Guild Wars 2

ChairGraveyard.2967:

CoF speed runs are not even in the same order of magnitude as the Godskull exploit, which allowed these cheaters (and yes, they are cheaters) to make thousands of gold in mere hours, which is not possible anywhere else in the game legitimately.

Further, it is specifically against the TOS to exploit bugs like that so you are simply wrong, objectively. To play the game every player must agree to abide by the TOS which includes not exploiting bugs which can net you gains that are not possible and were never intended to exist in the game (and guess what? Making thousands of gold and dozens of precursors in a matter hours counts). Your opinion about it is irrelevant.

How is one supposed to tell that it was an exploit when the difference is a RNG % rate which one cannot measure when no one was told the real success rate. So what you are saying is that if i threw in items and got a dusk, it could possibly be a glitch because technically i have to spend forever like everyone else to get it. Your counter argument is invalid.

Nebilim.5127:

They just need to add pre set recipe to fix the inflation. The market is flooded with rage of rage, so the prices are still down there, 50 gold for one. Nobody buys it and everyone is undercutting.

Make it require every single gift of dungeon or 4 of them, plus 250 ectos, mystic coins and something else. It will fix a lot of deflated market. People will buy more ectos since the price of it it is steadily decreasing.

That would make legendary weapons no different than maybe a naegling or other unique exotics. Only difference being the price of the mats (which by the way drives the reason for getting one in the first place).

ChairGraveyard.2967:

shirashika.1026:

by the time the devs address this issue it will be too little too late. from the looks of their silence i am not sure they are even reading this massive thread anymore. they wont close it cause its official though;-)

Yeah, pretty sure they’re just waiting for it to die off. It’s not like they bothered to take action against the Godskull cheaters, after all, so they’re clearly fine with some people having dozens of precursors while normal, non-cheating players will never see one due to the nerf.

I guess it’s really “legendary” for some people to get precursors for no effort and 60s each, and the rest of us to be told they’re “super rare” and regardless of the effort we put in we should never be able to attain one (despite “super rare” being a joke after these cheaters made themselves dozens for 60s ea).

exploting is not the equivalent to cheating. In fact, just because you found a nice way to make precursors or get gold, doesn’t warrant a ban or a rollback.

By your logic, everyone who did mass speed runs on CoF should lose all their profits just because something worked, and worked well. There is no number that pops up in the mystic forge telling you your chances of getting precursors. Those who did benefit from the godskull exploit have done nothing wrong though personally I envy the fact that i missed such opportunity, but that the same as envying the pre-nerf CoF speed runs.

azazil.9541:

Btw i’m just watching this topic and not posting anything since i have nothing to tell more but, is it same for the A.Net ?

What’s the purpose of this radio silence ? Tell us something cuz ppl going to be more paranoid every second, Legendary Precursors price climbing like a mad.

A.Net ( Linsey ), i guess it’s time to explain your thoughts to us about this problem.

There isnt a problem. Prices in markets are determined on a basis of whether or not people are willing to buy it. If i put up a copper ore at 1g a piece, will u buy it? Chances are u wont(and u probably cant unless u buy every other copper ore at the lower prices).

My point is that when there are so many people who want precursors(and pretty badly from what ive seen), those with a precursor can either:
A) keep it for themselves and make a legendary
or
B) simply price it however they feel.

Whether anyone buys it, is not up to the seller, its up to the buyer. When all buyers looks at the price and says “Oh my god thats so overpriced im not going to buy it” then the seller is stuck with that precursor stuck in the market at a price which is hella expensive to take out(since if u list an item at 500g, the TP already takes a 5% cut from u which is 25g).

the solution is quite simple really. If instead of being a hotheaded elitist, simply just play the game meanwhile slowly working for the precursor(or just wait out the overinflated prices), then there really is no problem. No one will buy a 700g precursor unless its worth 700g…. or u have lots of money.

In reality, these weapons are only worth so much because people are willing to buy it. The solution is quite simple, if u dont want to pay 700g for a precursor, then dont. Once no one buys it for 700 the price will change.

I’ve always thought that the price on the precursors are stupid, but just by speculating i can tell there is so much hype into getting legendaries and the envy that people will have for them, that people are willing to either liquidate everything they possibly have to have the chance to buy one, or either pay for it with cash.