Glorious armor too.
You can buy all the weapon skins from TP and they don’t even cost that much when the per 1 ticket is still active at the BL trader. Totally obtainable in-game.
Claiming anything else is just pure denial.
Fair point. So then we can go into the ridiculous grindfest to get them?
Glorious armor – grindfest? Agreed. Unless of course you love PvP, which many do.
Carapace – grindfest? Sure, if you want all the weights and pieces. Otherwise, nah.
Luminescent – grindfest? A-yep.
BL weapons – grindfest? If you need them all, sure. Just one, though? Starting from ~50g or even less on a buy order. Nah. If it takes you longer than a couple of days to make 50 gold you’re doing something wrong.
You ninja edited so I will too:
It all depends on your expectations. If you want to collect everything in an MMO, you cannot avoid the grind. That just doesn’t work. 50-100gp for an exclusive weapon skin is not grindy.
Not to mention then collecting full sets of something is what for many people an mmo is about your statement only holds true f you would indeed look at one specific thing.
Yes if you only would like for example the dragon helm then it’s true, then it’s not that big of a grind and doable. It’s a grind but doable.
The problem of course is that so many things in this game are a gold grind so you might want this helm, the gloves from another set, a mini, a toy, the flying carpet and so on and so on. And that’s why it’s a never ending gold-grind even when you are no a collector.
It’s how the game is designed. Many items are put in the cash-shop so they require buying them (what is not playing) or grinding gold. Some items in-game tent to also be best obtainable with gold (or another currency) because working directly towards them (like getting them from a drop or a reward for completing a dungeon or a JP or whatever) is not possible or nearly impossible with most of the item.
Any new item added in this way simply adds to that grind and so you can’t simply look at it as that one thing that you would then have to grind 50/80 gold for once. It’s not how the game works.
“If you want to collect everything in an MMO, you cannot avoid the grind.” It of course depends on how you define grind but in many mmo’s you can work directly towards items, in case of rng drop that might still mean farming but it’s not so that in all those other mmo’s grinding a currency is the main way to obtain items or collections like it is the main way to do it in GW2.
