Guild Wars 2

Back in the fall, it was announced that the way precursors were aquired would be changed to be more akin to a scavenger hunt in order to reduce the amount of randomness currently present, there your only real choise is to grind gold for months nonstop (funny, i once heard that grind was not supposed to be how this game was run, and yet so far it is one of the most grindy mmo’s I have ever played…..), or just pray, hard, and pray that it works too, for lady luck to grace you with a precursor so you can actually proceed with your legendary weapon.

However, since then there has been no new statements on the matter, and it was completely glossed over in the 2013 preview today, so question to the devs is; When will we get any news or updates on this?!

We already have:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

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.

Some of these additions will come as early as the January release, and will get covered in more detail in the next week or two as well release all the details about this release once testing has signed off it’s all ready to go in January. (we’ll also provide a high level summary of our goals with reward systems, etc. in our 2013 blog post, which should be out next week)

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Search function on the front, please use it. Being lazy is a poor excuse.

i m not worrying about precursors at this point. 500 ectos, 250*8 tier 6 mats, clover RNG bug me more.

awesome TheDaiBish.9735, thanks!

Meh, the ectos are not that bad, at least you have a consistent way of getting them, whereas the precursors are annoying due to how they are about blind luck, or endless gold grind. Getting at least 10 ectos per fractal run atm.