Guild Wars 2

Human ranger – none
Norn Warrior – none
Charr Guardian – none
Asusa Engineer – none
Sylvari necromancer – none
Human mesmer – none

I stopped at that point because I realized that the boots weren’t salvagable so I wouldn’t be able to get super easy ectos from doing it over and over. The puzzle is the same for every race – I noticed that most people got stuck on the initial jumps before the dip. If you are more aggressive with your jumping it is much easier to get ahead of the pack and win that way. Also the timing for the running/jumps is the same for every race/class so if you just practice you can get the timing down.

I have to agree with the general wave of discontent in this thread. The problem with how they implemented the chests isn’t that the skins are so rare – it is that the rest of the stuff in the chests are completely and absolutely garbage to everyone. What makes this issue even more painful is that ANet seems to have been aware of this beforehand. Remember the permanent BL Trader/Merchant that were added to the chests? If people were buying keys like mad why would ANet need to add those to the chests to facilitate key sales?

I mean if they added something festive like candy corn or a reasonably large chance for temporary skins/minis then people would have SOMETHING and wouldn’t be nearly so enraged about not getting the rare skin. As it is it comes across to these angry (and often paying) customers that ANet is just trying to fleece them for their money. I sadly have to agree that it feels this way to me also – 20 keys later (gained from exploration/drops) and I’m left holding a bunch of nonsense.

For what it is worth, I would have bought gems to buy the weapon skins straight from the gem store if that option was available. Unfortunately as ANet has decided to rely instead upon what has struck their customer base as a RNG cash grab I am voting with my wallet and not buying gems from ANet.

I pity their community team though. Not even the legendary precursor threads exploded this quickly with this much negativity.

@Raap.9065 – you can actually get keys as rare mob drops too. I have received about 5 keys that way so far.

The HOM skins work on level 80 items. I turned my 80 rare hammer into the HOM ice hammer without problems.

To apply a HOM skin to an item just use your HOM stone to get the skin from the Historian and then double click to apply it to your item. NOTE: the item cannot be equipped at the time.