Guild Wars 2

I have been waiting a long time for Living World Season 3 to be released like most active players and for the most part, I love what they have done with the patch. The story section was very well written and enjoyable (albeit a bit short). The new map is very enjoyable and its clear the feedback from the HoT maps has been listened to with the lack of timers and even more gliding which everyone loves. The new fractal despite being pretty easy is an excellent addition along with the fractal changes. I don’t do sPvP or WvW so I can’t say much about how good those aspects of the game. Regardless, for me this patch is a very nice addition to the game.

However, I can’t help but be a little disappointed with the rewards from the new map. Or rather the lack of rewards. While getting new ascended items with HoT specific stats is nice along with the minis and the Bloodstone crown, I was hoping for a new collection of armour or weapon skins to collect from the new map. From the reddit AMA, I saw Mike say that armour sets can take up to nine months to develop (which honestly seems insane) so it’s understandable if developers didn’t have time to add these as rewards to the new map.

However, GW2 has 35 sets of Black Lion weapons that as of this moment that can only be obtained via tickets or the TP. Some of these weapons, such as the Fused set, costs thousands of gold on the TP and have not been seen on Black Lion weapons specialists for years. These weapons are pretty much unobtainable for the majority of the players so wouldn’t adding these weapons as rewards for new (or even old) content promote replayability.

The way I see it – if you really want one of those old black lion skins, save up and buy it. Honestly, it’s like getting a legendary. It IS obtainable for the majority players rather easily if they are willing to put the time into it. Mind you, I’m all for better rewards, but I’d like to see new weapon skins added to the game. No offense, but it seems like you want a specific black lion weapon skin set that is a few thousand gold on the tp and don’t want to save for it.

I would not buy any of the old black lion skins. Anet basically owes us bringing them back one day because they added the collections achievements for them long after selling them the last time.
And as far as I can tell there are only 2 out of the 35 sets missing a rerelease. Sclerite and Fused weapons. So hopefully its their turn soon.

Arvizal.8436:

The way I see it – if you really want one of those old black lion skins, save up and buy it. Honestly, it’s like getting a legendary. It IS obtainable for the majority players rather easily if they are willing to put the time into it. Mind you, I’m all for better rewards, but I’d like to see new weapon skins added to the game. No offense, but it seems like you want a specific black lion weapon skin set that is a few thousand gold on the tp and don’t want to save for it.

Yes, I can save up gold to buy some of the Black Lion weapons. But grinding for potentially thousands of gold for most people is not as entertaining as earning rewards from playing content, either from map currencies or collections. There are also some weapon skins that can’t be purchased off the TP simply because there aren’t any on there at the moment.

Scowny.1654:

However, GW2 has 35 sets of Black Lion weapons that as of this moment that can only be obtained via tickets or the TP. Some of these weapons, such as the Fused set, costs thousands of gold on the TP and have not been seen on Black Lion weapons specialists for years.

This is working exactly as intended.

• Some rewards are RNG.
• Some people getting a lucky reward want gold more; they sell these on the TP to those who want the reward more than gold.
• Some rewards remain out of circulation, giving the top 1% something to spend their gold on (and sinking 15% of it via TP fees).
• Nearly all rewards return to circulation at some point, to boost supply. Sometimes, the mechanism is via the BL chest, sometimes something else.

So in general, I can’t support the proposal because the current system works fine. I can obtain anything I want from BL chest; I just can’t obtain everything I want from them.

Scowny.1654:

Yes, I can save up gold to buy some of the Black Lion weapons. But grinding for potentially thousands of gold for most people is not as entertaining as earning rewards from playing content, either from map currencies or collections. There are also some weapon skins that can’t be purchased off the TP simply because there aren’t any on there at the moment.

I personally feel that the way you currently get BL skins are fine, and maybe the ones that haven’t seen the light of day for a few years are either: Supposed to be extremely valuable or should come into rotation at some point (soon?). I just can’t see a good reason for ANet to mix these skins as rewards through collections, map currencies or the LS. This would undermine the value of the skins a lot, which nobody wants!

Arvizal.8436:

This would undermine the value of the skins a lot, which nobody wants!

Except for the people who want them for their own sake.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Arvizal.8436:

This would undermine the value of the skins a lot, which nobody wants!

Except for the people who want them for their own sake.

The people who want them for their own sake can already get them on the TP.

I’m not sure some would feel ‘grinding’ for Gold, which one can do anywhere, is any worse than ‘grinding’ for a certain map currency, which limits one to only one map. Some may feel being limited to one map is more ‘grindy’ than the freedom to play everywhere.