Guild Wars 2

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GEMSTORE at Maximum

Ascended & Legendary Stat only Transmutes
At Legendary items mostly, we may like the skin of one, but the stats aren’t good for our build. In this case, we s(t)uck. “These items working like skin transmutations, but they have locked stats instead of skin.
Lot of player will buy these to get the matching stat to the liked skin. Its Essential.”

Extra Hairstyles
The Gemstore should sell extra hairstyles, since those we got are minimal. “Sold one by one, or a complete set, or complete upgrade.
Sets: Rastas, Short cuts, Long cuts, mid cuts, Bald cuts
Double Click on Icon to jump onto a hairstyle menu with colors.”
Extra Beardstyles Same as Extra Hairstyles, but this one is for beards.
Sold one by one, or a complete set, or complete upgrade.
Sets: Short cuts, Long cuts, Mid cuts, Special cuts
Double Click on Icon to jump onto a beardstyle menu with colors."

Token Slots
Bank upgrade for 1000 to 5000 token per dungeon type. For easy collecting.

Charity Purchases
If possible to track down these kind of real-money source purchases, there should be some special items that players can shown off as a sign they supported a group of Cancer, breast cancer, AIDS, anything.
Like a backbrace with a sign of the group they supported.
The money they spent on gems to puchase this item should go to the aimed group.
Maybe special titles given for it. “Pink Day Supporter”

Mystic Salvage Kit
Good ol’ Perfect Kit. A kit that separates item from sigil/rune. Never destroyes item.

Profession Style Upgrade
I’ve heard a lot of arguing about male mesmers with pink butterflies and nature-only rangers… With a Gemstore upgrade, the effect should be changed on specific character.

• Mesmers can get raven-effect instead of butterflies
• Rangers can be more warrior-like (they don’t need to be hippies)
• and anything else we find dismatching." 1,000 Gems

Emote/Animation Upgrade
Like in GW’s CE, special effects on emotes
Or even better, special emotes like… poses, walkstyles, loop-animations?

Unique Dyes
Special kind of Dyes that can be optained only in Gemstore and Mystic Forge. Rainbow Dye, or Textured Dyes?
What if the special dye gives rainbow shine, or for example…. tiger stripes? Leopard patterns? Fur paint? Rock paint?

Unique Minipets
Some special and hardcore miniatures should be sold on gemstore only.
I’m sure about its success, if there is no other way to optain it.

• Mistfire Wolf
• LFP Healer – Skeleton
• Charr Tank
• God Miniature
• Hypopotamus

Unique Elite Skills
Same skills as normal ones, but different effects or model skin.
Unlocking like ""Digital Deluxe Upgrade"". Example:

• Norn Wolf Pack – same as Hounds as Balthazar, but 5 wolves instead two dog.
• Model L33T Prototype Golem – same as a Golem Summon or ""golem suit"".
  Or anything what can be sold.
  + Special effects on them.

Unique Armor Skins
Simple. Special transmute skins for Armors. Upgraded Elite versions of the normal ones, or completely new. Examples:

• Leggings, Gloves, Helm, etc.. of Balthazar: Balthazar’s style armor versions.
• Pirate Captain Leggings, Gloves, Helm, etc: Upgraded Pirate style armor versions.
• Bone Claws – Special looking gloves with bone claws.
• Hawk Boots – Special looking boots with hawk feathers.

Unique Weapon Skins
Special transmute skins for Weapons.
Upgraded ""Elite"" versions of the normal ones, or completely new. Examples:

• Axe, Sword, Staff, Greatsword, Shield, etc.. of Balthazar: Balthazar’s style weapon versions.
• Axe, Sword, Staff, Greatsword, Shield, etc.. of Grenth: Grenth’s style weapon versions.
• “The Undertaker” – Special looking Staff.
• “Elonian Scimitar” – Special looking Sword.

Blessing of the Gods
Special blessing boost of a God. "Random, or all 6 gods have own stone. Has unikittenfect on having it on. 60 Minutes.

• Blessing of Balthazar: +10% Power & Toughness | Red flame, red spirit Crest on back.
• Blessing of Grenth: +20% Karma | Black ""flaming"", bone-wings.
• Blessing of Dwayna: +5% Health | Blue shining, white spirit wings.
• Blessing of Melandru: +15% Money | Green steaming, leaf cape.
• Blessing of Lyssa: +50% Magic Find | Purple shining, gold sparking.
• Blessing of Kormir: +100% Guild Influence | Gold shining, gold spirit crown" One use, 2 hours: 100 Gems

Crafting Station Toolkits
For every craft station type, we should have a consumable item that gives instant access.

• Leatherworker Toolkit – Summons a little leatherworker table with material models on it.
• Weaponsmith Toolkit – Summons a smelter with an anvil.
  Etc etc. Just like a personal golem banker.

Guild Influence
One use scrolls for instant guild influence.
1: ""Celebration"" – Invite the locals for a keg of beer. | 100 Influence
2: ""Medical Supplies"" – Send medical supplies for the locals. | 500 Influence
3: ""Command Soldier Squad"" – Send a squad of soldiers to help locals defending their home. | 1,000 Influence
4: ""Warmachine"" – Send Charr warmechs to help locals defending their home |5,000 Influence
Works just like those scrolls we get in Personal Story.
and/or via high karma"

Elite look Ranger Pets
For first, they should be charmed after fight.
Rangers should be able to get very rare kind of pets as Prestige.

• Lion, other kind of rare fighter dogs, Parrot, Turtle, Lizzad, Tiger, wasp swarm, Bull, Frog, Leopard,
• Elite versions: White/Black/Special textured Lion, Ancient Shark, Rock Dog, Dolphine, Imp, Djinn, Tropical bird, Monkey.
  Purchased spawn in Hall of Monuments or as a high difficulty jumping puzzle reward."
  ( or Complete a Jumping puzzle)

I always thought they missed the boat with Pink Day in LA. GW1 Pink Dye should have been a cash shop item to begin with.

I support all of those. Variety is what makes the cash shop work. I only started buying costumes in GW1 once there were more than 2. At that point I started to buy quite a few. I want to browse the gem store and wonder what I’ll buy out of 100 options, not just a few.

Also I would LOVE a GW1 CE style divine aura. 10 000 gems would feel correct. It’d be the most elite item in the game.

The best if they release a serious amount of TP-only items (Skin Transmutes and town clothes!), so we want ‘em all but no game gold is enough for everything. We’ll buy GEMcard then ^^

Ascended & Legendary Stat only Transmutes

Dislike this idea, as it’s essentially pay2win. What advantage would offset the loss in confidence that such a feature cause?

Extra Hairstyles

Hairstyles are always lacking in MMOs for some reason. The problem being that while they seem like an easy feature with no down side, once you get past the current offering extra hairstyles being exponentially harder to satisfy people.

The general public want different hairstyles, but they only want the one different hairstyle that they want.

Providing hairstyle Z can actually lead those who want hairstyle A through Y to be annoyed. So you end up satisfying 2% of the playerbase while annoying 70% of it.

Token Slots
I’ve suggested the same thing myself in the past. Here’s the problem: I’m a guy going about my business, and in order to get a set of gear I need something like 1.2k tokens. That’s 5 slots currently.

So I see the token slot in the gem store, and I’m not thinking to myself “Gee that’s convieniant”, I’m instead thinking “Why exactly does each dungeon award 60 tokens and gear cost 1.2k tokens, instead of dungeons awarding 1 token and gear costing 20 tokens”.

It’s a good question, and one that can only be answered by calling ANet thieves.

Charity Purchases
Seems like this is an aweful lot of work from multiple departments that will result in the immersion crowd being driven nuts.

Many see games as escapism, and that isn’t served by shoving cancer in people’s faces.

I donate to a cancer foundation, after I lost family to it- but there is a place and time to promote charity and within games is not it.

Mystic Salvage Kit
How would this differ from the Black Lion Salvage Kit? May I suggest an unlimited use Crude Salvage kit, as it would certainly help with alts and reduce trips back to town.

Profession Style Upgrade
I could have sworn they mentioned this in the beta, but it never eventuated. Something about elementalist meteors being a different color. Good idea.

Emote/Animation Upgrade
I think you’d have more hostility towards this than you realise. But I suppose it’s not exactly effecting gameplay.

Unique Dyes
Legendary armor was always something that I thought had potential. Wearing something with the Twilight effect would be truly wonderful.

Or something which turned your armor in to a New York style stockticker.

Unique Minipets
This is something they’ve already done I believe, with the holiday miniatures.

Unique Elite Skills
Seems identical to a point above. Profession Style Upgrade

Unique Armor Skins
The current armor offerings are a tad slim.

in regard to mystic salvage kit, first as rising said what would be the difference to a Black Lion salvage kit? and yet a mystic salvage kit in fact does exist but is rather is high amount of charges for a kit but work same way as master’s http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Salvage_Kit

@ Ascended & Legendary Stat only Transmutes: Its not pay2win.
If you get a Legendary or Ascended ranked weapon for example, you can change its stats with this transmute. But only if you have one matching already. It can be used to get the right stats for your ex.: Twilight if you want it as a crit dmg variant.
So you’ll just change stats, not upgrade an exotic onto legendary. That would be silly move.

@ Hairstyles: I just ask for more, and more vatiants. Mirroring one is hell simple and a good for many.

@ Mystic Salvage kit: The name is my fault, sorry. I’ve written it right after release, when I didn’t knew there is one alrady. This one meant to not destroy the item if you want to get out the upgrade. Just like Perf. Salvage kit in GW1.

I’m not going to list them agian, but one thing is sure: The most of my suggestions are not effecting gameplay effectiveness at all. These are going on style and customization.
GEMStore should offer these. Unnecessary but cool looking things we’re willing to pay for.

Preventing Gold-Sellers
Dual GEM type system. Every Gemstore item has two gem prices:

• Blue GEM that you can buy with game money and can backchange it for game money. Synced to the normal ingame profits. (5g/day)
• Red GEM. Bought only with GEMCards. You can buy items, synced to worth of the real money, and direct-change it to game gold with a close ammount that Goldsellers can provide.

The Red GEM needed becouse of manipulated and overpriced back-transfering.
Currently: $25 gives you 2,000 GEM, which is ~28,gG. With this same money, you can get 50 to 60g, depending on goldsellers. Not worth to backchange it in these prices.

Most of the players will understand that they might receive a bit less game gold from Arenanet, but its legal and they support the company, meanwhile goldfarmers won’t work that effective because of it. Less hacked accounts btw.

OR just manually remove the goldsink in the system. It is not necessary at all.

We have new Town Clothes! Not much. Terrible prices if we want them without spending real money tho…

Oh, I’m surprised how good this list of suggestions is, hardly anything to complain about. I can even agree with… pretty much everything here.

Well, in fact, I got a problem with just this:

Blessing of Balthazar: +10% Power & Toughness | Red flame, red spirit Crest on back.
…
Blessing of Dwayna: +5% Health | Blue shining, white spirit wings.

For 100 gems, +10% power & Toughness sounds kinda P2W to me. Or +5% health. Especially when its 10% (alot) of two stats (even more). Should probably replace those with a bonus which doesn’t affect the gameplay

My first rule with all of this is make the game P2W.
Not Pay 2 Win => Play 2 Win

Thank you for the correction Fred.

Add to that – Weapon Dye Kit – ability to use a dye the character has ‘discovered’ on his/her weapon. 1 time use per kit and make it affordable. It would act more like a stain and have no effect on particle effects.

Some really kick kitten ideas here. I especially like the “charity purchases” one, where support given to less fortunate people is both seen and recognised—with a view to increasing charity support.

Yeeees, a Weapon Dye Kit from the Gemstore is profitable, and a still fair way to paint our weapons! Nice upgrade, Infernia!

RoyalPredator.9163:

Preventing Gold-Sellers
Dual GEM type system. Every Gemstore item has two gem prices:

• Blue GEM that you can buy with game money and can backchange it for game money. Synced to the normal ingame profits. (5g/day)
• Red GEM. Bought only with GEMCards. You can buy items, synced to worth of the real money, and direct-change it to game gold with a close ammount that Goldsellers can provide.

The Red GEM needed becouse of manipulated and overpriced back-transfering.
Currently: $25 gives you 2,000 GEM, which is ~28,gG. With this same money, you can get 50 to 60g, depending on goldsellers. Not worth to backchange it in these prices.

Most of the players will understand that they might receive a bit less game gold from Arenanet, but its legal and they support the company, meanwhile goldfarmers won’t work that effective because of it. Less hacked accounts btw.

OR just manually remove the goldsink in the system. It is not necessary at all.

Except gold buying from 3rd party is illegal and shouldn’t be considered in the pricing of gems. I think it is very reasonable to say that 3rd party gold buyers are either hacked or banned. No matter how you turn it, buying from a third party is stupid.

Even if I could get 10 times the amount of gold through a third party, I wouldn’t buy from them because I’d rather not lose my account in a banwave or hack.

Your red/blue system makes no sense and will not be implemented for very obvious reasons. I really don’t get why you even include illegal transactions in your considerations.

RoyalPredator.9163:

Preventing Gold-Sellers
Dual GEM type system. Every Gemstore item has two gem prices:

• Blue GEM that you can buy with game money and can backchange it for game money. Synced to the normal ingame profits. (5g/day)
• Red GEM. Bought only with GEMCards. You can buy items, synced to worth of the real money, and direct-change it to game gold with a close ammount that Goldsellers can provide.

The Red GEM needed becouse of manipulated and overpriced back-transfering.
Currently: $25 gives you 2,000 GEM, which is ~28,gG. With this same money, you can get 50 to 60g, depending on goldsellers. Not worth to backchange it in these prices.

Most of the players will understand that they might receive a bit less game gold from Arenanet, but its legal and they support the company, meanwhile goldfarmers won’t work that effective because of it. Less hacked accounts btw.

OR just manually remove the goldsink in the system. It is not necessary at all.

Oh, I liked your original list of suggestions very much, but I got to disagree on this a bit, lets start with the alternative suggestion of removing gold sinks:

• There is a huge amount of gold poured in the economy all the time
• Currently, there is also a huge amount of gold leaving the system thanks to gold sinks
• If the gold sinks were removed, everyone would have increasingly more gold the longer they play the game
• Which leads to gold losing its value as people are increasingly more willing to spend more money on products provided by other players since they got so much money anyways. As in inflation
• When butter costs 3g a piece instead of a couple of coppers, that creates a very hostile environment for the new players.

EDIT: So, okey, I seem to have misread your last sentence. You referred to the goldsink, I thought you generally meant goldsinks. Anyways, there are very few goldsinks in the system, and I do not think any of them should be removed for the reasons mentioned above. While I agree that the gem-related goldsink is seemingly unnecessary, I’m sure it contributes to keeping the inflation in check.

As for the dual gem system, it’s not that bad of an idea, but I do not see the need for it. Yes, there was a short phase when you had alot of gold-spam to your mail box and when there were hacked accounts selling gold in major cities. But reporting has been effective (at least on my server) and you just don’t see them anymore. They are really not that much of a problem. Sure, there are a few scam sites on the internet, but everyone knows not to use those. (Or majority anyways)
And by “GemCards” I seriously hope you didn’t mean physical objects you can only get from 7/11. Those items almost never appear in stores in my country. But you probly just meant the regular method used currently, right?

No problem, this gold-seller problem is not easy to deal with.
You don’t even have to agree with all of my details, of c.

The Dual Gem System is an alternative. It is designed for:

• Blocking Goldseller process
• To not harm the current Gem exchange

Its good to hear that some of you won’t buy gold in any case, but since 40% of the users are bots, or even worse, they just spawn golds with hack methoods, and a very high amount of user buys gold (mostly from a legally working company of United.Kingdom), this is a problem that needs to be handled. I even know some who bought high amount of gold long ago, always doing it (because GW2 is a farmfest race made by the users), and no bans ever applied.

Maybe GEMStore skins and Laurel-like options can prevent this thing.
It is ok if you need ~200 Laurel for a Precursor.
ArenaNet should teach their players to go for personal Style and customization, not for the most valuable items. This case, they also need to focus on improving customization features..

I’d gladly pay gems to change my mesmer effects and clones color from the actual violet to something else. I bet a lot of mesmers like me would like it and would be willing to pay gems for it! Please Anet!!!

RoyalPredator.9163:

and a very high amount of user buys gold (mostly from a legally working company of United.Kingdom),

Well, this is from the GW2 user agreement, that anyone operating within the game needs to accept:

(iv) sell, sub-license, rent, lease, grant a security interest in, borrow, lend, loan, network or engage in any activity that could in any way transfer or provide others access to any Service, Content, Software, or parts thereof, including but not limited to any serial code number, access key or the like.

I’d say that covers gold selling. And as such, that company would be breaking the user agreement. Which isn’t just some annoyance you need to hit “I agree” to dismiss, it’s actually fully legal documentation. Therefore, anyone breaking it is subject to the penalties (within the laws) descriped there.

I know it’s kinda roundabout way of saying this, but the point I’m trying to make is that, any company selling ingame gold is hardly “legal”. At least not to the fullest extent of the word… I suppose they are “legal enough” to not be sued, but just barely. Which is a shame, since that would be really handy way of dealing with gold sellers, just sue them and get those sites off the google.

Fred Fargone.3127:

I suppose they are “legal enough” to not be sued, but just barely. Which is a shame, since that would be really handy way of dealing with gold sellers, just sue them and get those sites off the google.

Im actually rather sure (while not being 100% though) that they could sue gold-sellers, the main problem though suing can cost a LOT of money, for each case, and chances are the gold sellers might just open a new company over and do it all again

GummiBear.2756:

Fred Fargone.3127:

I suppose they are “legal enough” to not be sued, but just barely. Which is a shame, since that would be really handy way of dealing with gold sellers, just sue them and get those sites off the google.

Im actually rather sure (while not being 100% though) that they could sue gold-sellers, the main problem though suing can cost a LOT of money, for each case, and chances are the gold sellers might just open a new company over and do it all again

Yeah, could be. But it’s shame that taking out gold sellers via legal methods doesn’t seem possible, although they most definately aren’t 100% legal companies.

Let’s turn the conversation back to the listed suggestions ^^
Last tough on this: As far as I know, they’re not illegal by the standards.
They can farm golds without hacking. Selling it breaks the EULA of many games, not the real laws. I’m sure they know a methood to “wash clean the money”.

I suggest the FUSED and future weapons to be optained from the store around 500 Gems. Rename contuict should be cheaper too.

Keep in mind: Gemstore should be for Fun & Custom.

Some “ELITE” variation of existing armors and weapons should have a lot of buyer on Gemstore…

Keep in mind: its for “Custom & Fun”

Since we have the AP reward system, would it be a bad merchandising to make gemstore skins as useable as Zenith/Hellfire/Radiant skins? I mean, you can pick as mutch as you want, since you’ve bought the design once.

Hotfix request: For existing instrumental items (Flute, Horn, Music Box), and for those what comes in the future:
3 Bar control system:

• Lower Octave
• Higher/Mid Octave
• Pre-made GW2 tunes

It is good to play with these, but some just can’t enjoyable tunes.
Sometimes very annoying when someone tries to play something… we can turn its sound level down, but then, we don’t hear the ones who actualy play them good.
For this case, and for the atmosphear of the game, I suggest the pre-made tunes as we see at the SAB Music Box – for all the instruments.

P.s.: Still waiting for mutch more gem item that aims personal customization mentioned above.