Guild Wars 2

I didn’t see a thread for feedback on collections on the first two pages, please merge if there was one.

As a Veteran player, and an AP hunter, collections was the only thing I was looking forward to in this patch. To be honest, I had modest expectations, but I am pretty surprised at how they went out about it…

Things I like:
- Collections for having tons of skins (dungeons especially, I was working on this anyway)
- Mini collection (even with the price spike)
- Collections involving recipes (I always like cooking and the cooking discovery)
- Neat and unique rewards in many cases

Things I dislike:
- RNG. Why oh why are many of the collections reliant on RNG to finish? I have already done dry top a million times (twister in a jar zzz), fotm a million times, wvw, etc. The fractal spoon should be bought with pristine relics, or globs/vials of mist essence or crafted from such things. Or a vendor should open to you once you complete fotm 50. The WvW one should be bought with badges – maybe even tradeable – people have NOTHING to do with badges, or it should be craftable with gift of battle. You can make RNG if you want but PLEASE provide another way of getting these things. I mean, Sam, All-seeing eye, etc… as a veteran player that means the collection is “please pay hundreds of gold to finish” because I am not going to do the Ogre meta event which I have done 10000000x just at the slim chance of getting Sam.
- Similar to above – repeating content AGAIN. I mean Mawdry and the last LS was an embarrassment, re-using events vet players have obviously done (Bria, etc.) and making us do that tedious puzzle in Diessa Plateau. Oh wait, for treasure hunter please do that puzzle again, since for Mawdry you only did the first part! I did that puzzle like the third week after release. Not only that, but if the champ has been recently killed at the end of the puzzle, you have to do the puzzle, then wait for him to respawn. Seriously? Ugh so much frustration. Not to mention some of the event chains to get these so-called “treasures” are stalled at the moment.
- More collections should be related to things.. oh, I don’t know… that people ACTUALLY LIKE TO COLLECT!! Dyes, skins. I was SO surprised there was not a track to collect the rare and exotic skins from each region (shiverpeaks, ascalon, etc.) and having such tracks would have really included spvp players in the fun, since this is the type of reward they get from their tracks. “Collections” in my opinion should not have been a “scavenger hunt” track, but actually collecting things – fractal weapon skins, legendary skins, make a track for every sub-type of skin. This is the kind of thing, for me at least, I would actually find satisfying to tick off of my list and see them all unlocked. Some of these tracks exist – I am totally fine with the ambrite weapons track (even though I didn’t go for these myself) because I know people LIKE to collect all of X type of skin. No one likes to repeat bad content and WP around to different heart vendors.
- Very low AP for hard collections (all dungeon skins), and then crazy high AP for mat dump (ascended armor). I mean the disparity between 3 pts. for finishing all dungeons skins (wep AND armor) and 75 pts for all ascended skins seems a little unbalanced to me. (also apparently collecting all the chaos weapons is an equal acheivement to having all the dungeon skins…3 pts)
- The BL weapons skin track was pretty shameless when so many other skins were excluded from a track. I don’t have a problem with it, but come on, give a track to WvW skins, etc. that are not gemstore or RNG (see: champ bag skins).

I like the rng here, it makes looting enemies much more exciting since you never know… maybe you’ll get something cool. That’s one of the best parts for me personally, because I don’t want everything NOW, I want something to do in the long-term. Exactly what we got.

Maybe it’s just me.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I like the rng here, it makes looting enemies much more exciting since you never know… maybe you’ll get something cool. That’s one of the best parts for me personally, because I don’t want everything NOW, I want something to do in the long-term. Exactly what we got.

Maybe it’s just me.

I think that was the idea. It makes certain items valuable. The problem is that, at this stage, it feels forced. If it were in the game since launch, it would have been fine. But now, two years in, go back and run this meta event a bunch to hope you get some item so you can work toward a pittance of chivos? Ugh.

Collections should have launched with a new continent as a way to make Hearts worthwhile. Do the heart, get access to the vendor, items from collections within. (And remove Hearts from map completion.)

timmyf.1490:

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I like the rng here, it makes looting enemies much more exciting since you never know… maybe you’ll get something cool. That’s one of the best parts for me personally, because I don’t want everything NOW, I want something to do in the long-term. Exactly what we got.

Maybe it’s just me.

I think that was the idea. It makes certain items valuable. The problem is that, at this stage, it feels forced. If it were in the game since launch, it would have been fine. But now, two years in, go back and run this meta event a bunch to hope you get some item so you can work toward a pittance of chivos? Ugh.

Collections should have launched with a new continent as a way to make Hearts worthwhile. Do the heart, get access to the vendor, items from collections within. (And remove Hearts from map completion.)

This. If this was in since release the spoon thing would have been hilarious — every new vendor, do you have a spoon?? But 2 years in? Sam went up to 500g yesterday. I mean I know it won’t stay long but it’s silly, no one wants to repeat that content. Also I would be fine with RNG, but have another sure way to get it as well.

Tigerlily.3765:

Sam went up to 500g yesterday.

Is there a Sam farm going on right now? I bet there is.

If by Sam farm you mean people doing the ogre meta, probably. But like all bosses it only spawns at regular intervals.

Apparently also the bone spoon is a random non-tradeable drop from the teq chest. *sigh, just what teq needed, more RNG rewards. I stopped doing teq at megaserver release because even though I am in TTS getting into the server is such an kitten pain, and the rewards I actually want (skins) are such a rare drop.

I will not pursue those ones, like the spoon. Nor the ones that require me to craft multiple “gift of lightning items”. I’m surprised charged lodestones haven’t gone up more in price yet.

I’m not upset though, I just thought it would be more engaging – these kind of things put me off a little, including the odd “fractal” item thrown in here and there.

The good news is – “Honorary Skritt” – that makes up for everything

Rouven – I hear you. Basically, the gift of lightning ones I won’t get, but they should have put a track for all different kinds of rare skins so if there was a skin set you really loved, you could go after collecting them all and feel like it was rewarding. For example, I have no idea how dyes collector did not make the cut, given people obviously like to collect all the colours.

I have no beefs with the junk collector its funny

I also apparently need a random rare drop from Hylek to start the Hylek skin collection. Which I am already finished. Why should I need RNG to get credit for skins I have already collected? I mean.. seriously? So frustrating. I have to like what farm Hylek for hours now?

There are a bunch of collections on the Wiki that I don’t seem to have. Like there’s one listed for collecting champ bags/chests, but I cannot unlock this one, even though I’ve opened various champ bags already.