Guild Wars 2

Has anyone that’s sane bothered to look at the guild decorations in a while? Every single recipe is completely over the top, and the event/holiday ones are clearly the worst offenders. It wouldn’t be so bad if we could at least have some places to farm the necessary components, but that line of thinking seems to be antithetical to the direction Anet goes on almost every branch of development, and the insanely poor drop rates make is impossible to get a few folks together to go out and accomplish something.

Best example for wintersday has to be the snowmakers.

For halloween I’d say the scarecrow.

In general, palm trees, etc. And cut out the “nesting doll” model for making things, while you are revamping the guild decor, please; it’s simply boring and annoying, while driving the costs up to even more absurd heights. I know folks complain a lot about the speed buffs, but that’s just one example.

Given the paltry amount of decorations we can even make at all, you guys really need to lighten up.

In contrast, RIFT, which has “dimensions” presents you with literally THOUSANDS of items to put into them, and you have a great deal more control over how they are placed, their size (has a slider), etc. One of the crafting disciplines (“Dreamweaver”) can even create items, as well as terrain paint, lighting effects, etc. The people in charge of this part of the game flat out need to steal some of the good ideas of the competition, because it’s clear that it’s falling down on its own.

you could have made that snowmaker all year long for less than 20g…..

Wanze.8410:

you could have made that snowmaker all year long for less than 20g…..

Where would you get the snow piles from? The vendor only trades them during Wintersday?

The spike in glacial fragment prices kinda put a damper on some guild hall decorating dreams for sure. Other than that single item, things seem to be fine – so hopefully they will hotfix the price to require 3-5 fragments instead of 15 (which runs 50+ gold alone the last time I looked)

My bigger disappoint is the lack of new decorations. The snowman ice sculpture is nice, but the cubes, cuboid, wedge and hemispheres are all colored differently than the rest of the snow and look more like chunks of white granite than anything festive. Where are the snowmen, the festive lights, icicles, etc.

And, for the love of Wintersday, why are they hemispheres instead of globes (which we could have piled on each other to make our own snowmen). I made a small and a large hemisphere for the guild ankitten ow just wishing I had kept the snowpiles (and have no interest in making the cubes at all).