Have you played GW1? The super-shiny gear in GW1 were hard to obtain. I say this with the knowledge of your stance on that word.
It was a 0.01% chance at the end of a dungeon with difficulty equivalent to Arah Path 4. Meaning you had to do Arah Path 4 ~10,000x to get it.
Sure, some people got it on their first runs, and others ran it more than the allotted 10,000x without getting it at all. Even with that in mind, everyone who saw the weapon was awed and bowed down to the person wielding it in terms of GW dedication, even if they had no idea what they were doing in that game.
The precursor is not really that hard if you think about it. Instead of salvaging those rares you get, stick them in the mystic toilet. Instead of NPC’ing those greens you get, stick them in the mystic toilet. Instead of salvaging those exotics you get, stick them in the mystic toilet.
If you don’t like that method, run temples and world bosses, most servers do them daily.
If you don’t like that method, learn to save your money. If you’ve gotten ectos from salvaging your rares, don’t work towards making your infused fractal capacitor shiny, sell them on the TP to get your precursor. That lodestone and core you got from dungeon running? Sell them on the TP. Stop hoarding items and start liquidating your assets.
I’m sorry if you don’t understand, but it is SUPPOSED to be a long, slow, arduous process. If it was simply You put in X hours into this game, here’s a Legendary. it wouldn’t really be that amazing because everyone would get it after a few X hours of the games release.
Yes I played GW1, but that isn’t relevant. I’ve also played WoW, and LOTRO, and Rift, and Super Mario 1, and Final Fantasy 1 through 12, and Ultima 1 through 9, and a couple hundred other games. But that’s not remotely relevant either.
Your argument about GW1 is the same as saying something like “In the medieval times it’s was acceptable to murder, kitten pillage, and plunder and entire village. So if someone only does that to a single family it’s not too bad by comparison. We really shouldn’t be upset about it.”
Better than bad does not make something good. Terrible argument.
I agree completely that getting a legendary isn’t hard. That was the point I was trying to make.
I do understand getting a legendary is supposed to be a slow arduous process. My problem is with your statement:
“If it was simply You put in X hours into this game, here’s a Legendary. it wouldn’t really be that amazing because everyone would get it after a few X hours of the games release.”
That is exactly what it is currently. The fact that legendaries can be purchased on the TP makes it a case of “put X hours into the game,” or “put X amount of money into the game.”
Again if you remove the TP from the equation but treat X as a variable rather than a constant it is still the case that “put X hours into the game” is how you obtain a legendary. Unfortunately for some people ‘X hours’ is ten times or more the number of hours someone else put in. Bob might only spend 200 hours getting his legendary but Joe had to spend 2000 hours because the mystic toilet just gave Joe a giant middle finger for 1800 hours.
From the perspective you seem to be advocating Joe is far more worthy of praise and admiration than Bob. Bob had his legendary ‘handed to him’ whereas Joe really had to ‘work for it’.
Personally I’d rather see precursors dropped with something like a 5% to 15% chance at the end of something difficult to accomplish and be account bound than the current system. Examples of actual ‘hard content’ could include: The Clocktower (I found it easy so maybe it should be a longer and more challenging JP), a difficult dungeon like Arah explorable (not sure Arah explorable is actually hard enough), or taking Stonemist (lower chance here maybe, but you should be able to get precursors in WvW).
At least that way a legendary actually requires accomplishing something other than beating your head against a wall until it breaks.
