Guild Wars 2

6.5/10
Good choices on your armor pieces, but the straight black/white scheme makes them lose a huge amount of detail. My general rule of thumb is to try to use at least 3 visually distinct colors on my outfits.

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Hey guys,

I had the Wings of Dwayna bow skin unlocked before the Apr 15th patch (from a chest or something). When I go to the bank to look at the wardrobe, I see it unlocked as well as the other PvP skins that I had unlocked, but when I try to use the skin through the Hero panel, the Wings of Dwayna bow skin along with the other items that were unlocked in PvP do not show up. Am I missing something?

I thought skins from PvP could now be used in PvE, or did I read something wrong? I’m excited to use the longbow skin since it was too expensive/grind for me through the PvE method, but now it doesn’t show up when it comes time to transmute.

Thanks in advance.

You need to visit the Heart of the Mists at least once for the PvP locker to convert over to the wardrobe.

Ignore me. Just looked at your screenshot after reading Digiowl’s reply. He seems to have the right of it. Shame on me for assuming things.

Zeivu.3615:

It is, but unlocking the PVE equivalents can/will unlock the PVP ones.

Mockingbird.5460:

Um…Would someone be willing to elaborate on this? As far as I know, isn’t PvP crafting being removed with the Feature Pack?

Now I’m more confused. I thought OP was mad that PvP rewards are going to make it easy to get the bow in PvE.

Um…Would someone be willing to elaborate on this? As far as I know, isn’t PvP crafting being removed with the Feature Pack?

A question for you: Did you see that conversation in the Grand Piazza, or in the instance “A Future in Politics” after talking to Kiel?

I heard the conversation outside the instance, and then went to Kiel to see if she had anything to say about it, and got ported to the instance after she said that she needs to speak to Magnus. Once in the instance, the two of them simply stood there doing nothing.

Do you think that we were supposed to hear the convo inside the instance, rather than outside?

Yeah, I just watched it and came back to see that you had posted before I could edit my comment. I stand informed. xD

Where in the world are you guys getting this number of 100k taffies? Unless the item stack limits have been completely changed for this one item, that would require 400 inventory slots to carry them all. (250/stack)

I, personally, think that the Halloween event was generally well done (I loved the Clock Tower – the most delightfully cruel JP I’ve done yet), but there was one very major thing that I believe soured the whole event, and kept it from being an excellently fun experience – the rewards. I love Guild Wars 2 and Anet to death, but I firmly believe that whoever was in charge of rewards for this event should not be for any further events.

A holiday event’s rewards should be reasonably accessible to all players – It is not the place for new ‘legendary’ weapons. If you desire a reward to be rare, make it a challenge to obtain, such as making it a first-time completion reward for the Clock Tower. That would make it reasonably rare, while still keeping it accessible to a decent portion of the players. (The addition of the three weapons as a drop from the MK dungeon was simply a failed effort to ‘make things better’ – all it did was anger those who had paid the 200+ gold to craft them, while still keeping the drop rate extremely low.) Rewards should be available to any player, within the duration of the event, as long as they take part in the event. As a side note, I doubt there would be any players clamoring that the reward weapons should have required similar effort to legendaries to obtain had they not been introduced as such.

Regarding the Gem Store rewards, I see no problem with offering rewards on the Gem Store in and of itself. However, this event’s implementation of such was a major example of the issues with accessibility that I mentioned before. I believe that community research led to the conclusion that the BLC drop rate for any skin was about 2%. I also read, earlier in this thread, I think, that were one to buy gems and convert them to the amount of gold required to buy one -just one- skin from the Trading Post, it would amount to over $100. That is simply ridiculous. If you wish to offer a special skin on the Gem Store, just put it straight on the gem store for a reasonable amount. 500-700 gems seems fair, given that they are always visible, unlike town clothes. If the market values or rarity of these items is a concern, simply make them account bound, such as skins one can find in the Hall of Monuments.

I would estimate that the only reward that 95%, or more, of players could obtain was the Mad Memoires tome. (Which, I might add, is an example of good difficulty balance, due tho the Complete Edition being a level-less back slot item with the exact same stats as a level 80 back slot item.) As another note, I do not count the recipes or Mad King’s armor set into this because they do not qualify as permanent rewards. The recipes still require Candy Corn, which will run out, and the only special thing about the MK set is the name – it looks exactly the same as other level 70 exotics. (Another poor decision.) With such abysmal chances of getting any further rewards, what, then, would the point be in continuing to participate in the event further? I sincerely hope that the rewards are more accessible for Wintersday and any further events, with this Halloween being taken as an opportunity to learn from failures.