Guild Wars 2

You have a really really really low chance to get a precursor for an ascended weapon.

Not that these are at all likely to be implemented, but flexing your imagination is always fun.

Sunrise → Twilight. already implemented.

Rodgort -> Avalon. Shaped like a golden dragon head and more metallic (like howler). Breathes fire much like Rodgort and spawns a single fiery wing on the character’s off-hand shoulder when drawn.

The Juggernaut -> Justice. Liquid gold instead of quicksilver and Atlas is replaced by Lady Justice. Instead of coating your armor, the final attack in the auto-attack chain slams your character’s personality symbol in gold into the ground.

Kudzu -> Rosethorn. Instead of pretty pink flowers, this would have dark roses (with similar particle effects and footsteps) and caws like a crow when drawn.

Meteorlogicus -> Astronomicus. The clouds are replaced by a nebula and instead of an orrery it shows a star being sucked into a black hole. Basically just Meteorlogicus, but more space-themed.

The Moot -> The Torment. Looks like a rusty and really brutal mace, drips blood when drawn. Instead of the confetti effect on hit, your enemy splatters blood with a fitting sound effect. Footsteps are also blood.

Kamohoali’i Kotaki → Echo. Shaped like a dolphin instead of a shark. Because dolphins are awesome.

From Master Chief-ish to stormtrooper-ish with just a simple change of dyes.

Such versatility!

Kind of sucks for both sides, if you ask me.

-You feel like making money and decide the best place to do that is at the giant event, only that isn’t going to happen because another group wants to open/run a Arah.

-You want to open Arah, but need to wade through the rabid farmers flinging insults at you.

So yeah, do whatever you feel is right; either just do the event or have someone guest to let the party enter. Until they inevitably fix it, that is.

I don’t think there is anything in this game that really proves you’re a good/bad player in general and I quite like it that way.

If you’re looking for stuff to judge people with, you’re probably not having enough fun.

But when you take those rose-colored glasses off…

Kolisch.4691:

10 Quaggan backpacks could fit one that belongs to a Norn.

In fact, you could probably fit a whole Asura in one of those.

This is just one of those arguments where nobody really wins (or pays to win, har har) because both sides have a point. I’ve seen some games that are undenyably p2w (perfect world, maplestory…), but I feel that in GW2 it’s a bit more nuanced (for now).
Let’s take a look:

Objectively,…
…money gets you gold, and gold gets you equipment. Therefore someone with money can get more (different sets)/better (ascended) equipment easier. Therefore, real money gives you an edge.

…money gets you special services that take non-cash players too long to grind to effectively make use of (e.g. grinding gold for an hour to buy a single repair canister). Therefore, real money gives you an edge.

…money gets you gold, and this gives you an edge in general.

Subjectively…
…the difference between exotic & ascended is quite small and not very noticeable. It is also obtainable for regular players, given enough time.

…these services are rarely useful or even needed. Res orbs tend to be useless for ressing in the heat of battle due to revival sickness, instead of a repair canister there tends to be a repair station within reach (except fractals, which you leave and rejoin by relogging). You also get a fair stash for emergencies from achievement chests.

…playing the game normally tends to make you enough gold to be self-sufficient (without being incredibly inferior to someone who has a lot of gold).

By saying these are objective or subjective I’m not implying one is less valid than the other, however. So which side is right? Both, I guess. But I’m not sure what the purpose of trying to convince others is.

The world isn’t out to get you, brah.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

And yet there are people that have already crafted their first entire set of ascended gear….without spending a dime of real life money….

Sure, real life money can speed up the process by giving you gold which you can use to purchase:
- the materials needed to level your crafting up
- some of the ascended materials

For a single set of ascended gear, you still have to play to acquire the 1500 bloodstone dust, 1500 dragonite ore, and 1500 empyreal shards. You need laurels, fractals, or karma for shards. You also need skill points ( few ways to get obviously) None of which can be acquired via a credit card, not to mention the conversions of the first three are timegated, which also cannot be bypassed by a credit card.

Having the convenience of a credit card only helps people with less time keep on par with the people that play extensively.

I think you missed the last line of my post there.

People having already crafted an entire set of ascended armor without using real money doesn’t really matter in this case because you had plenty of time to stockpile materials/gold beforehand. Fact is, if you’re making it from scratch, using real money will make it a bit easier.

But is the difference big enough to matter or not? Well, that’s up to you to decide. I’m a bit in the middle myself.

The only collectibles that ever go above 250 for me would be bloodstone and empyreal. So to me this is pretty much equivalent to saving 2 bank spaces for 800 gems. I’mma have to pass.

Do people really stack that many materials?

theeagleeye.7693:

You’re applying the “Legendary” description incorrectly. The item is the one that is Legendary, not the means to acquire it. :P

Then they might as well call precursors ’’legendary’’ and current legendary weapons ‘’extra legendary’’.

Because, according to you people, getting the precursor is what makes you ’’worthy’’ of one, and the other components are something any average Joe can gather.

Maybe have it reset your virtues immediately after casting? If you cancel the invulnerability then that’s just too bad.

Or just a small suggestion without caring about balance too much:

Signet of Focus (CD 90s)
Passive: 25% movement speed increase
Active: Gain 4s invulnerability and reset virtues.

Where the increased elite duration trait would not affect this anymore, but you can pick up the signet cooldown reduction instead.

The Zed.7129:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

It’s displaying the daileys based on your system time, but the server actually hands out credit for completing them. So you need to your system time to the correct time. (It’s probably set for the wrong date.)

So has anyone tried setting their system clock to February? Are we able to preview next months Monthlies as well?

Haha, oh wow. It actually works.

For February it is:
Monthly Dungeon Participation (3 tiers)
Monthly Event Participation (4 tiers)
Monthly Salvage Kit usages (4 tiers)
Monthly Completionist ‘’You completed your daily category multiple times in a month’’…?

And another fun fact, the monthlies for December 2013 include Tixx’s workshop. So I guess we can expect his return?
Edit: unless we have the same Christmas event until 2069 (didn’t bother checking further), I’ll just assume it’s set to a standard rotation

I am offended by OP’s choice of dyes.

The little fish swimming around it would look a little odd on land, though. But I guess it would still fit the necromancer’s style a lot more than the bifrost…

No, because only ascended amulets currently have the Utility Infusion slot to hold them.

Rigel.3092:

Ision.3207:

Because they hit harder than one handed weapons. Basically a 2-hander already comes with a buffed up Sigil of Force on it (within it).

W….H…….A……T……?

Kilandros.2098:

lol

Well then, let’s take a look at the damage formula first:

Damage done = (Weapon Strength) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (target’s Armor)

So a percentual increase in weapon strength increases damage by the same percentage.

And if we look at an ascended 1h sword:
Weapon Strength: 965 – 1066 ~ 1015.5 avg

And an ascended greatsword:
Weapon Strength: 1061 – 1173 ~ 1117 avg (+10%)

This isn’t even counting in the fact that the base skill damage from 2h’s tends to be a little higher than 1-handers on average as well.

edit: could have saved myself some typing, you can find it here as well.