Guild Wars 2

This may seem like a snippy comment given everyone’s very passionate feelings about the issue of lodestone availablility and no it’s not “legendaries are supposed to be hard” or some other non-answer. But it seems as if this argument is looking only at the immediate short term availability of the items and not taking into account that future expansions may have more viable methods of acquiring both Onyx and Chaged Lodestones.

Now that may seem like a ignorant response on my part but I’m not intending it as such. My point is perhaps we need to put our efforts into other projects and see what future content opportunities are presented. Keep in mind the devs have said that there should be additional legendary items in the future so perhaps the sexy skin we want now may pale in comparison to whatever new skin options present themselves with potentially alternate requirements to the ones we are aiming for now.

Now what can we speculate in regards to possible future content: first opening access to the Crystal Desert for the fight against Kralkatorrik (sp?) will give us max level branded and elemental mobs, I remember that in GW1 the Crystal Desert was crawling with sand golems which could be a farmable Onyx Lodestone source, also the max Branded will give us Crystal Lodestones following the pattern, also the now max level branded sparks may drop the Charged Lodestones you are seeking thereby providing a farmable mob and also pulling down the TP market for the item in kind. Is this speculation, absolutely, but I’m just trying to say that if you want 250 charged lodestones this instant the outlook seems daunting, if you wait to see what options are on the horizon the task may seem more managable.

Like I said not trying to seem rude just saying wait and see may be a better option than panic and fret.

Without trying to seem like a complainer but what is supposed to be the drop rate for badges of honor in WvW from player kills. Now I am in no means a 24/7 WvW fanatic but the prerequisite of 500 badges of honor to construct any legendary seems quite prohibitive.

Now I completely do understand that one should have to adventure in all parts of the game in order to claim the ultimate in cosmetic achievements but even if you don’t just get the WvW maps explored during dead hours and fight your way to each POI and vista you’re not even going to have a fraction of the badges you will need. So the only effective way to get badges seems to be the jumping puzzles and good luck to you unless you are on a WvW heavy server since the puzzles could be filled with people ganking the jumpers.

So that being said my suggestion would be either remove the account bound status from the tokens and allow them to be purchased from BLTC or increase the drop rate since to date I have killed 318 people in WvW and gotten around 21 tokens from kills at that figures in that some kills grant 2 tokens so the actual drop rate of 6.6% that I appear to have may be lower, now there is a margin of error with that figure and it may got up or down depending on ammount of time spent in WvW maps. The other option would be to raise the token rewards for map completion from 10 to ~100 so completion of all 4 maps as required for gift of exploration would also aid to the completion of gift or battle but not make it a handout either.

Like I said I don’t have a problem with the pre-requisites for legendaries requiring aspects from every element of the game but requiring the same ammount of this items that you do for dungeons when dungeons have set guaranteed rewards seems unintentional given that unstructured PvP may not suit every player/playstyle.

to be honest they do need to re-evaluate the process by which people forge the Legendary items, it seems a little anti-climatic that players were able to start mass producing them after the first month. The fact that there were Legendary items in the general populous so soon after launch makes me think the requirements and pre-requisites for getting the weapons were far too easily obtained. In my novice opinion one of the requirements for crafting a Legendary item should have been either age of the account or age of the character, but that’s just my $0.02.

Well as soon as I’m done with the racial alliance portion of my personal storyline I’m through with it, my character is a Centurion of the Iron Legion and fully vetted Crusader of the Vigil, I refuse to follow the braying dictations of an bafoon like that Sylvari abomination that is afflicted upon us. I am Charr, and I don’t salute salads.