Guild Wars 2

Hey all.

The Gift of Heroes is a WvW Spring Tournament reward which you can buy for 200 WvW Tournament Tickets and 250 Badges of Honor.
What does this gift do?

Thanks.

Thecutkiller.

It’s required to upgrade a Hero’s Weapon into a Mistforged Hero’s Weapon.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/

Here is the recipe:

Mistforged Hero’s weapons can either be purchased directly for tickets or crafted in the Mystic Forge with one Hero’s Weapon, one Gift of Heroes, four bottles of Elonian Wine, and ten Piles of Crystalline Dust.

One thing I don’t understand: Have they said Mistforged Heroes Weapons will only be available from this tournament?

Because otherwise if you don’t get enough tickets this time it would make more sense to save them and buy one next time for 300 tickets, rather than spending 100 on the Hero’s Weapon, 200 on the Gift and needing all the other components as well.

Danikat.8537:

One thing I don’t understand: Have they said Mistforged Heroes Weapons will only be available from this tournament?

Because otherwise if you don’t get enough tickets this time it would make more sense to save them and buy one next time for 300 tickets, rather than spending 100 on the Hero’s Weapon, 200 on the Gift and needing all the other components as well.

Nope, they will return.

I suppose it is so that people can get SOMETHING while still being able to get the “cool” version after next tournament, even if they don’t win.

Why would you buy the gift then? It costs the same amount in tickets to buy the mistforged as to craft it. + crafting requires even more ingredients.

Thecutkiller.4517:

Why would you buy the gift then? It costs the same amount in tickets to buy the mistforged as to craft it. + crafting requires even more ingredients.

Because not everyone will have the amount of tickets to buy the Mistforged weapon after one season, but still want to get something for and, and as such buying the standard weapon or the gift in order to be able to get the Mistforged one after the next tournament?

So it’s a gold sink specifically for impatient people on low ranked servers.

Danikat.8537:

So it’s a gold sink specifically for impatient people on low ranked servers.

Would you rather go away from the tournament with basically nothing, or go away from the tournament with lets say a weapon though?
The setup is there so that people CAN spend the tickets after one tournament without having to worry about not being able to get the weapon after the next one.

We also have no idea how long it will be between the tournaments, so it might be a year before they could get anything out of it if they decided to simply hoard the tickets.