Guild Wars 2

What I mean is, make dungeon tokens be able to be traded over the BLTC.

I’ve played GW1, so I wish the system was very similar. If you wanted to craft FoW armor, you needed shards and ectos. If you needed Vabbian armor, you needed rubies and sapphires. But if someone didn’t want these armor, he could simply sell them to other people while still running FoW with your friends. And if you wanted these armor but didn’t want to farm the specific area for whatever reason, you can still buy your ectos/shards.

The reasoning is two-fold, and I am simply repeating what I have said previously. For players who want to run dungeons but don’t necessarily want the armor look, they can simply sell the token for gold that will go into other endeavors that may not necessarily be related.

And on the other hand, for players who do not want to dungeon but still want the look, they can earn money other ways and buy the tokens with the gold they earn from other sources.

I think this gives players more flexibility on whether to play dungeons or not, because it rewards players who want to just dungeon, and not necessarily get the skins, and helps players who just want the skin, and do not want to grind the dungeon.

Of course, I guess Anet will have to adjust the token rewards amount a little bit so that it’s still difficult to get these tokens without making them too ridiculously expensive. I personally have no idea where the balance would be, but it’s the concept that’s important, I think.

Any thoughts/comments? I’m interested in knowing what other players think.

I believe, like with karma, this is suppose to represent your own progress, if you want a skin you better be interested in doing the related dungeon
a better idea may be to have more things to buy with the tokens that might be interesting to people who are not trying to get armor or weapons

Mojo.8431:

I believe, like with karma, this is suppose to represent your own progress, if you want a skin you better be interested in doing the related dungeon
a better idea may be to have more things to buy with the tokens that might be interesting to people who are not trying to get armor or weapons

Exactly, you want to look at someone and say “Wow, that guy must be really good at /enter random dungeon/”, and not “Wow, this guy must have a great RL job to afford this”.

I’d really love more, specifically little things, to buy with the tokens.
If I run along a dungeon that I have no interest in farming for tokens to get the armor, I still want the tokens I earn to be useful and not sit around on my limited bank space-

I guess making them account bound was the start of the slippery slope. No, they should not be tradeable.

No offence but this has got to be one of the worse suggestions. There is a reason you farm the dungeons over and over again, for the rewards. What point is there to a dungeon if you can get those rewards with money? If they do that they might aswell just stop working on dungeons all together. I farm CM mainly for the tokens, yes it’s fun doing so, but if i didn’t get tokens for gear i want i wouldn’t farm the dungeons. If you don’t want the armor from that dungeon then don’t do it, it’s simple. Or just delete the tokens once you get them if you’re worried about them taking up space in your invo.

You spoke about GW1 selling crafting mats for the armor, well there is crafting in GW2 and again, if you don’t want heavy armor, sell your ore, if you don’t need cloth armor sell your cloth.

I think a better idea might be to have ecto, loadstones and t6 crafting mats available at the dungeon vendors. This way to get the armor from a dungeon you still have to run that dungeon, but if you help a friend with a dungeon you can trade your tokens in for something useful.

“I think a better idea might be to have ecto, loadstones and t6 crafting mats available at the dungeon vendors. This way to get the armor from a dungeon you still have to run that dungeon, but if you help a friend with a dungeon you can trade your tokens in for something useful.”

It’d either be too expensive or too cheap, IMO.

They are prestige gear. You earned t, you get to show it off.

“Earn it” as in “you did what it must be done to get it” not as in “you paid for it with gold”.

This should and I’m almost sure it will ever happen.

Being able to trade dungeon tokens for gold is not a good idea but being able to exchange tokens for one dungeon for another dungeons at a rate of 2:1 would be great. That way you can play all the dungeons, all the paths and with the current system come out with a total of 1440 tokens witch will get you the majority of a full set without having to repeat content.

Why shouldn’t we be able to trade tokens for items/gold? whats your reasoning here?

GADefence.5634:

“I think a better idea might be to have ecto, loadstones and t6 crafting mats available at the dungeon vendors. This way to get the armor from a dungeon you still have to run that dungeon, but if you help a friend with a dungeon you can trade your tokens in for something useful.”

It’d either be too expensive or too cheap, IMO.

Not possible to get it just right? lol

They’ll either be worth more then getting the ecto, at which case they will be farmed, or less, at which case people might drop some “bonus” marks they got from farming or helping friends but would never generally be used.