Guild Wars 2

So after about a week of grinding for the new spiffy luminescent glove skin, I’m officially burned out with the whole SW map. Not complaining about the map, I originally loved the new map and it’s new mechanics. Like a new song that’s fresh and awesome it gets overplayed until the point that’s nauseous. That’s about how I feel about the new map.

Why? Well probably due to design I got on the “gotta-complete-the-set” train because I got the shoulders skin so easily. This is probably all due to original Anet design, but it’s getting kinda crazy. I’ve played every day since last patch for about an hour doing just SW. I’ve killed numerous breach bosses and got an extracted part but no fangs. I’ve farmed many crests and have enough to but at least one more glove box, but I’m holding off until I have the rest of the collection in case I get another via the Labyrinth.
I originally thought the SW events would go quicker and have more breach boss spawns, but it seems I’m not the only one getting burned out because more fortresses are being lost to the Mordrem.

Now I’m grateful for new content and new armor skins that aren’t TP and I’m not trying to sound jaded about it. But with the trend being set this patch acquiring the next 4 of the set feels hellish and not very player-friendly. I hope that Anet rethinks some of the plans and makes things a bit more streamline (yeah, wishful thinking) I’m not looking forward to kill countless breach bosses to get whatever the 6th extracted Mordrem part is. Guess I gotta learn a lot more patience.

When they introduced the new modrem part extractor it guaranteed you could get the first parts you missed, the shoulder parts.

One can only assume there’ll be a new mordrem extractor with the new update that provides you with what you need to get the parts you need.

Which means you don’t have to farm it now, you can just wait and play what you want.

If you don’t want to deal with the RNG of the extractor, simply stop trying. Either just play it and casually acquire it or wait until the next patch when the specialized extractor for fangs will be released.

If you want to speed up your breaches however, try guesting to other servers.

I know about the specified extraction thingy and that part doesn’t bother me so much. As long as they continue to do that and don’t make the extractor hard/expensive to get. Just need to be patient. The worrysome part is The 10,000 bandit crests I’d have to farm if they continue to do things the same way for the next patches. I don’t believe they will, but it’s a concern.

I completed my set:

• medium gloves from story
• heavy gloves from bandit crests
• light gloves from PvP reward track

There were days when I didn’t even step foot into the Silverwastes – and now suddenly I have 2000+ bandit crests (and ~50 keys) left with nothing to buy (by which I mean, I have all the skins and recipes and can use these leftovers towards whatever appears next).

Keep in mind that there are still other ways of getting the glove skins (nightmare chest, PvP). The PvP track also drops bandit crests I think, so you effectively get more than just 1 skin from completing it once.

Also keep in mind that finding a good or even great Silverwaste map (LFG) seriously reduces the grind.

And IF you want/need to crunch it, you can run around and tag as many events as possible instead of defending a single fort, and bandit crests will pile up twice as fast. (Not to mention that you will stumble across more bandit chests.)

Lastly, keep in mind that in the next two updates, there might be even more ways to get the remaining skins – some might be obtainable from the story with alts again, or may be achievement rewards, or something completely different.

So I think there’s a lot of options here, so you don’t necessarily HAVE to grind 10k bandit crests.

Personally i totally ignored the last update, and will maybe ignore also the next
since in the end i only want the light chest piece. And i’m still to annoyed about
the unfixed bugs in the last part of the story of part 5.

Maybe this is also the reason i liked PS1 more .. when they removed the temp content
mostly you also already had seen it enough and wanted something else.

Ppl rush to get all three skin right away with bandit crest and complain again the extractor. Don’t get why seriously.

I play the map because its fun, diversified and really rewarding. I plan to hold on to my crest until they released all 18 pieces of the armor. Got 2 pieces from the story, 2 from drop and 1 from the PvP reward track without never using any crest. The extractor are worth using even if you don’t need any organ. They give you more crest when you sold them to the guys than the extractor cost, so you can just use extractor each time you do the breach for the additional crest and from time to time you get the organ you need for the collection. We probably gonna have 2 more updates in that map, don’t stress yourself and rush to get all pieces right aways or you’ll probably gonna get one of the pieces you already have latter in a drop.

Fantastic.

after about a week of grinding

Reason why OP and many others hate SW.

They grind, and later complain that they hate something.
Hilarious.

Remember, the content is sticking around. Long term goal. RNG will be eliminated as we get the special extractors and the rest can be received from playing the game. You don’t have to get the set right away (I say this, but personally I am). As long as the map doesn’t die (I really hope it doesn’t) then you can get all the stuff you need months from now if you wish. That way you can just come back and play the map when you feel like it and not get so burned out.

So glad I have an 80 of each weight class so I don’t have to pay 1k crests each time

emikochan.8504:

So glad I have an 80 of each weight class so I don’t have to pay 1k crests each time

You still have to pay for the other two glove skins (or do pvp or get luck with the greater nightmare chest).

RoseofGilead.8907:

emikochan.8504:

So glad I have an 80 of each weight class so I don’t have to pay 1k crests each time

You still have to pay for the other two glove skins (or do pvp or get luck with the greater nightmare chest).

They also drop from bandit chests.

For some players the RNG chest chances may as well not exist because they can pretty much guarantee they will not obtain anything in that manner.

I was feeling that getting all 3 sets would be daunting so I looked at all 3, how they look on my characters, and decided that really I like the heavy set the best, so will get that with LS play-through. I may get other pieces for light/medium but will do so at my own pace and not worry about grinding it out.

I’m more disgusted with the grind for amberite weapons recipes. I HATE Dry Top – it’s so utterly boring to grind out 400 geodes for each recipe. And there is NO other way to get them. I may never use the 2 fossilized insects I have, since I seemingly can’t even force myself to go into that area for more than 10 mins :-[

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I’m more disgusted with the grind for amberite weapons recipes. I HATE Dry Top – it’s so utterly boring to grind out 400 geodes for each recipe. And there is NO other way to get them. I may never use the 2 fossilized insects I have, since I seemingly can’t even force myself to go into that area for more than 10 mins :-[

Amen to that. I made two of the weapons. I won’t be attempting to make anymore.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I’m more disgusted with the grind for amberite weapons recipes. I HATE Dry Top – it’s so utterly boring to grind out 400 geodes for each recipe. And there is NO other way to get them. I may never use the 2 fossilized insects I have, since I seemingly can’t even force myself to go into that area for more than 10 mins :-[

Well count yourself lucky. In all the time I’ve played in Dry Top (and it’s considerable) I have yet to get a single fossilized insect.

Sad to have those recipes and not even be able to use them. :’(

Peace.

There’s a PvP reward track for fossilized insects, too.

This last chapter actually was really lucky for me. I’m one of those people who have been playing since start and I only started randomly getting named drops about 5 months ago. That being said, this chapter I managed to get a glove box as a drop from the greater chest and a shoulder box from Platinum reward within an hour of each other.

I agree though that the grind is irritating for the 1000 badges and I wish they would bring back the previous chapters system. Or at least allow people to sell their boxes if they are dropped (not purchased) because I already had shoulders done and would have liked to sell it to other players.