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Dailies currently represent 40% of the available achievement points possible on an account, and every day that value increases. While 5 points per day may seem insignificant, realize this: 5 points is the same amount awarded for crafting a legendary weapon, for buying a full set of cultural armor for 100g, or for killing 500,000 dolyaks in WvW.
The thing with buying cultural armor or crafting a legendary is that the reward is already given in the form of the armor or the legendary. So why would you have to get another reward through achievement points.
Dailies only give AP right?
Nope, but nothing near a legendary or 100g worth of armor either.
Dailies currently represent 40% of the available achievement points possible on an account, and every day that value increases. While 5 points per day may seem insignificant, realize this: 5 points is the same amount awarded for crafting a legendary weapon, for buying a full set of cultural armor for 100g, or for killing 500,000 dolyaks in WvW.
The thing with buying cultural armor or crafting a legendary is that the reward is already given in the form of the armor or the legendary. So why would you have to get another reward through achievement points.
Just had this problem as well, really annoying to loose the progress. Why is the next part shielded anyway? Simple fix to this problem I’d say..
I can’t believe half the stuff i am reading on these forums. So you did’nt get the loot you wanted, a lot of people did’nt myself included but i feel far from dissapointed. That’s what happens when drops are random, get over it and move on there will always be other events.
Did you even read the topic? I didn’t even get the chance to get the loot, that’s what this is about not about random drops being random.
And people saying ‘life is not fair’, that’s correct but this is a GAME not life and it should be really simple to make it fair by giving people in different timezones the same chances. Everybody paid the same amount to play the game so why don’t they all get the same content?
…seriously, people? We all keep complaining about how rewards could be improved, and now that we DID get decent rewards, you complain that you couldn’t be there?
I have never complained about previous reward and never will. Because I understand that the very fact that you give everyone a ‘good reward’ makes the reward worthless at the same time. Look at all the people complaining that the exotics they got were only worth 2 gold or whatever, yeah what did you expect if everyone got them?
Sorry but the info was out there that the one time event was on the 18th and because of that its pretty obvious that the real reward was going to be after you complete that.
That was pretty clear to me, even if they had personally called me to tell me that I had to be there because it’s a one time thing wouldn’t change the fact that I couldn’t be there. And the same goes for a lot of other people from timezones where this all happened at 3 in the morning, or for people who had to work or study or had family obligations. They were all well aware of the fact that this event was happening. It’s like offering a child a cookie but then putting it on the top shelve so it can’t reach it.
I woke up early to do the last two “one time events”. The first being a cutscene and the second being a really laggy event. So this time I decided not to wake up super early to see the event and bam. It’s an event in which exotics/precursors/20 slotted bags were the reward…
This is exactly the thing, I was there for the previous one time events and they were not very rewarding so there was no reason to believe this would be different.
Isn’t a bag worth more than 10 gold and 2 exotics more than enough already? Also it’s just out of proportion with other rewards in the game. Completing the storyline gave me 5 green lvl 40-60 items which I couldn’t even use. The added reward is not much better either, a lvl 80 rare weapon. For storyline! And a 2 hour effort is rewarded with an increased chance for a precursor on top of an already much better reward. I don’t think anyone can say that seems right.
Wow are you guys really crying that RNG is RNG? Some of you need to grow up. Do you cry when people get really lucky off a boss and get a precursor? If you do then DO NOT ever play an RPG EVER EVER again.
The difference here is the drop rate was absurdly high compared to a boss/mob
How is that a difference? You are mad because you didnt get lucky and others did. Having the % chance higher was only beneficial for everyone, you included. Just admit you are mad because you happened to BE THERE when others got lucky instead of just seeing the after effects. Jealousy is an ugly thing.
It’s different because this was a one time event many people could not participate in due to whatever reason. Some people having 0% chance to get anything is not what I call RNG. That is what this thread is about, not a general complaint about RNG.
Basic economics says that precursors will no longer be 300+g if lots and lots of people get them, sillyhead.
You underestimate the power of market manipulation. There are people doing it right now. Keep an eye on the quantity of any given precursor being sold and watch its price over the next few hours.
Prices were manipulated up to where they were and the manipulators are going to keep them there no matter how many precursors drop. These are people who already have legendaries and have 3000+ gold to burn. Don’t think anyone really does? Search orders for lemons (the account bound ingredient), some guy put a 3800g joke bid on one to show off how much gold he has.
Also there isn’t a new longlasting method to obtain them for cheap, it will still cost you up to 300 gold to get one from mystic forge(yes could be more, could be less). As long as the main source of acquisition doesn’t change the price will stabilize at the same point again.
That is of course if they didn’t just change the overall chance to get one and this event just emphasized that increase in chance because of the shear number of people that participated. I would really like to see an Anet response to this, either why they gave out so much precursors or if they have in fact changed the overall chance by so much.
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I must admit it made me feel a little sick seeing the amount of people who got precursors and all I got was a generic greatsword. But on the bright side it will bring down precursor prices which was really needed.
I doubt the price will stay down for long, most of the precursors that are bought get transformed into a legendary or saved to do so later. The price will just settle at the point where it was, which reflected the cost of making one in the mystic forge.
Life is not fair. The event was advertised and everyone had a chance to attend. I spent 2.5 hours doing the event and got 2 exotics and 2 rares which netted me a total of 2 gold. I’m fine with that, i would have liked a precursor but that’s what RNG is. Its time = reward, i could make 2g in 2.5 hours w/o this event.
No one owes you anything, the sooner you deal with that the better you will do at life.
No not everybody had a chance to attend, as I said before imagine the people living in a different timezone where the event occured at 3 in the morning. I wouldn’t say they had a fair chance to enter the event. I know life is not fair, but this is a game where it is sooo easy to make things fair. As people said before, everyone paid for this game so everyone should get the same opportunities in this game, wherever they are from.
@OP If you were one of the people who got the item, then you would be praising ANET for allowing the chance to get it in alternative means.
This thread is created purely from jealousy. fail.
ANET offered the event at the time when MOST PEOPLE WERE ON. Its just RNG that you couldnt be on at that time and RNG if you didnt get the item by participating, and RNG if you got disco in the middle of the event.Its called CHANCE. Its called LIFE. Enough!
Then you just don’t know me, you are right I wouldn’t have made this thread because I would be happy with my loot. But I would definitely not praise Anet, because for the first time I think people are complaining with good reason. And as I have admitted it is jealousy I feel but that doesn’t change the facts.
Yes it is all RNG and that’s fine however not being able to enter the event is NOT RNG, as I said before especially people in certain timezones just couldn’t enter if they live a normal life. So you also think that poor people in africa shouldn’t complain? They were just unlucky to be born there but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the same chances in life as someone who was born in Europe or America. Yes this example is really far fetched and this is just about a game, so it’s not like I’m really angry and I won’t quit the game over this, I just wanted to give feedback to Anet. I hope they take it in consideration for the future and give everybody the same chances, which is perfectly doable in an artificial world like Tyria.
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Yes discriminated, may be a strong word for this but it basically is it. It was not an offer for everyone, think of people in timezones where the event started at 3 in the night for example, that’s not what I call a fair chance. Apart from that a lot of people where not even able to log in. Sure I understand the event can only happen once and that’s fine but why make the reward so good?
So I was not able to join the event this evening and that’s fine. But now I read that so many people have gotten a precursor from it I’m feeling discriminated because not everybody has gotten this chance. Yes it’s jealousy and I am well aware that I probably wouldn’t have gotten one if I was able to be there.
I have tried to make a precursor for the last month, spending every last penny I got on making rares and trowing them in the forge, over 1500 rare greatswords gone in and no precursor to show for it. All fair and well, everybody has the same odds and they were just not in my favor. However this reward was just not offered to me, I couldn’t be there why would you make the reward SO big. When I heard you where making a scavenger hunt type of thing to get one I thought that’s a good idea, and I don’t care if it takes you another month or longer to make that as long as you eventually do. But until that time give everybody the same chance for a precursor and don’t favor people who just happened to be able to attend the event.
And no I won’t quit playing over this, the game is still good, I just want you to think about this and don’t discriminate players who just can’t be there at a certain time.
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I guess this question is kind of forgotten with all the whining about the ascended gear. Anyway I guess they won’t take away the 100% from people who already have it and they will definitely not give a second reward. Or maybe it will be kind of like an instance like dungeons which also have waypoints and POIs that don’t count towards the total.
So I was wondering how world completion will work with the new content coming up. There will probably be new skill points, POIs and waypoints in this new map so will the requirements for world completion change and will players who don’t have the achievement yet need to get this map as well?
What is people’s problem with this? Seriously if you don’t like this then don’t use it. The old content is not suddenly gone and your exotics still work perfectly fine there. The way I see it is that you only need this ascended gear to progress in the new dungeon. Would you also whine about it if they added a new backpiece of exotic quality? This doesn’t exist at the moment either and it would render your 5 gold investment in a rare guild backpiece useless as well according to some people, but I don’t they would whine about it when that would’ve happened.
A game just needs new goals once in a while to keep players interested and that is exactly what they are doing, while still giving you plenty of time to get to that goal.
As some have stated before me, it’s actually deflation you’re seeing not inflation. That is if you look at normal materials and weapons. Fine crafting materials are so cheap, that there is no point in farming them. The price of rare lvl 80s and ecto’s (for which the prices are more or less coupled) have gone down from 20 silver to 13-14 silver in the last couple of weeks.
Yes the precursor prices skyrocketed, but I think the price is quite fair now. Have you even tried obtaining one through the forge? I have and so far more than 1000 rare greatswords left me with zero precursors. They are very hard to get and the demand has only increased. Also at the time they only cost 70 gold, people were making far less money overall than they are doing now.
Anet will never be able to compete with bots, because doing so will ruin their own economy. Imagine what would happen if Anet lowered the real money prices on gems, the gold sellers would just lower their prices as well. In the end resulting in a lower income for Anet and even more gold in the economy.
And yes Anet needs to do more about botting, I haven’t seen many myself but apparently there are more bots in WvW than risen in Orr if I may believe these forums. So Anet please update us more often on the status of the battle against the bots, I don’t need to know specifics of how you do it but maybe post the amount of bots banned in a week. And make more clear to people that when you buy from these gold sellers you’re basically hacking the accounts of fellow players or even your own friends.