Guild Wars 2

kyeloon.5826:

Edit: Can people pls stop buying cheaper shoes and put them for 2k into the TP? This sucks and is unfair to any other players… This way prices will never drop >.<

welcome to the free market

Good morning everyone!
My girlfriend and me have been farming the mushrooms in VB / AB / TD for weeks now every day and my gf finally got a boot box from a treasure mushroom in Auric Basin. It was included in the daily bouncy chest.
Skin 1/3 unlocked!

Congratulations! I’m doing at least 3 mushrooms a day since 3 weeks now and the 3 Mushrooms at Dragon’s Stand 1 or 2 times a week, but nothing. I have no really hope to gain all 3 chests, if the drope rate stays at this level. The price at the Trading company drops a bit, but still way to high.
<- frustrated

Over two months now I’m farming the 3 mushrooms on the first 3 maps (and from time to time Dragon’s Stand) – and nothing. This is ridiculous. All I wish for is a FAIR chance to optain these boxes, beyond unfair RNG.

Same, every day, the same mushrooms, and nothing. This drop rate it freaking ridiculous, and punishing for anyone not willing to spend over $200 to hide your boots! This REALLY needs to change because it is punishing players that genuinely want them and rewarding people who want them just to sell it for a ton of coin. These aren’t precursors and cost more than some Legendary weapons!

Yes you are right – we keep farming them every day even though we already got one drop. But as expected, supply on TP dropped into an abyss as most of the HoT players seem to have their (favorite?) collections finished.
I still call this armor skin by what it is: a troll by the devs!

I been killing them every day since they were found and still nothing. Very annoying and tedious daily to deal with as well. You don’t need stuff like this to get me to log in, Anet, just keep it at log-in reward, broz. This ain’t fun.

Doggie.3184 u need to IRL pray to RNG, sometimes would be better games have no drops besides mats and we have to craft stuff form quest npc’s or something similiar.

but…

So, nothing about increasing the drop rate of Invisible Boot Chests and todays Mushrooms are greedy as ever. I guess, I have to buy them now. Oh, wait!

Maria Murtor.7253:

So, nothing about increasing the drop rate of Invisible Boot Chests and todays Mushrooms are greedy as ever. I guess, I have to buy them now. Oh, wait!

Yeah, their (limited) availability on the TP dried up a long time ago.

This is a ridiculous situation really. OK, there wasn’t a huge demand for a visibility toggle, but the fact I can jump into nearly any other modern MMO and check a box if I want to hide armour pieces (or overlay them with non-armour pieces) and yet here I would be expected to fork over £40 for an expansion I don’t want then grind the same boss every day from here to eternity for a 1/10000 drop merely says to me that this is the biggest troll of them all.

I could say “Well played, Anet”, but I can’t bring myself to stoop to that level.

How about a little bit increasing the drop chance with todays update? Over 3 months of daily Mushroom slicing – and nothing.

Aeolus.3615:

Doggie.3184 u need to IRL pray to RNG, sometimes would be better games have no drops besides mats and we have to craft stuff form quest npc’s or something similiar.

but…

I finally gave up on it a few weeks ago. It’s literally impossible no matter how many times I kill it. I’ll just go back to prior wishing there was a hide shoe toggle (and hide toggle for everything else as well) and pretend the invisible shoes never existed. Maybe they actually don’t and it’s been some messed up photoshop gag and TP bug this whole time.

I still do it, sometimes just log in for a few minutes to kill Treasure Mushrooms in hopes of getting it. I want to beseech the devs to increased drop rate for the boot box or make it a toggle. This isn’t a weapon or item with crazy flames, leaves contrails, or has an amazing special effect, this is just going barefoot with a character while keeping the stats and runes. That’s all. You have more people interested in getting wings than doing this, and compared to other games that let you have a similar function, it’s mean spirited.

Today we hit rock bottom.

Honestly: Are people serious about the prize or are they joking? After 6 months of farming at least 3 mushrooms daily (and 1 month doing the 3 in Dragon’s Stand inclusive) I am not sure anymore. In the whole time I have not even seen someone getting these item boxes.

Its at the point where even if I did get a drop, I couldn’t pay the listing fee to sell it.

Yea, I wanted to defend the prices way back when these just came out, assuming the drops would occur more when more people had the right masteries and such..

MatthewMedina.5419:

They’re definitely not a glitch. I’ve been asking for a visibility toggle for the foot slot for a while, but to no avail. I think people finally got tired of my pestering and created this item for me to equip on all my characters so that they can be barefoot like me. :-)

The Human queens been wearing them for years lol

TP barons are controlling market, look at prices – its like 333gold and next offer 1500. they are buying all that comes to TP. Anet should increase drops so that anyone who wants them can get them. Or is invisible shoes team working on next expansion?

WTF!
This is so absurd!

You mine as well just go on pretending they were never added because obtaining them is impossible and unrealistic.

I don’t even bother to do treasure mushrooms any more unless I come across one when I’m not in the middle of something else.

If invis shoes ever do drop for me on my one mushroom a month or so, I’m parlaying them into a perma hair kit as fast as ever I can.

30 pages of text and not a single word to the treasure mushrooms. It seems, ArenaNet is fine with it just the way it is …

Well, with the update, everyone should kill some mushrooms, maybe there was a secret update lol

Ven Zehn.6573:

Well, with the update, everyone should kill some mushrooms, maybe there was a secret update lol

notta

After reading through 6 pages of text, I fail to see why this had to be turned into a prestige item so rare and expensive as to be pretty much unobtainable.

Going by the logic of the game’s UI itself, this should be a checkbox, like other armour slots have, pure and simple.

Imagine having to pay 2300g for the ability to hide your guardian’s gloves , for example, then having to pay the same for your mesmer’s shoulder piece, only to find that it’s so rare, there isn’t even a single piece for sale.

This should be about having the ability to hide your foot slot armour piece, not turn it into an actual piece, with all the impracticalities that this brings.

…and then adding a drop rate this low.

It actually feels mean spirited in a way.

Not cool Anet, not cool.

Tallybunny.4782:

After reading through 6 pages of text, I fail to see why this had to be turned into a prestige item so rare and expensive as to be pretty much unobtainable.

Going by the logic of the game’s UI itself, this should be a checkbox, like other armour slots have, pure and simple.

Imagine having to pay 2300g for the ability to hide your guardian’s gloves , for example, then having to pay the same for your mesmer’s shoulder piece, only to find that it’s so rare, there isn’t even a single piece for sale.

This should be about having the ability to hide your foot slot armour piece, not turn it into an actual piece, with all the impracticalities that this brings.

…and then adding a drop rate this low.

It actually feels mean spirited in a way.

Not cool Anet, not cool.

Id have to agree with this. Its the same with alot of cool items like the various effect infusions. Making something grindy as hell and RNG doesnt make it prestige. Now if you place it behind, say, a collection, THAT would be cool.
I dont really care how tedious those collections might be, but it makes alot more sense than having to grind mushrooms between 1 (if you have godlike RNG) and 6 billion times.

That’s why I don’t bother to kill the mushrooms unless they appear right in front of me. Crazy, low RNG isn’t my idea of fun.

true@tallybunny. Anet fixed a lot of the grindy things in the last patch but of course nobody thought about treasure mushrooms.
It’s a “devilish” circle:
- they are so rare that there are barely no drops
- prices rise into madness
- people don’t even bother to make offers on tp
- anet team thinks nobody is interested in this item

so we will probably never get a fix to it (i call this item-droprate “broken” because this is not the way achieving an item should work).

I don’t want to twist the knife into the wounds of you guys who still haven’t got any drop – I got one skin from my gf after farming the shrooms for 1 month. But since then not a single drop – and we want all of the skins so 1/6 unlocked…

It’s sad that nearly no players get the skins who really want to USE them in their wardrobe – most of the players use them to get rich – and that’s what attracts the traders, who are probably the ones who place the highest bids on TP. Stupid thing…

I know, how you guys feel. Personally, I feel cheated. It’s been now 6 months with daily mushroom slaying, and I have reached the threshold of over 700 Mushrooms now. And every time, I’m looking at the Trading Company, I could puke. It’s like the very same people are seeling these items over and over again, so the rich get richer.

Tallybunny.4782:

After reading through 6 pages of text, I fail to see why this had to be turned into a prestige item so rare and expensive as to be pretty much unobtainable.

Going by the logic of the game’s UI itself, this should be a checkbox, like other armour slots have, pure and simple.

Imagine having to pay 2300g for the ability to hide your guardian’s gloves , for example, then having to pay the same for your mesmer’s shoulder piece, only to find that it’s so rare, there isn’t even a single piece for sale.

This should be about having the ability to hide your foot slot armour piece, not turn it into an actual piece, with all the impracticalities that this brings.

…and then adding a drop rate this low.

It actually feels mean spirited in a way.

Not cool Anet, not cool.

Its funny you mention paying to hide an article of clothing. SWTOR does this….for real cash…and its disgusting

Tallybunny.4782:

After reading through 6 pages of text, I fail to see why this had to be turned into a prestige item so rare and expensive as to be pretty much unobtainable.

Going by the logic of the game’s UI itself, this should be a checkbox, like other armour slots have, pure and simple.

Imagine having to pay 2300g for the ability to hide your guardian’s gloves , for example, then having to pay the same for your mesmer’s shoulder piece, only to find that it’s so rare, there isn’t even a single piece for sale.

This should be about having the ability to hide your foot slot armour piece, not turn it into an actual piece, with all the impracticalities that this brings.

…and then adding a drop rate this low.

It actually feels mean spirited in a way.

Not cool Anet, not cool.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Way not cool.

The biggest problem about all this is… would Anet even be willing to change it at this point? And that’s what bothers me the most, because honestly it really should’ve just been a check box from the get go. This ultra rare RNG drop and making them an actual boot skin just doesn’t make any sense at all.

Sariel V.7024:

beastie.4536:

It’s like trying to find a virgin in a whorehouse….

That’s not difficult. You just have to stop looking at only the girls.

Zing!

Mez Koo.9510:

Sariel V.7024:

beastie.4536:

It’s like trying to find a virgin in a whorehouse….

That’s not difficult. You just have to stop looking at only the girls.

Zing!

That smarmy reply by mez koo is not what he meant.

We’re close to our 9th month of having the chance to get a drop.
As some skins have been flipped on TP some people must have unlocked the skin in their wardrobes.

I would like to see your character’s outfit with your super special invisible boot-skin
Please take a screeny from your hero panel so we can see that you really got them and not just took off your shoes
I will start with my chronomancer:
http://i.imgur.com/tWvlDQt.jpg?1

kyeloon.5826:

We’re close to our 9th month of having the chance to get a drop.
As some skins have been flipped on TP some people must have unlocked the skin in their wardrobes.

9 months, ehh? Thanks for the reminder.

9 months x 30 days x 3 mushrooms = …
Oh yeah! I failed about 800 times getting this equipment. It feels great! Just kidding … It sucks …
Oh, wait: What about Dragon’s Stand? => That makes at least 100 further attempts.

Can you smell the failure? I do. Every – kittening – day.

Everyone thinks I wear invisible shoes on my Sylvari. It’s the Orchid boots, lol. If you need a cheap version, roll light armor Sylvari. :P

9 months and and the simle act of being able to hide your boots is still tied to an outrageously improbable RNG drop.

Sighhhhh…

You could just take your boots off and imagine u got the invisible ones.

well, that’s RNG for you.
i wont complain about it because that’s how it is designed, low chance and a very select few can get it. work for it if you want it :p

In a game that already has a solution for not wanting to see a gear slot (uncheck the “show” box), making the solution for not wanting to view shoes be “invisible shoes” is just crazy. All visible gear slots should simply have a show/hide checkbox.

I’m not against fun gear and fun ways to get it. This is just a very strange solution to people wanting bare feet.

Will they sometime add invisible chest armor? many of us would enjoy that

Chiccotot.7296:

well, that’s RNG for you.
i wont complain about it because that’s how it is designed, low chance and a very select few can get it. work for it if you want it :p

I don’t think you fully understand the issue here.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll reiterate. Had these RNG mushroom boot drops been something really spectacular like highly detailed, jungle-themed boots that made glowing mushroom caps sprout after every footstep, then that would be something worth implementing as a mushroom-hunting RNG drop.

BUT. This is literally just an invisible boot skin to hide your current footwear. This is something players have been requesting for a long time, and instead of applying it as a simple checkbox like helmet, shoulders, and gloves as everyone would’ve thought/appreciated, they’re tied to this nonsense. And because they are so rare and so sought after, there are little to none on the trading post. The few that are up for sale have been set to obscenely high prices (we’re talking thousands of gold per piece).

Personally, I don’t think being able to hide your boots should be tied to something such that “a very select few can get it.” And in case you haven’t been reading the forums, people have been working for it for many months now with no success. To me, it’s incredibly disheartening and quite honestly completely ridiculous that we should have to struggle for something that literally took nothing to design. There were no art assets used (save for the icon), no concept designs, no model work, no dye channel implementation, no special effects tied to the skin, etc. It’s nothing more than the “hide boots” checkbox players have wanted, only you’re at the mercy of nigh-impossible RNG, with the only other option being to shell out thousands of gold on the trading post if there are even any to purchase for your desired weight class.

I honestly cannot wrap my head around why this decision was made, when it made more sense in every way to give players the show/hide checkbox.

coso.9173:

Will they sometime add invisible chest armor? many of us would enjoy that

Especially if it hides the female charr chest cloth, as well.

Seabreeze.8437:

I honestly cannot wrap my head around why this decision was made, when it made more sense in every way to give players the show/hide checkbox.

The same reason behind every one of Anet’s game design decisions regarding item pricing/rarity.

Players finally get the Tribal Armor Set as PvP-/WvW-reward. So let’s make 500 more posts and wait two more years. Maybe …

At least tribal armor is back.. You can do quite nice armor combinations with it. I think everyone who wanted the light version can try to achieve their look with the tribal shoes.
I’ve attached some inspiration for you
edit: attached my ele with tribal walkers

It’s about 9 months now, since I started farming farming these kittenbags. 9 months, every day 3 or more Mushrooms. Makes about nearly 1000 mushrooms in total. Or in other words: I failed nearly 1000 times. That’s what it is: Failing. 1000 times. Buying one or another Legendary weapon cost less than this -> simple <- customization.

I beg you to stop this madness! Please!

It’s essentially the $200 snub. I’m a barefooter myself, often hiking trails unshod, traveling where I would, unless prompted by a business I need the service of, without them. Ironically being a gamer too I have characters whose designs I sometimes redid because it would look perfectly unshod as well. I’ve on and off tracked Treasure Mushrooms, and find it insulting that it’s a virtual pair of $200 Adidas (which make this even more mean spirited because you’re LOSING your foot gear), often costing more than a legendary weapon. I’m very tempted to post a new tread because I’m very certain this one’s ignored. This is sad because we know Matthew Medina, who does some stellar design work, is also a barefooter.

Rogue Sol.1457:

It’s essentially the $200 snub. I’m a barefooter myself, often hiking trails unshod, traveling where I would, unless prompted by a business I need the service of, without them. Ironically being a gamer too I have characters whose designs I sometimes redid because it would look perfectly unshod as well. I’ve on and off tracked Treasure Mushrooms, and find it insulting that it’s a virtual pair of $200 Adidas (which make this even more mean spirited because you’re LOSING your foot gear), often costing more than a legendary weapon. I’m very tempted to post a new tread because I’m very certain this one’s ignored. This is sad because we know Matthew Medina, who does some stellar design work, is also a barefooter.

It’s pretty clear that there is zero reason not to simply have a toggle off for foot gear. Having “invisible shoes” is silly.

Edit: correction

MatthewMedina.5419:

One of the designers on the rewards team assured me that they are in there…somewhere.

Barefooters of Tyria unite!