Guild Wars 2

So, are Found Heirlooms just useless now?
I have a bunch after putting Scarlet in the ground, and I was hoping to use them before the vendors for them disappeared, but the did without much warning, so now I think I am stuck with them.

Actually, this seems to be a recurring problem I find with the LS, story currencies that you end up having left over after the fact.

To be fair, they did announce this on March 11th. These announcements are in the forum and I think it was also on the Guild Wars 2 log in screen.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Alliance-Supplies-Found-Items/first#post3750166
CC Danicia
Community Coordinator
Greetings all,
As of March 18th, Alliance Supplies will stop dropping and you will not be able to receive any new Found Belongings or Found Heirlooms. Related to this, you will no longer be able to turn in Found Belongings and Found Heirlooms for items.

I find it as much the player’s fault as Anet’s. While the player should check dev comments regarding this kind of stuff. Anet shouldn’t be relying on the entire playerbase to dig around the forums to find essential information as this.

Just randomly commenting on it in the forums and think that now magically everyone will now know about it is absurd. Surely there could be a more effective way of cough ingame mail system cough passing along the message to players.

We’re in 2014 after all. Has our MMO technology really advanced so slowly that this kind of essential information has to be posted in the forums and one must read the forums to know about it? Forums should be optional for those that wishes to broaden their experience with the game, not a requirement.

While they could probably find a better way, it wasn’t randomly announced in the forums but is in the News and Announcements section. A forum for and by ANet staff only, dedicated to announcements of this sort. And I believe it was also on the log in screen for a while.

Astral Projections.7320:

And I believe it was also on the log in screen for a while.

It wasn’t. Mainly (if only) news taken from the main page of the site gets announced on the log in screen.
Although the main issue is that it isn’t the first time they do this.
You never know what items will still be needed afterwards and which ones won’t. I personally don’t have an issue with hoarding all the living story crap till there’s proper confirmation since I have tons of bank space, characters and so on. But not everyone has the space to keep saving 10 stacks of stuff after every living story to see if it will have a use or not.

The latest best example would be the blade shards. I personally thought they were for the spinal blades only and once you make the ones you need, you can get rid of them. But just in case, I saved up my stacks cause you never know. Later, to be announced AFTER it ends that players should hang on to them for later after use. It’s a ridiculous means of communication and system to keep saving all the stuff you acquire to see which ones will be needed or not. A simple ingame mail like:

“There’s been a rumor that a mysterious merchant might have a peak interest in blade shards and other past items that will be arriving later” – Anonymous

There, fixed. Now people will know to save them up and it won’t mess up the game “rhythm” sense of an announcement feeling out of place in the game.

I hope that they will have a vendor. They should have a vendor that sticks around for something like a month after the events. Not everyone can login or check the forums all the time. Why participate in the events at all if you end up not being able to use the rewards?

You would probably be better served to hold on to them until the merchant they talked about in the last patch shows up. You may be able to turn them in then.

Now if only those vote for <redacted> buttons would be included in that, too. Not that you really got rewards for them in the first place, but somehow I’m still hanging on to a nearly full stack.

I’m new to the game and I for one had no idea about the living story cycle thingy. I wasn’t able to log in to the game around the time the merchants got removed so I am too loaded with heirlooms. Maybe I’m just too slow for this game.

Rautarouva.3209:

I’m new to the game and I for one had no idea about the living story cycle thingy. I wasn’t able to log in to the game around the time the merchants got removed so I am too loaded with heirlooms. Maybe I’m just too slow for this game.

Late response, but I tend to forget to check on threads I post in.

I doubt you’re too slow for this game. This is the first time they’ve removed an NPC without announcing in several places, or everyone talking about it constantly in-game. That’s why everyone’s upset about it. It was posted, but in one spot and no one spoke of it. As long as you read the news updates on the launcher and pay attention to chatter, you should be fine. If there’s something like this that deals with the event’s drop items, ask around for when it will be removed if you can’t find it.

Astral Projections.7320:

A forum for and by ANet staff only, dedicated to announcements of this sort. And I believe it was also on the log in screen for a while.

I disagree. for starters, the login screen would only show a link to that forum, as it always does. but aside from that, the ‘news and announcement’ thread is majority announcements of billing maintenance, whatever that is. 2nd most common is servers being down.

If the login screen actually said “As of March 18th, Alliance Supplies will stop dropping and you will not be able to receive any new Found Belongings or Found Heirlooms. Related to this, you will no longer be able to turn in Found Belongings and Found Heirlooms for items.” instead of taking up the same amount of space to give you a link to a page which is behind a login wall, and you have to guess that it is something actually important for you to see instead of another billing maintenance, then I would be sooooo happy.