Guild Wars 2

I think all form of trinkets should be available from either karma or dungeon. I mean newcomers come to the game and once they reach lvl 80 what do they do? They start trying to get exotics, and guess what, i.e. knight’s trinkets are only available through either paying 4.5g each on tp, rng, or guild commendations + 5g, how the hell are they supposed to get their preferred gear if it’s all freakin expensive and takes at least 2 or more weeks to get. Wasn’t Guild Wars 2 supposed to be anti-grind on items like these (items that give equality)?

Craft it.

I made a post just a few days ago in the moderator/dev suggested thread about new stat combo types— concerning this. I asked why don’t we have every stat type craftable only with mats (or combinations) for each. No more karma/dungeon only stuff or laurel/guild commendation only stuff.

So are you telling me a newcomer has to craft all the way to 400 and then get orichalcum (which respawns daily) just to get (probably) one exotic trinket per day ( this thinking that he can get the 5 orbs to craft it)

Shizlam.4310:

So are you telling me a newcomer has to craft all the way to 400 and then get orichalcum (which respawns daily) just to get (probably) one exotic trinket per day ( this thinking that he can get the 5 orbs to craft it)

What exactly is so strange about that? Many people who bought the game when it launched did just that.

Orichalcum nodes actually respawn faster than that but for most people it doesn’t make a difference. They can also be obtained when salvaging high level gear.

When the game was launched the prices were all low, its was easy as heck to get full exotic in 2 days, i know, i was there. Oris can be obtained by salvage but it’s still a pretty low rate, it takes now around 1-2 weeks for someone without money to get certain trinkets.
And we still got the Orbs problem.

Shizlam.4310:

I think all form of trinkets should be available from either karma or dungeon. I mean newcomers come to the game and once they reach lvl 80 what do they do? They start trying to get exotics, and guess what, i.e. knight’s trinkets are only available through either paying 4.5g each on tp, rng, or guild commendations + 5g, how the hell are they supposed to get their preferred gear if it’s all freakin expensive and takes at least 2 or more weeks to get. Wasn’t Guild Wars 2 supposed to be anti-grind on items like these (items that give equality)?

They should play their favourited content and buy it with ingame currency. If you can’t wait half a day for buying them, that’s another problem.

A new comer should got for 100% map completion before anything.
While at it he should gather from every node and kill every mob he comes across.

On the (half) way there (100% map) he’ll reach level 80, by that time all those mats and loot sold on the TP will be enough to afford a full set of exotic armor, weapons and trinkets from the TP.

No repeating content, no replaying areas, no grind.

Now the problem is people want it YESTERDAY so they’ll happily farm the same content to exhaustion because it’s the fastest way to get exp and/or gold, and then cry about how grindy it is.

Shizlam.4310:

So are you telling me a newcomer has to craft all the way to 400 and then get orichalcum (which respawns daily) just to get (probably) one exotic trinket per day ( this thinking that he can get the 5 orbs to craft it)

yes, like we all did.

Algreg.3629:

Shizlam.4310:

So are you telling me a newcomer has to craft all the way to 400 and then get orichalcum (which respawns daily) just to get (probably) one exotic trinket per day ( this thinking that he can get the 5 orbs to craft it)

yes, like we all did.

I did get to 400, but I didn’t bother crafting any trinkets for my characters.

I just went directly to the ascended trinkets. The prices have become so insanely high due to inflation, speculation and less offer because most of the people will rather use the materials to slowly get ascended than sell them, that getting trinkets with guild missions, badges of honor, laurels and fractals is much more fun and way, way, faster.

By the time I had reached jeweler 400, 5 of my characters had ascended amulets, rings and accessories.

Not back items, though. Without using the trading post, getting one of those requires either a lot of time in fractals and salvaging quite some ecto, or years of grinding level 80 enemies for fine materials that will probably never drop in less than 5 years.

For those is way better just to make do with the exotic ones from Orr. Those are at least realistically attainable and always available.