Guild Wars 2

It cost 1889 to get all the ARMOR. And the 5 days of 11 hour farming you probably mean you bought gold from a gold selling site.

At 55 hours, to get 100 gold you need to farm at a rate of 1.82 g/hr

I pulled in MINIMUM 2.0 g/hr with upwards to around 3.5 g/hr

Gold is not hard to make in this game. Over the ~55 hours I farmed over those 5 days I pulled in ~120g excluding T6 materials. Adding the material I netted an additional ~15-20g resulting in a farm rate of approximately 2.5 g/hr average over the course of that week.

No gold buying here sir. Gold is easy.

the problem here is not about the price to get badge. it’s about inflation of gold and the badge didn’t affected at all. the price for other forms of armor/weapon goes down (except precursor and legendary, they goes up) but the price for one using badge to exchange is never gonna change. a roughly workout for badge dropping rate is 1 per 6 to 7 kills. considering how easy to get gold, unless someone would think the wvw(invader) set more outstanding in appearance ( i guess not), no one would like to exchange token for them.

I think it wouldn’t be an issue if the gear wasn’t so ugly.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I think it wouldn’t be an issue if the gear wasn’t so ugly.

yeah that’s what i mean in my post.
the quick fix for this thread, make this set a better skin that can even compare to t3 cultural armor.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

I think it wouldn’t be an issue if the gear wasn’t so ugly.

Thank god the medium armor isn’t half as ugly (except that silly hat which makes you bald).

mulch.2586:

Relentliss.2170:

I think the fact I have enough Karma to buy a full set of Karma gear and only 1 piece of badge gear says there is an imbalance.

I don’t think it is.
Consider if you’d farmed that karma in Orr. You’d have that gear and some 400-lvl crafting mats.

Consider if you’d farmed that karma in lower zones. You’d just have the karma gear.

Consider if you got all the karma in wvw. You’d have that gear, and badges.

So the badges gear isn’t supposed to be your main source of gear, but rather a supplemental perk, sorta like crafting is for Orr farmers.

I haven’t done anything but WvW. I’ve earned enough karma from it to buy an entire set of gear, but only enough badges for only one piece. Seems a bit odd considering there is nothing special about this gear at all. That seems that the prices of this gear is a bit off.

Also you can’t get accessories (with a free slot) with Power/Tough/Vit (exotics) outside of WvWvW, creating a grind.

As far as i’m concerned I will earn my invader armour threw the badge system and not use the PvE supplements. More of an achievement imo.

Also, you guys do know you can transmute armour and what not right??

You get approximately 20 BoH per Character if you rush the jumping puzzles, this can be done on each character, heck you can even keep deleting and making a new one. So you can make about 100 BoH per day.

I have a set of this armour already and I couldn’t buy a single piece with badges lol. All of it from AC and karma.

They give me free siege though, so hey.

you can buy same gear farming AC dung and Hotw dung, same exotic pow/vit/tough gear.

why bothering to farm those badges with only 10% chance to drop.

Ohoni.6057:

I’m not a huge WvW player, but I’ve racked up 156 kills so far (mostly in pursuit of monthlies), and yet only have about 20 badges. For those of you “farming” badges, what are the most reliable ways, beyond just following zergs around or defending random bases.

The quickest way to get badges in WvW is to actually participate in your server’s organized WvW effort. When you do that you aren’t thinking about getting badges at all. Its just a byproduct of what your server needs you to do. You are thinking about defending a keep, assaulting a tower etc etc and the time passes quickly. Sometimes you feel theres not enough time to get to a tower and set up a Superior Arrow cart before the enemy can break down the gate.

The time passes slowly when you are counting every badge you get and doing horribly boring, repetitive tasks to get them.

You get absolutely tonnes of badges by reacting to an enemy assault and building/manning siege weapons like Superior Arrow Carts and Ballistas, since these weapons are designed to absolutely destroy Zergs trying to pile through chokepoints or knock a gate down.

My advice is to go into WvW, hook up with the guilds or public voip guys who are involved in the WvW effort. They always want more people to fill out their numbers.

If you are passing near supply camps or merchants you should always make sure you have:

10 supply
2x flame rams
2x arrow carts
2x catapults
2x ballistas
1x trebuchet

This is like the WvW survival kit. I usually have alot more (last week before reset I had 24 superior arrow carts, 45 arrow carts, 30 flame rams, 5 superior flame rams, 16 catapults, 25 ballistas, 10 superior ballistas, 5 trebuchets and 4 Alpha siege golems). I hardly ever do the jumping puzzles either.

But if you have the basic kit, you can be the lucky one to drop your ballista/arrow cart on an East Keep inner defense which means you’ll get millions of kills. You too can be the guy involved in a ninja catapult team, steal a tower, loot the tower supply for your arrow cart on the gate and melt the 20 defenders trying to take their tower back. You will be swimming in more loot bags than scrooge mcduck.

I also highly recommend buying superior arrow carts and superior ballistas. Horde them and save them for really clever, hard to reach spots because they are literally badge fountains when deployed in the right place and the right time.

During the downtime in a match you can also do the jumping puzzles in each borderland plus eternal. Many of our mesmers do the eternal puzzle for us and give us a portal elevator to the top so we can all get free blue prints (and badges).