Guild Wars 2

Seera.5916:

And you’ve completely missed the point in the 10+ gold complaint.

There isn’t one. Take your pve build and log in to wvw. I do. I don’t change gear (all zerker) or traits. I beat up some dolyaks, take some camps, see if anyone else joins to take keeps..

There is no 10 gold entry point.
What would you even get for 10 gold anyway? An exotic weapon and a half decent sigil?

1- you can go into WvW with any gear you want. You might die more but you may even learn how to play better. I personally roam and zerg with my full berserker thief. I am by no means a hardcore WvW’er as I enjoy all 3 game modes, but my last session of 2hrs I died twice. That’s not a lot really.

2- if what you state it’s too much buying new armor or buying some with dungeon tokens and just buying runes/sigils etc then I’ve got some real bad news when you actually start making a legendary.
If you want to make more legendarys you will need that armor longer than you think so maybe it is worth it afterall, if you think you need the armor in the first place, which you don’t.

Honestly, this whole Gift of Battle thing is being blown completely out of proportion. Had those who have sat in LA doing nothing, or doing yet another multiloot, or whatever you do for the umpteenth time, or check the forums for something to complain about, actually spent this time in WvW, you’d have the Gift that you’ve been complaining about.

WvW is a form of player vs player. To that extent it only seems fair that it should be added to the PvP tracks as well. Unfortunately, I doubt this will happen. Maybe from their logic keeping it a WvW track only forces ppl to try WvW and who knows maybe those ppl will enjoy it. I do not really enjoy it myself it just seems like a constant tug-of-war which eventually gets dull especially since it is usually the server/s with the largest amount of players that tends to win it. Gift of Battle SHOULD be added to the PvP track list… oh well.

echo.2053:

Seera.5916:

And you’ve completely missed the point in the 10+ gold complaint. A player who does not like WvW may not necessarily want to spend money on gear for WvW. Because they won’t ever play it outside of the 5-9 hours it takes them to get the Gift of Battle.

I’m also not saying it should be reversed to what it was or added to PvE somehow. It is only 5-9 hours and it is doable in all types of gear (it just may take longer). And those wishing to gear to shorten the time do only have to spend a relatively small amount of gold compared to the other amounts of gold needed for the legendary.

Which is why I think the Gift of Battle track should be added to PvP as well. Gives players another option if they really don’t want to play WvW and don’t want to buy the legendary out right.

And those of us who want a legendary but don’t want to farm for gold gain it slowly. I’ve been slowly working toward my first legendary for 2-3 years now. I’m even crafting my own precursor. I even earned my Gift of Exploration prior to the WvW being removed from map completion. I’m using the legendary as a goal to work toward. It won’t bother me if it takes me another 2 years to finish it out.

I can’t help but seriously doubt that you or these other players hunting for legendarys don’t have at least 1 character that is condi wearing rabid/dire gear after 2-3 years – I’m a condi necro would be able to tag pretty much everything and still have decent survival. If you are absolutely deadset on not changing a thing you could always still go into wvw with Zerker gear granted you might die more often – on the brightside it might help you learn to avoid damage and thus make you into a better player.

Added to Pvp – That is just silly. What makes you think adding it to spvp would lessen the whole ordeal when you already stated you aren’t good at pvp ( which is what spvp is) and gain anxiety about other player joining the fight (for which there are 4 others beside the one you are fighting)? DON’T BOTHER ANSWERING as I already aware of your intended goal – you want it to be made into a pvp track so that you can cheese the hell out of it using player public games to trade for dailies or queue into unranked forcing the other 4 to have to carry you.

Wait what???

I even earned my Gift of Exploration prior to the WvW being removed from map completion.

How the hell were you able to map all 4 wvw maps but was not able to get 500 badges at that time for the GoB? …. that takes alot of skill my friend….I mean you had to be actively avoiding rings that your own server was capturing to not be able to get that amount at the time.

2-3 year start….at 2-3 gold per a day I would bump estimated completion date to 8-10 years. Its perfectly fine if you want to go slow but if 10 gold is a huge set back (even for 5-9 hours) at least be realistic with yourself – I mean it’s the one piece of a legendary that doesn’t require money, you can salavage the stuff after you get the gift for ectos which you will need, as well as when you rank in wvw you gain money and loot back which you’ll more than likely earn most if not all that gold back in that time frame. I have absolutely zero intention for any type of bragging point but I started and completed 4 within your timeframe. Excluding 1 where the precursor dropped in pve for me and another precursor I got off the tp ( sharkspear because it was just cheap) – the remaining two I gave myself to obtain the pres solely via the magic forge both of which were the most expensive at the time, everything has kinda dropped and switched around as a result of this crafting nonsense. Each were started and finshed independant of one another and none taking more than a month to complete.

Despite what you may be thinking after reading that I was rather very casual – in fact I’m pretty confident that I have less total hours than you even though I preordered and not even sure that you did – as well as gained about a week and a half of time when I fell asleep in spvp matches overnight when they didn’t kick you back to lobby after so many games. Dry top, silverwaste, and all of the HOT maps are all loot maps whereas the years prior to their release Anet was on a binge nerfing anything/everything that gave too much loot. There isn’t really a reason why you can’t make enough gold – and I mean not by hardcore farming just casual play – where separating from 10 gold would make that big of an impact.

I have no problem with it being a WvW track. But I understand that some do and have offered a possible solution: adding it to the PvP reward track selection.

And I don’t have a single character geared for condition damage primarily. Mine are all a mix of berserker and assassins.

And I have my gift of battle. Got it before they changed the system at all thanks to the badges of honor being added to achievement point chests. I likely would have had to wait until this change to get it otherwise. I’m horrendous with PvP.

And my map completion was done slowly.

And like I said, I don’t think it should be added to PvE. 10 gold isn’t that much, but I can see and understand why that would irritate those who have already decided they don’t like WvW.

I’m 90% done with mine. I just need the precursor (on the crafting part with all of the wood and leather, not at home so can’t look it up) and crystalline dust for my gift of fortune. Finished up my icy runestones and the gift of meteorlogicus last night.

My future legendary weapons will be obtained through this new track and I’ll likely go in with a PvE build and see what I can do without having to invest time and money and inventory space. Or see if the daily reward reward track progress fills up fast enough for my liking for things like big spender or vet killer, etc.