Guild Wars 2

Why don’t you guys add a vendor where you can get them from? Make it account bound too so the people cornering the market can still do it if they want. To keep it hard to obtain or rare, make it require a gift of exploration or something to buy one of these account bound precursors.

Now problem is solved, customers are happy with an alternative to TP buying a precursor.

Freaking precursors are spiking to 300g a piece and are increasing as gold value keeps decreasing(from botters). There has to be a more viable way to obtain them! I have set a goal for myself and that is to get a legendary in a months time and I don’t think it’s actually possible because the precurors are way to hard to obtain! The rest of the items takes vast amount of time, but precursors are nothing, but luck! The mystic clovers are accpetable because you will get them eventually (1mil karma will cover everything basically).

Are you seriously preventing people from making the legendaries when they have all 3 pieces of the gift (not excluding the weapon)??

Save gold, buy a precursor, GG. Wasn’t aware there was a problem.

Legendaries are supposed to be hard to get, yet so many people want to make it easy.

Then they wouldn’t be special.

Things are fine the way they are. Go work for your stuff.

Stupid question: what is a precursor? o.O

Make it 5 gifts of Exploration and you’ve got a deal. Most people would have torn their hair out long before even obtaining the third one.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Legendaries are supposed to be hard to get, yet so many people want to make it easy.

Then they wouldn’t be special.

Things are fine the way they are. Go work for your stuff.

Luck =/= difficulty level

Anyway, I suspect the solution will be—and this is really lame but I can already see it coming—is to add a more reliable method of attaining them via the gem store.

Murakai.5073:

Stupid question: what is a precursor? o.O

It’s the initial weapon needed for a Legendary.

So Twilight would need Dust, and Bifrost would need The Legend.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Legendaries are supposed to be hard to get, yet so many people want to make it easy.

Then they wouldn’t be special.

Things are fine the way they are. Go work for your stuff.

Time-consuming =/= hard, and personally I think that RNG is just lazy design in making them rare.

While I agree that an alternative is needed, I don’t think a vendor is the answer.

Make Achievements part of the process:

1 part for hitting max Weapon Mastery for that weapon, and then defeating a tough (Veteran of Champion) opponent with that weapon’s skills hand a heal only, so no Utilities of Elite (for one-handed and off-hand, you can keep the set as long as the weapon you’re aiming for gets used).

Let’s call this Gift of [Weapon] Mastery ([Weapon] being the weapon you’re aiming for. So for Dusk, it’d be Gift of Greatsword Mastery.

4 minor parts for killing 4 different monster types, one being Zhaitan’s Bane (See Slayer Achievement) that combine into 1 Major Part. Let’s call this Gift of the Slayer.

4 minor parts for different Hero Achievements (Completing Storyline, Emergency Response Hero, Survivor and Dungeons Discovered) that make, say, Gift of the Hero.

3 minor parts for the Jumping Puzzles, Hunter Gatherer achievement and completing all of the Explorable Mode Dungeons, that combine to make Gift of The Trailblazer(?)

All these would then combine to make Gift of the Pinnacle.

1 part for reaching Tier 2 in WvW achievements (aside from the Stonemist Castle one; that only needs Tier One). Let’s call this Gift of the Mists.

4 minor parts for 2 maxed crafting, max salvaging and max Combat Mechanic (upgrade) to make Gift of the Craftsman.

Gift of the Pinnacle, Gift of the Mists, Gift of the Craftsman would then combine with any Exotic Greatsword to make the Pre-Cursor.

There you go: Something time-consuming that requires a bit of effort in all aspects of the game.

Promega.7628:

Save gold, buy a precursor, GG. Wasn’t aware there was a problem.

Saving 300g is not really an easy feat.. not to mention that’s just the price for the moment. The prices are consistently going up. It’s not as easy as just going out and farming 300g.

To put it into perspective, that is over $1,000 that you’d need to convert from gems to gold. You don’t think it’s ludicrous at all?

I rather they added a recipe via the gem store then to give some exploiter 300g

At least give us some non-legendary precursor versions of the Exotic skins.. More like Naegling please!

I dont get why this was moved to a low traffic forum

Please continue with suggestions or agreements/disagreements about precursor.