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Posted by: Dahkeus.8243

Dahkeus.8243

I hate to say it, but these get rewarded way too often (at least from PvP). While they’re great for people trying to level through PvP, for someone like me who is already lvl 80, I just get a mountain of them. As it stands, I have every single character slot on my account filled (even with 1 or 2 extra slots purchased) and they are all 80 except for one who can instantly become 80 if I just pop the tomes I have.

While this is nice and all, it kills any desire to go explore the open world and also kinda takes all the spark out of a double xp weekend.

Anyways, just wanted to pass on the feedback.

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Posted by: KyeXema.9370

KyeXema.9370

You can just delete them right O.o? i have tons of those books and yet i still explore because it’s a choice, and that’s something GW 2 has that I love, it gives you the options to level through your own choices, i have a friend who has not done a drop of pve after he could join pvp, because he hates pve very much, I love pvp as well but i’m still exploring because i find it fun. The point is this is a personal choice :p

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Posted by: Malkavian.4516

Malkavian.4516

If Anet would allow it, I’d take a huge chunk of those off your hands.

FOR SKYRIM!!!!!

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Posted by: nyctalopia.4735

nyctalopia.4735

Do some keyfarming, help increase the supply of Black Lion skins on the gold market

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Posted by: Lishtenbird.2814

Lishtenbird.2814

Requesting merge with https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Do-you-find-the-Tomes-of-Knowledge-useful/

I am really happy for all these people playing PvP only and having stacks of tomes, but I’m even more happy for all those people who were forever asking for instant 80 consumables, XP collectors and more accessible tomes for alts, especially after the NPE update. At 8 lvl 80s, I’m still creating alts and I find these tomes extremely useful.

2 advices to those with stacks of tomes:

  • Key farming.
  • Skillpoint to gold.
20 level 80s and counting.

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Posted by: Rasimir.6239

Rasimir.6239

Just view them as another stack of skillpoint scrolls and give them to whichever of your 80s could use a few extra of those .

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Posted by: Hule.8794

Hule.8794

Or just wait one day if expansion with raising of level cap is announced.

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Posted by: Belzebu.3912

Belzebu.3912

Do some keyfarming, help increase the supply of Black Lion skins on the gold market

This.

Keyfarm with tomes is really nice, you just need 8 tomes per run, maybe less if you do a bit of leveling.

Charter Vanguard [CV] – HoD
Bardy Belzebuson – Ranger Sir Belzebu – Herald
(and the other 8 elite specs maxed too)

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Posted by: draxynnic.3719

draxynnic.3719

It’s probably intended as a way for veteran players to be able to bypass the dumbed down levels of the NPE. Otherwise… if you have no other use for them, treat them as skill point scrolls. I think leveling in PvE replenishes your health, too, so if you’re really cunning you might be able to use them as heals – I may be getting confused with something else, though, so verify this before you rely on it.

To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.

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Posted by: Ezeriel.9574

Ezeriel.9574

key farm with them…. you’ll need about 500 for a key or two…

The only way to play the engineer is to exploit it.
Playing the engineer “as intended” is simply not viable.

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Posted by: Gilgalas.7860

Gilgalas.7860

You can use PvP awarded tomes to level up alts, but in my opinion they are meant to grant PvP players to earn skill points for various use.
If you go PvE (dungeon, open world events), you will earn XP and lvl up at a rythm that is comparable (or a bit faster) to the time required to complete 1/8th of a reward track. The track tomes make up for the lack of XP earning in PvP.

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Posted by: Berelious.3290

Berelious.3290

Why does this keep coming up? The options are as plain as day. Store them for later use, turn them to skill points and cash in, delete them, or use them for key farming. I’m failing to see a problem here.

Corwin Grimjaw: Guardian (80)
Yak’s Bend Server
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Posted by: Lishtenbird.2814

Lishtenbird.2814

I’m failing to see a problem here.

“I am too lazy to convert a specific reward to gold, so please take that reward away from everyone who actually needed it for a long time, and give me that gold.”

20 level 80s and counting.

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Posted by: Jahroots.6791

Jahroots.6791

I’m failing to see a problem here.

“I am too lazy to convert a specific reward to gold, so please take that reward away from everyone who actually needed it for a long time, and give me that gold.”

QFT.

Of all the surplus items in game, these are arguably the most useful. No problem here.

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Posted by: Gobble D Goop.4081

Gobble D Goop.4081

im not sure why so many people have a problem with ToKs. If you know you are never going to use it to level, then just double click (consume) it. Then it will no longer be in your inventory taking up space. There is no max on the number of skill points you can have so it really doesnt matter. In fact, you and your pvp friends can have a contest to see who can get to 10k skill points first.

Habitual Warrior-Ranger
Gates Of Madness
Jewelcrafting to 500!

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Posted by: Bambu.4270

Bambu.4270

One idea would be that we get a reward chest everytime we level 80 again and again and again. It seems a bit silly that after 80 we still gain exp but there’s nothing more to it than one lame skill point!

That’s progress. Hooray for progress!

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Posted by: CMM.6712

CMM.6712

Stop trying to take away one of my favorite rewards, thanks.

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Posted by: Elegy.2159

Elegy.2159

Stop trying to take away one of my favorite rewards, thanks.

They’re one of my favorites as well. There are so many uses for them. No complaints about the number of these I get.

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Posted by: Taygus.4571

Taygus.4571

If Anet would allow it, I’d take a huge chunk of those off your hands.

I wish <3
__

Do some keyfarming, help increase the supply of Black Lion skins on the gold market

OP, ^^^^ this is a good way to use them to generate gold.

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Posted by: DeWolfe.2174

DeWolfe.2174

Considering how useful they are, why anyone would ever consider complaining is beyond me. Also, consider maybe it’s an incentive to get players TO LEVEL in sPvP and not just PvE?

[AwM] of Jade Quarry.

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

rabidsmiles.5926

Who complains about getting skill points????

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Posted by: Taygus.4571

Taygus.4571

key farm with them…. you’ll need about 500 for a key or two…

500?

you only need to be level 20 for a key.

500 tombs would be 25keys that’s not bad…if you have no other use for them.

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Posted by: Fuji.6284

Fuji.6284

For people like me who have done map completion more than once already, we would love more of those.

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

key farm with them…. you’ll need about 500 for a key or two…

500?

you only need to be level 20 for a key.

500 tombs would be 25keys that’s not bad…if you have no other use for them.

Level 10 actually, to get a key from the personal story.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest_Key
Completion of the level 10 racial story.

So 500 tomes divided by the 8 needed after leaving the starter instance is 62 keys.

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Posted by: Khisanth.2948

Khisanth.2948

It’s probably intended as a way for veteran players to be able to bypass the dumbed down levels of the NPE. Otherwise… if you have no other use for them, treat them as skill point scrolls. I think leveling in PvE replenishes your health, too, so if you’re really cunning you might be able to use them as heals – I may be getting confused with something else, though, so verify this before you rely on it.

Not really, it’s because buying trait books or unlocking any new skill they add requires SP. Having these in there means a person who only plays PvP doesn’t have to run off to PvE to get them.

For people who play both PvE and PvP it means they don’t have to choose between “do I go and level in PvE or do I play some PvP?”. With the tomes they can choose to play PvP without having to sacrifice leveling.

If you throw these away instead of using them you might just find yourself without enough SP the next time they add skills/traits.