With the March 26th update, WvW players will have a whole new way to obtain various racial, special, and other items that were previously only purchasable with karma. With your badges you’ll first buy one component (the stats: Knight’s, Carrion, Cleric, Berserker’s, etc.) and then a second component (the visual look: racial skins, and so forth). Later on, if you decide you want the same stats, but a different look, you just buy a new skin and recombine them.
My question is – will the racial skins bought with badges count towards the Fashion achievements?
I know the patch is hitting tomorrow, but someone who has enough badges and will be checking it, please share your findings
With your badges you’ll first buy one component (the stats: Knight’s, Carrion, Cleric, Berserker’s, etc.) and then a second component (the visual look: racial skins, and so forth). Later on, if you decide you want the same stats, but a different look, you just buy a new skin and recombine them. It’s a lot like item transmuting, but for WvW bought gear.
I’ve been looking at buying a set of Knights gear for my mes…SO glad I waited!
Chaos Spatulai [Chef] | Paragon City Elite [PCE]
Henge of Denravi
Hmm I have mixed feeling about this. I guess it will depend on how many badges things cost. I just finished spending 100+g for my T3 armor so I could look awesome in WvW. I hope every nub with 100 badges can’t do the same. But again, it entirely depends on prices. Guess I’ll find out tomorrow.
The overall system of mix and match stats with look is a great idea though, I hope they start applying that to other areas of the game as well.
With the March 26th update, WvW players will have a whole new way to obtain various racial, special, and other items that were previously only purchasable with karma. With your badges you’ll first buy one component (the stats: Knight’s, Carrion, Cleric, Berserker’s, etc.) and then a second component (the visual look: racial skins, and so forth). Later on, if you decide you want the same stats, but a different look, you just buy a new skin and recombine them.
My question is – will the racial skins bought with badges count towards the Fashion achievements?
I know the patch is hitting tomorrow, but someone who has enough badges and will be checking it, please share your findings
Example: 500 badges for an exotic helm.
I have 25000 badges and 2M Karma.
option 1 – buy 1 piece with 500 badges
option 2 – buy full set of exotic with 252K Karma
hm…
Source:
“WvW players will have a whole new way to obtain various racial, special, and other items that were previously only purchasable with karma… Worth noting is that the stats are the same as those you’d get in any other part of the game, and the visual skins are the same as well, so no one who doesn’t partake in WvW will be missing out.”
I can’t believe they’re not giving us a way to purchase ascended items w/badges. Couldn’t they have put the laurel vendor in WVW and had the same items purchasable with badges?
We already have millions of karma, whats the point of adding more karma stuff to WvW even if they are now buyable with badges ?
Not to mention that one of the karma exotic armor stat sets is ALREADY available for purchase via badges. If they only add Magi’s and Rabid exotic armor (the two remaining exotic karma armor sets) and nothing else, I’m going to be sorely disappointed. Especially since the interview indicated “Knight’s, Carrion, Cleric, Berserker’s, etc.” among the stat sets available.
Chaos Spatulai [Chef] | Paragon City Elite [PCE]
Henge of Denravi
I just bought some PVT gear for my Guardian…Now I get the ability to by cool racial stuff for him as well. I wonder how expensive T3 racial will be? 1k badges?
I’m assuming that when they indicate the gear can be combined racial skins, they’re referring to the racial weapon skins (which are purchasable with karma). If the whole items that were “previously only purchasable with karma” holds true for all the new gear that is being added, then T3 cultural armor will not be available.
Chaos Spatulai [Chef] | Paragon City Elite [PCE]
Henge of Denravi
“Later on, if you decide you want the same stats, but a different look, you just buy a new skin and recombine them. It’s a lot like item transmuting, but for WvW bought gear”
So if i want to use a new Skin, i would need to buy a new full set of Berserker gear and get new Runes for them again? Arghhhh
I can see prices on Runes going to sky rocket tomorrow.
if it works like transmuting the runes should be transferable, you should be able to select one rune, one look, and one stat set when you combine two items.
Leader of [Suh]
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People that’s in the JP shouldn’t count towards the queue, I usually see like 20 people in there taking up the precious queue for people that actually want to do WvW.
Just a thought:
1 Alpha Golem = 1 gold = 100 badges – current price.
1 T3 Racial set = 12- 30 Gold = 1200 -3000 badges pr piece.
Full T3 Racial Set = 119 Gold = 11900 Badges.
I would rather buy 119 Golems -.-
Rheayas – 80 Guardian
Guild Leader Of [LOOT]
Yaks Bend Allaince Commander [YBA]
So, they allow us to buy pve items with wvw badges and karma items….I had soo much karma, that i started buying orrian chests to make some extra gold. I could buy karma items when ever i want to…I hope they are making skins that are only obtainable for wvw,new stuff,not the same old skins over and over and over again. Please anet, NEW SKINS!(I’ll send u cookies)
Lv 80 glamour Mesmer Triforce Mesmerpower PU mes,Lv 80 power necro
[AVTR]
Isle of Kickaspenwood
I already spent gold and karma on the racial and cultural stuff I wanted, hoping to see new WvW only armors and weapons.
Also, Ascended, that stuff doesn’t even have skins, its just text boxes with more stats. Don’t tell me that couldn’t easily be put on a vendor. Funny they say nothing being added in WvW will make players of other parts of the game miss out, but meanwhile we are still missing out on the best gear.
Hey all! Just wanted to clarify something for you: racial armors will not be available through WvW. We’ve contacted MMORPG.com so they can correct that information.
Hey all! Just wanted to clarify something for you: racial armors will not be available through WvW. We’ve contacted MMORPG.com so they can correct that information.
Hey all! Just wanted to clarify something for you: racial armors will not be available through WvW. We’ve contacted MMORPG.com so they can correct that information.
Thanks, and sorry for the confusion!
Of course not. People would actually like that, so obviously you wouldn’t want to do it.
Hey all! Just wanted to clarify something for you: racial armors will not be available through WvW. We’ve contacted MMORPG.com so they can correct that information.
Thanks, and sorry for the confusion!
I’m so surprised…
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No I’m not.
Toons: Foreseer, Geikamir, Rapscallion, Specimen, Scythian, Zeau, Ärtifact, and Replica.
I fail to understand why they treat PvE players and WvW players differently, and not as equals. Until Ascended gear is available to the WvW community it seems as if you’re treating them as second class players, and you’re catering to PvE which is underwhelming at best.
Niles <TB> Elementalist – SoR
Nialls <TB>Thief – SoR
Temples are open daily and it takes maybe 10-15 min to run someone to all of them from LA. And WvW player have boatloads of Karma. Badges in place of this would be utterly meaningless.
Calisto – NSP BPTCBP
Dictator for Life
Shiverpeaks Search and Rescue [Lost]
I expect nothing from this patch, so I know I won’t be disappointed.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
So basically we’re getting access to what we already have.
This.
Anet could add ascended/WvW exclusive stuff. It´s not that hard technically and they had more than half a year to do so.
I think they dont want it. Because they dont want PVE players forced to play in WvW (or they QQ+quit).
It´s a terrible thing.
WvW in Gw 2 ll never be as rewarding as a pure WvW game.
Well at least we have fun.
I know a lot of people who have been holding out, waiting for this patch, and will quit if they are forced to PvE, to get gear that should also be available in WvW, doing nothing but WvW. It’s sad that in sPvP they don’t have to level, or take the time to get gear, yet WvW players have to leave WvW to farm for gold to buy upgrades for keeps, or to run dungeons to get equal gear. It’s sad really.
I think they dont want it. Because they dont want PVE players to be forced to play WvW (or they QQ+quit).
Sometimes the design decisions in this game make me scratch my head.
What they should have done is made the base stats on ascended same as exoctic, and then make the infusion slots be a lot more. PVE players would choose agony for the infusion, which would be helpful in PVE and would not give a big bonus in WvW. And then WvW players would have chosen a bigger stat infusion, which would not have helped them compete more in dungeons over the agony.
Or just have ascended not have better stats at all and just have agony only slot. But cats out of the bag now, so they need to equalize the means of acquisition.
Freaking hell! Give us unique skins ArenaNet! I dont want to look like the auto attacking heal on crit monkeys that makes a fuzz out of being able to dodge a scripted attack!!
I would love the temple gear, and wvw access to the temple gear alike, TO LOOK UNIQUE.
Temple gear is flat and ugly across the board. I will wait to see what is in this update. I’m starting to find that if I want cool unique armor, I have to find some skin from random items that no one would ever go for. Regardless of color or stats. But the temple gear puzzles … I mean I seriously doubt Lyssa in prime battling Grenth would look identical. So why is there respective armors all lacking in depth?
I would hope at least if its the only ‘difference’ in armor skin … is they release temple armor looking unique. Even though its only 6 skins… hey it’s half year, 1 set per month… ain’t a bad number to roll with and gives some breath for future (as I eye all the content around the map unopened) . this all relates to me playing wvw, and assuming temple gear is the karma gear in reference, and coming to wvw. And my hope of style walking alongside it (for both pve and wvw) … I mean Anet the pedigree in art right? That’s what I believe… just waiting on the ‘wow’ factor for temple gear.
Willing to pay for boxed expansion if you put legit GvG in the box $$
Does it really matter if the racial armors are available through WvW or not? lol
Considering I only play WvW, yes.
I assume the way to obtain racial armors will be to kill a dragon somewhere 85 times or run 112 fractals or otherwise stop playing the game the way I normally play it. This has been the case for pretty much everything so far.
