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The idea of providing soulbound runes instead of open ones was so as to not affect the auction rate of the items. Perhaps offering unbound copies of any other dungeon rune would be a better option. I had to grind CM for these runes. I wouldn’t say it was fun but I did it for the betterment of my character. There is no reason to punish players by arbitrarily changing restricted items from the game.
Magic Find is for some of us how we afford even the most basic of gear. It takes a lot of in game currency to craft the armor you want and the weapons you need. People like my self had to balance combat effectiveness with the requirement to have good gear. The game did not suffer for having magic find as it is. They could simply stop making any new magic find items and leave the old ones as are but account bound so the people who want it could keep it. Instead they decided to TAKE from the players and remove the choice many of us have made.
That is wrong at this stage in the game. Many of us have worked very hard to get our gear. It is not a selfishness issue, it’s a what is right issue.
All I am saying is they really should have other options for those of us who don’t have the time or ability to reacquire the items we will now need. I hope beyond hope that the devs will offer more appropriate compensation for the trouble they are causing fixing a problem that was in every way not an actual problem. I maxed my dps on conditions and still had very high MF and others could have also found a balance to their builds, this type of overhaul is just damaging in every way to the community.
I mean these as suggestions.
They are going to have to convert every item. During the conversion they could just keep a tally for items changed. That is simple.
For the runes, easy, just give the option for runes being used on current armor when they change over.
I run runes for magic and armor for damage. This is balanced. I also use consumables to spike better condition than anyone else I run with in game.
As for my love of the game. Love is subjective. If a love in your life keeps changing the parts you have fostered over time love can turn sour.
Magic items equipped at time of the update for determining bonus Magic find to your account.
Runes equipped at time of the update to give option for new soul bound runes for each previous magic find based rune.
These are simple implementations that would go a long way to making a fair change to the system.
After reading today’s news about the up-coming account magic find changes I have several reservations. I have been very apprehensive about this since it was announced a while ago. I run high magic find on my characters but I also balance them for excellent damage potential. As such I never had a problem with the current magic find system and I liked the mechanic. I invested many hours in Caudecous’ Manor for complete sup runes of the noble and crafted explorers for my newer characters. Runes of the Noble have been modded before and right after I finished getting my full set but that was a balance I fully understood.
Now, I have two problems with the way you are just changing my gear that I painstakingly acquired. One is that I have no choice in what the new stats are. I picked these runes because they were EXACTLY what I wanted. I use them on my elementalist. She doesn’t need Might as she gets might with every attunement change. This is in effect making it worthless to me and going to cost me both time and in game money to replace. If you are changing my Runes you should make a mechanic to give me soulbound Sup runes of MY choice. I shouldn’t be punished for your failure in fore planing.
Second is that I have always seen the benefit of magic find and in an off handed way I am being punished for it. You should give 1% magic find for every item I have that needs to be changed to make up for the loss in resources you are FORCING on your player base.
I have stopped investing money in this game ever since you announced this magic find change until I saw how you were going to implement it. The change as described today confirms my worst fears for how you were going to go about it. You have given me pause before I invest in my character because you might steal from me again. You should never steal from your player base; stealing from us is exactly what you have described in your news update today.
I love guild wars and have for years.
Please don’t do this poorly. You might loose many of us who will be disenfranchised by your actions.
-Chris S.
Leviathan Scourge of the Jade Quarry Server.