Guild Wars 2

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If you’re lucky and you get a decent 1st 10 matches you’re automatically legendary.

Reasonable placement and start Gold for an example, you’ve got a massive grind ahead of you. ~60wins, with suck matches/players.

Unlucky and get matched with daily farmers who queued for free ascended and end up Bronze. Rip season

Using this skill will sometimes root the character for 1-3 seconds when ending the skill

The tyria racial story lines are not rewarding mastery points even though it shows that they can be earned. Fix please

Kross.6428:

Agemnon.4608:

There needs to be some way to make the skin exclusive so that only the truly dedicated obtain it.

Arcturus.5267:

So you assumed it was cheap?

That amount of investment in gold and/or grinding the presents is dedication.

Exclusivity? Dedication? Pfft, what a load of bull. You do realize that the root word of “exclusive” is “exclusion”, right? Exclusion is not a good thing.

I don’t know what you do with your life, but you have to realize that many people work full-time jobs or have other responsibilities. I don’t have time to sit around and grind mini-games for hours on end like you do. Not everyone has an abundance of free time on their hands. There is something called “real life”, look it up some time.

And before you say anything about buying it, I’m not too keen on whipping out my credit card to support ArenaNexon’s gems-to-gold obsession for a single skin. This company has already charged me enough money for an expansion that provided very little in new armor/weapons skins, and has devoted more time/resources updating the cash shop.

It is very disappointing that they added some sort of free content, and then locked it behind yet another abhorrent grind…

I work 48hrs a week in a IT company with nothing to do but browse forums.

I didn’t grind out the Wintersday’s achievements all-day long for the presents either, I did present my credit card though, Anet has kept me occupied with a game which saves me from putting money into other games, I’ll invest into them.

“real-life” comment. +1

I agree Anet should focus more into updating the actual game instead of the cash shop, but hey that’s how it is.

The thing is alot of people are making it out that this shoulder skin is excluding them from some sort of content, it really isn’t. -it’s a Skin, you’re not exactly gated from anything.

Flashy skins should be hard work, Fashion Meta is end-game.

Artanis.4963:

Agemnon.4608:

I achieved 2k drinks through natural gameplay…for free. I plan on getting the effects 50% off: 5,000 earned drinks, 5,000 from the TP. There needs to be some way to make the skin exclusive so that only the truly dedicated obtain it.

Dedicated? I think you just mean wealthy there.

There’s four other items with a gold cost attached to them, but of those, only the Blueprint is time-limited. The remaining components are time-limited Wintersday achievements that are fairly simple to complete, with the outstanding exception of Masterful Toast. The real gold cost is in those other items, the ones that can be done any time at the Mystic Forge. It does not belong in a time-limited achievement.

If you want to add real dedication as a requirement, increase the quantity of ingredients in the Mystic Forge items, and bump the Wintersday activity achievements up to 15 or so.

When you take the collection as a whole, alongside Winter’s Presence’s announcement in Guild Chat, it is clear that it was not intended to be “exclusive” or any other term some players are using to dismiss the argument that there’s something very wrong with the acquisition of Masterful Toast.

They said kind of like nightfury, so you assumed it was cheap?

If they specifically mentioned how you would go about getting this shoulder skin with exact ingredients, how do you think the TP would look before they released the patch for the items involved?

That amount of investment in gold and/or grinding the presents is dedication.

Agemnon.4608:

I achieved 2k drinks through natural gameplay…for free. I plan on getting the effects 50% off: 5,000 earned drinks, 5,000 from the TP. There needs to be some way to make the skin exclusive so that only the truly dedicated obtain it.

This exactly.

Artanis.4963:

Ben K.6238:

And yet I’m pretty sure Gaile said it’s viable afterwards a very short time ago.

Edit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Updates-about-Wintersday/first

And where, pray tell, are you planning on getting drinks or gifts after he festival ends?

I’m sure the TP will still have plenty available, also there is next year.

Daharahj.1325:

What’s even the point of these feedback threads? Is anything done with our feedback at all? It’s a genuine concern of mine.

None of what we ask for is ever adressed.

I’m pretty sure it’s too stop the flood of new topics being created which are moaning about the cost of the the shoulder skin.

My opinion is Anet did a good job, these skins are a luxury and I hope they keep releasing other’s, with a similar cost.

I think people really shouldn’t be moaning about them, they are not out of reach at all. They are not gated behind RNG, you can farm some gold just like you pretty much do for everything else or farm the presents/drinks yourselves and choose to invest it into the shoulders or make some gold.

This is only a sink for the people who want the skin fast.

I invested a fair bit of gold into the presents and I’m watching the price drop gradually, sure it’s painful but I had the luxury of running round with a nice skin for a few days.

There’s nothing wrong with a shift of gold through the economy, it balances out unless it’s being flipped by the same individuals, people still have a chance of making some decent in-game cash.

I do really wish that Anet would open more posts like these for people’s opinions on actual game modes like WvW for their opinions instead.

It’s a shoulder skin.

Keira Wildflower.7304:

A skin has no stats. The legendaries are stats based. That would make the game pay to win and that is against Anet policy.

I wasn’t serious, I don’t mind the effort needed behind legendaries.

Just like I don’t mind the effort needed for the shoulders skin.

People are moaning and complaining left, right and center about what’s required to get the shoulders.

When they fail to see that Anet have actually provided a solid way to get their gold up for the next unreachable shoulder skin which they’ll then moan about because it’ll be gated behind RNG like batwing brew and so forth.

Guaranteed its the same people who complain about RNG gates who are complaining about paywalls who feel the whole game should be catered towards them and have everything handed to them on a plate.

Personally, i appreciate the cost of the shoulders and hell, i’m gonna appreciate them alot more with how much they cost.

I still think anet should be looking into more important issues cough wvw cough scribing*cough* than addressing the issues the people in here are moaning about.

Gold sink is gold sink, as I said look at the rest of the game and tell me what is not a gold sink?

Whats gold sink to you is also gold in anothers pocket it gives people who actually need gold for gear to be actually playing some content a decent way to do it.

Farm the JP for an hour solid just to see the amount of money you can make selling the gifts.

Aidenwolf.5964:

1st post you’ve ever made….. I swear this is making my spidey sense tingle.

Oh? in what way?

Just want to say thanks Anet, I hoping for an aura like this and was happy to invest all that gems/gold into it.

Sure I failed the JP a few times but after the first completion it became stupid easy.

I totally sucked at the Bell Choir but managed it in the end.

I’d prefer if there was some aura slot in the wardrobe, but will do without shoulders for this skin.

Much appreciated, have some more money.