Guild Wars 2

Just a question: who does them?
I mean it seems absurd that for every new batch of weapon skins, you can do a collection.
Then again, seeing the cost of legendary weapon crafting in HoT I guess buying gems trough ingame gold to buy keys for chests would amount up with to the same cost (or even less?) for one to do, no?
And what about buying keys with gems you paid with real money?

Anyhow, what are your thoughts on this?

Weapons skins > or < worth doing collection.

I know some AP hunters, who do them for the ap

I’ve done 3 collections, myself. Halloween awards 5 tickets, and it only requires 5 weapons. I don’t buy gems for them, though. The majority of the black lion skins I own are purchased off the trading post while they’re really cheap.

AP? :o Wow, talk about dedication…
Wait, what? I didn’t know that. Any more events that reward them? (or scraps)
And by really cheap I guess you mean “only” a few hundred gold?

WhiteFox.9432:

AP? :o Wow, talk about dedication…
Wait, what? I didn’t know that. Any more events that reward them? (or scraps)
And by really cheap I guess you mean “only” a few hundred gold?

A few hundred? I regularly see BL skins much cheaper than that. A lot of the gallant/improvised/crimson lion stuff costs only between 60 and 90 gold right now.

All depends on which skins you want, I guess.

WhiteFox.9432:

AP? :o Wow, talk about dedication…
Wait, what? I didn’t know that. Any more events that reward them? (or scraps)
And by really cheap I guess you mean “only” a few hundred gold?

The gallant set was around 50g a piece while it was still 1 ticket. Improvised was also hovering around 50g each, and several other sets didn’t peak for quite a while. I expect that the glittering weapons will stay expensive for some time, though.

As far as I know, you can get keys for chests via map completion, personal story, and pvp tracks, and the occasional rare drop. The tickets don’t have any other source that I’m aware of. In my opinion, it’s far more efficient to farm gold and buy from the trading post.

I wish I’d planned for this year’s halloween better. I’d like to have picked up the improvised set while it was cheap, but I was broke. Made a good investment in one of the skins, though.

Guhracie.3419:

I’ve done 3 collections, myself. Halloween awards 5 tickets, and it only requires 5 weapons. I don’t buy gems for them, though. The majority of the black lion skins I own are purchased off the trading post while they’re really cheap.

The Halloween one is the only one I completed, it’s definitely a return on investment. 5 tickets for unlocking 5 weapons :p

The new sets have a stage where they drop to around 60 gold a pop. Which means for a close to 900 gold you can finish the collection. Get 8 tickets back, get skins, wait for the price to jump.

I recently sold 7 Tempest Weapons which I’ve been hoarding for a while.
I usually have 5,6 Gens and always selling the oldest one

This thread just made me buy the crimson lion dagger + warhorn for my necro. They kinda suit my current look which is not very classic necro but more of a red and gold steampunk style :p

Cost me 110 gold for both skins together.