Guild Wars 2

Make them 5K points a pop. Done deal.

1. You are already working on turning APs into a currency.
2. You are NOT working on the scavy hunt, so that will not be any time soon.
3. They will still be rare bc so few people have 5K points (5% of the community)
4. This will help balance out the currently overpriced precursors.
5. It’s time gated content (which you love).
6. Players can still keep playing the way the like.

I just hate the fact that I play this game a lot, have everything else I need, have mastered most areas of the game, have over 6K APs, GW1 elite titles, and still can’t get a legendary bc of the MF bs and/or not having 700 gold to drop on a precursor.

I’d be fine with that.

Not a bad idea. I don’ t think that we should just buy them with AP tho, how about 5k AP opening up a quest line
Wishful thinking ^^

Stormcrow.7513:

Not a bad idea. I don’ t think that we should just buy them with AP tho, how about 5k AP opening up a quest line
Wishful thinking ^^

I don’t really want to spend my APoints, I like big numbers
So I agree with this suggestion, 5k points = Quest for Precursor, or even for a Legendary

It’ll show that you really like the game, and are doing your best to say “Hey, I’m amazing, trust me”
And make pre/legendaries account bound

Ap points are too easy to get up to 5k. Once you’ve got the majority of all the easy achives out there then it becomes more interesting.

Last time I checked I think the top AP holders were 8k. I vote 10k if at all. Howver, As soon as you add vAlue to them you will get people who find away to abuse the system.

But i’m gonna put it out there that I don’t think the current sstem needs fixing. These aren’t suppose to be guarenteed. Took me some tries a he mystic toilet to get mine, as well as other guildies, and have even seen a few drop to others. But that is just my opinion

FangedTerror.3852:

Ap points are too easy to get up to 5k. Once you’ve got the majority of all the easy achives out there then it becomes more interesting.

Last time I checked I think the top AP holders were 8k. I vote 10k if at all. Howver, As soon as you add vAlue to them you will get people who find away to abuse the system.

But i’m gonna put it out there that I don’t think the current sstem needs fixing. These aren’t suppose to be guarenteed. Took me some tries a he mystic toilet to get mine, as well as other guildies, and have even seen a few drop to others. But that is just my opinion

Originally I thought the same thing. But once I started looking into it I thought 10K was to steep.

Even for hardcore players it will take 2-4 months to get your first 5K. After that it slows down a lot and you rely mostly on dailies/monthlies/special events. The game has now been out for 9 months and no one has hit 10K. So yeah, after the initial rush, it slows down a lot.

Secondly, if you have 3K APs you have more APs than 90% of the community. So that tells us that even fewer folks have 5K.

So by the time you actually hit 10K, you should be able to get a second precursor IMO.

As I have just broke 5k I am in support of this, or the quest. Either way I don’t care because it involves less throwing rifles away that could be used for more troops to fight the dragons. Attaining a precursor right now is a selfish act when those weapons you put in the forge could be used to defend the innocent. Do it for the innocents if not for the heroes.

1. You are already working on turning APs into a currency.
AP can’t be a currency if it defines your place in a leaderboard.
3. They will still be rare bc so few people have 5K points (5% of the community)
I have 3.6K AP and there are 10-20% better than me. I don’t think that’s 5%..
5. It’s time gated content (which you love).
How is it time gated?
6. Players can still keep playing the way the like.
And those who collected all the items and went through all the work are disappointed.

If I remember correctly A-Net plans to turn achievements (directly related to achievement points) into laurels so maybe we could buy precursors with laurels in the future?

Sure. A minimum 500 laurels/precursor would be a decent logical price.

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

1. You are already working on turning APs into a currency.
AP can’t be a currency if it defines your place in a leaderboard.
then make it so when you reach 5k (or if you already have more than that) you get something which has fixed path that will guarantee precursor WITHOUT any random Number Female Dog guarding it
3. They will still be rare bc so few people have 5K points (5% of the community)
I have 3.6K AP and there are 10-20% better than me. I don’t think that’s 5%..
It still means 5k is rare enough
5. It’s time gated content (which you love).
How is it time gated?
You can’t get 5k achievement points within 10 hours or even a few weeks, unless you are THAT hardcore. My buddy has been playing since before the people of Devona’s Rest bandwagoned to other servers, and he still only have 3k
6. Players can still keep playing the way the like.
And those who collected all the items and went through all the work are disappointed.
Irrelevant to the matter at hand. You can never have too many precursors in your account

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Make them 5K points a pop.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

have over 6K APs

So basically, what you say is “Give me a precursor. Now. For free.”

6. Players can still keep playing the way the like.
And those who collected all the items and went through all the work are disappointed.
Irrelevant to the matter at hand. You can never have too many precursors in your account
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Irrelevant? If someone would make something for free or easy to get for something I spent a year farming I would rage quit the game for quite a while.

Fror.2163:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Make them 5K points a pop.

Beorn Saxon.4762:

have over 6K APs

So basically, what you say is “Give me a precursor. Now. For free.”

That’s what I read out of this post too.

How about a precursor at 7k AP /trollface.

JubeiTM.5763:

Sure. A minimum 500 laurels/precursor would be a decent logical price.

Random precursor, of course.

marnick.4305:

JubeiTM.5763:

Sure. A minimum 500 laurels/precursor would be a decent logical price.

Random precursor, of course.

Ouch. That would hurt a lot of people. Especially if you make the precursor account bound muahahaha.

JubeiTM.5763:

marnick.4305:

JubeiTM.5763:

Sure. A minimum 500 laurels/precursor would be a decent logical price.

Random precursor, of course.

Ouch. That would hurt a lot of people. Especially if you make the precursor account bound muahahaha.

Precursor shouldn’t be account bound. Just sell it if you’re unlucky and buy a more appropriate one.

marnick.4305:

JubeiTM.5763:

marnick.4305:

JubeiTM.5763:

Sure. A minimum 500 laurels/precursor would be a decent logical price.

Random precursor, of course.

Ouch. That would hurt a lot of people. Especially if you make the precursor account bound muahahaha.

Precursor shouldn’t be account bound. Just sell it if you’re unlucky and buy a more appropriate one.

Going this route means it’s still a gamble like the mystic forge. The bad part is that some precursors cost more than others.

0.5% MF for 5k AP is like nothing. Even 50% MF is nothing.

If you have a 0.01% chance on a lodestone you need 100% MF to double your chance to 0.02% and that’s still hardly anything.

I’m fine with the OPs idea.

(I would prefer the scavenger hunt because that sounds like it could be fun, but if that’s not coming, then I’d take a precursor for AP, too.)

I plan to go for a legendary and i have 5400 and some change for AP but buying a precursor for AP doesn’t sound good to me. Maybe you can use the AP for other parts of your legendary Lodestones, Obsidian Shards, maybe even the Clovers but not for the precursor. Admittedly luck or credit card shouldn’t be the only method but we cant go from 1 extreme of being super difficult to making it near face roll easy.

I’m totally ok with this idea. I have played this game since the start on a casual level and have 4k achievement points at the moment (so It’s not like I would get the precursor anytime soon). The achievements are a really nice show of your real value as a gamer, that is, your real achievements.

Gold is imo something that doesn’t show anything: you can have bought it with rl money or you can just have farmed cof for 3 months for 14 hours a day. Then I really have to say, congratulations, you have no life and you didn’t earn that precursor.

At the moment a legendary is 90% gold and 10% challenge. I don’t think that fits the concept “legendary”. Any gold farmer can do it. Instead, achievement points show you have conquered certain challenges.

Giving this a friendly bump cause the topic has been brought up again.