Acquire Dire Gear with Badges?
cause anet wants the best gear is acquired through pve.
cause youre all pve’rs at heart
no one would buy it anyway cause cant salvage.
but I rly think you mean… we should have more gear options available with BoHs.
There are a lot of stat combos missing from the badge gear, dire, sinister, sentinel, nomad etc.
while on 1 hand i would like to see more stat combos available, on the other hand no. these sets require additional / special materials to craft and are part of the upper end of the horizontal progression in this game, if you put them available and as meaningless as the starter badge gear, then you lose the progression. i don’t think its right to do.
perhaps make the materials that are necessary to craft them obtainable via wvw ? but do not let them be bought just with badges as “entry level” gear.
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I wish Sinister were there. I looked on the Wiki on how to make Sinister and I don’t even understand it enough to ask if a guildie has the ability to do it.
Badge gear is highly outdated and was never really changed to reflect changes in the game. The gear being non-salvageable didn’t mean a big issue when exotic was the best you could get. Naturally, no new stat combos were ever added either. Furthermore, just buying it off the TP doesn’t really cost that much at all so I guess they never saw the need. Weirdly enough, they did change the Orr karma gear to more useful stats over time though… Honestly I would suggest that over wvw invader gear. It’s also entirely possible they want certain stat combos to be harder to acquire. Dire is a somewhat newer stat than the original ones.
On the other hand, exotics are so cheap anyways. If you just sold 10 alpha golems, you’d get around 3.5 g, and dire gear costs a 3g a piece on the TP. So you’d pay 14.5 g instead of 5.44g and 950 badges. (source: Gw2 Wiki, yay!). That saves 12.5g and 50 badges to get subpar armor that can’t be salvaged. And this isn’t assuming any buy or sell orders. For other stat combos, Soldiers (about 2g a piece) and say Rabid (1g a piece), it becomes very bad. Honestly, beyond zerker and knights I would suggest converting karma to gold.
IMO, they should reduce the gold cost and increase the badge cost. And make them salvagable but just not let them give ectos or whatnot. Another possibility is to allow special crafting substitutes that could be bought with badges.
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(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
Ectos would be fine as well – you’d be making a net loss if you buy WvW armour to salvage at current prices.
You don’t want to buy any gear with badges. Since a year ago when they changed the way transmutation stones worked and made them transmutation charges, any sigils or runes you put in WvW gear will be stuck there. Karma and WvW gear is unsalvagable, so just don’t buy it.
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