Guild Wars 2

You have hinted several times at a precursor scavenger hunt.
Please make this a priority.
You have given us so much free content updates and things to keep us busy, and we love you for it!
Please, please, end the ever-increasing cost of precursors.
In the whole game, I can count the number of dusks+dawns+legends available with just my fingers.
Nobody wants to waste 100s or 1000s of gold and all their hard work into the mystic toilet, only to never receive their precursors.

Signed Yours truly, a loving and devoted fanboy.

after seeing them listen to the players, raise drop rates in orr a few days back, then suddenly revert it all in the last patch… good luck. I don’t think we will ever see any change to the precursor lottery.

Would be great for it to be implemented sooner, rather than later..

I think the current legendaries aren’t legendary anymore since you can buy them. (or the precursor, or both)

Imo, they should leave current legendaries as what they are, wait for the game to have real epic challenge implemented, add a total new “hard to get precursor” system with completely new shiny weapons (be more creative than what they’ve done with the mystic forge) and more than everything make the new precursors account bound.

Ive been away from GW2 for a while. I take it from this post that the Flame/Frost event didnt bring in the new way to obtain precusor?

I have been thinking about trying to get a legendary, I am at that point where I have my main characters done and all I would have to do is start working towards in while doing the things I normally do. Then I looked at the TP prices, 500g + for some, and thought I am never going to get that much money or want to spend it.

If it was at about 100, I might have, but they are just stupidly high. My main problem is why they are so high, people are controlling the market on precursors.

My friend was trying to buy one and kept putting in buy orders, then someone kept upping the price by 1 copper to control who got the precursors.

Please Anet, make them drop more often so the price comes down or do something else. It is needed badly, as it is all being controlled with so few precursors around.

A priority over…

Bug fixes?
Class balances?
New content?

No thank you.

Joel.6587:

Ive been away from GW2 for a while. I take it from this post that the Flame/Frost event didnt bring in the new way to obtain precusor?

Of course not.

I’m not sure why people actually thought that the new patches would have anything to do with precursors when Colin was already backpedaling on his statements so soon after making them.

First he said this on Jan 11th:

Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.

People mistakenly interpreted this to mean “precursors would somehow be available through the new system”. I pointed out that Colin’s posts really doesn’t offer any details about how the new system would affect precursors, and that I rather doubted the new system would be related to precursors at all. And I was berated and chided for “doubting the staff” and “not reading what Colin said”.

Then he said this only five days later:

I just want to quickly clarify to set expectations, nothing in the blog post, nor nothing we’ve said anywhere has said you will be able to buy precursor items directly for crowns, this is not the case. We’ve simply said we’ll try and find some other places to add a chance to get them to the game until we’ve implemented the eventual precursor scavenger hunt.

And come release day, surprise! Absolutely nothing changed about precursors or the way they were obtained. And lo did my realism prove to be the smarter choice over other people’s blind optimism.

Oh hey, and since I want to make sure it’s known who called this and who was wrong, I think I’ll quote some of the people who helped make this victory possible.

TheDaiBish.9735:

I personally can’t see how you’d see:

• New reward system
• Rewarding across all parts of the game (read in my eyes as PvE, WvW, SPvP)
• New ways to earn precursors

As more RNG, when the only way to create precursors at the moment is through RNG.

A reward system, in my eyes, is a definite. You do something, you get rewarded for it.

Ehra.5240:

You said you don’t see how the new system will " fix the problem of precursors depending heavily on terrible loot tables." I think it’s safe to say that when a dev says they are working on a new reward system that will grant precursors, they mean that there will be a new way to obtain them that does not rely on you killing monsters until it drops. That is what “new reward system” tends to imply, that it will be different from the current method of obtaining them. But if you want to keep assuming it’s not going to change anything at all and when they say “new reward system” they actually mean “we’re just going to buff a few loot tables and call it a day” then I guess that works too.

Thank you both so much for your contributions!

The legendaries in GW2 don’t really feel legendary at all. Soo boring and random to get, they are crafted and you can even buy them in the trading post (and on other websites…). There are much better ways of a memorable method to obtain an awesome weapon.

Now you see all the myths surrounding Final Rest. That one weapon alone is already more legendary than every legendary item in GW2 combined.

I seriously don’t care about precursors, there are much bigger problems at hand then welding cool looking stuff

Ursan.7846:

A priority over…

Bug fixes?
Class balances?
New content?

No thank you.

YES a priority over exactly that.

-not everyone is into pvp (and some of us play mesmers because they are fun not to complain about 40% of their skills being bugged in PvE)
-the new content is worked on by different teams and or is already in the QA part
-fixing precursors even before SH is added is a simple as adding a few MF and crafting recipes and a few world drops
-not everyone gives a kitten about story either. Any new content short of an expansion will be finished very quickly while the growing disappointment that you can’t finish your shiny and/or have to work for it 35 times longer that most of the people that already have theirs (or 4+ in some cases) persists for some of the dedicated players

Did I mention how it was a easy fix without waiting for the SH. Or how the Flame and Frost ark seems to be planed out over MONTHS so they are clearly in no hurry to drown us in content.