Guild Wars 2

I finished my second quip literally the day before the new wardrobe system was explained to us. And I have taken much teasing from my guild (in a very good natured way, of course) because of it.

Had I known that I could have had the matching skins for free in a few weeks, yes, I would have spent those 6 weeks I spent building my second quip building a legendary for my necro instead, and just skinned an ascended pistol on my off-hand. (I do not have an alt who uses a pistol, and even if I did, legendaries are going to be account bound, I could have swapped them.) Building any legendary is a lot of work and investment (and unless you have a huge amount of real life money to throw at it – which I had none – that applies even if you farmed the gold and bought it – which I did not do).

Would I argue if Anet felt some need to compensate me for that – no. Of course not. A game that goes out of its way to feel for the work and effort a player has put in is always to be admired.

THAT SAID — i played another game where we were continually spending months farming gear for it to become irrelevant within days of getting it. That was the system we signed up for. no one said “plz u r gimme my (time/money/mats/life) back”.

and also, i agree with the theory that there are other items out there in the game that take significant investment of time/resources — refunding legendaries opens a flood gate of “if you have duplicates of anything, you should receive a refund if you so choose”.

i made a decision to embark on making a second goofy clown horn that shoots confetti at people. a selection of other people, which i am sure is relatively minor compared to the entire player base made similar decisions to make 2 clown guns or 2 blow torch daggers. the fact that it would now do me a lot more good to have made my cloud scepter and taken advantage of owning the goofy clown gun skin (or for them to have insert-weapon instead of dual incinerators) — is just part of life. asking anet to find a perfect solution to it never even crossed my mind… i can still put different sigils in them each, link em both, and show the fact that i did all that work if i really want to.

the only part of it at all that frustrates me is people yelling “stat selector, shush up”. i have used the stat selector on my weapons exactly once — when i built them. most people i’ve talked to with legendaries are the same way. yes, its a nice feature – i dont have to go skin my legendary onto a weapon with the stats i choose anymore like i did before the stat selector — on the other hand, as of tomorrow, i’d be able to do that anytime i choose anyway.

Dakota.4591:

Managed to get into the non-overflow on Dragonbrand earlier today. The Fort Mariner event had failed before people were in the zone, soon as the first groups were getting in, was already on the ‘reclaim’ event, not the ‘defend’ event. Going to suck getting the achievements if it’s all based on being lucky enough to get an instance without pre-fails.

I think that was what was going on with mine not giving credit also. Thanks.

Junkpile… I know on e-bay now (since my post last night), our Lion’s Arch has been stuck at completed. Miasma doesn’t go down, events dont reset… so no more defend events at all. That could be why you’re not seeing the defend events also.

- Krystal

im on ebay too, and for 4 hours earlier today i was at every defend event, we didnt fail a single one. just did it again this hour. still no credit for any of the 4 achieves. but… i’ll keep running in circles trying for a few more hours.

- Krystal

was just thinking the same thing. my server is blue every week except once.

i’m trying to imagine how i’d feel if i was still trying to get map completion looking at that schedule.

I do have to say… what I got in the boxes, was nothing special. My daily guaranteed yellow and some salvage-fodder. (Hey, at least I got some luck!)

But… I was there. I mean… I was there. Took my server until Friday to finally down Teq, and I was there.

Maybe it’s because I was late to the mmo-world, or because I wasn’t born for Woodstock, I don’t know… but it has a special feeling, being there when something brand new gets its butt beaten. All those hours I listened to my friends talk about “back in vanilla…” and other such nostalgias… and I think, 5 years from now, when Teq is so routine that the only people who kill him are newbies testing out their shiny pointy sticks, I’ll be able to sit there and reminisce on how I was there.

(It didn’t hurt to be able to boast a little in guild chat either, since I was the only one who happened to be there… muhahahahahaha!)

Will I keep going back, I don’t know. If Teq gets to the point where its truly a 15 (20, if you count the mega laser events which pause the main clock) minute event, instead of an all day hanging-out-in-sparkfly to get onto a main server event, I’d probably show up as often as I show up for Jormag. Because every now and then, stomping a dragon is just fun. But, it won’t be for the “rewards” (yellows are easy, greens and blues are even easier, and I already made my wupwup shield anyway) — not much that I do in GW2 is for the loot table.

Whats sad is I see it going much the way Scarlett did this week (no one shows up now that there’s no farming to be done — psst, I farmed my share of aethers, i’m not trashing the farmers) once we all get over the thrill of “Hey, I was there!”.