Guild Wars 2

I would like to pay 300-400 laurels for an account bound precursor.

thats not even worth it over a year of doing dailies every day and all your monthlies maybe a precursor for 100 laurels or 125 but 300-400 is too much

100 laurels is a little to cheap… example:
May: 31 dailies = 31 Laurels + the monthly 20 = 51 laurels
June: 30 dailies=30 laurels + the monthly 20 = 50 laurels
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Total Laurels off of two months: 101 laurels

The idea for laurels for a precursor is interesting; however, I think the amount should make it a little harder to grab and still give some effort and interest in pursuing the mystic toilet and rare drops from chests.

With that being said, why not make the total 200 laurels?

That translates to 4 months saving up if you do every daily and monthly.

It doesn’t cheapen the market so heavily, it more or less becomes a plan B for those with horrid luck. Its a guaranteed gimmie, the price is hard set, you aren’t gambling anything so the price should be a little higher and a little harder to achieve to equate for the luck factor that is being removed.

200 is fine too. But honestly, I’d be fine with 500 or 600 or any ridiculous hard-set number as opposed to RNG!

Monthly only gives you 10 laurels. That means a month gives you 40 or 41 laurels with the exception of February.

That means you need to do your dailies and monthly for 10 months to get the precursor after the concept mentioned by the OP.

please not another timegate like ascended stuff
give us a few dungeon paths, harder jumping puzzles, pve champions, random events like skritt burglar etc which all drop tokens (another currency, but one without so many inherent flaws as the current one). absolutely no DR on those except the typical stuff which is already only available once daily. they’d have to balance it the amount of tokens per event before they release it, not just throw it out and hope for the best for one time.

people should be able to WORK for their precursors if they chose to, but not necessarily GRIND for them. only very few people actually like grinding (more or less mindlessly repeating a select few events etc) for stuff, a lot more people like to work for stuff. there are of course those who want neither, but personally I’m fine with legendaries being an accomplishment that takes some work, as long as grind and RNG are kept to a minimum.

Wolfey.3407:

100 laurels is a little to cheap… example:
May: 31 dailies = 31 Laurels + the monthly 20 = 51 laurels
June: 30 dailies=30 laurels + the monthly 20 = 50 laurels
————————————————————————————————————
Total Laurels off of two months: 101 laurels

The idea for laurels for a precursor is interesting; however, I think the amount should make it a little harder to grab and still give some effort and interest in pursuing the mystic toilet and rare drops from chests.

With that being said, why not make the total 200 laurels?

That translates to 4 months saving up if you do every daily and monthly.

It doesn’t cheapen the market so heavily, it more or less becomes a plan B for those with horrid luck. Its a guaranteed gimmie, the price is hard set, you aren’t gambling anything so the price should be a little higher and a little harder to achieve to equate for the luck factor that is being removed.

I’d love a plan B, especially if it was account bound. Havn’t even touched making/finding the precursor after all the horror stories I’ve heard about people spending more on exotics/rares than what the precursor was actually worth on the tp.

Time gate?

Well, for me, trying to save up 660 gold ‘is’ a time gate.

I don’t run CoF (CoE?…see, I don’t even know the right one) P1, or whatever that is over and over again, it doesn’t sound fun. I don’t like being in Orr, though if Frostgorge had a way to make as much money as the people that ran events in Orr claim to produce a comparable gold/time ratio, I’d consider that. I save my mats, because I craft. It seems like other than vendoring some of the things I get (some of the yellows I need to melt into ectos, because I am saving to make a Legendary, and I still have alts that I’ll make Exotic armor for some day), I don’t make much money.

So for me, trying to save up 660 gold for ‘The Legend’ is very much a time sink.

Now, I’d ‘much’ rather have a time sink that was a ‘measurable’ sink that moved at the same pace for everyone, vs gold collection, which seems to totally elude me. At the rate that I’m going, unless I get a rare legendary drop from a daily boss chest (which is how I got to my 200g that I have now), ‘when’ I will get my Legendary is just as random to me as throwing things into the Mystic Forge.

I don’t have any other argument to offer for or against this, other than wanting to shoot down the ‘time sink’ argument, because for some of us, trying to save gold ‘is’ a time sink.