Guild Wars 2

I think it’s a good idea. We can buy exotic armor and weapons, why not runes and sigils ?
The cost of some runes and sigils is ridiculous.
By this way they will become cheaper and accessible to poor players .Why sould only the rich ones sould have access to them ?
What do you say ?

why would you want to introduce a soft price cap in a free market?

This is actually a VERY good idea. It’ll end the monopoly of certain runes/ sigils dominated by the PVE players. You can even make it account bound on purchase if you don’t want to affect the market too much.

Also since Anet want us to encourage the use of a full set rune, I’d say that 1000 badges for a rune of 6 pieces and 300 badges for a sigil is a fair price.

It’s kinda silly you have to spend around 10g~25g just to use the rune you want in WvW. All the bags combined in an one month play of WvW won’t worth that amount. lol

I hope the developers can read my post and take consideration of this option. It’ll benefit all WvW players.

Its no problem to get that amount of gold in a month playing wvw. And if you really want certain runes it shouldnt be a problem to get them.

Umad.7528:

Its no problem to get that amount of gold in a month playing wvw. And if you really want certain runes it shouldnt be a problem to get them.

Not talking about what you actually earn, but what you open from the loot bags. (Those loot bags are pretty crappy, just opened 300 of them yesterday and not even 15g gain)

BTW, I think you’re totally off topic too. This is not talking how much you gain from WvW, but how it’ll be more WvW friendly since you don’t earn that much from WvW anyway.

I’d go for a rune similar to a dungeon specific rune. Maybe something that gave a speed buff while running with allies, or while you are carrying supply. Another buff could apply when you’re in range of controlled territory.
Absolutely no to all runes being available for badges. It would put a massive hole in the economy, and everyone on the map would be running around with traveller runes anyway.

Aomine.5012:

This is actually a VERY good idea. It’ll end the monopoly of certain runes/ sigils dominated by the PVE players.

I agree. Pay to win has to go.

I do agree that Badges of Honor could do with some alternative ways to spend them.

Currently you can only spend them on…

• Armor, which is a one-time purchase,
• Siege, which while always needed, is often only provided by a small portion of the player base.
• WXP, which also costs Laurels and once you reach rank 500, seems rather unnecessary.

I think it would be cool if you could spend Badges of Honor stuff like T6 mats because you don’t usually get a lot from WvW alone.

Sigils don’t seem like a great choice since you already have a reasonable chance of getting them from WvW, same as PvE.

Badges of Honor need in general improvements as rewards.
The current situation is just bad.
Badges are nearly worth nothing, except for easy WvW Rank Ups together with Laurels and the WvW Gift that you need for a Legendary and for making some small money, if you buy with them Siege Weapons and upgrade them then to Superior Siege Weapons to sell these then, if you have tons of Skill points, Mithril and Old Wood over for the upgrading that you don’t need

Players need to become able to buy with Badges of Honour:

• Ascended Weapons
• Ascended Armor
• Ascended Trinkets (there should be also the option to pay just only with Badges)
• Ascended Back Items
• Minipets (WvW should have some exclusive Minipets, that you can get only through Badges of Honor in combination of having reached certain WvW Ranks to unlock these rewards -in general the WvW rewards should work like this, slowly unlocking more and more possible rewards, so higher your rank rises)
• Recipes for some new missing Stat Combinations
• More WvW Infusions, like some, that are Class Specific to improve the Class Roles
• Special Finishers, that you could get only via WvW
• Tomes of Experience (Those that give you instantly a Level Up)
• Buff Food/Oil/Crystal/Stone Items with special WvW Effects that you can’t craft as Cook
• In regard of Weapons/Armors, some complete new Skins, WvW needs more, than just only the Mistforged Hero Weapons, one unqie Skin alone won’t be enough (Mistforged Hero Armor sets needs also to follow)
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• T7 Materials as Direct Buys, not being hided behind RNG like it is by using laurels, with the difference, that Laurels can give you higher amounts of the materials.
• Precursors

Thats what they should offer for Badges of Honors together with these preces and requirements:

Ascended Weapons: 2500 Badges – Be at least Rank Legend(R120)
Ascended Armor: 2000 Badges/Piece – Be at least Rank Bronze Soldier (R300)
Ascended Trinkets o. w. B.: 1000 Badges – Be at least Rank Legend
Minipets – Fine: 1000 Badges – Be at least Rank Legend
Minipets – Masterwork: 2500 Badges – Be at least Rank Bronze Soldier
Minipets – Rare: 5000 Badges – Be at least Rank Bronze Legend (R570)
Minipets – Exotic: 10000 Badges – Be at least Rank Silver Soldier (R870)
Recipes – 1500 Badges – Buyable instantly
Class related WvW Infusions – 2500 Badges – Be at least Rank Legend
Special Finishers – 5000-10000 Badges – Be at Least Rank Silver Soldier upwards
Tomes of Experience: 250 Badges – Buyable instantly
Buff Food – 50-100 Badges – Be at least Rank Footman (R50)
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Precursors: 25000 Badges – Be at least Rank Gold Legend (R2445)