Guild Wars 2

When they started adding these repeatable hearts I feared this day might come.

Currently in the demo two necessary things are locked behind repeatable hearts: gear identification and the acquisition of keys for the (plentiful) chests strewn around the world. And we can only guess at what else will require doing dailies later on.

In my humble opinion one of the worst misfeatures introduced (or at least “popularized”) by WoW were daily quests, which quickly ended up mandatory for progression as well as a crutch and substitute for actual quality content. And now these things appear to be creeping into GW2

I get that some people enjoy redoing hearts, but I don’t. I’ve had enough of boring daily quests from my years of playing WoW to last me a lifetime (or more).

Please consider making the vendor portion of a heart always available to anyone who’s completed the heart at least once on that character. (wouldn’t mind for this to also apply to LS3 but the issue appears to be a lot worse in PoF from what I have seen so far)

Actually it is possible to get the keys without doing the heart. Personally I completed the little achievement of opening 20 chests and i only bought 5 keys from the vendor (5 is maximum per day I guess)

Ugh, why are they bringing back the worst of GW1 into GW2?

Come on Arenanet. GW2 was supposed to innovate and in many ways it did successfully. But this is a major step backwards.

flog.3485:

Actually it is possible to get the keys without doing the heart. Personally I completed the little achievement of opening 20 chests and i only bought 5 keys from the vendor (5 is maximum per day I guess)

I’m aware you can get them from drops (and/or event rewards, possibly) but given the amount of chests I saw while cruising around I fear just getting them from events will mean you’re always short.

marelooke.9708:

flog.3485:

Actually it is possible to get the keys without doing the heart. Personally I completed the little achievement of opening 20 chests and i only bought 5 keys from the vendor (5 is maximum per day I guess)

I’m aware you can get them from drops (and/or event rewards, possibly) but given the amount of chests I saw while cruising around I fear just getting them from events will mean you’re always short.

Sure but in the other hand, if the drop rates is the same as the drop rate of keys found in HoT areas, there is really no need to buy them from vendors then.

You’ll have 500 crowbars in no time! But now its keys!