Guild Wars 2

Could we maybe get a vendor where we can buy scrolls and tomes of knowledge for badges? I mean I love wvw but in the endless grind to pursue rewards and advancement of characters, I can’t help but feel like I’m losing out whenever I do wvw. Badges are pretty much worthless. You can buy traps and siege disablers I guess, and kind of reduce the cost in laurels of some ascended jewelry, and buy some junk gear that you’d probably better not put good upgrades in because they cannot be salvaged and cannot be sold, or even forged.

So you go out, you kill a bunch of players, and get a bunch of badges, complete achievements and get more badges…. and for what? After awhile you just stockpile them up for no purpose.

I find myself having to do sPVP lately even though I despise it partly because it’s a reliable way of getting tomes of knowledge. If I could get tomes of knowledge (I have multiple other characters still needing levels) through wvw, I could do that, something I enjoy, instead.

There was a HUGE thread on this going back a few months ago now. No dev responded to it, no changes were made.

EDIT: On second thought I think a dev did respond, cba looking for the thread now and Im pretty sure were still not allowed to ‘red necro’. In any event, no changes were made.

We got the usual ’we’re looking at it’ response, then nothing.

Luckily they haven’t altered rewards in other aspects of the game either, like spvp, tournaments with prizes, pve areas that drop loot and events like candy, otherwise it would seem like wvw is the forgotten one….oh wait…

Along with this they should give a trait vendor that lets you pay with karma and/or badges.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/6#post3998764

Offair.2563:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/6#post3998764

I’m not dredging through 7 months worth of posts in the forum, not when search is currently broken just to not bug you that the topic was once talked about several months ago.

they made the first 15 levels faster, isnt that enough???

/sarcasm over

+1 to this idea, have ten’s of thousands of badges will never use, leveling was tedious before now with the stupid NPE and trait unlocks ughhh. But you know pve purists will go nuts over it.

At least once some gear was avaiable with badges only, but now it requires golds too T_T

if only i abused that before…

+1 as always.
I realy want the same wendor as they use in pavilon events. Mat bags, tomes, minis (siegerazor) or even accbound sigil, runes (for our unsalvagable armors, weapons)

I’d like to see this.

Can’t you still buy siege with badges though? I mean you could buy siege and sell it. Not that it would make you a fortune but it’s at least some income.

MightyMicah.7451:

I’d like to see this.

Can’t you still buy siege with badges though? I mean you could buy siege and sell it. Not that it would make you a fortune but it’s at least some income.

Most commanders don’t want other people in the zerg to have their own siege, and they don’t want normal siege they want upgraded siege or guild siege.

So you’d actually be spending money and skillpoints to upgrade it to send to your commanders, not making any money.

Devildoc.6721:

I’m not dredging through 7 months worth of posts in the forum, not when search is currently broken just to not bug you that the topic was once talked about several months ago.

I don’t think people are bugged by your post, I think he was just trying to be informative in that while we all agree with your ideas, they’ve been talked about before.

And because search is broken and because we get infraction warnings for bumping posts that devs have responded in were limited to linking them in posts like these otherwise the information is simply just lost.

If anything were bugged by ANet.

Allow me to buy Liquid WXP for Badges and I’ll be happy.

Anything that is obtained via a PvP reward track should be purchasable with badges. Enough of WvW being treated like a third rate citizen of Tyria.

Zaxares.5419:

Allow me to buy Liquid WXP for Badges and I’ll be happy.

you actually can buy the Taste of Liquid WXP from the laurel merchant. However it also costs 2 laurels each, so not really worth it. Its really just there for people who want a legendary (gift of battle requires rank 14+) and will never bother to do any actual wvw, aside from mapping which you can do solo and not participate in anything that offers wxp.

Yeah, I know they can be bought with Laurels, but it’s not worth it, as you mentioned. I think trading Badges for WXP would be much more worth it.

it would, but the pve purists will freak out and rage because they will have to do wvw or….eotm for badges.

But… why? WXP is only useful for WvW itself. It literally has no use to you at all in PvE or PvP, so why would you do a game mode you don’t enjoy, for something that can only be used in the game mode you don’t enjoy? Just skip it altogether (unless you need Map Completion for a Legendary. Badges for the Gift of Battle can be gotten purely through AP chests).

I got a little mixed up there lol, because the topic is on tomes :p, but either way ranks should not be bought, should be earned. Didnt like it when they implemented that, but I like that it costs laurels to deter people from stocking up on it. I can understand its helpful for pve only players who just want easy way to get the gift of battle rank 14+ req

Devildoc.6721:

MightyMicah.7451:

I’d like to see this.

Can’t you still buy siege with badges though? I mean you could buy siege and sell it. Not that it would make you a fortune but it’s at least some income.

Most commanders don’t want other people in the zerg to have their own siege, and they don’t want normal siege they want upgraded siege or guild siege.

So you’d actually be spending money and skillpoints to upgrade it to send to your commanders, not making any money.

Most commanders I’ve met on my server are extremely grateful for any siege donations they get from the zerg. Hell we even tip our commanders in gold sometimes depending on how they do.

yea never seen anyone turn down siege, they burn through it, and are generous enough to use lots of their own superiors/guild siege which is not cheap for them. Never hear anyone complain about regular siege getting thrown down tbh, they just throw more superior/guild siege if needed. If its undefended tower for example and we have a big group, one regular ram is more then enough

Devildoc.6721:

Offair.2563:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Badges-for-Tomes-of-Knowledge/page/6#post3998764

I’m not dredging through 7 months worth of posts in the forum, not when search is currently broken just to not bug you that the topic was once talked about several months ago.

Not to mention that if you wanted to ask a question or comment on it, you’d get infracted for necroing.

+1 once more… pls let us use the tomes to level our alts, because we can’t play alts in wvw… they are no match to level 80s

Tomes are available in sPvP because in sPvP regular EXP isn’t available to level players.

In WvW, there are more than enough options to earn regular EXP to level. Its a grind, but what game doesn’t have a grind? You grind in PvE for EXP to level. You grind in PvP for Tomes. So its either, you grind in WvW for EXP or Tomes, you can’t have it both ways, well you could but Anet won’t let you have it.

I normally spend badges on siege and the occasional set of exotic armor.

Rid regular xp from wvw, eotm. Add tomes. —> way less low lvl leveling. Players will come with high levels to earn tomes

McWolfy.5924:

Rid regular xp from wvw, eotm. Add tomes. —> way less low lvl leveling. Players will come with high levels to earn tomes

Brilliant. <3

McWolfy.5924:

Rid regular xp from wvw, eotm. Add tomes. —> way less low lvl leveling. Players will come with high levels to earn tomes

Less ways to play as an uplevel, don’t think that will ever work. The only way I can see this work would be to also use PvP’s level system (The no level system, you are 80 with PvP amulets etc). Which I do think could work quote well, it would certainly save a lot of costs on our equipment -_-’

Jim Hunter.6821:

Along with this they should give a trait vendor that lets you pay with karma and/or badges.

+1
There’s been so many good ideas out there for WvW vendors. I hope anet adds some of them.

joneirikb.7506:

McWolfy.5924:

Rid regular xp from wvw, eotm. Add tomes. —> way less low lvl leveling. Players will come with high levels to earn tomes

Less ways to play as an uplevel, don’t think that will ever work. The only way I can see this work would be to also use PvP’s level system (The no level system, you are 80 with PvP amulets etc). Which I do think could work quote well, it would certainly save a lot of costs on our equipment -_-’

I hate how restricted you are in pvp. It would be much nicer if you just had to unlock the different sets of armor, runes, etc. and then you could access them anytime through your hero panel.

If they implemented this they could also bring back the templates from GW1 since you wouldn’t have to swap weapons and gear.