Guild Wars 2

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

GOSU.9574:

clint.5681:

By gear with it in there and use black lion salvage kit on the gear, you get exotic mats and runes this way and the gear is normally atelast 1-2g cheaper than ordering the runes.

You will rarely save 10silver doing this and run the risk of not getting the rune.

Most peeps price the gear barely cheaper than the rune itself.

Black lion salvage kits guarantee you get the sigil fyi. But I just bought my set straight gold.(Got em when they were cheaper though)

So you recommend peeps buy their runes with gold and gems, got it.

If they gave guards and mesmer 25% movement passive, then this wouldn’t be such an inconvenience. I mean 6 classes got one, any reason why the two got shafted?

Put 4 major runes in the Mystic Forge. Pray to Zommoros. Press the button. Scream in anger when you got a major rune. Do it again. Scream in anger again when you get a Superior rune, but differen than what you were looking for.

I think the issue for the OP is that the people who say that stuff are also the ones telling people, “It doesn’t cost that much! Just go farm the mats yourself. It’s free!”

That may be where the real issue lies for the OP and I can’t say as I blame him. I have friends that clear whole maps of materials(all the materials in a map) on a daily basis. What’s one person’s good time is another person’s root canal. People just lack tact in conveying that stuff sometimes is all.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Aberrant.6749:

Not many people want to really spend like 1.5-2k gold on a joke >.>

Well, the Pony bow is sort of a joke legendary too. A lot of people like the joke. Maybe quip and the moot are bad jokes.

Never joke about ponies. Never.

I have a friend who stacked omega golems right before the exploit hit the fan he bought 150 at 1 gold a piece to sell back in the season when price would have probably gone up. He got owned by that exploit.

I don’t think the tiny market would justify the cost of development for these skins.

Test 3.

Used 50 charges of Basic Salvage kit on 50 Globs and returned 79 dusts.

Conclusion: Don’t use Basic Salvage kits.

Test 2.

Used 50 charges of Master Salvage kit on 50 Globs and returned 102 dusts.

Conclusion: Don’t use your Black Lion kits.

When they released ascended weapons I was excited to have more things to make for myself, guild mates, friends, and to sell in the AH. I load up the patch only to find they are account bound. Why is that? One of the things that I really liked about this game was unlike WOW (and many other MMOs) you could craft and sell the highest tier items in the game. It made crafting a viable way to make gold and useful to more than just yourself. It also made items available to people that where not interested in crafting but would rather play other parts of the game and use the gold they got to equip themselves. Now there is only one set path to get the highest tier items… you have to craft them yourself. Choices are out the window and now everyone has only one set way to get these items through crafting them for themselves (or get very lucky on a drop and hope it is what they need). That flies in the face of what I liked about this game and that was there where many ways to get the best gear. You could play how you want do what you want and it is still accessible to you. I am very disappointed.
P.S. After waiting for other topics like this I finally just made my own (the only other ones I could find where about how “hard” it is to make ascended items)

Well considering a 20 slot bag is over 12 gold on the ah I would hope it is cheaper than what they are listed at and if it is considerably cheaper then I think there will be a good demand for candy corn. The 20 slot bag is something I am interested in for sure.

biggs.4702:

ilr.9675:

LOL…. so you basically have to be Grandmaster Crafter….

…which costs even more than just buying the Precursor off the TP….

“Shooping” debate aside, this possibility is very likely.

I only spent about 120 gold. That’s hardly the same level as buying a precursor. If I had more mats saved up (instead of selling them in the past) it would’ve cost me even less.

Those mats also have a gold value, don’t ignore it.

Aberrant.6749:

Yea they do… because it’s not required gear to have for any part of the game. I know many of people that aren’t upgrading because they don’t need it for anything.

…and I know more than a few casual players who have simply quit playing the game because they cannot possibly keep up to the grind needed to build this gear. Believe it or not this gear is necessary to stay competitive in WvW.

Elthurien.8356:

There was no gap between exotic and legendary in the first place. Legendary weapons were purely vanity items with exotic stats. Prior to ascended items being introduced to the game I was completely satisfied with this game, I had a full set of exotics for each character and for each of their builds, I was free to WvW without needing to grind moe gear and if I wanted something that looked cool, I would put the effort into getting it for vanity purposes. I bought this game because it was marketed as anti-power creep, with Legendaries being the only real grind We now have power creep and it’s hiding behind a massive grind that forces you into a single character with a single build. It is not me that is having trouble understanding, I understand, I don’t like it and I am voicing my opinion to arenanet that I don’t like it. This was the right game for me as it was advertised, I would like it to stay that way but the future is looking bleak.

This is so true my best time in the game was early this year before world XP was introduced in WvW. I had karma to outfit my l80s, I was easily able to experiment builds and easily gear up for new builds and just play and experiment to my hearts content. I had to make sure I did dailies and monthlies for laurels but whilst they were something of a job it wasn’t that bad. I was able to use some mats to make some vanity weapons like abyssal scepter and the anomaly.

Now I have to do dailies and monthlies, I have to do my daily ascended crafting, I have to make sure I mine my quartz and convert it to charged quartz. I’m restricted in the builds I can experiment with cause BiS is so hard to get. And I have to make sure I get some orr mat farming in for high level crafting.

I’m restricted in terms of what characters I can use in WvW because to maximise the rather large benefits from WXP being character bound I can only use 2 to 3 characters (out of the 8 level 80s I now have).

Everything is a job or we’re restricted from playing how we want.

morrolan.9608:

This is so true my best time in the game was early this year before world XP was introduced in WvW. I had karma to outfit my l80s, I was easily able to experiment builds and easily gear up for new builds and just play and experiment to my hearts content. I had to make sure I did dailies and monthlies for laurels but whilst they were something of a job it wasn’t that bad. I was able to use some mats to make some vanity weapons like abyssal scepter and the anomaly.

Now I have to do dailies and monthlies, I have to do my daily ascended crafting, I have to make sure I mine my quartz and convert it to charged quartz. I’m restricted in the builds I can experiment with cause BiS is so hard to get. And I have to make sure I get some orr mat farming in for high level crafting.

I’m restricted in terms of what characters I can use in WvW because to maximise the rather large benefits from WXP being character bound I can only use 2 to 3 characters (out of the 8 level 80s I now have).

Everything is a job or we’re restricted from playing how we want.

+1

This post rather succinctly states exactly how and where ArenaNet has gone wrong over the last three months or so. The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say: in an effort to get players to log in (and spend money) they have gone down this path by design. The players feel as if missing out on the grind will result in them being left behind those that don’t. When they do grind, the results are uninspiring in looks and effect and restrictive.

That’s how it works though… it scares the onions out of the ground and into your bag.

Amurond.4590:

I dumped what I had at a little over 1s. People buying this to actually use are dumb. This stuff was ridiculously easy to get the first time round.

I am thinking that the candy corn nodes will not be here this year. It may be easy to get still but not like last year. I am thinking they kind of what to use up what is already here since there is so much available already. That is my thought anyways.

Yes, you can. First you need to use a level 80 Transmutation Stone to transmute the appearance of the Legendary onto the stats of a low-level blue or white item. This will make the legendary account bound. Move it to the character you want it on and then use the Transmutation Splitter which will yield the original, soul-bound Legendary and the low-level blue or white item.

Bright.9160:

a t s e.9614:

Arah p4 nope . There’s enough punching bags
In hotw with 3 billion hp . I wish dungeons
Were farmable seriously , its like im capped
At 15g a day.

You also seem to be capped at around 45 characters per line.

I think it’s an attempt at haiku? :o

What do you do when you’ve done everything?
You do it again and again and again and again until Anet releases new 2 week content that you consume in 2 – 3 days.
Then you return to doing the same stuff again and again and again and again an again unti Anet releases new 2 week content that you consume in 2 – 3 days.
Then you return to do the same stuff again and again….
You see where I’m going with this?

The people who whine are the ones who join a speedrun group because they want their group to go very fast. They don’t want zerk gear though and just wanna play the way they want. They mainly want to get carried by the speedrun group, but don’t want to contribute.

These people can post their own party “AC party, non-zerk builds welcome” And do it with like minded people. But then it takes longer and they get upset.

Then they get kicked from a speedrun group and come to the dungeon forums to call us elitist.

The best analogy I can make here is that GW2 will be like a Final Fantasy game. Shares same names, locations and concepts, but is fundamentally different than its predecessor(s) and it might even be unfair to expect a full sequel.

Seriously, after I adapted that thought model, I became much less jaded about GW2 failing to meet GW1 expections.

green plum.7514:

What would be an example of a game which is not pointless?

For example Gw2 to the point when you complete your personal story. As stated in the first post.

I think that gw2 did a lot about moving the whole industry forward. But AN failed so hard at making a really good game.

But back to the topic. Is there anything that AN can do to fix this game?

Why do I ask that?
First of all: NOT BECAUSE OF ASCENDED GEAR!!! This topic is NOT ABOUT AC GEAR!!! Just wanted to make that clear. And to the real reasons why I think the game is beyond fixable state:
1. Whole world is dead and pointless with exclusion of few farming places.
2. World Bosses are broken (because of so many reasons that it’s really hard to sum it all up).
3. Whole PvE meta is broken (damage over defense, conditions are useless).
4. Dungeons are dead and pointless with exclusion of few farming places.
5. Living World has no story and it’s more about farming something. And is a really good example of the reason why standard MMO quests are not in this game.
6. The game can’t be expanded because it would only spread the community even more and make the world even more dead.
7. Main reason to play PvE now is to farm for AC gear that has no real use (just makes the game even easier).
8. Or to farm Legendary weapons – waste even more time at doing the same thing over and over again without having fun.

To sum it all up: all that what this game is after completing personal story is POINTLESS and really feels like a waste of time. The game has no structure or anything that would keep normal people around.

I wish you could mystic forge 5 of the yellow transmutation stones into a transmutation crystal.

I mostly just chuck them out of my inventory since all my chars are lvl 80 and its kind of pointless to keep the dull skins on your journey to lvl 80.

IMO I think no one uses them unless they are new to the game. When you hit 80(which is quickly obtained) in this game all you have left is to get the cool looking armor and weapons.

I probably trashed about 250+ of them.