Guild Wars 2

The current problems with farmers just farming the first 1-2 bosses of a particular dungeon basically stem from the bad gearing model GW2 uses.

Right now, GW2 encourages you to grind the same dungeon over and over 40+ times. Why? Because sets are cosmetic. No one wants one piece of Arah armor, one piece of AC armor, one piece of TA armor…you’d look like a freak.

But under the current model, that means that someone who wants to run TA only wants to run TA, someone who wants to run CoF only wants to run CoF, etc. This promotes the farming attitude because honestly no one enjoys running the same dungeon 40 times in a row and everyone wants to get it out of the way in the easiest way possible.

So, the proposed change:

1. Make current tokens universal.

2. In addition to current token requirements, make each piece of gear require 1 “Badge” from the appropriate dungeon. Badges are only granted from completing explore mode of that dungeon. One clear of TA = 1 Badge.

For example, if I want to buy a TA chest, right now I need 300 TA tokens. After this change, I would need 300 tokens I could get from any dungeon, plus one TA badge from beating the last boss of TA.

This system both increases flexibility by letting people play with their friends in other dungeons without wasting their time, but it also undercuts farmers who want to do only 1-2 easy bosses without completing an instance because they won’t get badges.

Thoughts?

I’ve got a thread about this too, here. I think the badge thing is a good idea, but I’m not sure if they would be able to implement that.

Mind if I add your badge idea to my thread?

Melon.8410:

I’ve got a thread about this too, here. I think the badge thing is a good idea, but I’m not sure if they would be able to implement that.

Mind if I add your badge idea to my thread?

Go for it. I posted this in the dungeons section but apparently some moderator thought talking about dungeons in the dungeons section isn’t appropriate.