Guild Wars 2

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Well you could always do what ever you like and buy the spot from people who 4 man the fractals with the coins you earned.

Oh no! Devs want players to finally get gud and start doing “endgame”.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Oh no! Devs want players to finally get gud and start doing “endgame”.

People are doing endgame, even if they’re just farming events for gold. Orr is end game. SW and DT are endgame. Fractals and dungeons are not the end all/be all of GW2 gameplay, especially since it all becomes a matter of learning mechanics/spawns and then working with other players to get through the content as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Batelle.1680:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Oh no! Devs want players to finally get gud and start doing “endgame”.

People are doing endgame, even if they’re just farming events for gold. Orr is end game. SW and DT are endgame. Fractals and dungeons are not the end all/be all of GW2 gameplay, especially since it all becomes a matter of learning mechanics/spawns and then working with other players to get through the content as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Right. Your defination of end game might be fractals. And that is perfectly fine. Others find event farming end game, or wvw, or other dungeons. This game has never had a true end game it’s always been what the player wants it to be

you can buy ascended gear with laurels and gold/wvw tokens, guild commendations, and they drop from champ bags. fractals aren’t the only place they drop from

Testudo.4620:

you can buy ascended gear with laurels and gold/wvw tokens, guild commendations, and they drop from champ bags. fractals aren’t the only place they drop from

Laurels are just for logging in. No way too farm them.

I hope the new maps have a way of farming ascended gear at least.

This backpiece is pretty much another “Fractal” skin, like all of the weapons, the stats are no different from ascended gear. There will be other legendary pieces in time, so if you don’t want to do fractals, wait for another.
Just as not everyone bothers with the current legendaries.

As long as legendaries aren’t stronger (stats) than ascended, make them earned HOWEVER you want. I don’t care. Account-bound the hell out of it.

I don’t want PRECURSOR WEAPONS and LEGENDARIES to be sold. The crafting materials is fine. Praise ANet.

The current set of legendary/precursor weapons will still be trade-able, even those that can be “made” with masteries. Any new legendary/precursor equipment coming with the release f HoT will be account bound and thus will have to be completely earned. They did this so as not to overly affect the market.

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Farming gold to buy a legendary is NOT by any means earning it !!!
playing the game, mastering all types of content IS earning it !!!

Seeing someone with a gen 2 legendary WILL mean true prestige, simply because “he did all of it”

Not prestige, just a lot of patience and time, a functioning brain or lots of gold to buy dungeons/fractals from more skilled player… and gold. Lots of gold. As usual.
Oh, and I bet my cat it’ll be heavily time-gated.
I do agree it’s better than some guy manipulating the tp and making 100k gold, albeit by a very small amount – so go for it, I’m all for the account-bound thingy

Hopefully they just make so that all the new materials can be sold in tp.

Gynok.1756:

Hopefully they just make so that all the new materials can be sold in tp.

That would defeat the whole purpose, they might as well keep making gen 1 legendaries !!!!

latinkuro.7304:

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Farming gold to buy a legendary is NOT by any means earning it !!!
playing the game, mastering all types of content IS earning it !!!

Seeing someone with a gen 2 legendary WILL mean true prestige, simply because “he did all of it”

And that is YOUR opinion. In my opinion farming the gold to be able to get a legendary is earning it.

Sylent.3165:

And that is YOUR opinion. In my opinion farming the gold to be able to get a legendary is earning it.

Technically you’re right.

And actually, since they were made available through TP that’s when they got a real solid progression system. That is, one can look at how much gold they have on them, divide that by how much a legendary is worth, multiple it by one hundred and be able to say that they’re X percent complete “making” a legendary. Solid progression right there. So… in a twisted way, there’s no need for all this scavenger hunt jazz, since everyone can tell their progress towards a legendary even today,

Not sure if anyone has said but maybe they dont want it to be something you can just buy gems, trade to gold and buy. Its something that shows you have played the game to earn and not just your favorite corner of the game either.

It would be hilarious if it involved account-bound, solo-closed content. hahah

Sigmoid.7082:

Not sure if anyone has said but maybe they dont want it to be something you can just buy gems, trade to gold and buy. Its something that shows you have played the game to earn and not just your favorite corner of the game either.

This ^^ is what I was getting at…..
For those that think farming the gold for a legendary means earning it !

I for one like the idea of all items related to gen 2 and forward legendaries being account bound ALL OF IT !

OMG people want to CC everything.

latinkuro.7304:

Sylent.3165:

I have a question. They have stated multiple times all legendary items in the new expansion will be account bound so they must be earned.

That confuses me. These new legendary items involve salvaging alot of ascended items it sounds like, so if they were avalibe on tp would cost a lot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, farming a lot of good for months on end to be able to buy one from the tp is considered earning it. Doing a game mode I hate for months say fotm for a legendary is just torture, not earning it. Why not let people earn them in there own ways?

Farming gold to buy a legendary is NOT by any means earning it !!!
playing the game, mastering all types of content IS earning it !!!

Seeing someone with a gen 2 legendary WILL mean true prestige, simply because “he did all of it”

^^^

This.

but it still depends, will there be something truly legendary to do to earn that legendary ? or just basically farm fractals ? I don’t consider farming fractals enough, nor a representation of mastery of the game as a whole, the game has 3 modes and it should include some serious accomplishments from all 3, not the stupid 500 badges joke from wvw.