Guild Wars 2

So as you can read in the recent blogposts, you can unlock a collection via killing a raid boss. You then have to fill the collection for an armor precursor and you have to upgrade that armor via the mystic forge with some Gifts you can get in the HoT/raid areas.

I just got really scared when I read about their comparison to legendary weapon collections. I REALLY hope that at least the legendary armors won’t be a collossal mat sink, since this is just plain boring.
I’d really prefer hard tasks that need a good amount of skill instead.

You can bet your kitten that they’ll be the biggest gold sink ever implemented in GW2. Mark my words.

Tom Gore.4035:

You can bet your kitten that they’ll be the biggest gold sink ever implemented in GW2. Mark my words.

this.

I´m guessing it´ll be atleast 5k gold + precursors for the whole set.

They said the whole armor will cost the same as one legendary, so 3000+ gold is a good bet. But keeping in mind that the most new mats are pretty high at the moment, so it will probably be way more expensive in the next month.

Its gonna be a bigger gold sink than the federal budget and thats a good thing . If there’s too much gold the inflation goes up and inflation is bad

So it begins… the great gold skin of our times…

Adine.2184:

Its gonna be a bigger gold sink than the federal budget and thats a good thing . If there’s too much gold the inflation goes up and inflation is bad

deflation isnt a good thing either

5k+ at launch. Minimum. And 2 months of time gating for good measure.

Raithwall.8201:

Adine.2184:

Its gonna be a bigger gold sink than the federal budget and thats a good thing . If there’s too much gold the inflation goes up and inflation is bad

deflation isnt a good thing either

im pretty sure it is mostly no direct gold sink but alot of expensive material sink
so gold price wont even go down maybe because the gold just gets traded from player to player and is not given back to the game and therefor not leaving the economy

I wish they invested some time into developing a questline for this that would unfold with a story and a series of challenging boss fights, exploration and minigames. But that wouldnt be cost efficient. Its easier to add a collection UI and say theyve spent months working on it. Right…

i hope it will be insainly hard to get and to expensive to buy for most people. its legendary armor… i dont want every player to run around in legy armor.. like with the weapons atm, there’s nothing legendary about them! everyone got like 5 legy’s. please dont casualize this piece of content Anet.

Of course it will, how do you think Anet makes its money?

Orangensaft.7139:

Raithwall.8201:

Adine.2184:

Its gonna be a bigger gold sink than the federal budget and thats a good thing . If there’s too much gold the inflation goes up and inflation is bad

deflation isnt a good thing either

im pretty sure it is mostly no direct gold sink but alot of expensive material sink
so gold price wont even go down maybe because the gold just gets traded from player to player and is not given back to the game and therefor not leaving the economy

Unfortunately there are listing fees that vanish our hard won gold into thin air. I don’t want ultra expensive gold sinks because I’ll have to play for much longer just to reach the income I had before.

Adine.2184:

Its gonna be a bigger gold sink than the federal budget and thats a good thing . If there’s too much gold the inflation goes up and inflation is bad

Only in real life. In the game it’s good because it means that cultural armor and icy runestones are practically less expensive. Let’s say with enough deflation a Delrimor ingot would go from 9 gold to 3 gold. You will obtain 3 icy runestones per ingot instead of 9 and take much longer to save for high end skins like infinite light (highly doubt charged lodestones would be effected by deflation), and that’s bad.