Guild Wars 2

Since Anet intended on having players experience all aspects of the game for Legendary crafting, having a WvW rank requirement is justified. People who craft Legendaries should be experienced in “battle” before being able to obtain this gift. This would apply to SPvP as well. So with that said, the following adjustments would be recommended:

Gift of Battle
WvW Rank 50 + 500 Badges (no Silver or Gold needed)
SPvP Rank 10

Both these changes do not amount to hardcore PvPing. WvW rank 50 and SPvP rank 10 are attainable through normal play. They are not so high as to discourage people from getting the gift, yet not so low as to being a joke. This would be a good balance. Also, the current cost of 50 Silver for the gift makes no sense. We already have enough of a Gold Sink in other gift requirements. The Gift of Battle should be focused primarily on “battle” requirements.

Selling my Gift of Battle 1500g (send me everything else too) lol

Support, Legendary is for legendary feats, WvW players have to suffer pve to get legenday is only fair for pve players to suffer WvW. Rank 100 sounds right.

I’d rather the boosted the rank in WvW required to 50 and dropped the map exploration requirements in WvW. That would mean that you had to play WvW (or buy from the vendor, I suppose if you must) properly, rather than wasting time simply waiting for your server to hold the points you need. It might also help with the complaints from WvWers that PvErs have no place in their game. Sure, they’d come for the ranks, but by rank 50 you’re at least contributing, rather than simply gathering WPs, POIs and vistas. And it might encourage more people to stay and get good at WvW. I never did it and started out collecting WPs and found that really boring. But when EOTM came out and I went back in and just played, I found I really enjoyed it. To me, it would be a better way of encouraging players into WvW and producing strong WvWers in the process.

I don’t really enjoy PvP, so I’m not too keen on the idea of a rank requirement here, particularly since you can’t actually use a legendary in PvP anyway, so I feel the modes here are totally separate. But I wouldn’t object to having to get rank 10 for a legendary either. Seems fair enough.

Lucyfer.9517:

Support, Legendary is for legendary feats, WvW players have to suffer pve to get legenday is only fair for pve players to suffer WvW. Rank 100 sounds right.

That is the problem right there, no one should suffer, its just a game >.>

Luckily I was able to stock up on some gift of battles now the rank requirements is temporarily gone, using BoH I gained with Achievement chests. All I have to do is explore there for gift of exploration, which is not that hard.

In your face wvw.

I’d rather they introduce new component substitutes so it’s possible to make legendaries without any pve, but I digress.

I believe the best option would be to have different ways of making a legendary. A player who solely plays wvw (or pvp/pve) should be able to make a legendary.

In my opinion anyway.

Letifer.4360:

Selling my Gift of Battle 1500g (send me everything else too) lol

Lol, I’m selling my 6 gifts of exploration for 100g each >:)

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I believe the best option would be to have different ways of making a legendary. A player who solely plays wvw (or pvp/pve) should be able to make a legendary.

In my opinion anyway.

Anet made it so that people had to experience all parts of the game before they could craft one. IMO, it’s too easy to make Legendaries at the moment. Legendary crafting should be hard and time consuming, which was the initial intent. But hardcore players showed Anet how dedicated they were to making them. I remember fondly how someone made one in Beta testing. Granted it was a Beta recipe, but that’s still an achievement.

And there are multiple option to obtain one. You can craft it yourself. You can buy it from the TP. Or you can win one from a player sponsored mega giveaway raffle.