Guild Wars 2

So I’m closing in on 300% MF. Will hit it by end of this week. So my question is what do I do with luck? Just destroy it?

A couple suggestions for devs.

1. Allow them to be salvaged into a mat like Piles of Crystalline Dust
2. Create a luck vendor that you can trade for items or different currencies
3. Allow luck to be vendored off for small amount of gold like junk items
4. Stop dropping it after 300% (Not my favorite choice, but still better than having to destroy it infinitely each time you salvage)

I like the idea.

I like the idea of a luck vendor. Im a ways away from 300% but i know lots of people have it maxed aleady so ANet really needs to take that into account. We get enough worthless stuff in this game already.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Essences-of-Luck/first#post4474003

For those who don’t read it, it basically says allow us to decide what the essences boost,

Karma
XP Gain
WvW XP

Gold boost was left out due the problems it could cause to the market with no money sink etc,

All they had to do was add a little check mark beside each one of these that you can select ( note you can only boost 1 at a time ) the coding is already in place for this, its just a matter of allowing us to select which we want to boost, and let it follow the same pattern as MF.

I hope they just give magic find post 300 a temporary magic find boost.

I would say 95% of the players having 300 magic find now just buy gears from the TP to salvage anyway. It’s not like they accomplished something that great.

laokoko.7403:

I hope they just give magic find post 300 a temporary magic find boost.

I would say 95% of the players having 300 magic find now just buy gears from the TP to salvage anyway. It’s not like they accomplished something that great.

I’m not saying to reward 300% magic find. I’m saying do something about the obsolete luck. Whether its giving it another use, or just remove it from the game post 300%.

The problem with removing it however, is it could still be used to level artificing to level 25. I honestly could care less about artificing to level 1-25 though.

Rogue.7856:

laokoko.7403:

I hope they just give magic find post 300 a temporary magic find boost.

I would say 95% of the players having 300 magic find now just buy gears from the TP to salvage anyway. It’s not like they accomplished something that great.

I’m not saying to reward 300% magic find. I’m saying do something about the obsolete luck. Whether its giving it another use, or just remove it from the game post 300%.

The problem with removing it however, is it could still be used to level artificing to level 25. I honestly could care less about artificing to level 1-25 though.

i understand. I’m just saying I hope it is not ground breaking. I find it pretty silly to spend everyday buying greens and blues of trading post to salvage.

not only that, it’ll boost the price of low level gear. people that arn’t 300 already can’t take advantage of it any more if they actaully make those essence ground breaking after 300.

Its going to be another questionable item in the game for me to decide whether to destroy, or save and hope they do something with it… Like ascended rings, but at least they have vendor value.

Add a new achieve for hitting 300% base luck, achieve reward is a tool that grinds up exotic lucks into loot bags like Mawdrey II. This way there’s no change to luck in it’s current form and people who cap can get rid of it without feeling like they’re deleting stuff or getting less gains from salvage.

Asgaeroth.6427:

Add a new achieve for hitting 300% base luck, achieve reward is a tool that grinds up exotic lucks into loot bags like Mawdrey II. This way there’s no change to luck in it’s current form and people who cap can get rid of it without feeling like they’re deleting stuff or getting less gains from salvage.

Yeah this would be an excellent solution.

Rogue.7856:

Its going to be another questionable item in the game for me to decide whether to destroy, or save and hope they do something with it… Like ascended rings, but at least they have vendor value.

If you keep them, be sure to use an artificer to compact them into the higher-value versions (to store more easily)

It’d make the most sense, IMO, if it just stopped dropping once you hit cap. Maybe that’s hard to code though? I wonder why they haven’t done that with other items that are account bound and have limited use, such as the special Spoon drops.

How about a mystic forge recipe for 500 of the exotic lucks to be combined with some random mini pet or fetch quest (mawdrey) thing that eats luck and gives you a ‘gift’ of something – these seem to be popular for Anet.

My personal prefer would be karma coversion. it doesn’t even need to be much, but I’m having a karma shortage here. Best I seem to get is 374 karma per event…

Lil Puppy.5216:

How about a mystic forge recipe for 500 of the exotic lucks to be combined with some random mini pet or fetch quest (mawdrey) thing that eats luck and gives you a ‘gift’ of something – these seem to be popular for Anet.

I honestly wouldn’t mind this idea either. Anything they do would be better than the way it is currently.

I’d vote for allowing Mawdrey (or another item) to convert luck into random items the player can then salvage or sell, similar to what Bloodstone Dust does now.

Zaxares.5419:

I’d vote for allowing Mawdrey (or another item) to convert luck into random items the player can then salvage or sell, similar to what Bloodstone Dust does now.

I like this idea, like 100Luck= 1 bag of lucky goodies! (mostly junk items LOL)

Gift of Mawdrey II loot table is actually pretty decent, even though I always get crap there’s a chance for lodestones and foxfire cluster… there should be similar items or places you could try your luck daily to sink huge piles of unused items (Mithril Ores and Elder Woods I’m lucking at ya!).

Reference: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_from_Mawdrey_II#Crafting_materials

They could make a new sigil/rune that requires luck to craft. They could also make a unique stat combination on equipment that requires luck to make. This would only be a temproary solution though (especially if its something useless)

As one of the early adopters of 300% MF and a 11% bonus from achievement points, I have collected more than my fair share of unusable luck, I want to thank each and everyone for speaking up and posting. It is my hope that the something actually comes from your post, and does not fall on deaf ears.

Just wait moonglum, pretty soon there will be millions of people with maxed out luck, then things will get angry.

Rogue.7856:

So I’m closing in on 300% MF. Will hit it by end of this week. So my question is what do I do with luck? Just destroy it?

A couple suggestions for devs.

1. Allow them to be salvaged into a mat like Piles of Crystalline Dust
2. Create a luck vendor that you can trade for items or different currencies
3. Allow luck to be vendored off for small amount of gold like junk items
4. Stop dropping it after 300% (Not my favorite choice, but still better than having to destroy it infinitely each time you salvage)

wow already at 300 ? dude that’s crazy i’m still at 163% i think lol you’re a madman

Once you hit max MF, essence of luck become consumables.

Fine EoL: +10% MF for 30 minutes
Masterwork EoL: +25% MF for 30 minutes
Rare EoL: +25% MF for 1 hour
Exotic EoL: +50% MF for 1 hour
Legendary EoL: +50% MF for 3 hours

After 300% luck should decay. Let people go beyond it they want but you’ll have grind harder to stay beyond 300%.

this is the last thing anet should be worried about.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

this is the last thing anet should be worried about.

I disagree. This is something that the company should have anticipated and planned for. There should have been something in place when they incorporated essences into the game, then there would have been no issues. But they wait, and wait, until it becomes an issue.

Ok I Did It.2854:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Essences-of-Luck/first#post4474003

For those who don’t read it, it basically says allow us to decide what the essences boost,

Karma
XP Gain
WvW XP

Gold boost was left out due the problems it could cause to the market with no money sink etc,

All they had to do was add a little check mark beside each one of these that you can select ( note you can only boost 1 at a time ) the coding is already in place for this, its just a matter of allowing us to select which we want to boost, and let it follow the same pattern as MF.

No not a check mark. Do you know how long that would take for each one of them to have to be clicked then checked then click again? What would be better than that is making a vendor that you can turn in your Essence of Luck to and choose between Karma, XP, WvW XP or just do the regular double click to get the luck.

nopoet.2960:

After 300% luck should decay. Let people go beyond it they want but you’ll have grind harder to stay beyond 300%.

No no no!

No no no!

No no no!

Decaying mechanics is a poison in MMOs that should be avoided at all costs.

Rogue.7856:

So I’m closing in on 300% MF.

I’d imagine an extremely small percentage of players have hit this mark. Small, like the equivalent of Precursor drop rates. So GJ!! but, I doubt they’d do anything with essence of luck until more players hit the mark.

Gibson.4036:

Once you hit max MF, essence of luck become consumables.

Fine EoL: +10% MF for 30 minutes
Masterwork EoL: +25% MF for 30 minutes
Rare EoL: +25% MF for 1 hour
Exotic EoL: +50% MF for 1 hour
Legendary EoL: +50% MF for 3 hours

This is the best suggestion here, though I’d actually lower the durations / adjust effects, because a player’s ability to earn essences far outstrips their ability to spend it at those.

Fine: 10% for 5 minutes.
Masterwork: 20% for 5 minutes
Rare: 30% for 10 minutes
Exotic: 50% for 30 minutes
Legendary: 100% for 1 hour.

Also, add it to some crafting / mystic forge recipes.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

Gibson.4036:

Once you hit max MF, essence of luck become consumables.

Fine EoL: +10% MF for 30 minutes
Masterwork EoL: +25% MF for 30 minutes
Rare EoL: +25% MF for 1 hour
Exotic EoL: +50% MF for 1 hour
Legendary EoL: +50% MF for 3 hours

This is the best suggestion here, though I’d actually lower the durations / adjust effects, because a player’s ability to earn essences far outstrips their ability to spend it at those.

Fine: 10% for 5 minutes.
Masterwork: 20% for 5 minutes
Rare: 30% for 10 minutes
Exotic: 50% for 30 minutes
Legendary: 100% for 1 hour.

That still wouldn’t utilize all the luck received. Don’t really dig it as an idea either.

Add a consumable recipe in the cooking crafting profession that creates food that temporarily increases MF.

Make the food cost A LOT of exotic essences to craft, and make the food actually worth using.
(so players will want to eat the food)

And please don’t make the food account bound or soul bound or any of that dumb crap.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a consumable recipe in the cooking crafting profession that creates food that temporarily increases MF.

Make the food cost A LOT of exotic essences to craft, and make the food actually worth using.
(so players will want to eat the food)

And please don’t make the food account bound or soul bound or any of that dumb crap.

Actually, a food idea like this would make more sense as account-bound than anything else. Any idea for luck use that is available to people who haven’t reached 300% has the potential to be too enticing and end up driving people away from consuming it as intended.

Labjax.2465:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Add a consumable recipe in the cooking crafting profession that creates food that temporarily increases MF.

Make the food cost A LOT of exotic essences to craft, and make the food actually worth using.
(so players will want to eat the food)

And please don’t make the food account bound or soul bound or any of that dumb crap.

Actually, a food idea like this would make more sense as account-bound than anything else. Any idea for luck use that is available to people who haven’t reached 300% has the potential to be too enticing and end up driving people away from consuming it as intended.

There is already plenty of different types of Magic Find food. I’d much rather see it salvageable into another material, or become a material or currency of its own.

TBH I have a funny feeling there will eventually be a level 500 chef and when it does it will use essence of luck to craft a new level of magic find food. I could be wrong though. Omnomberry + Essence of luck for 50% magic find and 40% gold from monsters anyone?

Loved the Halloween Event Thank you ANET. I noticed you made an item to eat the Candy Corn. It is a great step in the right direction. Would it be possible to do something like that with the “Essences of Luck”? I currently have 2988 Exotic Essences that are currently unusable. A picture is worth a 1000 words.