Guild Wars 2

Will we be able to get the HOT armor/runes with the wvw update with wvw currency? We can get the pre-hot armor with badges in wvw so it would make sense that we should be able to get the hot armor with badges as well. I would also think that because you can’t buy the new runes on the tp and currently only can do the pve maps, that they should also be available via wvw currency.

The fact that you can only get those items from specific PvE maps is kinda selling point for HoT. If you could simply get them from WvW, then you do not need to buy HoT and that is bad for business.

The issue should be availability of the recipes. Which requires a lot of pve meta event grinding to acquire the map currency to purchase the recipes to craft the gear. The mats can be bought, traded, farmed therefore the actual gear doesnt necessarily have to be added. A way to buy the recipes with wvw currency like badges, proofs and gold would be very helpful.

FogLeg.9354:

The fact that you can only get those items from specific PvE maps is kinda selling point for HoT. If you could simply get them from WvW, then you do not need to buy HoT and that is bad for business.

It isn’t really hard to only make them available to those with HoT, you know

You gonna have to suck it up and pve. It is actually not that bad. I decided I wanted to get durability runes and was able to get the 900 AB currency by doing 3 meta events.

I agree. I’ll never grind to get viper’s gear for example. I don’t play the game that much to grind for crap like that, I have a full time job and two cats for god sakes.

RodOfDeath.5247:

I agree. I’ll never grind to get viper’s gear for example. I don’t play the game that much to grind for crap like that, I have a full time job and two cats for god sakes.

What do the cats have to do with it…?

To OP, not all the stat combo’s pre-hot are available for WvW currency so I’m not sure I would hold my breath that HoT stat combo’s will become available.

Well, it is wholely bizzare atm.

You can access Marauder without HoT for example, but everything else seems to be special. I say split the difference. Runes weren’t always universally accessible even before HoT (some were locked behind dungeons and living story recipes and crap), but it wasn’t that big of a deal because runes are often niche enough that they are hardly essential. So that’s almost fine. However, the stat combos do provide some major differences and some are practically straight upgrades, so I think the prefixes should be more widely available.

I think one possibility is to allow the orange recipes to be tradeable. You’ll have to use stat swapping to get the proper ascended armor and you need to buy materials for the insignia/inscription (Well, actually that’s cheaper anyways, but whatever!). This would also give people that actually want to some extra incentive to convert their map currencies to gold or something. For anyone that actually does pve regularly, buying such a recipe is a one time purchase anyways, so it won’t be a big deal.

And maybe have an expensive way to craft the runes. Maybe.

As a side note, there really needs to be a way to get ascended materials/more ascended gear drops or have them be purchasable with wvw currency.

Anyhow, the grind in HoT maps isn’t actually that horrific though grinding out multiple rune sets would be daunting. For your viper, It’s basically just arrive at the meta a few times at the right time. However, it is annoying because you will have a much more difficult time if you don’t follow the timetable for the maps, and that is a very big annoyance in HoT, so it really feels like you have to go out of your way for it and be left AFK’ing and then remembering to LFG when the timer hits. That kind of sucks and definitely feels like you are being dragged by this pve. Try to grab a friend or two.

What’s really bad though is that you have stuff locked behind Raids and Story achievements. That probably sounds dreary to many PvE’rs too much less WvW’ers. That just needs more channels of acquisition period, of course WvW should possibly be one of them.

FogLeg.9354:

The fact that you can only get those items from specific PvE maps is kinda selling point for HoT. If you could simply get them from WvW, then you do not need to buy HoT and that is bad for business.

They could just lock HOT stats to accounts with HOT ; PvP has Viper’s / Marauder’s amulet

It’s a moot point since elite specs are a far better selling point.