Guild Wars 2

The idea is players can receive in addition to karma, a special currency when completing events in a region. This currency is used to purchase new recipes, pets, tonics, collectibles, etc, unique to that region.

Example:

Kryta Region

Currency: Seraph Badges (different from the trophies)

• Seraph Armor and Weapon recipes
• Miniature Centaur, Seraph Soldier, Bandit
• Centaur, Seraph Soldier, Bandit Tonics
• An Ascended Piece (after all Seraph Armor and Weapons have been collected)
• Kryta Collector Achievement Track, in the flavor of Bioluminescence

Just a suggestion for something farther down the line when the lull sets in many months after HoT.

I feel like that is counter intuitive… it wouldn’t make sense to retroactively add that into the game when most players already have stacks upon stacks of karma (I have nearly 1 mil) that they don’t know what to do with. throwing in that added currency would seem to be more constrictive to spending when what we need is more liberal spending and better things to spend our karma on.. more unique karma vendor weapon and armor skins would be ideal though, i agree on that point!

No. Just no. This game already has too many currencies to keep track of.

Ariurotl.3718:

No. Just no. This game already has too many currencies to keep track of.

^This.
Please, no more currencies.
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Ariurotl.3718:

No. Just no. This game already has too many currencies to keep track of.

^THIS^
As it is, HoT is going to introduce yet another set of tokens (or more?)
Thank goodness Anet gave us the wallet so at least they aren’t cluttering up inventory anymore.

The last thing this game needs, are even more currencies.

On the contrary, I think they should phase out some of the old ones. First example, pristine fractal relics. Remove them, convert everything bought via them to Fractal relic costs, done.

Adding new currencies isn’t a terrible idea; there is a reason why Arenanet introduces new currencies. However they are difficult to balance.

They can be confusing to players or if not confusing just another ‘thing’ to try to approach effeciently.

The more items that the new currency marketplace shares with the gold marketplace the more it effects the gold marketplace.

IMHO this is a good idea. But it’s true that the game has already too many currencies. Perhaps a solution could be using dungeon tokens as currency in a certain area, or another solution could be merging dungeon Story Mode with Personal Story, merging Dungeon Explorer Paths with Fractals and wiping out all dungeons currencies, so you can use the regional currencies you meant. Dungeon gear could be bought with fractal relics or pristine f.r. or regional currencies, don’t know.

Xytor.1267:

The idea is players can receive in addition to karma, a special currency when completing events in a region. This currency is used to purchase new recipes, pets, tonics, collectibles, etc, unique to that region.

Example:

Kryta Region

Currency: Seraph Badges (different from the trophies)

• Seraph Armor and Weapon recipes
• Miniature Centaur, Seraph Soldier, Bandit
• Centaur, Seraph Soldier, Bandit Tonics
• An Ascended Piece (after all Seraph Armor and Weapons have been collected)
• Kryta Collector Achievement Track, in the flavor of Bioluminescence

Just a suggestion for something farther down the line when the lull sets in many months after HoT.

I don’t know if any of the people that posted before me read any HoT announcements.

With HoT we will get these region tokens exactly how you suggested it!!! There will be at least one for kryta, ascalon, maguuma and shiverpeak mountains. Probably even more. Unfortunatly it is not known yet what you can buy with them, but it’s similar to geodes and bandit crests.