Guild Wars 2

okay so like many people I made the sorry mistake of not going for a precursor right off the bat, and now there is hell to pay. so before i get to the suggestion part of this post let me explain my reasoning; I am personally going for the legendary greatsword Twilight. now my biggest issue about the system for getting the legendary is the money part of it. This game makes it extremely hard to reliably earn gold and also hard to save it. haveing said that lets look at the requirement to earning twilight. Gift of Twilight, Gift of Mastery ,Gift of Fortune, and the precursor Dusk. now if you look at what it requires to make each of these gifts you will realize that other then the gift of mastery, they all mainly require lots and lots of gold.
not including the insane price of the precursor.

Now for my suggestion.
make a mystic forge recipe for each precursor(I’m not saying it has to be an easy recipe,) but seriously it could even require doing all the story modes and explorable modes of each dungeon or it could have something to do with the achievement points, but it needs to NOT be purely luck based (there is already the gift of fortune), so why not impalement a system that encourages players to accomplish more things in the game instead of just being good at playing the trading post. cause as it stands right now, this system is really over the top. either that, or allow there to be better ways of earning gold in GW2

Making legendaries easier to get will:

- Annoy people who worked hard for their legendaries
- Cause the precursor owners to lose tons of money

Legendaries should be hard to achieve completing dungeons is not particularly hard. And I just sent 5 gold to my girl friend who wants to make one of the cooking feasts for no particular reason IMHO and she will send me the money back tomorrow. She has done this in several cases even when borrowing her 10 gold, she has the same 9 to 18 job as me and still sends me the money back in less than 48 hours… How is making gold in this game hard? I’ve asked this repeatedly to all the people who complain about way points the TP tax and whatever money sink exists in the game.

Hastur.6231:

Legendaries should be hard to achieve completing dungeons is not particularly hard. And I just sent 5 gold to my girl friend who wants to make one of the cooking feasts for no particular reason IMHO and she will send me the money back tomorrow. She has done this in several cases even when borrowing her 10 gold, she has the same 9 to 18 job as me and still sends me the money back in less than 48 hours… How is making gold in this game hard? I’ve asked this repeatedly to all the people who complain about way points the TP tax and whatever money sink exists in the game.

I agree with you, the legendaries should be hard to get and completing dungeons are just time. Although it would be nice if there’s an alternative (also non easy) way to get the precursor. I know you can purchase it with cold hard cash from the TP.

From what you’re saying, you could buy one (around 250g) in a mere month but I can barely rack in 2 Gold per night of light playing. How do you make so much money?

Vereen Silenthunter.2704:

Hastur.6231:

Legendaries should be hard to achieve completing dungeons is not particularly hard. And I just sent 5 gold to my girl friend who wants to make one of the cooking feasts for no particular reason IMHO and she will send me the money back tomorrow. She has done this in several cases even when borrowing her 10 gold, she has the same 9 to 18 job as me and still sends me the money back in less than 48 hours… How is making gold in this game hard? I’ve asked this repeatedly to all the people who complain about way points the TP tax and whatever money sink exists in the game.

I agree with you, the legendaries should be hard to get and completing dungeons are just time. Although it would be nice if there’s an alternative (also non easy) way to get the precursor. I know you can purchase it with cold hard cash from the TP.

From what you’re saying, you could buy one (around 250g) in a mere month but I can barely rack in 2 Gold per night of light playing. How do you make so much money?

I did daily explore modes when I come home from work to get some gear that could not normally be obtained through crafting (since I don’t like spending karma, I’ll need it if a precursor ever drops). And after I would complete the monthly scavenge achievement I’d just sell everything that the dungeons would drop. That plus the 25 silver for completing a path is around 3 gold at the end of three explore runs which takes me around 2 hours in HotW. I always go to the mists when going back to lions arch and rarely leave frostgorge (?!) since the 15 enemy kill variety can easily be achieved there, and the historical and ancient wood spawns are there as well and hotw is right next door.

Thing is once you fill your bank with absurd amounts of mithril and elder wood there really is no reason to keep on scavenging gear. When I get way to much gold I sometimes feel a bit kitteny and start gabling with rares in the mystic forge, I more then once doubled my gold investment selling the exotics that resulted from that… But I also shot myself in the leg. Thing is if you actually stop and save gold I find it hard to lose it since there isn’t much to spend it on honestly, and people keep complaining about gold sinks.

The problem with precursor weapons is how fast they rise in price. The weapons are going up by 10 golds per day on tp…

Now expensive gears are ok. But I am afraid the gold sellers are controlling the market right now. The rate the precursor increase goes way beyond normal inflation now, and the owners are just flipping those weapons with each other to make goal… It’s sort of like the house market in Asia or USA a few years ago.

I think it would be nice to give the people who MF 4 exotic weapons a token if the precursor didn’t pop. And once they gather like 100 of those tokens, they can make the precursor they want.

With this system, it will still take 400 exotic weapons to make the precursor, but the rate the weapons inflate will stop because there is a max price for it. This will stop the inflation at certain point….

My 2 cents

yeah im not actually saying to make legendarys easier to get, but to much of them relies on gold, im just saying that there should be alternitives to obtaining the legendary precursors, because they are increasing in value more then i can earn in the TP