Guild Wars 2

Just another example of something that I would flat out buy, but I will not buy RNGesus boxes ever. Oh well.

You mean you don’t want to spend lots of gold or real money on what would most likely be crafting boosters/xp boosters for your account of all max level crafters and level 80s?

Yeah, me either.

Same here. Hopefully they’re sellable, cause otherwise, I’m never gonna get one. Should have just made them direct purchase like the normal resource packs, at least then some of us would buy them. Now we have even less chance of getting something useful. Keep adding more stuff, while not removing junk items, and the chances of getting anything good decreases exponentially. So much kitten junk in the chests that, thats all I ever get.

I’m with you on this one.
Had there been a Tier 6 Node pack, I would easily have flung 800-1000 gems at it.

Instead, they want me to buy … 6 keys and get crap for it.

I can understand not rewarding ‘freeloader’ play by making all the rewards two blues and a green or shoddy RNG, but other games go out of their way to reward paying players with something decent.

I also agree that this should have been a straight purchasable node pack, like the previous ones. Hopefully they listen and change this.

It really makes no sense. There is a thread in the BLTC section started by John Smith from ArenaNet titled, “RNG as a Concept” and the feedback in it is predominately negative towards RNG. Primarily, the rewards being too RNG focused. A lot of times, we as players are also forced into spending gold on top of collecting things in order to get new items introduced into the game. I am not against gold sinks. The game needs them and ArenaNet needs to flush gold out of the economy since it is directly tied to how they make a living, but stop putting RNG in our rewards and int he cash shop. If I wanted to waste my money on lottery tickets, I would go to the liquor store. Stop preying on the gambling proclivities of idiots and start putting stuff in the gem shop we can buy outright instead of treating our money with disrespect.

I don’t gamble because the odds always favor the house. I don’t do it to try and get real world money in return so why would I do it with real or fake money for fake items in a game? It’s asinine.

And to make it even worse it appears each node is a separate unlock item, if what I’m looking at is correct (what that_shaman datamined. iirc its against forum rules, so I can’t post link to his reddit post).
And it looks like its both t5 and t6 nodes, so both (still individual unlocks) ori node and mithril and elders and ancient.

skullmount.1758:

And to make it even worse it appears each node is a separate unlock item, if what I’m looking at is correct (what that_shaman datamined. iirc its against forum rules, so I can’t post link to his reddit post).
And it looks like its both t5 and t6 nodes, so both (still individual unlocks) ori node and mithril and elders and ancient.

Are the nodes sellable? Because if they aren’t we can end up receiving copies of the same nodes, hopefully we can talk with support in order to exchance them >.>

Oh and, this is just outright dumb, guess I’m gonna miss this ones if they are on the chests.

ghost.3208:

skullmount.1758:

And to make it even worse it appears each node is a separate unlock item, if what I’m looking at is correct (what that_shaman datamined. iirc its against forum rules, so I can’t post link to his reddit post).
And it looks like its both t5 and t6 nodes, so both (still individual unlocks) ori node and mithril and elders and ancient.

Are the nodes sellable? Because if they aren’t we can end up receiving copies of the same nodes, hopefully we can talk with support in order to exchance them >.>

Oh and, this is just outright dumb, guess I’m gonna miss this ones if they are on the chests.

Don’t know. That_shaman only puts the chatcode ids and description in his reddit posts, and I’m at work so I can’t try them to see what they say. I’m hoping they’re tradeable, otherwise only a select few (that are gullible/rich/addicted enough to the kitten RNG chests), will have them and not be able to do anything with multiple copies (just like gywnerferd/ghost dog mini).

I also agree as well that this should have been in the gem store just like the others. I don’t play the black lion chest RNG game either.

they could’ve sold the ori/ancient nodes for 500 gems each and made a killing. who wouldnt pay 500 gems for guarenteed T6 mats?

EDIT: i dont think very many people would buy the T5 mats though

Iason Evan.3806:

It really makes no sense. There is a thread in the BLTC section started by John Smith from ArenaNet titled, “RNG as a Concept” and the feedback in it is predominately negative towards RNG. Primarily, the rewards being too RNG focused. A lot of times, we as players are also forced into spending gold on top of collecting things in order to get new items introduced into the game. I am not against gold sinks. The game needs them and ArenaNet needs to flush gold out of the economy since it is directly tied to how they make a living, but stop putting RNG in our rewards and int he cash shop. If I wanted to waste my money on lottery tickets, I would go to the liquor store. Stop preying on the gambling proclivities of idiots and start putting stuff in the gem shop we can buy outright instead of treating our money with disrespect.

I don’t gamble because the odds always favor the house. I don’t do it to try and get real world money in return so why would I do it with real or fake money for fake items in a game? It’s asinine.

People dislike RNG. It boggles the mind that farmable gold gets you direct, reliable results (via the TP if nothing else) while actual real-world money gets you a big maybe. Seems backward.

500 gold on tp for omnomberry
(edit) now 650

Elder wood node 1000 gold lol. I pretty much throw elder wood away (sell to merchant) no one buys it.

Yeah, no. I’d have paid gems for it straight up but with having to buy keys then having no guarantee of getting one of these things? Not happening. And, of course, the price on the Black Lion is going to be absurd for the few that people manage to find.

It’s disappointing that they went that route.

Hopefully more nodes will drop, more people will farm it, and the TP prices will drop, and everyone will be happy

Vanive.3804:

500 gold on tp for omnomberry
(edit) now 650

Elder wood node 1000 gold lol. I pretty much throw elder wood away (sell to merchant) no one buys it.

Good, at least they’re purchaseable on the tp (would have still prefered to buy the batches (t5, t6, and truffle nodes) on gemstore directly). Maybe elder wood is that much since it still can drop foxfire though (whats foxfire at now anyways?).

Belzebu.3912:

Hopefully more nodes will drop, more people will farm it, and the TP prices will drop, and everyone will be happy

Sounds like a dream scenario, but what will most likely happen is people will get greedy once they realize what they are worth and prices will sky rocket like they did with precursors pushing them beyond anything the average player is willing to pay for.

skullmount.1758:

(whats foxfire at now anyways?).

it was roughly 28 silver last night when i checked it

Vanive.3804:

Belzebu.3912:

Hopefully more nodes will drop, more people will farm it, and the TP prices will drop, and everyone will be happy

Sounds like a dream scenario, but what will most likely happen is people will get greedy once they realize what they are worth and prices will sky rocket like they did with precursors pushing them beyond anything the average player is willing to pay for.

Yeah it is and I agree with you, but someone needs to be the glass half full person, right? ;D