Guild Wars 2

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I remember the threads where people were upset that there were PvP skins/armor in the Achievement chests. I wonder if those people are happy now that they have been removed….or are upset, yet again.

I was clueless how good I had it.

I never made a gripe post about the pvp skins, but for my first couple of chests, I didn’t know that you could store these things off of your character. So, I tossed them. I wasn’t interested in PvP, space was at a premium, and stats weren’t determined by looks if I ever changed my mind.

Then I learned that you could store them in the locker, but I didn’t know you could do anything with the duplicates to actually get new/better skins. So I continued to toss those. I think I did that until about 10k.

At that point, I learned about the PvP salvage kit and forging there, so I finally started to accumulate materials. The wardrobe was introduced when I was about 12-13k. I rushed my chest a day before it hit and salvaged all the skins in the locker that I had covered in the hopes of getting something interesting for them. I managed to get 2 I didn’t have.

After that, I opened only one chest and saw I was no longer getting free skins. I haven’t bothered with them since. I don’t have a head for profit, so without these boxes, I’d never have a chance in hell of getting even half of the wardrobe unlocks that I have now. Now there’s nothing inside of them that I want, and they’re pointless. I’ve got plenty of boxes o’ fun, I barely use boosters, and everything worthwhile about AP is doled out separately.

I’m in the same boat as Sariel V. As a noob player I had no idea about any of those things either, so I deleted ALL my PvP skins, which I hugely regret now.

This is yet another way that proves that, while ANet keeps talking about making things “easier” for new players to understand, they fail horribly in some important aspects. I had no idea about PvP lockers, and of course, none of us could know that eventually PvP armors would be usable in PvE. There is never any good in-game info on the important stuff in this game. Learning to dodge seems pretty self-evident, whereas finding and using the PvP locker is nigh impossible if you don’t already know about about it.

Anyway, back on topic, if they’re to make better rewards retroactive, I agree that they’d have to be somewhat careful about what they might choose to add for the COOL factor. So, I could maybe see something account bound, like… PvP skins!!! Or how about dungeon tokens of your choice? Like maybe 100 tokens per 500 points? You can’t sell those armors/weapons, but players could use them to salvage or throw into the mystic toilet (gold sink). Hmmmmm?

I think the chests really just need to be more rewarding with exclusive skins.
And the chests SHOULD NOT give anything tradable ever, because that would result in a huge market crash for any items acquired from the chests that are tradable. For example, black lion weapon skins.

AlliedKhajiit.2794:

I think the chests really just need to be more rewarding with exclusive skins.
And the chests SHOULD NOT give anything tradable ever, because that would result in a huge market crash for any items acquired from the chests that are tradable. For example, black lion weapon skins.

Right. I’d concede to that. Even the PvP-only skins that you got from the boxes seemed to be limited to a certain subset of the more common ones. And it would give players a chance to get parts of the Guild, Apostle, Heavy Plate, and Marauder sets which are all now effectively out of the game (I don’t think Tribal was available this way. I don’t have any pieces of it, at any rate).

I agree wholeheartedly with this thread. The rewards just aren’t exciting anymore.

Yeah, there’s crystally weapon skins and the armor that takes 36k AP to complete, but the first one quickly loses its flair (especially once you get the ones you wanted) and the second one is just depressing because it takes too long. Getting chests of random skins was at least somewhat exciting.

Ticket scraps would be nice too. Maybe a scrap every 500 points and full ticket every 5k. I don’t even think it would affect market prices much. They would likely drop a bit after such an update, but they would quickly stabilize. You can get tickets way faster by farming keys if you really want to anyway…