Guild Wars 2

The more money/items you put in the mystic forge on your FIRST precursor should raise your chance to receive a precursor.

After that you can keep the current formula for precursors, or make them even harder to get. What would this accomplish. A) This will stop the prices on precursors from continuing to skyrocket, as everyone is just giving up attempting to make them, thus driving up the demand. This will let the players who have spent hundreds of gold in the attempt to get just 1 precursor have better odds. If they want more then 1 legendary, they still will have to pay/play a ton to get it.

ATM it seems that precursors have a limited drop rate based on how many there are on the ahouse. Why do I say this? Because I often see the same amount of precursors (10 of each). Expecting even a hardcore player to compete with people who have admitted to putting thousands of rares/exotics a week into the forge to get a precursor, and then selling those at extreme profits is just silly.

The current system where some players have spent more then even the absurd ahouse costs for a precursor, while a lucky few have gotten it on their first few tries, is absolutely horrid.

This game should give a feel of working towards something. It is currently about how fast you can farm gold (ignore all the instances and just run around cursed shore, also ignore crafting), because everything else is a complete waste of time.

I don’t like the way precursors are going.

Deathjester.9841:

This game should give a feel of working towards something. It is currently about how fast you can farm gold (ignore all the instances and just run around cursed shore, also ignore crafting), because everything else is a complete waste of time.

I agree 100%~ 100% map discovery was fun, getting badges on www is challenging for me (I don’t go through jumping puzzle with 10 alts every day), but still very entertaining and fun. I even got 40 mystic clovers already and that wasn’t so bad~

But in the end, all those achievements and challenges do not really mean much, because if you want to get the final piece of the puzzle – precursor, you must grind gold and grind A LOT of it.

Precursors are really the only poorly thought part of getting the legendary, simply because they require almost no skill but luck and mindless grind. Actually they require SO much luck that it’s beyond sanity
I mean, mystic clovers require luck and gambling too. But in case of mystic clovers – it’s actually fun and rewarding. You gather experience for skill points and run events/dungeons/www for karma or fractal badges… But most importantly – when you gather enough of those, your efforts are rewarded by a relatively good chances in MF or a decent T6 mats compensation. It’s still RNG, but it’s not a hopeless waste of resources~

In case of a precursors – it’s just sinking gold into nowhere, while chewing your nails and praying to all possible gods

I agree on the increased percentage thing; on regards to everything though. Your chances of getting a good item will increase the more you don’t a rare or exotic. When you do, however, the chance of getting such will drop back down to its low percentage. But at a small rate: let’s just say its a .02 chance to get it, if you don’t get one, it goes to .04 percent chance. That way RNG isn’t tormenting everyone forever.

I have taken some of the thoughts here and extended it to a full solution. I invite you to read it … https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Precursors-Alternate-Method