Guild Wars 2

I’ve written about that same topic in detail a few days ago: here.

Short version: yes, the skins are too expensive.

Don’t worry, you can watch that specific conversation here.

@Vukorep
First of all: Read my suggestion in its entirety and read it closely – I’ve never suggested to drop the price for the ascended armour to a tenth, I’ve suggested to drop the price for the ascended armour SKINS. And it is not exotic armour either, as you seemed to think, the vendor merely sells skins of exotic rarity (but the rarity is basically meaningless in this case).

Let me ask the main question again: What is the point of spending 3600 shards that an average player probably needs a year or two to acquire at the current rate, on mere skins, when you can just “work” a bit on the side on crafting the marks to buy the armour. Compared to the acquisition of the shards, crafting the marks is a breeze. A comparable scenario would be: If someone offered you a 1:1 non-functional toy model of a Mercedes for 20000€ or a working car of the same type for the same price, what would you take?

That is the central point of my suggestion and you can’t really compare that to the backpack, because that is a legendary item and those follow their own rules. Maybe cutting the price of the skins to a tenth is too much – it is not about the actual number, it is about the fact that the price should be reduced significantly, or else these vendor-sold skins are completely superfluous, if it is to a third, a fifth, a tenth, or anything in-between is only of secondary relevance.

That aside, have you even seen the ascended armour skins and the normal glorious armour skins? Those are literally almost identical. How can you say that those skins should be something special, when you can get them by casually completing a PvP reward track over and over again? (Besides, you don’t need to be good to get the asceneded PvP armour, just patient.)

And is it really reasonable that the ascended PvP armour possibly takes years to complete, while the normal crafted one can be obtained in a few months at most? There is a good reason why so many people complain that the rewards of the current PvP season are ridiculous.

Agreed, it is pointless now and should be removed completely. They could even leave the repair stations in the game – the NPCs are at least normal vendors that you can sell your junk to.
Although, the repair canisters could prove problematic and displease people who bought them, or got them from bought BL-chests.

Are there at least enough rewards that playing it on multiple characters makes it worthwhile?

It takes 3600 ascended shards of glory to buy all three sets of ascended armour from the PvP vendor and it takes 3600 ascended shards of glory to merely buy the armour skins.

Considering how much the rewards have been reduced, this is just not feasible. For anyone who is unaware of how the system works this PvP-season: You need 670 pips to complete all 6 reward tiers and 180 for every following iteration of Byzantium. Each tier, including the repetition of Byzantium, awards 50 ascended shards of glory. Depending on win/loss and a few additional circumstances, you’ll get 3/4/5/10/11 pips per game (unless you are of platinum or legendary rank, where you’ll earn a few additional pips, but that is of no concern for the vast majority of players).

Keep in mind that to get 3600 shards, you’d have to complete 72 full reward tiers (to repeat Byzantium once you need at the very least 17 games, provided you straight up win all of them, if you factor in the inevitable losses, that number naturally increases accordingly). If anyone is that dedicated to gather 3600 shards, he certainly isn’t going to spend them on mere skins, rather he is going to put that little bit of extra effort in to get the ascended armour.

Yes, I get that it should be a long-term goal to get the ascended armour, but 12 seasons (assuming no repetition of Byzantium) seems to be a bit much to me.

And yes, I also get that the idea is to offer the skins to people who aren’t willing to put in the effort to craft the ascended armour, but at the moment the bottleneck for the acquisition of this armour are the ascended shards of glory and it is such a tight bottleneck that crafting it is the easy part.
That means that currently the skins that the vendor is selling are completely superfluous, because nobody in their right mind would buy them instead of saving the shards for the real armour and to change that the price of the skins would have to drop significantly. At this rate of acquisition of the ascended shards, a tenth of the current price would be appropriate and even that would be considered expensive.

(Addendum: If you really just want the skins, as of now, doing the Glorious-Reward-Track 18 times is probably a lot faster than getting the skins of the ascended PvP armour. These armour skins are almost the same: 1, 2)

Bottom Line: The armour skins that the Ascended Armour League Vendor is selling, are too expensive by a large margin and the price should be significantly reduced. My suggestion is a reduction to at least a tenth of the current price.

I haven’t delved very deep into the story of GW2 as of now, but as far as I’ve noticed the story of the core game offers at least 3 more or less different playthroughs.

I have three different main characters of the same race and the story feels different enough that it seems worthwhile for me to play through the core story with all of them, but after that, will it be as worthwhile to play LS season 2, HoT story and LS season 3 with all three of them? Or shall I just pick one of them to do these stories only once?