Guild Wars 2

OK so before the update we could get 180 tokens with each character we have per day.
But the problem was that the tokens took a lot of space. I mean 1380 tokens are needed to buy a whole armour set so that took 6 slots not including any tokens needed to buy weapons. Now the wallet solved that problem but we can only get 180 per day regardless of how many characters we have.
So in simple words before the update we could get loads of tokens each day but had problems with storing them. And now we can store as many as we want but we can only get a fraction of what we used to.
This is ludicrous its a turn around by a whole 180 degrees. I mean why is token farming wrong in the first place? We cant sell them or the gear we can buy for them. No they are for our use only so what is the problem?
If the problem is salvaging the rare helmets for ecto then this doesn’t solve it anyway because we can still get at least 6 per day. A simple way to solve that issue would be removing the rare armours from the dungeon merchants. They don’t have rare weapons anyway and barely anyone buys those armours to actually wear them.
So the token rewards should really return to the way they used to as they were no harm to the economy at all. I mean what’s next? We will only be able to craft 1 weapon per day?

Another one of these threads? Is this the new TA F/U?

I thought getting kicked from dungeons and needing 3 people to vote for kick was the new TA F/U?

Maybe people not reading or browsing the front page is the new TA F/U

I like it, this a classic tafu thread.

People really don’t get it I guess.

Echigoya, where have you hidden?

I agree with this thread, what’s the point having few level 80 if only 1 character can be rewarded from dungeons. So the more I create characters the less profit I can get. It means I can only spend my profit on 1 character per day.
Please Arenanet, make the daily dungeon reward for each character and not via account.

Dolan.3071:

I like it, this a classic tafu thread.

Tafu threads are good for GW2 – exposes widely accepted bugs/problems/changes faced by players that developers need to give highest priority to.

Draco.9480:

I agree with this thread, what’s the point having few level 80 if only 1 character can be rewarded from dungeons. So the more I create characters the less profit I can get. It means I can only spend my profit on 1 character per day.
Please Arenanet, make the daily dungeon reward for each character and not via account.

Go play Fractals or WvW or the PvE.

Rikimaru.7890:

I mean what’s next? We will only be able to craft 1 weapon per day?

Yeah, exactly. Ascended items will be crafted once a day.
… Wooops.
But don’t worry, even if he has a nervous breakdown there will be 10 other threads before the end of the week.

full set = 1380 tokens
1380/180=7.67, so, 8 days and you can get a full exotic set, actually less if you do the path every 30 minutes, you get 20 tokens, so you can get upto 240 tokens per day easily, and it’s a good thing tokens are time gated, not for the globs of ectoplasm, but to show that you can get exotic sets either long and cheap way, or short and expensive way

Bismuth.3165:

full set = 1380 tokens
1380/180=7.67, so, 8 days and you can get a full exotic set, actually less if you do the path every 30 minutes, you get 20 tokens, so you can get upto 240 tokens per day easily, and it’s a good thing tokens are time gated, not for the globs of ectoplasm, but to show that you can get exotic sets either long and cheap way, or short and expensive way

This makes 100% sense, I fully understand why anet time gate everything now. Thanks

No, that’s still no excuse. This was a bad change and didn’t need to happen.

It hurt my feelings too. Someone make it go away.

As the title suggests, the token nerf is a killer. But every time I read forum posts, the worst thing I feel is that there are people posting unrelated stuff or making fun of a serious issue. The game content won’t kill a game, but the bad gaming communicty will, especially for a mmo.

Welcome to the forums, solo vids are on the left, naked runs on your right, and straight ahead behind that locked door lie the secrets of the staff guardian mf build.

The point behind it is that it takes longer to get the proper gear = longer play time = ppl don’t get bored and abandon the game too fast.

The same techniques you can find in other MMOs. It’s quite normal. But in comparison you get your stuff in GW2 still much faster than in other MMOs.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Another one of these threads? Is this the new TA F/U?

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BBMouse.6510:

As the title suggests, the token nerf is a killer. But every time I read forum posts, the worst thing I feel is that there are people posting unrelated stuff or making fun of a serious issue. The game content won’t kill a game, but the bad gaming communicty will, especially for a mmo.

Ahh you got me at serious issue. Tafu thread ftw.

It is an issue that turns people off, though, and that’s kind of serious, at least from the perspective of someone who would rather enjoy content and have fun than get burnt out on repeatedly running instances. Anet built this game up as being anti-grind and anti-loot treadmill. Having to park myself in an instance and run each path for 8 days to get a set feels very grindy, it’s almost no different than farming an instance in WoW to get items to drop, the difference being that the time sink is somewhat mitigated, but even in WoW you could get lucky and get your item on the first run sometimes.

It’s not that we want easy gear, it’s that we don’t want to feel arbitrarily constrained in how we obtain the gear; it goes against the whole design philosophy of this game.

Lemaign.3529:

It is an issue that turns people off, though, and that’s kind of serious, at least from the perspective of someone who would rather enjoy content and have fun than get burnt out on repeatedly running instances. Anet built this game up as being anti-grind and anti-loot treadmill. Having to park myself in an instance and run each path for 8 days to get a set feels very grindy, it’s almost no different than farming an instance in WoW to get items to drop, the difference being that the time sink is somewhat mitigated, but even in WoW you could get lucky and get your item on the first run sometimes.

It’s not that we want easy gear, it’s that we don’t want to feel arbitrarily constrained in how we obtain the gear; it goes against the whole design philosophy of this game.

Except it doesn’t take 8 days o.o . In the past if you wanted to farm a dungeon for tokens you couldn’t just do AC p1 on character x swap to character y and do AC p1 again for a total of 120 tokens. Either way you would have to grind it out.

What I don’t understnd is if someone needed tokens why would they stop doing it after getting the daily 60 for each of the 3 paths. For easy dungeons like AC you can run in 35-40 minutes (3 path total) and I’m sure if you swap characters there hasn’t been enough time for you to get the daily 60 again. On top of that if you really needed the tokens then you would continue to farm it unless the real problem is that gold rewards are good after running it second time.

Either way it isn’t a grind you just have to wait. For <45 minutes you can get 180 tokens or you can grind for more. Tokens aren’t time gated it is just if someone cares about gold then it is rewarding a second time. Plus, if you hated token grind now then I doubt you would have done multiple hours of the same dungeon (outside of CoF p1).

I did multiple hours of the same dungeon. I spent pretty much all my time in arah, and I loved getting new players to the dungeon, making them discover it and all.

Now I run it with the guildies and never go with PUG’s anymore. And the reason I ran it so much is because I liked it, I also liked the fact that it was easy to gear up my alts with the arah armor.

So all in all, with this patch:

• I don’t run with PUGs / newbies anymore => less dungeons for everybody
• I don’t level alts anymore
• I play less (a good thing ^^)

It’s absurd that doing a good mesmer lupicus solo relies on LUCK to 90%. Better no locusts spawn, if locusts spawn you better have luck they ignore your illusions. They don’t ingore your illusions? GJ, the kill just takes twice as long.

I used to run tafu multiple times per day on all my alts to get the rabid gear everyone wants. between these spiders and this token nerf my burn condition damage tank guardian (full Rabid obviously) will never get geared out. guess ill stick to my magic find set.

Also, I found a relevant bug. I was doing cliffside and a bunch of chanters spawned and I jumped off the cliff in fear and landed in tafu and was swarmed by spiders and killed. please nerf.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Also, I found a relevant bug. I was doing cliffside and a bunch of chanters spawned and I jumped off the cliff in fear and landed in tafu and was swarmed by spiders and killed. please nerf.

LULZ!

ah hell, now I know what tafu means