Guild Wars 2

When can we expect legendaries to be transmutable without becoming an exotic?

mine =D

fifteenchars.

I have bolt and mostly WvW solo. I am told you can see my footsteps while im stealthed (I know I can). It has not mattered one bit. There has never been a fight where I noticed them following me due to footsteps. The other thing is, if you are trying to escape or something you will probably have shortbow out…. so no footsteps then regardless.

I want to play for fun and get skins.

I don’t want the stat treadmill.

Lani.1429:

I’m ultra hardcore, but this mod will only bring ruin to the whole community.

Ditto, multiple sets of exotics? check. Legendary? check. Still opposed to stat progression.

mrochon.8765:

As it stands WvWvW is getting boring. Would love to see some improvements in the rewards system for wvw, such as a realm point system similar to DAoC. I have over 2000 badges, which don’t amount to anything really.

I thought of that.. then had a better idea. Rank system allowing purchase of LOOKS based gear via badges but only at or above that rank.

Seriously, stick with the spirit of this game. Give us looks based progression not a stat / power treadmill.

Sirge.8934:

So, Ascended Armor. Agony. Infusions. People are ticked. It looks like the start of a gear treadmill. And I agree that a gear treadmill would be bad for the game.
However, a few have replied that this is what the community has asked for. People were completing every event, obtaining 100% exploration on the map, and then quitting, due to lack of endgame.
GW2 has forms of endgame, such as PvP, WvW, and cosmetics. However, we wouldn’t be having this conversation if it was enough.
New content is great, but players consume it faster than devs can create it.

So, my question is this: How do we expand the existing endgame (things to do after “beating” the game) in Guild Wars 2 without implementing a gear treadmill? How have MMOs lacking gear treadmills, such as Guild Wars 1, kept an active player base through the years? Discuss.

EDIT: The purpose of this thread is not to discuss Lost Shores, or whether or not Lost Shores is a gear treadmill. I mentioned it only because that’s what brought this topic up. There’s a ton of other threads to debate ascended armor in.

Um, add more content with better looking/different looking gear for progression? Make said content fun.

Better than exotics? Most of my friends will quit upon this patch landing. They are here because there was not going to be a stat grind.

UrieltheFlameofGod.8643:

The question with precursors is “what does earning a precursor demonstrate?”. Right now, getting a precursor demonstrates that you’ve invested ‘sufficient’ time gambling in the Mystic Forge…but that was already demonstrated when you got your 77 clovers. Other things you have to do to earn the legendary are map completion, farm a single dungeon, earn badges of honor, have a lot of karma, have a lot of gold…there’s no point in changing the precursor to require any of these things. What’s missing? An honest-to-god demonstration of skill.

Either make it so the precursor is “earned” through some difficult achievements (WoW, for example, awarded mounts for completing the hard-mode achievements in high-end dungeons and raids) or maybe make it purchaseable for 600 of each dungeon token (since right now people only run one dungeon for armor set and one for legendary).

Precursors are earned by getting lucky or spending 100 hours grinding in cursed shore. I posted about the absurdity of the precursor and the 250g it cost me for lodestones before… but in hindsight… I made a legendary in about 3 weeks and plan to play this game for 5+ years. It wasn’t that bad, it just takes some dedication. I hope they leave it difficult. Everyone that wants it changed WILL think differently when they and everyone else is running around with them.

You waited too long to make changes now. I suggested changes on these boards too… but at this point I and many other people have straight farmed near 1k gold and obtained their legendary. Now you will make it easy and cheapen the dedication of those who earned it. =/

Market on charged lodestones and cores just got cornered. Someone just bought all of the supply of both and is reposting slowly at double. So much for getting the 100 im working on for bolt.

Please consider further changes to lodestone drop rates.

Charged lodestones have now exceeded 2.2g per. I know lodestone drop rates were “buffed” recently, so I do not believe pricing/rarity was as you wish. This change has not had what I suppose was your intended effect. Lodestone cost has continued to rise dramatically.

Thanks for listening!

Kinda silly to not be able to actually use your legendary weapon in WvW…

You can disregard this thread. I found a post where arena net acknowledged that prices maybe an issue and seem to be watching and willing to step in to make changes.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Official-Response-Drop-Rate-of-Legendary-Precursors/first#post378176

Thanks for the troll bumps arguing that prices rising faster than players can make coin is ok.

Rozbuska.5263:

Price is ok its legendary man you cant buy one every day..

At current prices and inflation you can’t buy one ever unless you either cough up $1200 IRL or buy gold from gold sites (bannable – do not do this). Unless of course you know a way to farm more than 10-20g per day.

I would be surprised if Arenanet intended this to be the situation.

The legendary precursor I need is currently at 348g. That is simply un-affordable. I make great coin in game at 10g-20g per day. Even at this rate of income I can’t even keep up with the inflation currently occurring. One week ago this weapon was selling for ~200g.

The players dictate the price based on supply and demand and what can be afforded. There are probably multiple factors involved including:

Extreme rarity.
Possible monopoly by those who made a fortune off the karma weapon bug allowing them to determine market price.
Players purchasing gold illegitimately off gold sites – funded by botting.
Botters themselves using multiple accounts to make amounts not normally obtainable by normal players.

I think a fix would have to include rectifying the bot situation which is causing inflation by injecting cash in to the economy as well as possible adjustments to rarity.

This issue is compounded by the bugs in Orr causing events to not spawn limiting karma and gold income.

Thanks for listening!

Please let me know if Temple of Balthazar works as in you can buy Karma gear off the vendor right now on your server. Much thanks and have a good night.

Dibrom.6408:

I know the exotic “Rabid” (condition, precision, toughness) armor is hard as hell to get in the game. You can only do it through half karma gear and mystic forge. But do the accessories just straight up not exist? The closest I can see is the masterwork lucky rabbit’s foot karma gear.

I regret choosing necro.

Mystic forge??? Please share. I am sick of farming karma.

Same boat. I have farmed enough to craft multiple sets. I have +400 lw and hunts. I can’t craft myself gear. I guess I get to farm 252k Karma. Fun.