Guild Wars 2

Don’t forget the Eternity GS, that is the pinnacle of lazy design. Overhaul that from the ground up and make it noticably unique and different. Common logic dictates when one combines 2 great items, it should give you one of item that is even better (visually). Right now its worse, or actually no different in this case.

I can also confirm i just put in Superior Sigil of Fire into Twilight which came with Superior Sigil of Leeching….and everything is the same..its still legendary, still same name, stats….its all good. Go ahead and swap sigils, you nothing to worry about.

Ok its just opened on Jade Quarry as of 12:20am EST

So what server has it opened now that some might not be full to transfer

Bah these servers are full

Took me about 270 shards to get 77…thats a mix of 10x and 1×....it was worse part of legendary

Yeah i just need that to get my Twilight…so let us know

My character in Cursed Shore, cant login either

Just did another 8 1x shots and i got 5 finally a good streak

I did a mix of 10x and 1x initially on my big builk. Like 120 skill points, 200 plus shards. I did like 15 10x tries and the rest 1×. I ended up with 53 clovers

I then did 10 skill points and did 2 10x and 2 1x tries and got nothing

Then i did 5 skill points and did 8 1x tries and got 3 clovers

So at the moment i got 56 clovers

The forge is brutal, there is no other way to put it. Its the single hardest part of getting a legendary in my honest opinion. Once you pass that, everything else is directly up to your effort. But this part is all luck and could be a complete nightmare.

So im going to be doing 5 skill points at a time and eat away the remaining clovers. After that, just need remaining shards and got my twilight.

That was a nice surprise to wake up too! I already did the full makeover. You can change anything like you would on character create, even gender lol. But you cant change race or class.

But now i got the look i want, thanks!

Bring name change next and i will complete.

I ended up doing jumping puzzles instead. Got them done much much faster. The 500 needed for legendary in my case.

Pretty much every single mmo out there, when selecting your characters, you not only see them, but you see their weapons/shields etc.

Id like for GW2 when on your character select screen, to also show them wearing their weapons/shield/etc….

Thoughts?

When designing legendaries….two things have to be answered yes in order for it to be successful.

1. Is the weapon unique enough visually, that it stands alone as the only one of its kind?
2. Is the weapon visual enough to be noticed by anyone walking or running by, and instantly knowing its a legendary?

If either of those are no, then the weapon has failed. And on that, many legendaries are a failure.

Id like to point out too, even though most have not seen, but the Eternity Legendary Greatsword (combine of Sunrise and Twilight)…is an utter failure. Its neither unique in its own right, nor is it distinguished at all that anyone looking at it could determine if you have a Sunrise/Twlight or Eternity….plus it has no footprints.

You keep getting more skill points past lvl 80. Your just going to have to grind out more skill points with xp if you want the legendary. Or do the FOTM dungeons, you can get tokens that can be used to also buy skill points.

You can do anything in this game in green gear…its just designed that way. So new tier gear is no problem…bring it.

Your 1% vs “loyal base” is all opinion and have no facts to prove how many want this or that. Ill tell you this though, its higher then 1%

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And grinding? Most of you are grinding your butts off for that different looking armor, or weapon, or heck even the legendary weapon….for just fluff look. So dont act like you wont go for ascended which not only will give you more looks, but even reward you with minimal stat boost for your effort.

Win…win. Thanks anet

But it is not mandatory grind, I can relax, take a break and return to the grind process later on for the cool cosmetic look. However, with the higher stats, it create a mandatory situation, if I dont grind “now”, in a few weeks or so, I will be excluded from group/party because my toon isnt up to date.

How do you know you will be excluded? This game relies heavily on positioning and dodging. If it was a true holy trinity system i can see more of a worry. But, you can do dungeons in this game in greens if you know how to play. So i fail to see the worry that you will be excluded. The only thing i see that will require this gear, is the new dungeon, but deep in it. And boost in stats are really a joke when you compare to most mmos that jump tiers…this is very minimal.

Agree with OP…cant wait. As if getting gear has been any challenge thus far. Exotics are a joke to get. So you might have to put a …. little … more effort to get ascended….so? If your already enjoying the game, you now have further rewards you can strive for. And guess what, if you dont want it, you can still do what you do now…do all the dungeons, pve, pvp…w.e.

And grinding? Most of you are grinding your butts off for that different looking armor, or weapon, or heck even the legendary weapon….for just fluff look. So dont act like you wont go for ascended which not only will give you more looks, but even reward you with minimal stat boost for your effort.

Win…win. Thanks anet

That blog just made me a long time gw2 player. Thanks so much. Theres one thing GW2 lacked is end-game, for us who like to strive towards more power. To the rest who cant or dont have time, then dont. You can still enjoy the game, my goodness…relax.

Awesome update

All i have to say is…you people need to CHILL out. You dont even have the full picture and your all panicking like theres no tomorrow. Get the full blog to come out first.

P.S. Bring on stronger gear

I believe its bugged on SoS currently. I havent been able to do it for last couple days

Before i get to it, let me point out a couple things about GW2.

1. Its not a stat game, its really, all about visuals
2. There is no inspect feature, so you have no way of knowing what each person has, hence, it goes back to visuals.

With that, anything you wear in this game, has its look. Some are crap, some are average, some are great, and some…just awesome.

Then their are legendaries. Now, overall, i must say that most legendaries, honestly, are very lackluster in visuals. But my topic is about the Eternity Greatsword.

This is combing the Sunrise Greatsword with the Twilight Greatsword, and you get the Eternity Greatsword.

Before you research this, before you knew about this, most of you, naturally would think….if you combine TWO legendary weapons…OMG…that one combined surely must be special!

Well…it isnt…..in fact its abysmal.

The Sunrise and Twilight are unique. They stand out. They…just by passing by…immediately are recognizable, and immediately, someone will notice them. They will either compliment on something they havent seen, or they will just know, its a legendary, and which of the two…because they are UNIQUE.

The Eternity, all it does, is turn into the Sunrise version by day, and Twilight version by night. Maybe to some that sounds cool…but really? So someone would grind 2x the amount of work to get both legendaries….in order to make one legendary that does, what you can do on your own, WHENVER you please. (which is basically just swapping out the 2 weapons whenever you want.)

On top of that, they remove the footprint effects that both the Sunrise and Twilight do on their own.

Legendaries are made to be unique, and to be recognizable. The Eternity Greatsword fails hard on both aspects.
1. Its not unique, because it does not stand out from the Sunrise or Twilight. Its the exact same sword, but it automically switches which one shows by the time of day it is.
2. Its not recognizable, hence, to anyone else, no one would ever notice that you even have an Eternity because it doesnt have ANYTHING that stands out.

The Eternity needs an overhaul. It needs either a complete facelift, or it needs enough added visuals, that just like most other legendaries, stands out, and is easily spotted as The Eternity Greatsword, and not just a Sunrise or Twilight that can only be corrected by you having to link your Eternity on chat to show you do have it.

Sorry i wrote so much, but, when someone is willing to put much that much effort into one item in a game….in a visual game, they should be rewarded more heavily instead of this lazy slap in the face sword they now call Eternity.

Thanks for reading

Thats a good question, unfortunately no one knows that answer yet other then Anet.

I think Magic Find is an abysmal system right now. I have no idea why it has to be there. We should not be forced to inherently always nerf our characters performance in order to be selfish to get better loot.

Cut Magic Find from the game, and up the universal drop of everything to compensate the removal of Magic Find.

Again – Remove Magic Find!

Its a stupid system, and even more stupid that a game that promotes team play, and community.

IBSEN SMASH

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+1 For Great Justice