Guild Wars 2

When the new gemstore XP boosts were added/changed, there was no alteration to Birthday and Celebration boosters. I’m not sure if this is an oversight, but it does make the use of these extremely limited items far less appealing, and that’s honestly really lame for something that we only get once every 24 active days or once a year on a character for the Birthday boosts.

Can we get a buff to these boosts as well? Instead of leaving them as killstreak, WVW gain and gold-from-kills boosts? I’d love to see PVP Reward Track gain and EXP from all forms of the game, even if its not the flat 100% on XP once altered. Maybe add a Karma boost as well?

Tawniey.3796:

When the new gemstore XP boosts were added/changed, there was no alteration to Birthday and Celebration boosters. I’m not sure if this is an oversight, but it does make the use of these extremely limited items far less appealing, and that’s honestly really lame for something that we only get once every 24 active days or once a year on a character for the Birthday boosts.

Can we get a buff to these boosts as well? Instead of leaving them as killstreak, WVW gain and gold-from-kills boosts? I’d love to see PVP Reward Track gain and EXP from all forms of the game, even if its not the flat 100% on XP once altered. Maybe add a Karma boost as well?

Seeing as these stack with the other boosters, I personally think they are awesome. Add the tournament buff and you can have 75% increase to your track progress. Anything more than this, and you’ll be doing a tie in a game if you do well enough.

Tawniey.3796:

…the use of these extremely limited items…

I’ve got 99 problems, but a booster ain’t one.

Firebaall.5127:

Tawniey.3796:

…the use of these extremely limited items…

I’ve got 99 problems, but a booster ain’t one.

Bruh, if you’ve got that many boosters, you’ve got over 30 character slots and I would assume boosters are the least of your worries.
That isn’t very constructive to the topic at hand though, which is, why are these boosts which are supposed to be super-cool boosts that we only get once a year still limited by the old booster experience types?

Tawniey.3796:

Firebaall.5127:

Tawniey.3796:

…the use of these extremely limited items…

I’ve got 99 problems, but a booster ain’t one.

Bruh, if you’ve got that many boosters, you’ve got over 30 character slots and I would assume boosters are the least of your worries.
That isn’t very constructive to the topic at hand though, which is, why are these boosts which are supposed to be super-cool boosts that we only get once a year still limited by the old booster experience types?

Because as I already said, balance. With the tournament buff. You can stack the boosters to gain 75%. If you win a match you can gain 3 rewards per track. If the birthday boosters had the same, win a match and you’ll complete the track in one. So you’ll only need to win 8 matches to finish a track completely. Add in the tournament buff and that would be 115%. I Thi k you just want free new type boosters.

This isn’t about wanting “free new type boosters”. Why is a consistent game mechanic completely revolving around a short term buff?

Limit the stacking potential, then.

When the boosters were changed, all boosters were impacted except birthday and celebration boosts, making those boosters (which were originally the best boosters available) now worth far less than a standard booster, making them undesirable.