I was reading earlier on about how a lot of people thought it was unfair that to obtain a legendary weapon in this game you first have to dedicate yourself to weeks of farming materials, and once you have all that, there’s the problem of obtaining 77 mystic clovers. They are made in the mystic forge using some (very) expensive materials, and there is only a chance that you will get a/some mystic clovers. I think what people hate about this is the sheer amount of pure luck involved. Getting a legendary should involve nothing but skill and dedication, and besides, there’s already enough luck involved in obtaining the precursor anyway.
So no one likes RNG. I thought about possible solutions for a while and realised that so much was involved in obtaining a legendary – pretty much everything. Everything except structured PvP. Now some people will tell me that Anet told them that sPvP and PvE were going to be completely separate. However when they said this they were referring only to things like player level, skills, gear, traits, etc. They meant only to create an equal playing field for people who wanted to PvP. We could swap out the chance for mystic clovers and replace it for, say, 500 (even 1000) of an item which is purchased from the rank 80 vendor for 1000-2000 glory each. People want dedication? There it is. It’s not to be found in farming materials to put in a mystic forge in hopes that you will get a mystic clover.
As a substitute for people that have already obtained a portion of their 77 clovers, Anet could open a temporary store (or even permanent, and keep the mystic forge option for the gamblers or people who think they are lucky) which uses clovers as tokens, where you can buy a number (more than one, since you need more of this PvP item than you do clovers) of the PvP item.
What do you think?
