Guild Wars 2

I was in AB and just now noticed the vendor for these. Can someone tell me who these are for? They’re gated behind a time and money gate that would require someone be brain dead to buy one.

Each vendor takes 1 lvl 80 rare a day and gives you 1 token in return. Assuming about 30s per rare and 250 tokens for 1 weapon it’d take 75 gold to buy a single weapon. And with the wiki showing 12 merchants you’d need 21 days to get it as well. The fact you can bind them to other characters is neat but that takes 10 tokens which is another 3 gold to do. It also takes 5 crystalline dust which is another gold.

Even if you were leveling alts these are useless as it’s cheaper just to pay for upgraded gear. Also there’s no weapon you could buy that would be useful on every class so if you only have the one character from HoT you’d need to get this thing you wouldn’t get to use it on every alt you made (unless you skip the classes that couldn’t use it).

Lastly 1-hander and 2-hander weapons cost the same which makes little sense as well. All the skins are available on other weapons as well. Has anyone actually bought one? I don’t know why these are in the game.

I didn’t even know about them until now xD and as it is only a rare weapon and not exotic not many people will spend the time to do this.

Plus if as you said the skins can be gained another way then it is even less likely someone will try to get them.

Maybe players like the ability to ‘reset’ the weapons’ attributes? Whatever that means…

They adjust to match the level of the character weilding them. I guess this is the justification of the expense. But looking at it from a cost/benefit point of view, it doesn’t seem worth it.

I think it was 250 tokens for one weapon which is insane. You can get 12 per day if you are willing to pay a fair bit of gold (almost 1g per rare). You also have to find T4 maps to visit the vendors as they only appear once events for lanes are completed. So one spawning after all north pylons are done, once ogre lane has reached max strength, Itzel camp events done etc.

The whole Provisioner tokens needs a rework.

XDeathShadowX.2619:

I was in AB and just now noticed the vendor for these. Can someone tell me who these are for? They’re gated behind a time and money gate that would require someone be brain dead to buy one.

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Just looked at the wiki page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodbound_weapons

Since they scale to the level of the character using them (and they have two upgrade slots!), these would be useful for leveling new toons – equip it at level 1 and use it all the way to 80.

If you’re familiar with WoW, these would be like the “Heirloom” gear in that game.

Just looked at the wiki page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodbound_weapons

Since they scale to the level of the character using them (and they have two upgrade slots!), these would be useful for leveling new toons – equip it at level 1 and use it all the way to 80.

If you’re familiar with WoW, these would be like the “Heirloom” gear in that game.

The wiki shows me that only 2 handed weapons have 2 upgrade slots, which is the same as all other weapons.

And I’m not too sure you can reset the stats, I think you can just bind it to another character. Which itself is pointless, they should just get rid of the reset item and make them account bound like ascended weapons are. It’s like they wanted to show they had a neat idea but didn’t want anyone to use it so surrounded it in garbage.

They sound cool, but as stated, they will cost 75+ gold to make. For one weapon. I doubt you would spend that upgrading -all- of your gear from level 1-80. And they might be usable by more than one character, but no weapon is usable by every class. They’re interesting… for novelty value alone. By the time you’ve logged in enough times, grinded enough rares or the gold to buy rares, found enough T4 TB maps, the character you wanted to use it on to level would be level 80 and it would be completely pointless anyway.

May be worth it if it was at least an Exotic but for a rare? No thank you….

XDeathShadowX.2619:

Just looked at the wiki page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodbound_weapons

Since they scale to the level of the character using them (and they have two upgrade slots!), these would be useful for leveling new toons – equip it at level 1 and use it all the way to 80.

If you’re familiar with WoW, these would be like the “Heirloom” gear in that game.

The wiki shows me that only 2 handed weapons have 2 upgrade slots, which is the same as all other weapons.

And I’m not too sure you can reset the stats, I think you can just bind it to another character. Which itself is pointless, they should just get rid of the reset item and make them account bound like ascended weapons are. It’s like they wanted to show they had a neat idea but didn’t want anyone to use it so surrounded it in garbage.

Maybe the Wiki is wrong, and Bloodbound Adjuster does not exist. /shrug

It is also possible to reset a Bloodbound weapon’s attributes by combining one of the Bloodbound weapons, a Bloodbound Adjuster, a Philosopher’s Stone, and 5 Piles of Crystalline Dust in the Mystic Forge.

Ok, they adjust to character’s level, but they are completely useless since you can just lv80 with all the tomes you get from anywhere. So no, they are not worth it.

Quick question for anyone familiar with these weapons; can you place a superior sigil in the weapon and then send it to a level 1? If you do will the sigil still work?

Too expensive/complicated, not going to try getting them. Skins are not unique.