Guild Wars 2

The Balthazar Backpeice should really be Accountbound. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that its important to give people a reason to buy gems and transfer for gold, but this was really disappointing to me. The biggest thing I liked about the Balthazar Backpiece when I was watching the previews for the feature patch was it was one of the first items in the game that would represent that a player pvp’d a lot. I mean its not that hard to make the current price (70g) in PvE. Now when I see a player walking around with the backpiece it means either they play PvP, or they just have gold.

I mean if we’re going to do this with supposed “exclusive” pvp items, why not do it to PvP too?

Just let people see ascended gear straight out. Lets not keep anything PvE/Crafting exclusive. Same with dungeon armor. Just let people sell dungeon armor straight from tokens. Heck lets go head and make WvW season/turny weapons sellable too!

I was really pumped up about completing the current reward trek for this week and going for the balthy backpeice, but its kind of lost its value to me.

I really hope that when you guys put in ladders (if you do) you give us some exclusive, none buyable/sellable items. I was hoping the balthy packpiece would do this.

Hmmmmm, nahhhhh. Account Bound forever.

Deified.7520:

The biggest thing I liked about the Balthazar Backpiece when I was watching the previews for the feature patch was it was one of the first items in the game that would represent that a player pvp’d a lot.

You can grind it in a few days so this hardly means that the owner pvp’d a lot. Besides there are much cooler backpieces in the game, already sold mine.

You get a ton of charges for progressing tracks…I’ve gotten 4 or 5 and i’m like 3/4 of the way done balth track =\

maybe they want pvper to have a way to earn lots of gold? besides the back piece is ugly. but i do agree with you pvp need to have exclusive pvp skins.

I didn’t notice it was sellable, I missed out on some easy gold

It is sellable, but I don’t think you can ever earn it again, so if at some point further down the line you do decide you want it you’ll have to buy it.

And while that’s being done, it would also be nice to have skills and traits account bound as well.

I hope they won’t do that with every pvp exclusive reward in the future. Don’t make it sellable.

100 gold first i saw on TP ,then 75 ,70,69,45 and now it’s around 5x gold. Let’s pve farmer buy it ,dont let them ruin Pvp just because of that backpack.

Fanta.8049:

100 gold first i saw on TP ,then 75 ,70,69,45 and now it’s around 5x gold. Let’s pve farmer buy it ,dont let them ruin Pvp just because of that backpack.

But now it suffers the same problem as a legendary item. People don’t think much of legendary items because it really doesn’t represent a persons skill. Either represents how much they can grind or how much gold they have.

Now the supposed skin for Pvpers to show off that we PvP is purchasable for only 58g, whats the point. Hundreds, if not thousands of players could easily buy this right now. That means if I decide to wear it, many people may think I just bought it instead of actually doing PvP to earn it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for offering gold as a way around specific types of content. However, if you’re going to do that to PvPers, you gotta be fair. Make ascended armor and weapons sellable/purchasable on the TP. It’s unfair that it requires you to level up a crafting profession to make. Also do it for the WvW season 2 weapon skins. If their reasoning that they dont want stuff locked to a specific content type, those are. Fractal weapons too. Those are locked to only fractals, gotta make them purchasable.

Now Imagine if they did what I said above. The forums would explode. Rage would be overflowing. I just dont understand why they would do it for PvP. I really hope they add in ladders with ladder specific items that you can’t buy on the TP.

Deified.7520:

Fanta.8049:

100 gold first i saw on TP ,then 75 ,70,69,45 and now it’s around 5x gold. Let’s pve farmer buy it ,dont let them ruin Pvp just because of that backpack.

But now it suffers the same problem as a legendary item. People don’t think much of legendary items because it really doesn’t represent a persons skill. Either represents how much they can grind or how much gold they have.

Now the supposed skin for Pvpers to show off that we PvP is purchasable for only 58g, whats the point. Hundreds, if not thousands of players could easily buy this right now. That means if I decide to wear it, many people may think I just bought it instead of actually doing PvP to earn it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for offering gold as a way around specific types of content. However, if you’re going to do that to PvPers, you gotta be fair. Make ascended armor and weapons sellable/purchasable on the TP. It’s unfair that it requires you to level up a crafting profession to make. Also do it for the WvW season 2 weapon skins. If their reasoning that they dont want stuff locked to a specific content type, those are. Fractal weapons too. Those are locked to only fractals, gotta make them purchasable.

Now Imagine if they did what I said above. The forums would explode. Rage would be overflowing. I just dont understand why they would do it for PvP. I really hope they add in ladders with ladder specific items that you can’t buy on the TP.

Sorry i dont follow (clearly dont understand)what are you saying .Why you bring WvW season 2 ,ascended stuff sellable on TP ??

Fanta

Sorry i dont follow (clearly dont understand)what are you saying .Why you bring WvW season 2 ,ascended stuff sellable on TP ??

The irony…

Fanta.8049:

Deified.7520:

Fanta.8049:

100 gold first i saw on TP ,then 75 ,70,69,45 and now it’s around 5x gold. Let’s pve farmer buy it ,dont let them ruin Pvp just because of that backpack.

But now it suffers the same problem as a legendary item. People don’t think much of legendary items because it really doesn’t represent a persons skill. Either represents how much they can grind or how much gold they have.

Now the supposed skin for Pvpers to show off that we PvP is purchasable for only 58g, whats the point. Hundreds, if not thousands of players could easily buy this right now. That means if I decide to wear it, many people may think I just bought it instead of actually doing PvP to earn it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for offering gold as a way around specific types of content. However, if you’re going to do that to PvPers, you gotta be fair. Make ascended armor and weapons sellable/purchasable on the TP. It’s unfair that it requires you to level up a crafting profession to make. Also do it for the WvW season 2 weapon skins. If their reasoning that they dont want stuff locked to a specific content type, those are. Fractal weapons too. Those are locked to only fractals, gotta make them purchasable.

Now Imagine if they did what I said above. The forums would explode. Rage would be overflowing. I just dont understand why they would do it for PvP. I really hope they add in ladders with ladder specific items that you can’t buy on the TP.

Sorry i dont follow (clearly dont understand)what are you saying .Why you bring WvW season 2 ,ascended stuff sellable on TP ??

The way they originally talked about the Balthy backpiece was that it was supposed to be THE exclusive PvP item. Like you had to do PvP to obtain it. Something for the PvPers to distinguish themselves. However, they made it so that you could buy and sell it on the TP because they didn’t want any players feeling like they had to do a specific piece of content in order to get an item. My problem is that there is that problem in the game, why only do it to PvP? The WvW season 2 weapon skins will be unique to WvW content, ascended gear is unique to PvE content. If we go by the logic they must have used to decide the balthy backpiece was to be sellable/buyable on the TP, those things should too.

It’s a little too late to make this account bound. =P