Guild Wars 2

Tried my hand at the new Skyhammer PVP map, with my Mesmer and realized with all the pitfalls around the map, a Guardian with its ample Stability, Knockbacks and Pulls, it would probably be the better choice.

I would continue to use my Mermer to sPvP and tweak the build a bit, but I just came up with a very effective and fun bunker build, so I would like to get used to it before changing again.

Then a Guardian it is, but I never really use my Guardian in sPvP, so decided to use some of the Paid tourney tickets I had to craft her some armour. I looked up recipes and see that one has about a 1 in 3 chance to craft an Orrian piece (Guild and Inquest are the other two possibilities). I had already gotten a Orrian helmet from the new achievement chests today, so with the 9 Paid tourney tickets I had, I had a pretty good chance to craft the chest and pant pieces.

First crafted the chest piece, bingo, got it on the first try! I attempted to craft the pant piece 9 more times, but kept getting either the Guild or Inquest pieces (got 1 more paid tourney ticket from salvaging one of the Inquest pieces). I thought to myself, hmm crap that sucks! Oh well, I’ll craft the Armageddon set as it would match pretty closely.

With the 6 free tourney tickets I had on hand, I crafted the Armageddon gloves, shoulders, and boots. Last piece… the pants. To my surprised 3 attempts to craft the Armageddon pants only returned the Heavy Plate piece! WTF is this a bug???

I’m now left pi*sed off at the experience and no longer wish to partake in anything related to sPvP until I can cool off, and this crap RNG/buggy crafting experience has been forgotten.

So long story short, this RNG bulls**t and game bugs have got to go. Its just no fun at all to be let down repeatedly, and sucks to be me playing GW2 SPvP!

RNG is RNG, you can’t change that. It’s designed to be random, and that’s what it is.

Back when I first started PvP I crafted myself a full Orrian set for my Necro.
Most of the pieces took about 1-3 tries to craft except the helm which took 14 tries.
After crafting everything except the helm I had 8 tokens left, so naturally I thought I would get it. I did not, so what I did was do more tPvP, salvage all the paid tournament level gear and try again when I get a token. It took a few days of tournaments in the evenings to finally get it.

RNG is RNG, is it flawed? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I do have another idea for the Mystic Forge though.

Instead of giving us 1/1000 chance to get a specified item, let say a precursor, why not make us put 1000 of the specified items in the forge to DEFINITLY get it. That would remove all the complaining about RNG and promote grinding.

But wait, you can’t put 1000 items into the Forge? You could, if they could stack. Maybe give a merchant the ability to swap lvl 80 rares for 1 token and lvl 80 exotics for 2 tokens and then put 4 × 250 stacks of tokens in the Forge to get what you desire.

That would mean 1/3 chance to get the Orrian piece would cost 3 Tokens instead.

This system is obviously flawed in many ways. People will complain about grinding instead of RNG, but people will complain.

Maybe put both in to give choice? Having a choice always reduces the amount of complaints as subconsciously you know you chose this, so it’s your own doing.

RNG is RNG, that’s not going to change soon if ever. So, some good advice: Do more tPvP, salvage the items, try and try again. That’s all there is to do.

:)

You were just unlucky it happens. In the world of luck and probability one person will always get screwed over and this time it was you. Sorry =(