Guild Wars 2

It seems like the new legendarys they also mentioned and it been at least 6 months. Where are they!!!

The precursor hunt hasn’t started yet. LS season 2 is about to start, and we don’t know anything about what that is going to entail. It would make sense to throw in a precursor hunt with a new legendary every couple of installments though. But we just have to wait and see. Have patience.

We’re waiting for the NPC to get the Orange thing over his head. Then we’ll start it

Scheduled just after Snipe season…..

Brother Grimm.5176:

Scheduled just after Snipe season…..

Is that before or after the invasion of the Mursaat? Or was it the return of the Dwarves?

Too many gems being turned to gold for precursors to be available from a scavenger hunt.

Hahahahaha its still not here?!

Oh definitely by end of 2013.
Oh definitely after 2014.
..nearly 6 months into 2014..

But hey, priorities are living story.

Stormcrow.7513:

Too many gems being turned to gold for precursors to be available from a scavenger hunt.

^^^ And now that precursors prices reached stars, uuuh I’m sure expecting it to be implemented soon.

NCsoft Doesn’t want GW2 to compete with the Launch of Wildstar that’s why we not getting LS for another month, and why they haven’t given us the precursor quest yet cuase they know how crazy everyone will farm for there legendaries once its finally attainable,

Everyone will be burnt out afterwards with no desire to pay for abit let alone, eat, sleep, and potty.

I thought the Precursor Scavenger Hunt was scrapped, and replaced with Precursor Crafting some time ago.

We have yet to hear when, or what that may entail.

Scavenger hunt was scraped a long time ago since it used ingame methods instead of things you could buy with gems. It was replaced about a year ago with precursor crafting, which was designed to use a large amount of mats to balance the economy and promote gem sales.

However with the new reward systems they have been implementing over the past 6 months their original design was no longer feasible (i.e they nerfed everything so hard that it wasn’t possible to make the precursors without an uproar) so they had to go back to square one again. That was 6 months ago, not sure what the current timeline is.

Might as well forget about it. Anet is making way too much money off cash to gems to gold. Despite what people might say, if precursors didn’t sell for close to the prices listed, then people would have to drop them and according to GW2Spidy, they have been selling. So that means either people are farming that gold in game or they are buying gems with real life cash. If it’s the latter then again, why would Anet kill the cash cow.

Sauzo.6821:

Might as well forget about it. Anet is making way too much money off cash to gems to gold. Despite what people might say, if precursors didn’t sell for close to the prices listed, then people would have to drop them and according to GW2Spidy, they have been selling. So that means either people are farming that gold in game or they are buying gems with real life cash. If it’s the latter then again, why would Anet kill the cash cow.

Well, we know they aren’t farming it unless they have secret spots or opportunities, because the best farm spots always get nerfed xD.

When the sun raises in the west and sets in the east is the day that precursor crafting will be released. Face it it’s not happening anytime soon. You should grind for your precursor like I had to for all three of mine.

I got Eternity now but I bet one week after I equipped it they announce precursor hunt and new Legendaries, now I’m scared of equipping it :/

remember this kind of book in GW1 : http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hero%27s_Handbook ?

i think GW2 precursor hunt will have more or less similar style of questing….

At the risk of all the hate I am going to get for this, I am still going to go ahead and say it.

I hope that Anet never puts in a precursor hunts or crafting. The amount of Legendary weapons in game already seems to high. When I used to walk from the bank to the trading post and pass five or six guys all with the same legendary weapons I had to shake my head.

I will admit there is nothing legendary about buying them. But as soon as 80-90% of the population is running around with them it will seem even less legendary.

I am all for them adding different themes or styles to the legendary weapons for those who do not like certain looks, aka the necro and the staff etc.

But it doesn’t need to go from one extreme of there being very few precursors to everyone having one or more just from farming quest.

Talyn.3295:

At the risk of all the hate I am going to get for this, I am still going to go ahead and say it.

I hope that Anet never puts in a precursor hunts or crafting. The amount of Legendary weapons in game already seems to high. When I used to walk from the bank to the trading post and pass five or six guys all with the same legendary weapons I had to shake my head.

I will admit there is nothing legendary about buying them. But as soon as 80-90% of the population is running around with them it will seem even less legendary.

I am all for them adding different themes or styles to the legendary weapons for those who do not like certain looks, aka the necro and the staff etc.

But it doesn’t need to go from one extreme of there being very few precursors to everyone having one or more just from farming quest.

I really couldn’t care less that everyone can get a legendary. As fas as I’m concerned I play for ME and only ME.

The precursor hunt is also called the wild goose chase. Don’t expect anything from it.

Ha, people thinking when it comes it will be easy, it’s probably going to be a bigger grind than it is now.

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

I think the general idea is that they will be released with the new set of legendary weapons which if Anet has any sense at all will be account bound on creation. This means people will actually have to work for them instead of just buying them off the TP.

What a lot of people don’t realize is that any type of guaranteed Precursor-granting system is going to be time-gated and that time gate is probably going to be 1 year per Precursor.

Talyn.3295:

At the risk of all the hate I am going to get for this, I am still going to go ahead and say it.

I hope that Anet never puts in a precursor hunts or crafting. The amount of Legendary weapons in game already seems to high. When I used to walk from the bank to the trading post and pass five or six guys all with the same legendary weapons I had to shake my head.

I will admit there is nothing legendary about buying them. But as soon as 80-90% of the population is running around with them it will seem even less legendary.

I am all for them adding different themes or styles to the legendary weapons for those who do not like certain looks, aka the necro and the staff etc.

But it doesn’t need to go from one extreme of there being very few precursors to everyone having one or more just from farming quest.

I agree that yes to many around but who cares really its for the them and what they like right?? I think your on to something though like maybe they make something so you can change your legendary to something other then the normal look? I don’t know how hard it would be and how many idea’s they could do. But surely its worth a shot?

I suspect they may implement it like they did in China, with some form of pvp-style reward track. Or make it tied into the achievements system.

The reason precursors are reaching sky high prices might be connected to high ammounts of hacked accounts recently.

Friend had his account hijacked a while ago. Durring that time his gold was used to buy precursors from TP.

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

All this would result in the cost Legendaries with a cheaper precursor, Kamo, Moot, Minstrel etc. rising through the roof.

Flissy.4093:

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

To elaborate on this, since T6 impacts MANY markets, not just legendaries, the shock to the entire game economy would be pretty significant. Imagine exotic and ascended gear, top level potions, and sigils/runes being several hundred gold each (around what we pay now for Precursors on the TP) because of the increased material prices.

That’s why any type of Precursor crafting will come with a LENGTHY time gate.

mtpelion.4562:

Flissy.4093:

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

To elaborate on this, since T6 impacts MANY markets, not just legendaries, the shock to the entire game economy would be pretty significant. Imagine exotic and ascended gear, top level potions, and sigils/runes being several hundred gold each (around what we pay now for Precursors on the TP) because of the increased material prices.

That’s why any type of Precursor crafting will come with a LENGTHY time gate.

Lengthy time gate is better than pure luck and gambling we have atm.

The only reliable way is to buy them and that’s just wrong.

They could also add a completely questable way to get Legendary items in addition to 100% exploration with multiple stages without using standard craftable mats. That way it wouldn’t influence T6 mats that much (except maybe make them slightly cheaper)

mtpelion.4562:

Flissy.4093:

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

To elaborate on this, since T6 impacts MANY markets, not just legendaries, the shock to the entire game economy would be pretty significant. Imagine exotic and ascended gear, top level potions, and sigils/runes being several hundred gold each (around what we pay now for Precursors on the TP) because of the increased material prices.

That’s why any type of Precursor crafting will come with a LENGTHY time gate.

You were exaggerating a bit on the non-Legendary front. As prices go up, demand drops, and supply will increase as people try to profit off the spikes, either by selling the goods they no longer wish to use, or actively farming for profit.

Sigil/Rune at “around … precusor” (which is a range of about 1000g+ btw) price would have maybe a demand of single figures which would be instantly filled.

T6 would fly up as shock demand from people getting their pres, but the other markets that use T6 would not catch up in time and certainly would not rise at the same rate. I’m unsure of the term, but I’ll call it secondary demand.

I don’t know why people misunderstand that having a precursor equals having a legendary. There is still a lot of mats to grind even if you have the precursor…

Riss.1536:

I don’t know why people misunderstand that having a precursor equals having a legendary. There is still a lot of mats to grind even if you have the precursor…

But you can get them easily and without feeding people that play to ruin your game.

Is there any news on this? Or was this all just made up by Arena Net because they realized that they will loose a lot of money if they did this?

But I remembered in GW 1 Arena Net did a Tormented Weapon Scavenger Hunt when GW2 was about to come out. Wasn’t easy at all, at least for me.

So if anyone knows let me know so I can wait to make Sunrise or sell my Soul for Gems.

As far as I know, they scrapped the Scavenger Hunt idea and replaced it with Precursor Crafting. At what state that particular implementation is, I have no idea. Devs said that because of the new reward structure, it all has to be reworked.

Haha are you kidding me?

Pre cursor crafting will be eerly similar to ascended crafting. An insane amount of stupid materials…

Yeah.. guaranteed access to coveted things given sufficient time commitment is not one of the things Anet is known for. And when most of their revenue comes from selling gems (to be converted into gold), it’s not that surprising.

Unless they find a way to make money that doesn’t rely so heavily on the gem store, we’re going to be seeing even more grinding for top gear.

cesmode.4257:

Haha are you kidding me?

Pre cursor crafting will be eerly similar to ascended crafting. An insane amount of stupid materials…

Don’t forget timegating.

But it is not like its going to do them any good since most people really don’t care very much if you have/get one nowadays.

Zacchary.6183:

cesmode.4257:

Haha are you kidding me?

Pre cursor crafting will be eerly similar to ascended crafting. An insane amount of stupid materials…

Don’t forget timegating.

But it is not like its going to do them any good since most people really don’t care very much if you have/get one nowadays.

Timegating like ascended armor? 2 days after patch that people have a set already cause of saleable mats? Yea right. …

Flissy.4093:

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

All this would result in the cost Legendaries with a cheaper precursor, Kamo, Moot, Minstrel etc. rising through the roof.

I have made 5 legendaries and sold 2 shields in tp so yea I perfectly understand the market. I will only agree on precusor crafting if they will make Legendaries and precusor not tradable but of course it might be too late to implement it…

Soon™

/15 Charrs sitting on a wall.