Guild Wars 2

I know this thread has probably been written a thousand times over, but I believe Black Lion Weapons are still a problem for the more ‘casual’ gamers that aren’t loaded enough to spend ridiculous amounts of money for these weapons.

I consider myself among the more casual players of this game and I’m not one for spending a lot of real money on in-game items. I, like a fair amount of others, have bought some bank tabs and some extra materials storage space as well as character slots. These all improve the quality of life in the game. But I completely refuse to pay for BL Keys for the chests only to have a chance at scraps and a lesser chance of a full ticket. I also don’t play anywhere near enough to be able to afford the incredibly steep coins to gem exchange rates.

So having sat on this for a while I can only think of one complete solution, continue to offer these weapons for the tickets in chests and have it remain as the easy way to get these weapons. But, as the alternative for casual players have the tickets be some kind of long term reward for playing the game in some way. I.e getting 1 ticket for completing the monthly achievements. Or as an alternative offer some way to gain them in the mystic forge for some kind of recipe, Or make them a long term crafting goal. There needs to be some alternative way that doesn’t involve some incredible level of pure luck or heaps of real world money/ Investing way more time that is actually possible for the ‘casual’ gamer.

Just like everyone else I appreciate that these weapons are kind of exclusive. However, at the moment I feel as if they are completely out of my reach and probably a high proportion of the rest of the games population.

I really love this game and have since GW:Prophecies but I just can’t take not being able to acquire some of the best skins ANet have designed so far because they not only reside behind a paywall but they also are part of one big (highly outrageous) game of RND. This doesn’t stop me from playing but It may give me a bigger boost in playing more…

Thoughts… there has to be a better way that doesn’t ruin the business model.

1. Elementalist: too much glass, too little cannon
2. Ranger: P.E.T.S
3. Not a class but general support of all professions.

WP is right though, i really hope that Anet see this and realise that we want information on existing lore in the game rather than new characters. We wanna invest in those that exist! and without expansions are we ever going to see the demise of the other 4/5 dragons? it seems like they are forgetting existing lore and having too much ‘fun’ with stuff that is ultimately irrelevant to the world… PLEASE ANET WATCH THIS!

Im with you. Down with RNG. or at least provide some other way to get them. i.e. CRAFTING! or Collection items! just anything but putting them in chests!

I personally think the game should go back to the way they did it on Halloween… none permanent skins in some cases, permanent skins from these RNG chests and make the ability to craft them with rare components. Maybe including a special crafting material that drops from opponents in the game during the event. People don’t have the money to spend on the chests or the time to invest to get the money in game to convert to gems… I just wanna know why casual players are getting penalised during the events. Come on Anet give us more ways to obtain things using in game systems other than cold hard cash.

Now i’ve read that the way ascended rings drop and the way pristine fractal relics drop are after level 10 in the FoTM… but its at level 10 that you start to need AR. So my question is how are you meant to be able to get a ascended piece of equipment (minus the new laurel way) with and infusion to stop the AR?

Im now fractals level 10 but i keep getting easily downed by Agony and I cant obviously get the pristine relics or the chance for the drops yet….

Right this has probably been posted before but i dont care.

I love this game except for finding dungeon groups, something that is near impossible sometimes. I run round LA picking up randomers until…… my messages get suppressed….

then not enough people hang around the dungeon entrance as that is boring and a complete waste of time, not to mention with the fact that you can be in three different guilds means people are all representing different guilds and there is never anyone there willing to help…..

dungeon finder or something please…. especially for story modes…. because no one seems to care about the story modes anymore

Mordramoth = Deep Sea Dragon?