Guild Wars 2

BrotherBelial.3094:

Legendary armor was added to raids for one reason, to get people to play raids.

I agree that raids should reward players with exclusive items, as wvw should, as pvp should and open world should too, as long they are COSMETIC exclusive items. When I look someone that has that raid back piece I know that guy is probably a good pve player.

There are tons of other cosmetic rewards that raid players can have: pets, visual effects, back pieces, armor skins, keys, even tons of gold I would be cool with that.
BUT we are talking about best items in the game, items that WILL have an impact on WvW and open world, items that players will want to get since they farmed they LWeapon anywhere, even crafted it.
There’s people like my GF that only do Open World bosses, events and personal history.

Just think someone who just installed the game, first question he/she make is: How can I get legendary items in the game?
Today’s awnser is: Everywhere, doing what you like!
Tomorrow’s awnser will be:
Raid’s only.
- But I don’t like to raid.
Well, choose another game then.

This topic isn’t to WvW players only, it’s for everyone who don’t want to raid for any reason.

Verthurnax.2784:

If you are into pvp may i ask you why you need a legendary armor for ? If it was wvw i would understand, but PVP ? Also i remind you that most pve players that wanted the wings of ascension where forced to play pvp, so you can grind into raids if you want it so bad. And with raids you can get a free percursor, after we all need to grind more to make the others. In conclusion this post doesn’t make any sense, bye.

I was talking about WvW, sorry, already edit the topic so people don’t get confused again. it was my fault not saying that all was about WvW :P

Another way to fix this is making WvW like SPvP gear, you choose it and everybody have the same gear, I would be ok with that and not worrying about LArmor anyway… But still thinking everybody should have a way even it’s 100x harder like I told, to get the gear. Again, it’s what makes Gw2 be what it is and not like other mmorpgs.

Rawr.9467:

Clarify why you need this gear and what advantage raiders have over PvP players because I’m not seeing it.

It’s not only a matter of needing it’s a matter of choice, and I’m not an Spvp player, I’m a WvW player. I’d like to give an exemple from a movie called “Matrix” – 1999. Guess most people saw this movie, if you don’t, I recommend.

What’s between Matrix and Gw2? Both are simulations, all 3d mmorpgs games are simulations, you are simulating that you are in this world, immersion.
In the movie, the matrix has failed an amount of time and they discovered by the oracle the reason was CHOICE.Even though it is a movie, it correspond to reality.
The simulation in the movie was made to be perfect and STILL failed because it doens’t gave the “player” a choice, even if it was a “fake” choice.
Why games like GTA and Skyrim was a success? In my opinion, one of the many things was because it allow the player to play it how THEY WANT to play. CHOICE is the center of success in those games, freedom.

And it was also (to me) what makes Gw2 special, but when you making the best gear in the game only obtainable by raiding, you are not giving me a choice, the only choice I have here is either do raids or quit game if I want to stand a chance to play against someone is fully geared.

Don’t try to be another World of Warcraft ANET, GW2 is great because it’s different.

What makes this game great to me is the possibility to get the best gear/rewards in the game doing whatever I want to, if I want to pvp and just do that for the rest of my life, I can. That’s why I came to Gw2, because I was tired of MUST make PVE to get my PVP armor in other games.

By putting Legendary Armor only obtainable after I clear a raid, I don’t need to explain why this is a huge mistake. I don’t matter to farm it 100x harder on pvp as long that I still can have it, as long the possibility still there. Players that makes raids MUST get it easier for SURE, but to me, what makes this game unique is everybody can have their legendary weapons doing anything they please.
Please, don’t tell the gamer what we should do, don’t make the other mmorpgs mistake, they are all falling. LET WE CHOOSE what we want to do, don’t FORCE us to do raids/dungeons.

I know elitists players will disagree but think about it, you are a pve exclusive player and the best gear is only avaliable through pvp, how would you feel?

Thanks.

[Edit 1]: I had to edit this to explain that I’m talking about WvW not SPvP.
[Edit 2]: Had to edit again because I’ve made this topic on Guild Wars 2 Discussion and then the moderator changed to WvW, after that I realise there was already another topic talking about the same subject on WvW tab, just to clarify. Moderator, feel free to merge this topic if you want.

Same problem here.

Same on Tangled Depths