Guild Wars 2

I’d like to suggest that the Mistfire Wolf skill be sold as a separate upgrade for existing accounts. If I’m not mistaken, the only way an existing account can unlock that skill is to upgrade to the Digital Deluxe edition for 2000 gems. If the Mistfire Wolf skill is the only item a person is interested in, 2000 gems is a bit expensive for a single skill.

For me personally, I’d really like to unlock or purchase this skill, but it’s not worth 2000 gems to me. Therefore it’s a sale opportunity that is being missed because it is being bundled with a larger suite that I’m not in the market for. But if the Mistfire Wolf skill was sold by itself for a lower price, I would purchase it.

Edit/Updated: This suggestion has been withdrawn – comments here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Sell-Mistfire-Wolf-skill-separately/first#post3410688

no lol.. honestly they shouldnt even sell the digital deluxe edition.. so consider yourself lucky.. it should have been something exclusive to people who ordered it before the game came out.. the fact that anyone can get what we payed extra for ingame without paying a cent.. is insane by itself.

I can only agree with Adrianna.
That they sell the Digital Deluxe via the Shop als already a reason, that has devalued the CE right from the start massively, that it lost in its value von 150€ to 99€ or so by now

The Content of the DDE and CE should have stayed completely exluisive for all of those people, which preordered the game, otherwise the preorder would have been completely senseless for everyone who did preorder the game.

Good points and thoughtful feedback. I respectfully disagree though, simply from the perspective that to the publishers, this is a missed sale opportunity.

If they kept the Mistfire Wolf fully exclusive to DDE pre-orders only, what would that gain them? Possibly a small amount of community goodwill from a static group of players that bought the DDE.

Having it available to buy at a very high price bundled with other items gains them what? A small amount of account holders willing to spend the money to upgrade.

If they offered the Mistfire Wolf skill separately for a lower price what would that gain them? Potentially a much higher number of unit sales resulting in increased revenue and pleased players.

If I were them I’d go for the third scenario.

No, thats not a missed sale oppurtunity.
Thats nonsense.

In regard of Sale Options, Anet has absolutely no need to make the Mist Wolf extra sellable.
Anet has countless of other options with that they can make more than enough of money for the next x years.
You forget, that we are talking here about digital content, content, that can be produced quickly at any given time and put into the shop whnever needed to add something new that can be used as new Sale Option for us customers to spend our Gems for.

Don’t make the Mist Wofl look like as if its somethign that ANet needs to sell desperately, only because you want kind of selfishly buy the Mist Wolf without having to pay the basically full price for it, which all of the people that preordered the game had to pay too to get it. The other digital content was just extra, because all of the stuff except the Rytlock Brimstone Minipet were/are just consumeables, so the only thign of any kind of real “value” from that digital content that has also some kind of “use”, is the Mist Wolf.

Sure, 2000 Gems might look on the first view extremly much, but hey, people pay also 800 Gems, so nearly the half for just an increasement of account chest space, or 700 Gems for new Finishers.

2000 Gems is basically just the extra high price for its exclusivity of the Mist Wolf and if you want something that should be exlusive, then I guess you should grab into your pocket and pay the 2000 Gems if you want so desperately the Mist Wolf.
It would be just only fair in comparison to all the preorderers, which did the same, or even much more with the CE.

Once again, Anet canput basically unendlessly new content into the shop, from new town clothe,s to new finisher, to new weapon or armor skins, new dances, new account tools or upgrades for the Accoutn Chest. New Minipets and then theres naturally also the option to bring out Expansions that can brign in alot of cash.

So theres really no need for ANet to make the Mist Wolf separately buyable.
If ANet should ever run out of ideas for new Shop Content, then maybe I could see them doing this, but unless that point has been reached. i see absolutely 0 chance for this suggestion here to get realized.

Orion Templar.4589:

Good points and thoughtful feedback. I respectfully disagree though, simply from the perspective that to the publishers, this is a missed sale opportunity.

If they kept the Mistfire Wolf fully exclusive to DDE pre-orders only, what would that gain them? Possibly a small amount of community goodwill from a static group of players that bought the DDE.

Having it available to buy at a very high price bundled with other items gains them what? A small amount of account holders willing to spend the money to upgrade.

If they offered the Mistfire Wolf skill separately for a lower price what would that gain them? Potentially a much higher number of unit sales resulting in increased revenue and pleased players.

If I were them I’d go for the third scenario.

You’re making assumptions without anything to back up the assumptions. It’s impossible to determine from our lack of available information if those interested in the mistwolf skill are unwilling to pay for the upgrade would in anyway outnumber those who are willing.

Adding to that, the mistwolf skill is terrible, it’s literally a contender for most useless elite that if anyone were spending cash on it they’d more than likely feel ripped off at any price.

Its bad enough, I preorded the deluxe for 75€ on first day and what is left of it? not much for the premium I paid

Other than cosmetic cool factor, the Mistfire Wolf is no great shakes. It’s deliberately weak, just like the racials. I’ve always ditched it the moment I had the skill points for a “real” elite.

So it seems unnecessary to froth at the mouth for a chance to get it.

I don’t see any issue with offering an altered version of the Wolf. Maybe change the colour or something. That way people who do really want the wolf can still get it, but those who got the exclusive version still have a unique version of it.

You also get Mini Rytlock and free banker for two weeks per toon. So not really bad deal, though the wolf needs a time buff.

Thanks, all for the comments. You’ve convinced me it was a poor suggestion, so consider it withdrawn.

Honestly it was just based on me being very nonplussed with my Norn Guardian elite skill options. I don’t like elites that convert my skill bar to other skills. So a Norn Guardian with transforms and tomes really only has Renewed Focus as an option for something that doesn’t change out the skill bar. And Renewed Focus just didn’t seem very “elite” to me.

Therefore I’d been looking at that grayed out Mistfire Wolf skill on my skills page thinking that might be a nice unlock, but wasn’t willing to fork out 2000 gems just for one skill.

But based on all your feedback above, it’s currently not that useful of a skill anyway, and even if it was, they aren’t going to sell it standalone anyway.

the mistwolf is anyway useless so why care at all

only way make him cool would be he is a perma pet which do slight dmg maybe dmg like the golem from the Necro and to make it fair he maybe only useable outside dunguons who knows