It was exactly the same as fire and nature resistance in aq40 and molten core in vanilla wow. Players hated it so much and thought it was such a terrible system that Blizzard abandoned it.
Not to mention them breaking their word from the manifesto.
The more I think about this the more it seems clear to me…Im done with this game unless this is removed, it wasnt fun in vanilla wow and it will be stupid here. Not to mention them breaking everything they said they were about in the manifesto.
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Oh since I just thought of this, I didnt like the concept of infusion when it was in vanilla wow and called fire and nature resistance sets.
Seriously. Its such a stupid system… I thought GW2 was a ‘next gen’ mmo…. whats with this kitten?
Yeah man, its utterly inconprehensable that such a old system that is so bad (that was heralded as so bad that blizzard completely abandonded it) has made it into a modern mmo. I think this may be all she wrote for this game and me.
Wow the stat difference is absolutely huge AND its going to be a stupid artificial gating mechanism for the new dungeon? Thanks arenanet for going back on your word in that manifesto. I am seriously considering if I am going to keep playing after this.
Not to mention this really brings up questions about this games longevity. Seriously your forced to put this in this early in the games life? GG….
My real opinion is, that the stats are not better in damage/healing/whatever but have the ability to penetrate through the karkas armor.
If that’s the case, I wouldn’t mind it at all. However, the wording in some of these articles implies that they have higher stats than exotics.
Still waiting on clarification from Anet.
Agreed, I would be comepltely cool with infusing them in a similar manner to gw1, but a new set would probably kill any desire for me to continue playing this game. And on the note of the articles http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/previews/lost-shores-preview this one realllllyyy has me worried after reading it, anet really needs to put out a clarification soon.
Blog posts shouldn’t take that long to produce. At my job we routinely produce last minute, urgent news bits longer than their blog posts that need to be emailed to our clients and if it’s urgent it can be drafted, reviewed, edited, and finalized in a few hours. People just have to be willing to make finishing it their priority. So where’s this blog post.
Exactly. I almost have to wonder if they are not having meetings before the blog post due to the extremely negative reaction the community is having. Which makes the whole thing seem suspicious and lends credence to the “gear treadmill” belief.
Yeah Im wondering this as well. With this much fear, rage, and disquiet why in the world has that blog post not been posted?
This delay only leads credence to it being a gear treadmill type choice and them having to reevaluate the decision with so many people saying “Im done”.
I think its going to be hard to justify to myself all the work I put into exoticing out two characters and transmuting to have them the way I want going down the drain.
Yeah I think I would have a hard time logging in if that happened, but I trust arenanet not to have done something so insane like adding a new tier level this far after release.
Do you guys just care about ’’exotic’’ ‘’legendary’ label ? You complain here cause some awesome and expensive weapons dont have ‘’super expensive weapon’’ status or what?
Its all about skin after all. Nothing else, they have same stats anyways …
If all you need is show off with those expensive weapons, just post them in map chat + the price you bought them or crafted them for …
Actually yes, many people care just about that title, the achievements, and that banner in the loading screen all tied to legendaries. Also legendaries are SUPPOSED to be the hardest item to acquire in the game, with nothing coming close to them in sheer cost or time invested.
I just get it now, you just dont like the fact, that these weapons are labeled as exotic and you cant show off with them, because they dont have ’’legendary’’ status right ?
I tell you one thing, no one cares about small label ’’exotic’’ ’’legendary’’ The price is the prestigue factor So for me, exotic weapons that cost 1000g is far more awesome than legendary that cost 400g
I was actually figuring into the total for the legendary the average cost of the clovers.
Im not wanting this to be cheaper just for me to get one. I find something is off if a weapon that has several achievements tied to it, a banner on the character select screen, its own rank, the special arm or footprint particle effects, and being toted the “hardest to get item in the game” is the same price or less then some of these exotics due to how screwed up lodestones are. I would imagine they will fall even more out of balance if the lodestones arent adjusted but the precursors are (which arenanet has mentioned they are messing with in the next patch).
The whole issue completely revolves around how bad lodestones are, and this is only one issue related to it. If you want further evidence look into potions and how worthless it is to make them thanks to having to use them.
I don’t get it, if you think that they are better looking than legendaries, what’s to stop you from acquiring them? The only thing that will be missing is that you don’t have a purple label on the weapon. To me, that’s not such a big deal so long as the skin is nice on the outside.
Your missing a lot of the point. Its not about if you like the look of the weapon more or not, its that an exotic takes as much gold or MORE gold to make compared to a legendary (which also happen to have several meta achievements tied to it). When the penultement hard to reach goal in this game (legendary) is the same or easier to get than a higher end exotic, something is off, and this problem will only become worse if they make precursors more obtainable.
Overall they are conservative right now (especially for the lodestone heavy exotics) since I just calculated them and lodestones tanked about 40 silver the last day and a half.
I imagine when the week hits they will shoot back up and Infinite light will reach Bolt’s price (or more if zap goes back down to what it was last week) and Mjolnir will FAR eclipse Juggernaught. Ill redo the numbers tomorrow evening, and if I have time do Volcanus and one or two of the Foefire weapons.
Edit for something I forgot to mention
It also should be taken into account that legendaries are a bit inflated right now due to the t6 mats being so volatile due to bots disappearing. I imagine once the prices stableize they will slightly go down in price.
On top of this is the panic a lot of people who have precursors are under due to the message of the precursors being messed with next patch. This has caused a fair bit of volatility in the prices as well.
As the title states why in the world is it ok for some exotics to cost as much as or MORE then their legendary counterparts? Two examples that have acctually fell in price from what they were the last few days (charged lodestones are down to 2g 12 s from the 2g 50 s they have been hovering around), still remain at or slightly below legendary pricing.
-Infinite light= 1 eldritch scroll + 250 orichalcum gs blades + 250 charged lodestones + 100 mystic coins. The approximate cost is 665 ish gold, bolt costs approximately 862 gold. Two days ago Infinit light cost almost exactly the same price as bolt (it even fluctuated higher at one point), and fell back below it thanks to lodestones falling slightly in value and zap shooting up in price for some reason.
-Mjolnir=1 eldritch scroll + 100 mystic coins + 250 charged lodestones + gift of lightning (250 orichalcum ingot + 250 bolt of gossamer + 100 charged lodestone + gift of ascalon). This costs approximately 712 gold, whereas juggernaught costs a mere 58 gold more.
I would also assume some of the foefire weapons and Volcanus need their pricing looked at, but have not had the time tonight to check into it. While I LOVE the fact that there are weapons that are not legendary but take a good deal of work to get, I do not understand them being about the same cost as a legendary (they will eclipse legendaries in price/difficulty to obtain if legendaries are made more obtainable) yet not they are not legendary. Would it be possible to get some word on this arenanet?
So for me, exotic weapons that cost 1000g is far more awesome than legendary that cost 400g
