Guild Wars 2

This is more of a feedback statement than a bug. I recently purchased the digital deluxe version of the game. I was surprised and disappointed that the “additional items” only manifested themselves on my 1st character. I imagine you want to encourage players to purchase items in the game and this has had the net effect of discouraging me from doing this. I am quite happy to spend money on my hobby and have spent plenty of money in “in game” purchases in other MMORG’s this has left me wondering if I should bother whilst playing GW2. I do like the game but how much of an effort would it have been to allow players use of the additional items for all their newly created characters? It cannot cost the company anything and the items themselves are only of use for the 1st hour or so of play, so where would be the harm? I think the idea of of limiting the items to your 1st character (when I am 1st experiencing the game) is at best short-sighted and at worst totally underwhelming.

Let’s see here is what you get with the DD edition. I’m breaking it up to show what comes with the DD over the base game:

Guild Wars 2 game
Suit of Legacy Armor* (Once used this goes into the wardrobe system and can be applied to any character of the same armor class using transmutation charges)
Mithril Box* (Yes, can only be given to one character)
10 Experience Boosters* (Can be given to any character on your account until they are used up)

———-The Digital Deluxe Items that are not included in the base game———-
Summon Mistfire Wolf Elite Skill* (Account wide, available to all characters)
Miniature Rytlock* (Account wide available to all characters once added to the mini wardrobe)
Golem Banker* (Each new character gets one)
Chalice of Glory* (one time use, yes)
Tome of Influence* (one time use, yes)

So, I think you can see there are many account wide items with the DD. Some items don’t make sense to give per character. For example if you got a Chalice of Glory with each new character you could use it to artificially increase your PvP rank above and beyond what the one time use does just by creating characters, using it, deleting the character and doing it over and over again.. The same goes for Tome of Influence, you could create characters use the Tome, delete the character and do it over and over to artificially increase your guild’s influence.

yeah….but….as a brand new player Tome of Influence & chalice of glory quite frankly don’t mean a lot to me, the legacy Armour I can see no real reason why each new character cant have a set (after a few hours of play I had already upgraded most of it anyway). My central point here, is that as an initial experience it was disappointing, this cannot be the intent the company is trying to create, and has left me pondering whether purchasing additional in game items is going to leave me with the same experience. I like the game, I don’t want it to be pay to win, but I also don’t want it to be pay to be mildly disappointing either.

Once the skin is unlocked, all your characters can use the skin (with transmutation charges). As skins are a major focus of the game, it is quite a nice bonus to be given a Gem Store Armor skin set free.

Perhaps, you are not familiar, yet, on how the Wardrobe functions.

Welcome to Tyria, and good luck!

Colster.1086:

yeah….but….as a brand new player Tome of Influence & chalice of glory quite frankly don’t mean a lot to me, the legacy Armour I can see no real reason why each new character cant have a set (after a few hours of play I had already upgraded most of it anyway). My central point here, is that as an initial experience it was disappointing, this cannot be the intent the company is trying to create, and has left me pondering whether purchasing additional in game items is going to leave me with the same experience. I like the game, I don’t want it to be pay to win, but I also don’t want it to be pay to be mildly disappointing either.

It’s actually better than how it used to be. Prior to the Wardrobe update skins were single use only, so despite potentially costing $10 only one character could wear it at a time; want a second character to wear the same skin set or even part of the set? You’d have to buy it again at full price.

Worse yet the only way you could keep the skin was to hang on to the items that were reskinned and continuously reapply them to your new gear for 1 transmutation stone (which were free from map completion rewards) per piece, but transmutation stones only worked up to level 79. If you wanted that $10 set you bought all those levels ago to be applied to a new set of level 80 armor, you’d have to pay again for transmutation crystals (which were gem store purchases only).

I mean, really, for a long while my characters were rolling in level 78~79 exotics simply because I refused to be swindled like that. You’re actually having it pretty good, believe it or not.

Thanks for the feedback folks, your absolutely correct I don’t know how the wardrobe function works, like I say I am totally new. My thoughts are really directed at the company, surly they want players to purchase in game? There is no subscription and I’m sure they want to generate as much revenue as possible, that being the case it this makes no sense to me. To put it in customer service speak, most companies try to “surprise and delight” not “not disappoint and underwhelm”. My initial reaction on realising that only my very first character i ever created got the goodies was “well that’s a bit kitten ”. I’m delighted its not as bad as it was, but that’s along way from “that’s really good value”…I am keeping my fingers crossed that as I progress my experience will be more positive

The actual Armor set can be passed down to any of your characters that wear the same weight class Armor, so take good care of it