Guild Wars 2

Hjorje.9453:

The weapon is called legendary, which means there is going to be some work involved. Maybe they need to create a new weapon type for people like you called whiners weapons.

Anet completely invalidated that concept when they allowed them to be purchased outright.

I’ve done 100% map completion on 7 characters and am bout 70% on my 8th. I’ve made 8 legies from that, but definitely acknowledge that all those weapons are mainly invalidated as symbols of accomplishment.

I’m still baffled by the number of people who think that the mere fact that maybe some people dropped 400+$ on a legendary (seriously, how many are there that do this?) somehow diminishes their own accomplishments. If you keep comparing yourself to other people like that, you probably won’t enjoy many things simply for what they are.

I like that legendaries and precursors are tradeable, and I suppose many others do, too, far more than people who wish they were accountbound (I’m guessing y’all already had a lucky drop or two?). I haven’t had a single precursor drop yet, and chances are that once I get one, it’s for a weapon I don’t want. So I bought Leaf of Kudzu because it was the only way for me to get it, short of hoping that another 2k hours of playing would get me not only a precursor, but exactly the one I wanted.
If you remove the luck factor from the equation (as will happen with the legendary mastery), maybe, but as long as I need insane luck to even get started on a legendary, they should stay tradeable. And if some people actually decide to buy one with cash, well, that’s not my problem and doesn’t take away from the glee I still feel six months after crafting Kudzu when I log on with my flower-bow wielding ranger.

Red Queen.7915:

I’m still baffled by the number of people who think that the mere fact that maybe some people dropped 400+$ on a legendary (seriously, how many are there that do this?) somehow diminishes their own accomplishments. If you keep comparing yourself to other people like that, you probably won’t enjoy many things simply for what they are.

I like that legendaries and precursors are tradeable, and I suppose many others do, too, far more than people who wish they were accountbound (I’m guessing y’all already had a lucky drop or two?). I haven’t had a single precursor drop yet, and chances are that once I get one, it’s for a weapon I don’t want. So I bought Leaf of Kudzu because it was the only way for me to get it, short of hoping that another 2k hours of playing would get me not only a precursor, but exactly the one I wanted.
If you remove the luck factor from the equation (as will happen with the legendary mastery), maybe, but as long as I need insane luck to even get started on a legendary, they should stay tradeable. And if some people actually decide to buy one with cash, well, that’s not my problem and doesn’t take away from the glee I still feel six months after crafting Kudzu when I log on with my flower-bow wielding ranger.

So if you could buy a college degree flat out without actually having to take and pass all the classes and work would it still be valid as a symbol of work? Note..the two key words here….degree….and symbol. Would you’re degree be cheapened as a symbol of what you’ve been through knowing that others look at it and don’t relate it to accomplishment (while trying to get a job it would be irrelevant)

personally, i don’t have problem with people wanting to buy a Legendary, but i can’t accept that people who want to make Legendary complaining about certain criteria for it. It is a Legendary weapon, meant to be hard-to-get, if you are to lazy to work for it, then buy it. asking for the requirement to be reduced is just ridiculous.

Essence Snow.3194:

Red Queen.7915:

I’m still baffled by the number of people who think that the mere fact that maybe some people dropped 400+$ on a legendary (seriously, how many are there that do this?) somehow diminishes their own accomplishments. If you keep comparing yourself to other people like that, you probably won’t enjoy many things simply for what they are.

I like that legendaries and precursors are tradeable, and I suppose many others do, too, far more than people who wish they were accountbound (I’m guessing y’all already had a lucky drop or two?). I haven’t had a single precursor drop yet, and chances are that once I get one, it’s for a weapon I don’t want. So I bought Leaf of Kudzu because it was the only way for me to get it, short of hoping that another 2k hours of playing would get me not only a precursor, but exactly the one I wanted.
If you remove the luck factor from the equation (as will happen with the legendary mastery), maybe, but as long as I need insane luck to even get started on a legendary, they should stay tradeable. And if some people actually decide to buy one with cash, well, that’s not my problem and doesn’t take away from the glee I still feel six months after crafting Kudzu when I log on with my flower-bow wielding ranger.

So if you could buy a college degree flat out without actually having to take and pass all the classes and work would it still be valid as a symbol of work? Note..the two key words here….degree….and symbol. Would you’re degree be cheapened as a symbol of what you’ve been through knowing that others look at it and don’t relate it to accomplishment (while trying to get a job it would be irrelevant)

Okay, I’ll bite… How is that even the same thing? oO
My degree prooves that I worked for it. I need that proof. My legendary doesn’t need to prove anything. It only has the worth I assign to it. My degree has a fixed worth outside my own pride and sense of accomplishment. And I’m still proud of it, even though I know there are others who got better grades and a “better” degree because the professors liked them more than they liked me (and yes, that did play a part in how you were graded). I worked for it, and I learned valuable stuff along the way (not as much as I hoped I would, but that’s another matter entirely). If someone else got their degree easier because they were the professor’s pet, what does that have to do with me and the work I put in to get this piece of paper? Why would I care if some idiot looks at this other guy and assumes neither of us worked hard for it, unless that would influence his decision to give one of us a job (which it doesn’t because anyone deciding this doesn’t know how we got our degrees)?
The degree is not a “symbol”, it is something that has to prove my talent and ability to work in a certain field. Which is why you can’t flat-out shop for it on the internet. That legendary is not something people look at and then decide whether or not to give me a job. How is one related to the other? And again, why does it matter to you that someone, maybe, bought their legendary with cash? Do other people’s opinions really matter that much to you?

I like that precursors are tradeable…legendaries should not be tradeable.

khani.4786:

I like that precursors are tradeable…legendaries should not be tradeable.

That’d definitely be a fair compromise, as long as RNG is involved (which HoT will remedy, thank any higher power there is). I mean, you can still just cash->gold and buy most of the ingredients (barring karma stuff and the Gifts of Battle, Exploration and [insert dungeon gift here]) to craft it, but at least a little bit of work would still be involved.
Then again, it would not solve the 100% map completion thing that started this thread in the first place…