Guild Wars 2

Nice to see that yet another award is relegated to RNG BL chests. Guess I can give up on getting a rapier. I’m really, really tempted to just quit this lame-kitten game. Nothing is given for skill. Everything is based upon pure luck.

Oh?
I am rather sure that you can get those skins via the Candidate Trial in-game.
You are also able to use the new scraps that will drop from the chest to build a ticket with which you can get the skin you want.

I suppose you missed those points? ^^

I’m pretty much in the same boat as OP. Getting really tired of this need to buy keys to get a chance at a new weapon skin. (Yes we can get from Candidate trials, if they are the same skins, but its a rare chance and candidate trials is only available for not even 2 weeks.)

lordkrall.7241:

Oh?
I am rather sure that you can get those skins via the Candidate Trial in-game.
You are also able to use the new scraps that will drop from the chest to build a ticket with which you can get the skin you want.

I suppose you missed those points? ^^

Except the scraps aren’t guaranteed (I know with my luck I’ll just get potions, a dye, and a random booster, like the last one I opened with key from a zone completion, or like the one before it, a 50 influence item, a booster, and bank access thing). These chests have way too many kitten useless things in them to hope to try to get a ticket, either by direct ticket or scrap collection. And its just going to be even worse after the two weeks when you need 50 of the kitten scraps to get a single weapon. That is at least 50 keys we need to get just one weapon, and that would be if the scraps were a guarantee from each chest.

Sure we can get the Aether weapons from the candidate trials, but we all know what they mean when they say rare chance…

Actually it is less random because of the scraps. It’s a similar system to the Wintersday stuff.

These are also tradeable until used.

Khisanth.2948:

Actually it is less random because of the scraps. It’s a similar system to the Wintersday stuff.

These are also tradeable until used.

Except we know the cost of them on the TP will be really high. It may be slightly less random, but its still really random. Now instead of having a chance at a new key to open another chest (which was already pretty low), we now have to hope for 3 things instead of two.

skullmount.1758:

Khisanth.2948:

Actually it is less random because of the scraps. It’s a similar system to the Wintersday stuff.

These are also tradeable until used.

Except we know the cost of them on the TP will be really high. It may be slightly less random, but its still really random. Now instead of having a chance at a new key to open another chest (which was already pretty low), we now have to hope for 3 things instead of two.

If they can be purchased on the TP then this whole topic was a waste of time. That takes the RNG 100% out of it.

Draknar.5748:

skullmount.1758:

Khisanth.2948:

Actually it is less random because of the scraps. It’s a similar system to the Wintersday stuff.

These are also tradeable until used.

Except we know the cost of them on the TP will be really high. It may be slightly less random, but its still really random. Now instead of having a chance at a new key to open another chest (which was already pretty low), we now have to hope for 3 things instead of two.

If they can be purchased on the TP then this whole topic was a waste of time. That takes the RNG 100% out of it.

Someone still had to beat RNG to get it to put it on the TP, either from chests or Candidate Trials (for Aetherized anyways, and thats only for less than 2 weeks).

It turns out the rapier isn’t even going to be available. I just lost all interest in the BL stuff. Thanks for saving me some money and time, anet!

The new skins aren’t overly great. And yes no rapier, just more silly FF style slablike swords. Thankful for that because once again ANet took a step backwards in handling this. Gem store casino again. Sigh, and I had such hope for them when I saw the Kite fortune system previously.

Thankful for the TP option, but of course given the rarity set by the annoying RNG gates really means the price will be quite high. So my stance is not going to spend even 1 of any currency, in game or real life, on stupid casino gemstore stuffs, and I’ll put a hard cap of 20g for any such skins on TP (but likely it’ll be higher than that i think.) I’m just not in the mood to pay ridiculously over the top prices right now.

Actually, I think this new RNG system is more or less perfect. Don’t get me wrong; I still LOATHE RNG with a passion, but at least now the system allows players who don’t even want to touch the Black Lion Chests the chance to get the skins. How?

1. You can farm it yourself from the Candidate Trials. Admittedly I have no idea how often they drop, but it is an option for the player who doesn’t want to spend any gems on BLC’s.

2. You can buy keys using gold/gems to open BLC’s. Again, I have no idea how often scraps drop, but the fact that the ticket scraps can be accumulated over time AND they will also work with future weapon skin drops means that they are a valuable resource that can be stored until a new release brings out a weapon skin you DO like.

3. You can buy the skins directly from the TP. This is the great equalizer. If all else fails, you can always just buy the skin from someone who happened to get lucky, but doesn’t like the skin themselves.

All in all, I think it’s a perfect system.

I am pretty sure the skins aren’t dropping right now in the candidate trials. Tons of people are doing the trials and there are several skins which have 0 listings on the trading post.

Buying/Farming the chest isn’t worth it, unless there was 1-2 scraps PER chest. Especially since they want you to spend 50 scraps in a couple weeks instead of 10. I opened 10 chests today with the keys I accumulated. I increased the booster count in my bank from around 150 to 170. That’s just about it. No scraps at all. If I was buying chests based on what I’m seeing across the forums, you’d have to basically pay around $200 for one skin when they go up to 50 scraps. I thought the scraps were supposed to be a “Well you didn’t get a rare drop from the chest so here’s a consolation prize to help you get a rare item with a couple more chests.”

I haven’t heard of anyone getting them from the trials, at least nobody I know of has gotten them there.

I really don’t get why Anet is so insistent on the whole RNG thing. Put skin tokens in the store for $5-6. I would have bought 4-5 of the fused tokens, 1-2 of the sclerite, none of the jade, and 4-5 of the Aetherised ones plus another bank slot to store them in on top of the gems I bought. Instead my frustration level is going up because I’ve gotten none of the skins except one jade token that I really didn’t have any interest in. And based on the drop info I’m seeing people report, I won’t get any of the current skins.

I like leveling alts so I don’t have the cash to buy them in the TP at 40-50G per skin especially since I want to dress up each of my 10 characters with the various outfits, dyes and skins that I’ve picked out for them. If the next living world release has the same skin system tied to RNG with the a very limited accessibility of the skins, I’ll probably move on to another game. I like this game, but It’s feeling more and more like a FTP mmo.