Guild Wars 2

critickitten.1498:

And the rest of the Legendary model is equally as ugly, with an excessive amount of grinding. But perhaps the worst offense is that “Legendaries”….just aren’t. There’s nothing skill-based about them, and indeed, it’s entirely possible to obtain them without ever really challenging yourself in this game.

And you’re telling us that you’re not going to address this problem for at least three more months? And your only effective step towards fixing this problem is to introduce even more “incredibly rare RNG drop” locations for precursors in the coming months?

I don’t mean to sound so disappointed, but I really am. This isn’t a dealbreaker for these patches, but I had thought that the dev team understood how serious of a problem they have with regards to Legendaries and providing more high-end gear in more ways and more places. But it seems we differ significantly on what this game’s problems are.

I’m glad that at least it seems we agree that the game’s rewards system is woefully inefficient right now, though. So maybe these patches will still be the decisive boost this game needs. I’m just really sad that one of the game’s weakest areas isn’t currently deemed important enough to fix.

Just looked into this thread. But second this.

I know players that have a Legendary (or multiple) because they’ve gotten lucky. I know players that have put in more time and effort that don’t have one because of being unlucky.

How is that in any way how the system should be working? ANet: look at Everquest’s model for Epics, and take note—make them difficult to earn (kitten, even nearly impossible to earn), but make them earnable. They’re way too easy to get right now if you’ve hoarded enough money and they’re too hard for people that have dedicated a lot of time and effort to find their “RNG” just isn’t rolling. Why is there such a discrepancy between the easy and hard? Make them harder. Also make them not about gold. (The RMT guys are making a fortune off this system alone.)

That said, you wont.

Your goal is to appeal to the much larger casual player base than it is to appeal to the few people that are complaining about this issue.

Oh well. Guess I’ll go blow another hundred gold on the Forge and get nothing in return because someone’s scooped all Short Bow precursors up.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.

Some of these additions will come as early as the January release, and will get covered in more detail in the next week or two as well release all the details about this release once testing has signed off it’s all ready to go in January. (we’ll also provide a high level summary of our goals with reward systems, etc. in our 2013 blog post, which should be out next week)

It is now April……………………………………………………………………………. Please?

Sithaco.4673:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

Just a quick update on where the whole scavenger hunt system stands since I know that’s a topic many of you have brought up recently. We’re not currently actively working on building any sort of legendary precursor scavenger hunt, this is something we want to do in the future and we’re in the midst of designing how this would function, but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.

Some of these additions will come as early as the January release, and will get covered in more detail in the next week or two as well release all the details about this release once testing has signed off it’s all ready to go in January. (we’ll also provide a high level summary of our goals with reward systems, etc. in our 2013 blog post, which should be out next week)

It is now April……………………………………………………………………………. Please?

And now it’s March 2014… I’m patient as ever because there is so much to do in Guild Wars 2 as it is, but I really enjoyed things like finding the Black Moa Chick (or just the Black Moa), and I am super excited to see something like this in game. On the other hand, does it really take over a year to implement something so seemingly simple?

So precursor weapons will continue to be only for those people that are either incredibly lucky or a full time trading post broker. Glad I can look forward to finishing up the grind for the rest of the items for a legendary only to be denied by the extremely harsh RNG system. It’s only been year, maybe 2015 will bring something new.

I remember posting in this thread over a year ago telling people they should be patient. At what point though is said patience gonna pay off? Is this still happening? Is our patience going to be rewarded at any point? Has this project been abandoned for months with no word that it wasn’t going to happen? Hello?

We will get in the future just patience………………