Guild Wars 2

i think we should be able to reset map completion for both core tyria and HoT zones so we can do it again to get the stuff required for legendarys without deleting our characters if we have already done it all on them

Will it include everything such as waypoints and hero points? Of course all earned hero points will have to be returned which may remove access to elite specializations until you unlock them again.

well yeah it would have to include all waypoints and hero challenges so its still the same amount of effort going in to it but i would not take away the hero points (also doing the challenges again wouldnt give new points).
the map fog would not be replaced though, as that was never part of the map completion required for the gift.

I doubt ANet wants to make it easier to farm transmute charges and they probably do want people to buy more character slots.

All hero points should be removed and the fog of war should be re-added. It should be exactly like if you were on a new character that just hit level 80 by using tomes.

@Op
How many legendary weapons do you have since you need so many map completions?

Ayrilana.1396:

All hero points should be removed and the fog of war should be re-added. It should be exactly like if you were on a new character that just hit level 80 by using tomes.

Leveling up gets you hero points though. By the time you’re level 80, whether you used tomes of knowledge or not, you would have exactly enough hero points to unlock all specializations/traits except the elite one. If hero points are completely removed you’d be left with a level 80 character that has access to no traits/specializations at all.

Exactly like a new character who used tomes of knowledge only means you’d have your elite specialization taken away.

@OP
I don’t think people would want to lose all their hard earned progress that took a lot of time and effort to accomplish, just so they can get another legendary.

Let’s take a look at your situation:
The default amount of character slots is 5. If your account existed before January 2015 and you pre-purchased the HoT expansion, you would have received a free character slot. And you didn’t say how many extra character slots, if any, you purchased.

So you’re telling us you crafted at least 5 legendaries already?

Stop being a cheapskate and trying to ruin the game for the rest of us. Character slots aren’t that expensive in the gem shop. If you’ve created so many legendaries already, I’m pretty sure you have more than enough gold to trade for gems. What difference would it make if you use the same character or a completely new one for map completion?

And if you can’t buy any more character slots because you’ve reached the limit……then something is seriously wrong if you’ve made THAT many legendaries. Since HoT launched the max amount of character slots you can have on a single account is 70.

However, I would like to offer an alternative method to getting the gift of exploration needed for legendaries: make a crafting recipe for weaponsmith or something and add it to the mystic forge vendor or laurel merchant. Getting 100% map completion is a very time consuming task and so are legendaries (though I’ve never even tried to get them). It’s a real pain for people needing to spend all that time exploring core Tyria on characters they really don’t care to get map completion on. Costs of the recipe for gift of exploration would need to be a bit pricey of course, since legendaries are suppose to be hard to come by (well, except the OP seems to have plenty on hand). Edit: And crafting material inputs for the recipe would need to be really high and you should be able to craft 2 gifts at a time (since you get 2 from map completion).

You’d end up with a choice: spend a lot of time to get 2 gifts of exploration from map completion, or spend a ton of gold to craft them yourself.

More options are better. Taking stuff away from people is not.

Besides, I don’t think it would even be technically possible for ArenaNet to reset map completion for any character without breaking something horribly.

Charrbeque.8729:

Leveling up gets you hero points though. By the time you’re level 80, whether you used tomes of knowledge or not, you would have exactly enough hero points to unlock all specializations/traits except the elite one. If hero points are completely removed you’d be left with a level 80 character that has access to no traits/specializations at all.

Exactly like a new character who used tomes of knowledge only means you’d have your elite specialization taken away.

Ok? How’s that any different from what I said in my post or another one near the top of the thread? Or were you just agreeing with me?

If you are rich enough to craft so many legendaries, you can also exchange game gold for gems and get more charactare slots.

I dont understand the aggro towards my suggestion, its not like it would be compulsary to reset your characters map completion progress it would just then be an option.

I was more thinking of the HoT legendaries because of how you only get 1 gift per character and sort of bundled the original ones into the same discussion because it seems like if it was done for the one thing it would be simple enough to do it for both

This seems like it would be a massive hassle to implement. It would be far easier to simply make the gifts purchasable for people who have already completed the maps.

800 gems and you get complete map reset right now.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

I dont understand the aggro towards my suggestion, its not like it would be compulsary to reset your characters map completion progress it would just then be an option.

I was more thinking of the HoT legendaries because of how you only get 1 gift per character and sort of bundled the original ones into the same discussion because it seems like if it was done for the one thing it would be simple enough to do it for both

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Exploration You get 2 per character for map completion.

Let’s see: 5 character slots is standard for a single account. You get 2 gifts of exploration per character. Only 1 gift of exploration is needed to craft a legendary. Without any extra character slots, that’s a potential for 10 legendaries on a single account.

Like I said, if you made that many legendaries already, you should be able to afford to trade some gold for gems. I highly doubt anybody with that many legendaries on a single account are dirt poor.

FogLeg.9354:

If you are rich enough to craft so many legendaries, you can also exchange game gold for gems and get more charactare slots.

I know right. A friend of mine leveled up a character purely from map completions.
By the time he got to 96% it was level 80. So he just explored all while he was at it.

btw with glider+experienced player, the core tyria exploration become insanely fast.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

i think we should be able to reset map completion for both core tyria and HoT zones so we can do it again to get the stuff required for legendarys without deleting our characters if we have already done it all on them

How about if they charge 800 gems for this? Oh wait, we can do that already by creating a new character and do map completion for both core Tyria and Magus Falls.