little research and find what guilds on your server (or if cross-server guild), find which is best suited to allowing casual players to do dungeons, and apply for an invite.

Regarding Arah, the reason why you probably don’t see it on a third party random party matchup site is because Arah is considered to be hard enough that people just don’t like forming random teams to do it.

I would like to see a mystic forge recipe in the future though, haha. Maybe 250 stacks of any dungeon tokens x 4 turns into a stack of 250 redeemable tokens which you could take to a specific vendor and he turns those new tokens into whichever dungeon tokens you want. Thus, it would take four times the work to get specific dungeon tokens, so arenanet would probably be happy that doing the actual dungeon itself is more preferable than converting tokens.