I can’t see ANet trying to establish a rule for “who’s a good friend and who is not”. What if you accidentally removed someone from your friend list? What if your brother just added an account six months ago?
Further, they bound ascended gear to the account for a variety of reasons.
Instead, you can gift virtually all the components, except for things like vision crystals. Or gift the person a nice skin with a similar value and let your family/friend decide whether to sell and use the coin for ascended.
tl;dr a lot of work for a niche use that ANet might not want to support and that you can already achieve (sort of).
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I guess the spirit of giving is dead. Merry Wintersday.
If gift giving is your thing, there is a thread under Players helping Players “Gifting Strangers”. I say this because the spirit of giving is very much alive in Tyria and more so with Wintersday right around the corner. So … dont complain about what you cant do. Recognize what you can do and make someone elses day…. If your “spirt of giving” is as a live as you inadvertently claim it to be
MERRY WINTERSDAY!
When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.
I guess the spirit of giving is dead. Merry Wintersday.
You don’t even realize the irony of that comment, do you?
I indicated several ways in which one could be generous, without changing the nature of binding. I also explained some of the reasons for binding. You don’t have to like the situation; I only ask that you respect that there are reasons and that there are alternatives.
Here’s one more alternative:
- gw2crafts.net offers an easy route to leveling crafting enough to produce ascended gear
- It has a shopping list, so you can gather all the necessary ingredients for your recipient.
- You can look up the recipes, copy them out, and get on voice with your friend and walk them through the 30 minutes it takes.
Here’s another alternative: I help my buddies in lower-tier fractals so that they can gain enough fractal relics etc allowing them to purchase ascended gear from the BLING golem. Although it’s more costly in the long run, the gear works just the same as that you craft yourself.
tl;dr the spirit of Wintersday is in the giving, not in the specific gift.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
My last gift to my wife was to do all the tedious work of leveling up a crafting on one of her toons, so she can make ascended items and refine excess of basic materials.
It was a work of love.
“Only problem with the Engineer is
that it makes every other class in the game boring to play.”
Hawks
I feel like people are misunderstanding me. Ok, GW2 is a complex game and I have a friend that has ADD. They can’t play for long without getting distracted, usually only plays it when they get in the rare mood and mostly wonders around PvE. The person isn’t an achievement hunter. I understand all these steps that people keep saying however as people say “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”. If someone can’t focus to follow those steps then no amount of pointing them at the crafting guides will help. I just think that it would be nice to be able to gift crafted ascended items people who have been on your friends list for awhile. It wouldn’t kill the game economy. It would just be a nice gift for someone that doesn’t have the wherewithal to follow the steps.
Everyone agrees it would be a generous gift. People also point out that there are other generous gifts you could also give instead, which would serve a similar purpose.
This game requires a fair bit of attention to certain details. If a person isn’t able or willing to do any of the possible things that result in them acquiring ascended gear, maybe this game isn’t a good fit for them.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”