Guild Wars 2

Rune of the Traveler: 5g
Cavalier Amulet: 10g
Magi Amulet: 10g
Sigil of Generosity: 3g
Sigil of Renewal: 3g
5 new traits: 15g + 100 skill points

I haven’t played gw2 for several months but I came back after hearing about the new patch. The only thing I did when I played before was pvp. I have 88g and 54 skill points on my main. I also have four other characters that I enjoy swapping to. If I want to unlock all skills, just to fight evenly with other players on all five characters, I would need 106g(I thought the gold cost was more at first) and 500 skill points. I can’t even unlock the skills in pve because my server isn’t running the events atm or my characters are too low level. Not happy right now Anet. Justin what the hell man! These costs aren’t at all reasonable!

I just realized that I can’t create new characters anymore without paying for this kitten all over again. You guys just removed half why I enjoyed pvp so much.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

You are right my frand Pollution in that they removed the even playing field! However I haven’t used any of the new sigils or runes yet because they are not that good and I’ve only unlocked one new trait that I won’t unlock on any other character that I have! Just because it’s locked doesn’t mean you absolutely have to unlock it!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

I don’t have to unlock it but I want to. And what if some of the runes/traits/sigils turn out to be incredibly strong? Then I’m just weaker than everyone else because I’m poor. I would have to win ~475 games in a row just to earn enough gold for all my characters. That’s assuming I win every single one! Instead of playing the next 1000 games kitten I’m just not going to play.

Pollution.8703:

I don’t have to unlock it but I want to. And what if some of the runes/traits/sigils turn out to be incredibly strong? Then I’m just weaker than everyone else because I’m poor. I would have to win ~475 games in a row just to earn enough gold for all my characters. That’s assuming I win every single one! Instead of playing the next 1000 games kitten I’m just not going to play.

If you decide you want to unlock it here’s a strategy you can use:

Step 1: Play the game. (Any mode/content you want!)
Step 2: Use the resources you’ve garnered from completing step 1 to purchase your new amulets/traits!

If step 1 doesn’t seem possible for you, then you don’t like gw2 and it doesn’t matter anyway.

The new trait unlocks are soulbound. So I already know it will cost me 120 gold + 800 skill points to unlock for my 8 characters.

Are the new runes, sigils and amulets account bound or or they soulbound too?

Basically, if they are account bound you after pay 31 gold. I have one of each class so if soulbound that’s 248 gold.

Big difference, so it would be good to know?

Amulets shouldn’t cost anything!

I think the rest given examples are just fine, you don’t need them really. Progression in PvP is likely enjoyable for many, as long as they keep it fair. This is probably just the start though; More traits and stuff are to be released. I can definitely see the appeal of coming as a newbie to sPvP with this new progression system.

Joonks.7501:

Pollution.8703:

I don’t have to unlock it but I want to. And what if some of the runes/traits/sigils turn out to be incredibly strong? Then I’m just weaker than everyone else because I’m poor. I would have to win ~475 games in a row just to earn enough gold for all my characters. That’s assuming I win every single one! Instead of playing the next 1000 games kitten I’m just not going to play.

If you decide you want to unlock it here’s a strategy you can use:

Step 1: Play the game. (Any mode/content you want!)
Step 2: Use the resources you’ve garnered from completing step 1 to purchase your new amulets/traits!

If step 1 doesn’t seem possible for you, then you don’t like gw2 and it doesn’t matter anyway.

Would you be fine if we started with one skill and had to unlock all the rest in pvp? Sounds to me like you think that would be an acceptable situation.

If you like to pointlessly unlock things you will be upset by this. If you play to have fun or to pursue a certain build, you will be fine.

Meglobob.8620:

The new trait unlocks are soulbound. So I already know it will cost me 120 gold + 800 skill points to unlock for my 8 characters.

Are the new runes, sigils and amulets account bound or or they soulbound too?

Basically, if they are account bound you after pay 31 gold. I have one of each class so if soulbound that’s 248 gold.

Big difference, so it would be good to know?

I just unlocked one of the amulets on my engineer and it was unlocked for my necro. I will edit my original post to reflect that. That makes this much more reasonable.

Pollution.8703:

I just realized that I can’t create new characters anymore without paying for this kitten all over again. You guys just removed half why I enjoyed pvp so much.

You’ll only have to pay for the traits again. It would actually be super nice if traits were permanent unlocks for sPvP, too.

Of those items, the only one that seems particularly valuable is Generosity. Traveler runes are nice, but they’re far from a necessity, and Renewal is neat, but overlaps with Leeching.

The list of traits that are actually useful is pretty short. Each class might have one trait that’s solid.