Guild Wars 2

Personally I love RNG TO A POINT. I love that every time I open a chest or loot a mob that I’m never sure what I’m going to get and always have my fingers crossed. The problem with RNG is that at the moment it is the only way to hit one of those lottery ticket items (precursors). This is the main reason I quit playing Diablo 3.
You can farm for days, months, years and never, ever hit the lottery. The game becomes really, really easy for those who do/did hit the lottery, and increasingly difficult for those who don’t. I played D3 for a solid ca. 1000 hours over the summer and have just over 6mill gold to my name, which for anyone who plays D3 can attest that you may as well have 0 gold. I don’t want to have quit gw2 for the same reason.

What exactly are you proposing as an alternative then?

A series of quests like in gw1 to get the moa chick. I don’t care if it takes a month to complete all of the requirements to get one, so long as I know I am going to get one eventually.

they are in the process of making that very thing

it was supposed to be added with the Lost Shores patch, but was delayed.
dont expect it in the next patch either.

Hopefully their proposed changes come soon, because I remember all too well the ‘RNG’ of D3 and how I never got that one item to net me enough gold to matter even in the slightest. This game is a different story for once. When I opened the box after defeating the ancient karka, I received the precursor Dusk. I actually had to do a double take to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. It is fantastic that I got something so valuable, but it is my opinion that with enough work, anyone should be able to get this and not be at the mercy of RNG.

Lorana.2468:

they are in the process of making that very thing

it was supposed to be added with the Lost Shores patch, but was delayed.
dont expect it in the next patch either.

Linkage? I’m interested to see what was said…

They did mention that they wanted to make it more of a ‘scavenger’ hunt. I’m worried that this means they will simply add a guaranteed recipe to the mystic forge. Something, for example, requiring 250 xxx lodestones. I which case you are still at the mercy of the RNG, in that you will need to acquire the 300+ gold to buy those lodestones in the first place.