Guild Wars 2

Hello!

Let me just say, I love the fact that Arenanet is putting such an effort to make really awesome looking gear in the gem store/black lion weapons trader. But after grinding away for a black lion key and chest for a black lion ticket to acquire said gear, I concluded the whole experience of making a new character and getting him to level 10 just to get a key felt very dull and made me a bit sour.

Here’s a suggestion for a new means to acquire new gear every month:

The way I think they should distribute new gear in the game, including new weapon skins, is that you have to combine dungeon tokens that your earn from dungeons in the game to make a single universal token that you can use to get weapon skins and armor skins; one token for one piece of new gear. So lets say a new themed skin/armor set comes out every month for example, you go over it with mouse and see that it costs one universal token. This universal token would require you to combine 4 stacks of say 300 tokens using the mystic forge, from four different dungeons every month, rotating of course with each different gear/weapon set.

Let me know what you guys think!

I think adding new skins outside of the gem-store would be lovely.

However, the reason why A-net keeps churning out new BL ticket weapons is because it’s a money spinner. People will buy keys (hopefully with real money) for a chance at getting a scrap/ticket to exchange for their desired weapon.

Remove this profit element from new skins and A-net won’t want to spend so much time or resources designing the next.

On the other hand, we are getting a load more armour and weapon skins with HoT. They have already announced that in the future, armour skins will be designated as rewards (much like carapace and luminescent) and won’t appear so much in the gem-store- that’s where new outfits will be released.

Why dungeon tokens? Why not PvP tracks, or WvW ranks or PvE events?

Maybe, since gear will be in-game only in the future, and outfits left to the Gem Store, we will see some alternate methods of obtaining gear.