Guild Wars 2

I’m not here to complain about weapon costs. Some seem rather high to me, but it’s nowhere near as bad as it could be. What I want discussed here is the difference in cost between one-handed and two-handed weapons.

For cultural weapons, everything is the same price. For dungeon exotics, it’s 300 tokens for a one-handed weapon, 390 for a two-handed weapon, and 210 for an offhand weapon. The Pact weapons, as well as all weapon rewards from storyline quests, offer a similar problem where you can only ever get one item, and so if you use more than one you’ll never get a matching set (especially frustrating if you dual wield). Yes, Pact weapons are on the trading post, but they’re still one item per player.

I remember really, really soon after launch I bought a pair of Krytan daggers from the tier 1 cultural weapon vendor. I think together they cost me under 2k karma, and I distinctly remember seeing prices be different based on if they were one-handed, two-handed, or offhand exclusive. Made sense to me, and it was very affordable at the level I bought them. Very soon after, I saw the prices had jumped up immensely to the flat rate of 9.8k that tier 1 is today. I was baffled and I’m still baffled.

What I want to hear is what some players might think justifies this difference, and if no one thinks it is justified, I’d like it if people could be more vocal about it and try to get it changed. Seriously, why the dramatic favoring of two-handed weapons?

Meh, Im not worried about that as much as I am about the favoritism for “more popular” weapons in regards to skins.