Official Update on Precursor Crafting

Official Update on Precursor Crafting

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Posted by: Garrisyl.7402

Garrisyl.7402

This was just posted in the crafting sub-forum. Thought I’d share it here since many people never venture to those parts of the forum.

We want to let you know that the ability to build your precursor will not be in our upcoming Feature Pack. The way progression and rewards work in Guild Wars 2 have changed quite a bit since we initially talked about that feature, and our main horizontal progression systems are about to get some additional updates in the upcoming feature pack. Because of that, we are looking into several ways to integrate building your precursor into our new updated reward and progression systems we’re working on, which is requiring additional development time and iteration. As always, we’ll share details on this system once it’s far enough along in production we’re ready to discuss it.

I must say I’m disappointed. This is has been a most-wanted feature since several months after launch and has been confirmed for over year. Last autumn we were told that they might get it done before Christmas, but shortly before Christmas this changed to “probably not this year, but in one of the first patches next year.” Now this…

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Posted by: Cush.4063

Cush.4063

Although it is dissapointing, it sounds like we may finally be moving away from goldwars2. If that’s what they are referencing by change of progression in the game. Which would mean no more of gold being the only realistic way to get a particular item hopefully.

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Posted by: Nike.2631

Nike.2631

Although it is dissapointing, it sounds like we may finally be moving away from goldwars2. If that’s what they are referencing by change of progression in the game. Which would mean no more of gold being the only realistic way to get a particular item hopefully.

I’m not sure how you can call that “moving” in any direction .

“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
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