Guild Wars 2

MiniEquine.6014:

quaniesan.8497:

oh good god, people like to be spoon-fed everything these days. There’s a reason legendary weapon being called ‘legendary’: it’s rare, it’s worth alot of effort, else they are no different than the starter weapons if everyone has one.
Ok, first you were yelling “it’s too rare, give a way to make one, I’m ENTITLED to a precursor”. Now you got a sure way to make one, now it’s “NOT FUN, TOO HARD!” , give me a break. If you are not willing to do all the work, then you are not deserved to wield one, simple as that. Do me a favor, recite the word “legendary” 1000 times before bed each night and contemplate what it means and then make a demand for your… entitlement.
Regarding the TP, no one forces you to use it. If other people do it the TP way, it’s their problem. You have the free will of doing it the “right” way. Don’t make the fake argument that you are forced to use the TP to make a legendary. If you don’t make a legendary effort, no legendary for you. Stop being a spoiled kid at everything, be glad that there is a SURE way at all that you can obtain one without touching the TP. If you resort to the quick way with the TP, it’s your own free-will and laziness, don’t blame on the game mechanics.

Very few people are complaining about the difficulty. In fact, it’s not really difficult, it just costs either a lot of time (not really an issue) or a lot of money (kind of an issue). It’s certainly not difficult for me to run around a map farming nodes or generating gold, but the fact that somebody could just bust out their credit card to exchange gems to gold just to bypass the huge gold gates in the precursor crafting sections really devalues the journey.

You are rewarded with a precursor largely because of persistence, not skill. This is what many are upset by. I’m irked by it too, but I’m still logging in every day to craft my ascended mats because I am going to make at least some of these precursors. I just sincerely hope it doesn’t end up taking years to just make a couple of them though. Don’t forget, you still have to craft the legendaries afterward which take a fair amount of time and gold too.

^this. I don’t think anyone here who are complaining about the ones complaining have seen the collections or the recipes. They’re not difficult, they’re not as advertised. The only difficulty out of the collections (just the collections) is that a lot of them are rng drops and then the difficulty of the recipe is that they’re either timegated or expensive. and what part of that equates to “a legendary journey” if I’m basically doing exactly what I would have done to buy the pre on the tp just with a kittenton more running around. I already have to do that with the rest of incinerator for the t6 and the gift of, I had to do that with the other 4 legendaries I made, I was told this was going to be different and, well, fun, but no this is exactly the same mat grind that is giving me less and less incentive to do it and just buy the stupid thing like I always have been.

Riku.4821:

The point is you are guaranteed a precursor via collections.
Mystic forge you are not.
Drop tables you are not.
Yes the items for the collection can be RNG, but not the final reward.
Also a key point; these are meant to farm not to buy them that is how it is cheaper.

What’s the difference between farming for gold and farming for materials? Technically the whole thing is cheaper because I didn’t pop my wallet open and just drop 50 bucks on gold.

When anet talked about the pre collections they didn’t mention the rng or the fact that you had to farm for anything they sold it as this massive adventure where you were having all this fun working towards a pre, not this grind fest of hoping something would drop to finish a collection for a recipe and then the 40 deldrimor to actually make it. What part of that is supposed to be fun?

Every daily I get keys and I open the boxes and sell the remainder. I get the same 3 rings with bad stats and some junk that sells at maybe a max of 50s at a merchant.

Are you telling me the fancy rewards that were supposed to convince me that fractals are the moneymaker are RNG based because I’ll lose a hell of a lot more money on that return if that’s what I’m looking for.

Gibon.1705:

To be honest from ANET’s announcements I believed that crafting a precursor would cost large amount of time (30-40ish hours) and little money so that people that wanted to feel the story of a weapon and not spend much money could do that.
After reading few topics like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3qe2cv/precursor_journey_complete_the_colossus_steps_and/ i think I’m gonna give up on crafting the shield and would buy it from tp like I did with every other precursor. 50-ish or even 150g is not really worth it. I might loose some story which makes me sad but the diffrence in gold is too small to even bother.

Basically this. I was so so excited about it not being about the money or the rng but the hard work and the exploration. Looking at points of interest with some other kind of importance than just doing it for map complete. But it looks like the “hard work” is farm for those mats to make that 1/4th of a legendary that you have to farm for. It’s actually heartbreaking for me, that I actually feel like it’s so not worth it to go through all that that I’ll go back to the original ‘buy it from the tp’ option.

With the nerfing of dungeon reward, so I was told that they did that to take the importance off of dungeons for gold for fractals and raids instead. I’ve been doing fractals repeatedly over the last several days and all I have to show for it are the fractal encryption boxes that I’ve been selling and… that doesn’t seem like a lot of gold.

They sell right now on the tp for about 20s each which is pretty alright but if that’s what everyone is trying to do to make money, then I can feel that price tag dropping very quickly. Considering the price of materials and the seemingly endlessly growing shopping list of things that you seem to need to get for new stuff (ascended, guild upgrades, etc) I need more gold, not less.

Is just that the economy is in chaos right now? What drops am I supposed to be getting from fractals that are so great that it “shifts the focus from dungeons”? At least dungeons give me a guaranteed 50s even if it’s a crappy 50s.

INB4 “just do the silverwastes”