Guild Wars 2

All the armor pieces that we get from LS3 are account bound apart from the Mursaat Brogan that we get from LS3 Epi 6. It seems to be soulbound on use. Is it a bug or an intentional design?

What they should’ve done instead was to introduce 3 more new currencies. Each for a different weight class. Say you want ascended heavy armor? Go win “x” number of ranked matches with a war or a guard or rev to get the currency of you weight class. That way it wouldn’t be too easy and too grindy. You would play the class anyway as you want the specific wight armor so why not do PvP with it too? And that way you’ll get progession to the PvP legendary backpack too (if you havn’t completed it yet that is)….
Doesn’t this solution make more sense than the existing token system?

Hesacon.8735:

It never made sense in the first place for ascended gear to be in spvp, since it can’t be used there. They were trying to lure people into the game mode, and got them in it long enough to max out on shards at which point they stopped.

By changing it, they’re hoping to keep people’s attention longer. I think they changed it too much, to the point it isn’t any better per unit time to do spvp for the gear than other game modes (and crafting it). All else being equal, those who don’t like spvp now have no compelling reason to give it a shot.

Wvw still has nothing, and the gear is mildly useful there.

Someone said to me that the gears are more expensive to get via the token than to actually craft them. If that’s true, I don’t really know what they’re doing anymore…..

Chase.8415:

Well talk about a huge rant. They made the pvp armor more expensive than it should be I will agree with that. But you get 27 gold each time you complete the last chest so assuming if you did do the grind to get the shards you’d have to complete it 18 times, which would award you nearly 450g after everything.

PvP hasn’t been this rewarding at any point of the games history. I’ve been playing where we were promised exclusive progression to legendary items in pvp.

What happened instead was we got terrible reward tracks and PvE players could import all their unlocked skins including legendary skins while pvp players got pretty much nothing.

PvP side has been left out on rewards so many times that honestly you should be just dull to the changes. You must be newer in the game I guess

Yeah, I’m kinda new to the game. Been here for a year only.

They’re making us to grind the last chest this season. It wasn’t the case last season. I repeated the last chest for 4-5 times for the liquid gold in the last season and that’s it.
So yeah, to get the shards and the gold to level my crafting, I got to grind now…….. a lot! I guess Anet isn’t true to their vision and mission statement anymore. They told us you won’t have to grind and now they’re making us grind anyway. I don’t know who makes this kinda decision but I’d like to meet him personally and box his ear……

What I understand is that GW2 is unique because it doesn’t make you do anything that you don’t want to. Now I love PvP and don’t like PvE that much other than stories. So if I want to raid in ascended gears I could just do what I love (which is PvP), buy the things cheaply and jump into raiding. But since Anet introduced the “token” system, now I got to level my crafting which I don’t want to! How is that fair to me? Other people argued against it as they thought it was too easy, but it wasn’t! You only got 1200 ascended shards from a season and a full set armor (just armor, excluding weapons) needed 1300 shards. So if you wanted a full armor set (again just armor, excluding weapons) you needed to do 2 seasons of PvP. And that takes 5 months! (2 months season + 1 month break + 2 months season) So it was time gated. Now because of the new update I got to level my crafting. PvP people don’t gather mats. So now they either got to buy the mats for leveling crafting or gather those. And if I use crafting to craft tokens and to get weapons from PvP vendor and if I’m not interested in making legendaries, then what’s the point of crafting? GW2 is great! It got great crafting method, which you use to craft tokens to buy end tier weapons and armors from a “PvP” vendor and not to make the weapons and armors itself! And people didn’t like PvP so they gave their feedback and got Anet to infuse PvE into PvP. I don’t like PvE so what can I do to make people do PvP? FOTM is too easy to join, let’s make it such that you got to reach Dolyak level PvP to start doing FOTM. If you don’t like PvP don’t do it, Anet got other ways for you to get ascended stuffs.? But if you don’t like PvE, well sorry, you got to do it to gather mats or the golds to buy the mats. And don’t even try to say mats are cheap!

So I’ve been hoarding a lot of PvP reward track boxes hoping to open them when we get the “Call of the Mist” or “Greater Call of the Mist” buff. I know we get the buff when a PvP tournament is going on but I couldn’t find any PvP tournament schedule on the net. If anyone knows anything about when we might get the buff, please let me know. By the way, I’m on NA server so there’s a chance that European tournaments might not affect me.
As far as I’ve seen, there isn’t any “inquiry” option on GW2 support system and I couldn’t get any definitive answer from facebook groups. So I decided to make a post here. If it violates any ROE, I’m ok with deleting the post. Thanks in advance