Map completion, even simple city map completion nets you Transmutation charges.
They will not lower the cost of the charges, except when it goes on sale.
You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.
You’re not forced here. Options include: Map completion, black lion chests, PvP, Personal story (not positive about this one), and gem shop.
If those options aren’t good enough for you, then too bad? Because your argument could be thrown at just about anything in this game. If you want something – do what needs to be done to get it. Or pull out your credit card.
What the others said. It takes 3 minutes per charge by map completion, so no matter how expensive these things may be in the gem shop they’re fairly easy to come by.
What the others said. It takes 3 minutes per charge by map completion, so no matter how expensive these things may be in the gem shop they’re fairly easy to come by.
Wait, what? Where are these three minute maps? Even The Grove takes a bit more than 3 minutes to complete. PvE maps easily take upwards of an hour. That approach presumes the player has a bunch of alts that haven’t already mapped the easy zones.
Right now I think PvP reward tracks are the best method of obtaining these outside of straight up buying them. There’s lots of other goodies in the chests, as well as a decent bit of AP to earn along the way. Also helps you to improve your combat skills.
They should make the Gemstore ones like the Achievement chest skins / dyes, where you get unlimited uses . After all you DID buy it not just find it in game !
What the others said. It takes 3 minutes per charge by map completion, so no matter how expensive these things may be in the gem shop they’re fairly easy to come by.
Wait, what? Where are these three minute maps? Even The Grove takes a bit more than 3 minutes to complete. PvE maps easily take upwards of an hour. That approach presumes the player has a bunch of alts that haven’t already mapped the easy zones.
Right now I think PvP reward tracks are the best method of obtaining these outside of straight up buying them. There’s lots of other goodies in the chests, as well as a decent bit of AP to earn along the way. Also helps you to improve your combat skills.
1/ Buy a character slot
2/ Create a character, map every towns and collect 6 transmutation charges (1 per city ?)
3/ Delete your character
4/ got to 2/
= Infinite transmutation charges….
1st, for level 80 items it’s cheaper than they use to be, 30 gems per versus 40 gems per.
2nd, you now get one you can use for level 80 items for free now.
3rd, yes if you are complaining about under level 80 transmutation you have a point since it’s more expensive, 30 gems per verses 25 gems, and you get fewer free now.
As the others have said, Charges can be farmed quite easily by creating a new character and just mapping all the starter cities. If you dabble in PvP, even just in Hotjoin, you’ll get a number of Transmutation Charges as well.
Wait, what? Where are these three minute maps? Even The Grove takes a bit more than 3 minutes to complete. PvE maps easily take upwards of an hour. That approach presumes the player has a bunch of alts that haven’t already mapped the easy zones.
Sorry, you’re right of course. I divided by three because I was still thinking of Transmutation Stones. Creating a character and mapping the Grove takes about 9 minutes, so it’s 9 minutes per charge.
Map completion and daily ends up giving a decent supply of them.
The wardrobe system (except for the city clothes) ended up being a good system.
GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.
Actually, I don’t think the cost for the charges is that bad. However I do think they should change the prices on some stuff in the game. I think if they lowered the prices for a lot of the stuff in the gem store people might be more willing to spend gems in the store because they will feel like they get more out of their money.
I think that the cost of these is fine, considering that these are basically a net’s primary source of gem purchases. (Well, these and armors). I would not mind there being more ways to get then for those people who don’t like map completion, key farming, pvp, etc but I really can’t think of a good analog to it. Maybe every 5 dungeons completed (with hobby dungeon explorer) gets a charge? I dunno. I can’t really think of anything else.
[ARES] And all who stood by and did nothing, who are they to criticize the sacrifices of others? Our blood has bought their lives.
You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.
You know, I actually play PvP to get these charges but then I realize maybe they set the rate we can get them so low that we will simply use our credit cards…
…In a world that competitors like Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft offer such services by consuming only a marginal amount of ingame gold…ArenaNet would be unwise to make these cosmetics so costly. Especially when the art design/cosmetics is one of the major reasons people still come back despite the game’s horrible state
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Dragonbrand
I would pay a fee, perhaps the cost of a store outfit, 800 gems (though sales would be nice), to burn the current look someone happens to be wearing off as an outfit that is now accessible to all my characters.
Edit: OK, that didn’t make any sense. It’d be cheaper to use 3 charges every 10 levels in my case! ;p
While it might have been confusing for some, there was a method to the old system. By being rewarded 3 1-79 charges as you completed areas, you could save up so many (for free) that it was easy enough to keep a character in a look every 10 levels (especially if you hid everything but chest, legs, shoes like I do) all the way to 80, and then the only fees set in once you were 80 and wanted to change your look.
With that gone, and no way to burn a look that I can use when I want, I’ve settled on purchasing a pirate outfit (when it was on sale) and now all my alts just wear that while they are leveling.
Man, I do wish I had more trans charges than I currently have,.. but to be honest and trying to be as much objective as I can… ANet should put them really hard in game. I rather have ANet getting money from this product rather than ugly shiny skins. If they could get enough money on trans charges on the gemstore, we would probably have better content in game (“utopically” speaking).
Zerk is the average Joe build. Don’t pat yourself in the back too hard.
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
We could probably do with a PvE reward track of sorts, linked to either dungeons/fractals or DE completion.
You mean, dailies, monthlies, Achievement Point Chests (granted by doing a plethora of PvE content)…not to mention the actual loot you get from doing events and killing foes?
PvP has the reward tracks to simulate the drops and coinage you get from doing PvE things.
You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.
You can get them without doing content you choose not to do.
By BUYING THEM.
Heck with that crap. Anet hasn’t got a single cent from me for many months. I use to buy gem cards, but I can’t support them with actual cash anymore (or even converting gold for that matter.) Maybe LS2 can get me back—but based on anets past record I am not optimistic at all.
After completing maps with 3 toons, I have no interest with that anymore, PvP—I don’t enjoy that still of play.
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
What is the second part? I’m not following that at all? How do I get a key while exploring Rata Sum and The Grove with a new character?
Just FYI, all armor sets bought from the store are free transmutations.
Well, the first time. I’m wearing a Krytan chest skin and went to see if it would cost me to change that to a Magitech, and it said it would cost me 1 charge.
You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.
You can get them without doing content you choose not to do.
By BUYING THEM.
Heck with that crap. Anet hasn’t got a single cent from me for many months. I use to buy gem cards, but I can’t support them with actual cash anymore (or even converting gold for that matter.) Maybe LS2 can get me back—but based on anets past record I am not optimistic at all.
After completing maps with 3 toons, I have no interest with that anymore, PvP—I don’t enjoy that still of play.
Player A: I don’t like being forced to do content I don’t want to do for this item. Player B: You have options though! There is option 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. You can choose, see? Player A: None of the above! Player B: So what are you saying exactly? Player A: That I want that item and it should be given to me!…. Because! Player B: …………….. O.O
You should be able to get them WITHOUT being FORCED to play a style you don’t want.
PvP—just crap to me, but if you like it, enjoy and have fun.
You can get them without doing content you choose not to do.
By BUYING THEM.
Heck with that crap. Anet hasn’t got a single cent from me for many months. I use to buy gem cards, but I can’t support them with actual cash anymore (or even converting gold for that matter.) Maybe LS2 can get me back—but based on anets past record I am not optimistic at all.
After completing maps with 3 toons, I have no interest with that anymore, PvP—I don’t enjoy that still of play.
Player A: I don’t like being forced to do content I don’t want to do for this item. Player B: You have options though! There is option 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. You can choose, see? Player A: None of the above! Player B: So what are you saying exactly? Player A: That I want that item and it should be given to me!…. Because! Player B: …………….. O.O
Blude, get a grip. You aren’t forced to do anything in the game. And you don’t need to pay them one red cent to get them.
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
What is the second part? I’m not following that at all? How do I get a key while exploring Rata Sum and The Grove with a new character?
I was stating that if you also happen to be a person who does the Black Lion Key runs, since you are already making a new character for that, if you run the two cities for T-Charges prior to the key run that you can combine the two activities and even complete the key run quicker due to having gained levels via city exploration.
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
What is the second part? I’m not following that at all? How do I get a key while exploring Rata Sum and The Grove with a new character?
I was stating that if you also happen to be a person who does the Black Lion Key runs, since you are already making a new character for that, if you run the two cities for T-Charges prior to the key run that you can combine the two activities and even complete the key run quicker due to having gained levels via city exploration.
Oh, Ok.
I’ve never heard of a ‘Black Lion Key’ run? Don’t suppose you could point me in the right direction to learn how to do that?
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
What is the second part? I’m not following that at all? How do I get a key while exploring Rata Sum and The Grove with a new character?
I was stating that if you also happen to be a person who does the Black Lion Key runs, since you are already making a new character for that, if you run the two cities for T-Charges prior to the key run that you can combine the two activities and even complete the key run quicker due to having gained levels via city exploration.
Oh, Ok.
I’ve never heard of a ‘Black Lion Key’ run? Don’t suppose you could point me in the right direction to learn how to do that?
Sure. Here is one thread that discusses it and includes tips. And here is another that goes into more detail with more tips.
It usually takes me 3-4 minutes for The Grove, and 3-4 minutes for Rata Sum. For me, it is actually quicker to run those two cities, delete and remake the character and run them again than it is to run the other cities on that initial character.
Couple your T-Charge runs in before a BL Key run and the key run goes faster as well due to the levels you gain from exploring those two cities. So create a character, map Rata Sum, map The Grove, return and do the key run. 2 T-Charges and a BL Key in +/- 40 minutes depending on key run preps (down to 31 min for this back-to-back run personally, looking to get under 30 soon).
What is the second part? I’m not following that at all? How do I get a key while exploring Rata Sum and The Grove with a new character?
I was stating that if you also happen to be a person who does the Black Lion Key runs, since you are already making a new character for that, if you run the two cities for T-Charges prior to the key run that you can combine the two activities and even complete the key run quicker due to having gained levels via city exploration.
Oh, Ok.
I’ve never heard of a ‘Black Lion Key’ run? Don’t suppose you could point me in the right direction to learn how to do that?
Sure. Here is one thread that discusses it and includes tips. And here is another that goes into more detail with more tips.
