Guild Wars 2

I know this has been stated before and to be fair, I couldn’t care less.

I am just sick of having to farm Silverwastes for Spirit Shards. It’s the only map I have seen in the past week because I want to try and finish off my Legendary but oh wait..

I got 200 for my Scroll BUT I need Clovers.. Then again, I need to turn my Cores into Lodestones? Great so that’s more weeks added onto of the “No Grinding” System.

Stated a few times to Guildies that I would gladly buy a Dusk just so I can trade it for Spirit Shards. Can we just have another system so it gives us a little bit more of a chance of obtaining them?

Gold – Shards?
Exp – Shards?
Gems – Shards?

cant you get alot of shards in SPvP?

Same, but its the only place in the game you can go to “all on your lonesome” to generate the things you need to stay viable in the game.

I haven’t even been here that long and already I find that scenes of it invade my dreams when I sleep at night :/

I guess this really depends on how close you are to the legendary, if you are still along way off from making it then I would just hold off on the clovers etc and work on farming mats etc, Spirit Shards also drop randomly throughout the game.

I agree that the change for Spirit Shards was pushed into game a little bit to early, they should have allowed you to continue getting them from levelling up past 80 until the expansion was released, that was poor judgement on there part.

Crimsonjr.4708:

Great so that’s more weeks added onto of the “No Grinding” System.

I don’t understand? YOU are 100% by chance grinding. You don’t need a legendary, ascended stats are the same. If you want to grind go grind, if you don’t want to then don’t. I do not see the problem.

Would you prefer getting a legendary be as easy as just getting it for killing a world boss or something? This is an mmorpg. You can play it how you want to. If getting a legendary was easier every single person would have one, there would be no time sink, no one would play the game and a legendary weapon wouldn’t be legendary and they might as well drop from bandits in queensdale

Ok, being super pedantic here.

I wouldn’t say that you’re “forced” to do anything. Grind is generally considered to be something that is largely unavoidable- e.g. “I have to farm this one particular enemy for these drops, so I can hand them in for this quest to level up”.

You get 3 spirit shards a day from daily. If you were willing to take your time, then you could just wait it out.

You also don’t need to turn your cores into lodestones. You could buy them from the TP as lodestones and avoid that expenditure. I’m sure you could farm the gold difference between cores and lodestones before you farmed enough shards for them all.

I think the best way to increase the ability of obtaining spirit shards would be just to increase their drop rate. I don’t think it would be a good option to have them tradable for another currency.

Sylent.3165:

Crimsonjr.4708:

Great so that’s more weeks added onto of the “No Grinding” System.

I don’t understand? YOU are 100% by chance grinding. You don’t need a legendary, ascended stats are the same. If you want to grind go grind, if you don’t want to then don’t. I do not see the problem.

Would you prefer getting a legendary be as easy as just getting it for killing a world boss or something? This is an mmorpg. You can play it how you want to. If getting a legendary was easier every single person would have one, there would be no time sink, no one would play the game and a legendary weapon wouldn’t be legendary and they might as well drop from bandits in queensdale

You do realize that you need SS to get augers stones for ascended gear also? I could careless if I ever get a legendary or not….In fact I debated about buying one out right on the TP. I just didn’t feel it was worth all that.

But on the same topic why can’t we acquire them where we get hero points? After all that is where most of you got yours along with scrolls and tomes….

Doesn’t leveling up after 80 give you spirit shards?

Nilkemia.8507:

Doesn’t leveling up after 80 give you spirit shards?

It does not.

Nilkemia.8507:

Doesn’t leveling up after 80 give you spirit shards?

No longer since the trait system patch

Spvp and dailies for tomes of knowledge. You can also purchase spirit shards directly with fractal relics. Daily achievements on their own give 3 shards.

I actually feel like spirit shards are now a viable currency, instead of being Karma 2.0.

Doing the PvP daily will give you 5 spirit shards if you also get one tome, which takes very little effort to get. They are very simple to do if you go to the daily PvP custom areas.

I guess I was lucky.

Firebaall.5127:

I guess I was lucky.

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

Kamara.4187:

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

It’s just an example of how badly thought out Anet’s game changes are. They should at the VERY least bring back a reward (a shard) for leveling past 80. They should also replace the shards as frequently as they rewarded scrolls of knowledge:

….that’s a lot of shards worth.

You don’t “Have” to do anything.

You just choose to farm :P

The Tee Why.4807:

You don’t “Have” to do anything.

You just choose to farm :P

Chose to farm or be left out of content. There are your two choices.
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And Firebaall that would be nice because the current system suxxors.

Maybe you´re doing it wrong?

As I have learned from multiple threads here, the modern hipster of today does not farm. He buys, and is leaving that pesky crafting stuff to peasants, because a job at a big fast food shop gets you all the money you need to buy a legendary at a much better effort/result equation.

And I am only partly jocking here. Sadly.

Kamara.4187:

Firebaall.5127:

I guess I was lucky.

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

I doubt it. You most likley make your money from TP or selling dungeon, that’s why you are short in spirit shards.

Since you should be short in gold and not spirit shards.

I’m short in spirit shards too but that is only because I make most of my money from TP. For other activities I gain more spirit shard than I do money.

Kamara.4187:

The Tee Why.4807:

You don’t “Have” to do anything.

You just choose to farm :P

Chose to farm or be left out of content. There are your two choices.

Do you think Spirit Shards are content?

Coulter.2315:

Kamara.4187:

The Tee Why.4807:

You don’t “Have” to do anything.

You just choose to farm :P

Chose to farm or be left out of content. There are your two choices.

Do you think Spirit Shards are content?

A better question is do you think the time spent developing the system to craft ascended gear along with the mats and what drops it in the loot tables wasn’t content developing which spirit shards are party to now that they have been made a requirement to procure for ascended?

Kamara.4187:

Firebaall.5127:

I guess I was lucky.

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

When the new system hit, i had 30 SS, i now have 500ish and i only have done SW like for a few hours here and there for like 2 weeks.

You’re doing it wrong OP

Zev.3407:

Kamara.4187:

Firebaall.5127:

I guess I was lucky.

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

When the new system hit, i had 30 SS, i now have 500ish and i only have done SW like for a few hours here and there for like 2 weeks.

You’re doing it wrong OP

Then your not really needing to spend yours letting them stack up like that because I spend them as fast as I can get them which cost me 20 for every piece of ascended I make.

You may have done SW here and there but surely that’s not all you did? how many scrolls and tomes did you have sitting in the bank also? Because I’m here to tell you I run the kitten out of SW for many long hours several times a week and I don’t think mine add up to that many?

Aquiring a legendary was meant to be a journey, hence the lengthy process. It was meant to be a prestigious item, which it was in the beginning 2013/2014, but now one can just purchase one if you have the coin.
There isnt any other way to make it a time consuming journey, hence your feeling of grind since you want the item now. At least in the expansion new legendaries will be non tradable and you have to do quests in order to unlock them – unlike spirit shards which is a system favoring those who have played the longest/veterans.

Kamara.4187:

Chose to farm or be left out of content. There are your two choices.

What content are you being left out of?

nacario.9417:

Aquiring a legendary was meant to be a journey, hence the lengthy process. It was meant to be a prestigious item, which it was in the beginning 2013/2014, but now one can just purchase one if you have the coin.
There isnt any other way to make it a time consuming journey, hence your feeling of grind since you want the item now. At least in the expansion new legendaries will be non tradable and you have to do quests in order to unlock them – unlike spirit shards which is a system favoring those who have played the longest/veterans.

I think the precursors will still drop though. It’s just that now you can also get them via the collections. But each collection can only be completed once.

Kamara.4187:

Zev.3407:

Kamara.4187:

Firebaall.5127:

I guess I was lucky.

Yes most of you were because you had a more forgiving system, and thanks for adding salt to the wound….

When the new system hit, i had 30 SS, i now have 500ish and i only have done SW like for a few hours here and there for like 2 weeks.

You’re doing it wrong OP

Then your not really needing to spend yours letting them stack up like that because I spend them as fast as I can get them which cost me 20 for every piece of ascended I make.

You may have done SW here and there but surely that’s not all you did? how many scrolls and tomes did you have sitting in the bank also? Because I’m here to tell you I run the kitten out of SW for many long hours several times a week and I don’t think mine add up to that many?

I have like 45 tok in my bank atm, havent used any of them since that patch, i rarely do dailies unless its just by my normal play. i play alot of eotm and pvp.

you can get them from any (champ?)bag, not just from sw. Try just playing noramlly and not grinding for it, you’ll enjoy the game way more and be pleasently surprised how much ss you have.

Kamara.4187:

The Tee Why.4807:

You don’t “Have” to do anything.

You just choose to farm :P

Chose to farm or be left out of content. There are your two choices.

What content is there which requires a legendary? Even ascended is only needed for high level Fractals.

I think it’s worth remembering that legendaries are supposed to be long-term goals for end-game players. It’s not supposed to be quick or easy regardless of how you go about doing it. Mine took me a year and a half, from the point when I decided I was going to work on one, and I already had a few parts before then.

You can choose to get stuff quickly, you can choose to get stuff economically, or you can choose not to get stuff. You can’t choose to get stuff easily and fast.

There isn’t any content that requires spirit shards. Some gear requires spirit shards and you will get them, eventually, by completing maps and doing dailies and yes, opening up champ bags.

The only reason you need to farm them is if you are in an incredible rush to get something. And, if you’re in a rush, you should expect to pay extra in terms of effort or coin. There are very few currencies, aside from coins, for which you can easily increase your acquisition rate. You can’t farm dungeon tokens, geodes, spirit shards, laurels, or a variety of other currencies very quickly.

tl;dr the issue is that the OP wants something now and it was designed so that it couldn’t be acquired that fast.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

You can choose to get stuff quickly, you can choose to get stuff economically, or you can choose not to get stuff. You can’t choose to get stuff easily and fast.

There isn’t any content that requires spirit shards. Some gear requires spirit shards and you will get them, eventually, by completing maps and doing dailies and yes, opening up champ bags.

The only reason you need to farm them is if you are in an incredible rush to get something. And, if you’re in a rush, you should expect to pay extra in terms of effort or coin. There are very few currencies, aside from coins, for which you can easily increase your acquisition rate. You can’t farm dungeon tokens, geodes, spirit shards, laurels, or a variety of other currencies very quickly.

tl;dr the issue is that the OP wants something now and it was designed so that it couldn’t be acquired that fast.

Pretty much this.

What does this thread even mean, why are you going on about ‘no-grind’. Legendaries was anets away of tossing a bone to those who do enjoy setting long term goals, and grinding them out, but the entire rest of the game there is little to no grind at all. What I’m wondering is why pick one of these -few- things you have to grind for, and fixate on it? No one is forcing you to buy a legendary. Ridiculous thread.

Crimsonjr.4708:

I know this has been stated before and to be fair, I couldn’t care less.

I am just sick of having to farm Silverwastes for Spirit Shards. It’s the only map I have seen in the past week because I want to try and finish off my Legendary but oh wait..

I got 200 for my Scroll BUT I need Clovers.. Then again, I need to turn my Cores into Lodestones? Great so that’s more weeks added onto of the “No Grinding” System.

Stated a few times to Guildies that I would gladly buy a Dusk just so I can trade it for Spirit Shards. Can we just have another system so it gives us a little bit more of a chance of obtaining them?

Gold – Shards?
Exp – Shards?
Gems – Shards?

I have everything I need to make the Flameseeker Prophecies, bar The Chosen, I hate that I have to grind gold to buy one, or I could try my luck on the MF, or pray to RNGsus to let it drop for me, yeah you are right, I have CJ standing next to me asking why I’m in bed on my phone, when I should be grinding out the gold. Id best get up and start, as I’m being forced to do it………..

Not sure why you MUST farm spirit shards? You can choose how you play the game. The way I play has nothing to do with spirit shards. Whatever you WANT them for, you don’t NEED them.

With you’re reasoning, I’m FORCED to play sPvP in order to get the rank 80 emote that I obviously MUST have or the game will be unplayable….